( The Destroyers and an early version of Saker known as Doctor Apocalypse originally appeared in Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, two Willingham-written supplements for the superhero roleplaying game Villains and Vigilantes.

On one of these raids to the Coruscant system, the Star Destroyer Liberator ( formerly the HIMS Adjudicator, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer captured at the Battle of Endor and, over a five-year period, repaired and beefed-up for covert missions ) its sister ship, the Emancipator ( originally the Accuser ), three Star Destroyers demanded novel and unusual codes for clearance.

The Orlando Thunder of the WLAF called the Citrus Bowl home in their two-season existence ( 1991 – 1992 ), the XFL's Orlando Rage played there in 2001, the UFL's Florida Tuskers, who played 2 seasons ( 2009 – 2010 ) before moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia as the Virginia Destroyers in 2011, and the Orlando Fantasy of the Lingerie Football League moved to the stadium in 2011 ( after playing its previous two years in UCF Arena ).

* The main antagonists in the Guild Wars expansion " Eye of the North " are called Destroyers

This followed the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement, whereby 50 US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for basing rights in the Caribbean.

* The 99-year lease in the Churchill – Roosevelt Destroyers for Bases Agreement, in which the United States traded 50 destroyers to the British Commonwealth in return for the right to use several British colonial possessions as bases, will expire, barring a renegotiation.

The Destroyers for Bases Agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, September 2, 1940, transferred fifty mothballed destroyers from the United States Navy in exchange for land rights on British possessions.

The Town-class destroyers were United States Navy warships built in 1917 – 1920 and transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement in 1940.

; Destroyers: Available to all players, destroyers are used for disabling submarine advantages.

Many Fore River destroyers never saw combat with the United States Navy, but twelve served with the Royal Navy in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement twenty years later.

Rajput class destroyers are Destroyers of the Indian Navy that can fire the BrahMos.

Burke's standing orders to his task force were, " Destroyers to attack on enemy contact WITHOUT ORDERS from the task force commander.

While touring in the 1970s, the Destroyers and the Nighthawks happened to be playing shows in Georgetown ( DC ) at venues across the street from each other.

The name " Destroyers " came from a naming contest and alluded to the naval ship of the same name, one of which sits outside the HSBC Arena in the nearby Buffalo Naval and Serviceman's Park.

The Destroyers initially attracted high attendance levels, but a lack of winning early on caused attendance to decline, something from which the team never recovered.

After the 2003 season concluded, talks of a re-location began, as the Destroyers had lost $ 5 million over five years, went nearly unnoticed by the media ( NBC had blacked out all of their games in 2003 ), and suffered from a lack of local support reflected in low attendance levels.

The three arenas are Space, Ground and Character, and feature units from the Star Wars films, such as Star Destroyers, starfighters, AT-ATs, armies, and characters like Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala, Mara Jade, and Darth Vader.

The Jedi starfighter's triangular shape in Attack of the Clones stems from the shape of Imperial Star Destroyers in the original Star Wars trilogy.

President Clark has positioned six Omega-class Destroyers around the planet to prevent any colonists from leaving and to prevent any supplies from reaching the colony.

* Club Destroyers, a football club from Santa Cruz, Bolivia

The episodes — individually subtitled " The Bolts ", " The Mark ", " The Food ", " The Coming ", " The Frenzy " and " The Destroyers " — were shown every Saturday night at 8 p. m. from 22 October to 26 November 1955 ; due to the live nature of the performances, most of the episodes overran their allotted half-hour slots slightly.

Destroyers were developed from the WWII designs as the smallest fast task force escorts.

In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Rebel Alliance uses a large ion cannon on the planet Hoth to temporarily disable Imperial Star Destroyers in the vicinity of the planet and prevent them from firing on escaping Rebel ships.

* HMS Richmond was previously the USS Fairfax, transferred from the US Navy as part of the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

Destroyers were initially allocated the flag superior " H ", but as this covered only one hundred possible combinations from H00 to H99 the letters " G " and " D " were also allocated.

Former hockey clubs and events at the sportsplex include: Dartmouth Moosehead Mounties ( senior hockey ), Dartmouth Oland Exports from 1995-1998 of the Maritime Junior Hockey League, Dartmouth Destroyers of Canadian elite hockey senior league 2005-2006, annual SEDHMA minor hockey international hockey tournament, Air Canada national midget championships in 1992, Fred Page Cup in 1996, The Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership convention was held there in April 2007.

Schottenheimer abruptly resigned from the Destroyers shortly before the 2012 season, citing discomfort over unspecified issues facing the team that season and the failure of the team to meet also-unspecified conditions for his return.

It was the first soccer-specific stadium built from the ground up in the United States, though despite its background as a soccer-specific venue, it is primarily home to the defending champions of the United Football League, the Virginia Destroyers.

This facility is hidden away even from the rest of the Empire, and no less than four Imperial Star Destroyers are stationed there.

While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher -- a new doomsday weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo -- the renegade Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to conduct guerrilla warfare on peaceful planets.

He has a friendship with Cleon from before joining the Destroyers.

In 2011, the song " Calling All Destroyers " from the band's debut was used as the song for the animated title sequence of the James Gunn film Super featuring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler and Kevin Bacon.

Destroyers and were ordered from Ulithi, and the destroyer escort with attack transports and from the Philippine Frontier to the rescue scene, searching thoroughly for any survivors.

Two early adventures for the game by Bill Willingham, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse, used characters that would later appear in his Comico comic book series, Elementals.

* September 2 – The Destroyers for Bases Agreement's ninety-nine-year rent-free leases granted to the United States by the United Kingdom will expire.

Imperial-class Star Destroyers are constructed by Kuat Drive Yards and hold a distinguished place in the Imperial Navy, symbolizing the Empire's military might with a peak number of more than 25, 000 vessels.

The Dark Nest trilogy by Troy Denning includes two types of Star Destroyers used by the Chiss Ascendancy and the Star Destroyer Admiral Ackbar used by the Galactic Alliance.

Bron is there to impersonate a famous scientist of interest to the Destroyers, and has been given implants through which a monitoring team can see what he sees, hear what he hears and talk to him, even when separated by interstellar distances.

Along the way, the duo are chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace.

The Buffalo Destroyers began play during the 1999 AFL season, playing their home games at HSBC Arena ( now known as First Niagara Center ), and were owned by Buffalo-area businessman Mark Hamister.

Coruscant responds by sending a fleet of Venator-class Star Destroyers.

The following season saw the Desperados post an AFL record fifteen wins and the team appeared destined to make their first ArenaBowl appearance, but they were shocked by the Columbus Destroyers, who had entered the playoffs with a 7-9 record, in the first round.

For many years they were coached by Jay Gruden, younger brother of Jon Gruden, but he became the offensive coordinator of the UFL's Florida Tuskers ( now Virginia Destroyers ) after the cancellation of the AFL's 2009 season.

* The Dirty Dozen ( album ), by George Thorogood and the Destroyers

The song was later covered by Dante & the Evergreens and George Thorogood & the Destroyers, and it was included in choreographer Twyla Tharp's 1970s ballet Deuce Coupe.

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* The Destroyers ( novel ), a World War II military fiction novel written by Douglas Reeman

Two Earth Destroyers agreed to join Sheridan, and with their help and those of other anti-Clark warships led by the Alexander, Sheridan began his offensive against Clark's forces.

A Battle group made up of what was referred to as Advanced Omega Destroyers were deployed against, and subsequently destroyed by, a number of White Stars that had been dispatched to engage a previously unseen type of Earth vessel.

* The first Campbeltown ( I42 ), was a destroyer given to the Royal Navy by the United States Navy as part of the 1940 Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

The Stratojets were replaced by the Douglas RB-66B Destroyers of the 19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of the 10th TR Wing in August, 1959.

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*" The Destroyers " by Steve Lyons ( Short Trips: Life Science )

Each planet confers different advantages to its owner, even though some bonuses are specific to each faction ( for example, controlling Kuat reduces the price of Imperial Star Destroyers by 25 percent ).