In stark contrast to the Earlier Procurator Battlecruiser and later Venator and Imperator Class Star Destroyers, the Praetor did not have a standard raised KDY bridge tower. The ship class also possessed rings near the very end of the ship, behind the bridge. The Praetor Battlecruiser possessed a triangular-shaped docking bay area at the prow, which appeared to be only slightly larger than the main docking bay of an Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

The Praetor additionally had a massive shielding array for its time, and its armor was considered one of the most powerful to ever be put onto a vessel before the clone wars, with nearly every important system several meters deep within the armor. The Praetor was very heavily armored, with a powerful turbolaser array, a crippling ion cannon array, and a formidable Point defense system by the standards of Kuat Drive Yards. The Praetor was a departure from standard Kuat Drive yards design as it did not possess a reactor bulb, instead the vessel opted to raise the command portions of the ship to cover the reactor in many layers of armor. The Praetor had three primary engines and four secondary engines, two of which were located on the outer areas of the ventral portion of the ship. It had a large central ridge, which actually extended behind the main engines. The second battlecruiser designed by Kuat Drive Yards, the Praetor was a massive undertaking, at 4000 meters in length and nearly the same in width, the Praetor dwarfed almost every ship that came before it.

A Praetor Battlecruiser with an ISD alongside for a size comparison

Procurator class star destroyer