Just a cute one. All the ships mentioned except the Night Hammer class are canon.
by lord Martiya

Year 1 of the Empire: Wilhuff Tarkin raises an army 1

Rear admiral Maarisa Zsinj, the Ace of the Spacelanes, was one odd individual. Most Chandrilans avoided the Tapani sector like a Rakghoul infestation if they could, yet she had married someone from there (a mechanic from Fondor, as even she couldn't suffer the local nobles), and let her husband name their only son only by his family name as per his traditions. Core Worlders that wanted to join the Republic's security forces and actually make a difference enrolled in the Judicials, but she had taken then-governor Wilhuff Tarkin's policy of accepting anyone who wanted to help to enroll in the Outland Regions Security Force. Once the Clone Wars started most ORSF officers remained with the local units and their smaller ships, but she instead took Tarkin pledging it to the Republic's armed forces outright to get her Star Destroyer, the Retaliation. And now, branded a pirate by the Empire and having barely escaped her own son trying to blow her up, she once again defied sense and answered the call to report at the supposedly destroyed battlestation Piell Memorial rather than try and stay alive somewhere else. And as she saw what was there she didn't regret it at all.

"Tell me what types of ships we have here." she ordered her sensor operators.

"Detecting C70" the refitted Consulars "Invincible light cruiser" ORSF Consular refit "DP20" the new Corellian gunships "CC-2200, modified" the interdictors "Night Hammer" the Quintad-made cruisers, pride of the ORSF "Captor" impounded Trade Defense Force ships "Munifex" same as above.

"Enough." she ordered. She could see other types, including a Dreadnought, but all of them were found in either the Outland Region Security Force or the 18th Army, the Night Hammer Command-and in fact, the Night Hammers were exclusive to the ORSF, the long-standing grudge match between the Greater Seswenna's premier shipwrights of Quintad Orbital Manufacturing and the Judicial Forces preventing them from being adopted by anyone but the Greater Seswenna's own security force before the Clone Wars started, while the Tarkins and the other Quintad families' refusal to pay the proper bribes resulting in many at the Imperial High Command trying to have it phased out. This looked like some kind of organized opposition to the Empire-and she not only wanted in, and she wanted to know who had the intestinal fortitude to set something like that up inside Wilhuff Tarkin's fief.

"Should have seen it coming." she said as none else than Wilhuff Tarkin entered the meeting room of Piell Memorial. "Should have seen it coming, so why didn't I?"

"I blame that on your son's acting skills." Tarkin replied. "After all, when I assigned you to fake trying to steal your command and then pretend to try and take you in he was quite convincing in his matricidal intentions. Though I suspect he'd have actually tried to steal your command if I didn't see fit getting his collaboration early."

"He's not that bad. But seriously, what gives? I didn't think you'd see what your friend is pulling."

"I assure you, Raith Sienar is on our side-he's even developing a version of the TIE/LN with proper equipment just for us. But if you were referring to His Majesty... I assure you, him being my friend is a delusion that I saw through."

With those words, Tarkin presented the assembled commanders with footage of the Jedi trying to arrest the Chancellor... And being brutally slaughtered.

"As you have just seen, Sheev Palpatine happens to be Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith." Tarkin explained. "Darth Vader is merely is apprentice, formerly being a psychologically vulnerable Jedi that the then-Chancellor spent some fourteen years into corrupting to his side, ever since the Jedi was nine. And before anyone asks no, Palpatine did not take advantage of him in physical ways-that kind of attitude stems from unconscious doubts in one own's self and a need to assuage said doubts by dominating someone else, and if Palpatine has one uncorrupted virtue that is an unshakeable belief in himself."

"Now what?" line captain Claborg (a Parwan, who had been with Tarkin since the destruction of "The Slave Fortress That Does Not Exist") asked.

"The same thing my late cousin did last time the Core Worlds screwed up. He may have let his prejudices get the best of him in his final years, but the idea was good. It will take at fifteen years, likely more, and we'll need help, even from those few Core Worlders who actually care. Are you with me?"

"To the end of the galaxy and beyond." Claborg said.

"Someone has to do this." Maarisa Zsinj added. "But what are we going to call ourselves?"

Tarkin gave a predatory smile, and everyone realized it was going to be so ridiculous it would turn around and be awesome.

"So, the new insurgent group in the Greater Seswenna calls itself the Republic Outland Regions Security Force-like a certain paramilitary force when your cousin wanted it to be the prototype for the Old Republic military." Mas Amedda, the Grand Vizier, demanded from the urgently summoned Moff. "And their leader calls himself "Moff Nigh Hammer"-your rank, and your old command. Care to explain that?"

"Because I am the Moff Night Hammer and I formed it to overthrow the Empire, obviously." Tarkin replied, getting the Emperor to snicker at the idea. Poor arrogant fool.

"This isn't a joke!"

"Then why did you make such a ridiculous question? Here, let me explain it to you: in the Outer Rim we have little patience for the Core's shenaningans, so Seswennans insurgents that feel the Empire is as bad if not worse than the Republic in its last decaying years would choose the name of the military that brought back peace and freedom to their space to oppose it; in its original use, millennia before the True Sith Empire tried to pervert it, the title of Moff was given to the warlords and kings that choose to join the early Republic rather than fight it and ruled the Allied Regions in its name, thus their leader using it to invoke the image of an enlightened king or warlord, and as you said "Night Hammer Command" is the nickname of the Greater Seswenna military command. Does my explanation satisfy you, Your Excellence?"

"You... You..."

"Calm down, Mas, it was quite obvious." the Emperor said. "And quite fortunate, that man just provided me an excuse to justify your transfer to Sentinel Base to survey Project Stardust. A little "punishment", we'll say."

"As you command."

notes

Here it is: Tarkin forms his Rebel cell. And his name of "Moff Night Hammer" is just as outrageous as promised.