Ziz said:
I'm not so sure about "not enough Imperial presence". One of the things the films deal with thematically is the Empire's arrogance, that just the fact that they're there should be enough to scare people. To that end, they don't send everything they've got to every battle, just what they think will be needed for the situation. All they expected to be escaping from Hoth was a couple of slow, bulky transports, a few fighters and the Falcon. From the Empire's perspective, the Falcon was the only one that was a challenge - the rest were fish in a barrel.

I feel the same way, the SSD was enough "Shock and awe." Put it in any fleet and thats enough presence in my opinion.