Since the Empire knew that there would be combat over Endor, why bring a tanker when all provisioning could be done beforehand? However, the ship's presence at Endor then presents its own problem- given the ungainliness of maneuvering two capital ships to align something as small as a fuel port, it is unlikely that refueling occurs during combat. The ship is an armed supertanker- while its lack of loading bays negate the possibility of the Tector being an upscaled star galleon, the aforementioned possibility of umbilical hookups allows for one special kind of cargo: liquid or gaseous fuels.
From this, we can deduce that all of the interior space normally taken up by the hangar bays themselves, hangar deep-storage (several decks of multi-story vehicle bays, see Dark Force Rising), a prefabricated garrison base, a planetary invasion force (Imperial tacticians considered the ground forces carried by a star destroyer to be sufficient for quelling an average planetary rebellion, see the Imperial Sourcebook), and all of the techs, pilots, and noncombatants required to support them is unoccupied on the Tector, leaving at least 30% of the interior open. To recap on the older discussion, the Tector does not have the open hangar bays characteristic of the other ships in the star destroyer family, though it has been hypothesized that there may be small shuttle bays in the side ridges, or possibly umbilical ports for transferring to and from large transports. Since the forum is a little slow right now, I thought it would be fun to share a little conjecture on the nature of the mysterious ship.
I know that back when Phoenix released the new star destroyers there was some discussion on the Tector-class regarding its unknown function there is no source material on the ship, nor is it mentioned in any official EU book.
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