The heavily-armed design impressed many wealthy Core Worlds planets and sectors and mercantile fleets, and by the time of the Clone Wars, dozens of battlecruisers had been built and filled the Planetary Security Forces of Core and Colonies sectors. A prime example was the Tagge battlecruisers used by the Galactic Empire, as well as the Mediator-class battle cruiser first deployed by the New Republic Most accepted that the first warship that could be formally recognised as a battlecruiser was Kuat Drive Yards' 2.5-kilometer Procurator-class battlecruiser, launched some two hundred years before the end of the Galactic Republic. Most battlecruisers were large and powerful ships that were among the most powerful in their fleets. Under the Clone Wars-era Anaxes War College System, however, the term "battlecruiser" was reserved for capital ships measuring between two thousand and five thousand meters in length and designed for long-range, independent operations. Some military historians were prepared to argue that a few legendary ships of the ancient galaxy, such as Xim the Despot's Eibon Scimitar and the Bloodshield of Alsakan, should qualify as battlecruisers. Others were comparable in role to the Star Destroyers of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire, like the Centurion-class and the Scythe-class main battle cruiser employed by the Galactic Alliance Core Fleet. Due to different naming customs and design-capabilities, some vessels bore the designation of "battlecruiser" while serving as frigate-analogs on a galactic scale, like the Kaloth-style battlecruiser and the Hapes-built Nova-class battle cruiser. Informally, the term "battlecruiser" had been used for centuries to refer to any massive, heavily armored battleship designed for the single purpose of destroying other capital ships. 2.9 Procurator-class Star Battlecruiser.2.8 Praetor Mark II-class battlecruiser.
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