[beatspete]

Excelent idea for a site, and well executed too  Now if only i can get the Sathanas to fire at the Titan AE ship...

[Falcon X]

I just love how the Vorlons planet killer is bigger than the SSD.  GO B5!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Tar-Palantir


Well, the Empire did have the resources of an entire galaxy to draw on.

they're pretty good, they managed to bring everything in the same system w/o anybody noticing

Sandwich


 I think he based his DS2 size off the horizon measurement that people did when the SSD Executor crashed into the DS2 hull - the curvature of the horizon (or lack thereof - I forget) made the supposed 160km diameter waaaay too small IIRC.

which is pretty laughable when you know they used the exact same plan to calculate the size of the SSD. both screwed up
it's inconsistency in the movie, that's all.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Sandwich
I  think he based his DS2 size off the horizon measurement that people did when the SSD Executor crashed into the DS2 hull - the curvature of the horizon (or lack thereof - I forget) made the supposed 160km diameter waaaay too small IIRC.

Which makes it even more ****ed up to try and go by judging stuff 'to scale'. 17 km Exec. still pisses me off.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Turnsky
but Damn they musta used a helluva lot of labor to get that thing up to spec in such a short period of time

hehehehehe.  not to break your bubble, but it is fiction you know... they can do extraordinary things when it comes to fiction:lol:

[Stryke 9]

RUN! THE FRAGGLES ARE STAMPEDING!

[Shrike]

Originally posted by J.F.K.
Hey, the Culture! You read Banks? I've got a few of his books. One of my favourite writers.

Yes, I've read every Culture book.  You missed my Culture phase last year.

Originally posted by venom2506
which is pretty laughable when you know they used the exact same plan to calculate the size of the SSD. both screwed up
it's inconsistency in the movie, that's all.

Actually, no.  The simplest way of judging sizes is comparing the bridge towers.

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Which makes it even more ****ed up to try and go by judging stuff 'to scale'. 17 km Exec. still pisses me off.

Eh, why?  Because the '11 time ISD' version fits the model?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


Which makes it even more ****ed up to try and go by judging stuff 'to scale'. 17 km Exec. still pisses me off.

well, it's the right size so live with it. it was writen down on some Lucasfilm cards given away in some movie convention.

[Stryke 9]

The right size is something like four feet long.

[Turnsky]

i'm surprised they didn;t add a orion in there.. i mean, other than a sath, the orions have to be the most recoginisable ship in the FS series.

hmm, sath vs titan.... heh, on creates planets while the other (with all it's friends) completely obliterates the system

[Visionism]

Originally posted by Shrike
A Culture ROU could turn a Sathanas into any number of amusing shapes in the blink of an eye, but it's smaller than a Deimos.

And a GSV could probably swallow several of them whole. Heh..

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by venom2506
which is pretty laughable when you know they used the exact same plan to calculate the size of the SSD. both screwed up
it's inconsistency in the movie, that's all.

Meaning what? The SSD is 11 times the ISD (11x1.6km=16km), a size which is born out by bridge size comparisons, as Shrike said, and other filmiometrical (I think I just invented a word) calculations.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Sandwich


Meaning what? The SSD is 11 times the ISD (11x1.6km=16km), a size which is born out by bridge size comparisons, as Shrike said, and other filmiometrical (I think I just invented a word) calculations.

what? I said people used that plan to scale the SSD too. so that's stupid. and you don't need to explain all that to me, the ssd is a subject that comes often in the "Venom/Killmenow's Daily Argument"

[diamondgeezer]

Just had a thought - no Nostromo or Sulaco in there

[Falcon X]

Where's Space Ball One?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Diamondgeezer
Just had a thought - no Nostromo or Sulaco in there

well, the only measurment we know about the nostromo is it's weight ( under earth gravity I suppose... ). No stats known to the sulacco, afaik ( but I admit I've never searched for it ).
still, there's a lot of ships missing in there ( the guy is obviously more a ST freak than a SW geek ) but that's quite some work you gotta admit

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Falcon X
Where's Space Ball One?

there's not even a starbug or red-dwarf in there either

[Nico]

hell, the red dwarf probably fits in the SSD size range...

[Turnsky]

yes, and has to be the biggest damn unarmedship i have ever seen....

by unarmed i mean by having no actual weapons of it's own, not the smegheads wielding enough weaponry (and stupidity) to vaporise a small planet

[diamondgeezer]

The Dwarf was six miles long, and had its own metro system. While I'm here, somebody make a Starbug for FS2 when they've a spare five minutes...