The Providence-class Dreadnought, otherwise known as the Providence-class carrier/destroyer, the Providence-class cruiser-carrier, the Providence-class Separatist destroyer, or simply the Separatist dreadnought, was a type of dreadnought, battleship, and destroyer designed by Quarren engineers on the planet Pammant and was extensively deployed by the naval forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars, as well as the private fleet of the Trade Federation, as command ships. Deployed with great caution by the Confederacy’s naval admiralty, the Providence was one of the largest and most powerful vessels that served within the confederate government, armed with heavy turbolasers, ion cannons, mass-driver cannons capable of tearing apart light frigates and support ships in a single blast, proton torpedoes, and tractor beams. More than capable of conducting planetary sieges, the dreadnought also carried an extensive complement of hundreds of starfighters, bombers, gunships, hundreds of armored vehicles, landing craft, and shuttles.

All constructed on the planet Pammant, by the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps manufacturing company, the Providence-class Dreadnought was introduced sometime after the Trade Federation had regained its composure following its defeat and sanctions at the Invasion of Naboo through the Invisible Hand, the personal flagship owned by Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray, which later came to serve as the command ship of the Confederacy navy and flagship of the government’s Separatist Droid Army Supreme Martial Commander, General Grievous, who used the warship to further his reputation for vicious excess. However, following the formation of the Separatist Alliance and later outbreak of the Clone Wars, the dreadnought’s usage was to the confederate government, who utilized its power and capabilities to fulfill several roles, such as planetary besiegements, command ships, cruiser–carriers, and battleships.

After the end of the war, with the collapse of the confederate government, several warships of the Providence-class were dismantled on the planet Bracca, while others, including the notorious Lucid Voice, which saw action during the war in several contested star systems, were dismantled at the Bilbringi shipyards, following the formation of the Galactic Empire. However, despite their deconstruction by the Imperial government, several vessels of the class saw continued use in the naval forces of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War.