Imperial Star Destroyers must enter a system before their weapons and short-range fighters can control it. That requirement strains valuable capital ships and makes their movements easier for the Rebellion to anticipate. Fighters cannot raid one system, rendezvous in another, and support a ship operating somewhere else, so the Empire sacrifices distributed manoeuvre for centralized supervision. The tradeoff turns on command trust: officers who cannot be granted tactical freedom are still being placed in charge of extraordinary firepower.
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Centralized control costs the Empire operational reach
Tying fighters and commanders closely to an Imperial Star Destroyer simplifies political control but makes deployments predictable and prevents one force from influencing several systems.