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Offline Sandwich

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on: March 15, 2005, 12:59:58 pm
Does anyone else think that the scales of ships in Star Wars is a little OTT (sorry, Venom)?

(pardon the bad textures, models, and rendering - this is for scale comparison, nothing else)


Death Star: 120km diameter
Death Star 2: 160km diameter
Cloud City: 16km diameter
SSD: 16km long
ISD: 1.6km long

Bad enough that an ISD is ONE WHOLE MILE of metal, but the SSD, Cloud City, and Death Stars?? That's like, Dyson Sphereian!! :p
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Reply #1 on: March 15, 2005, 01:28:19 pm
Gotta love the wonders of Sci Fi ;)

Besides, admit it - it'd be boring if the Death Star was 2KM and everything else scaled suitably below it!
 

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Reply #2 on: March 15, 2005, 01:39:37 pm
Size DOES matter.

It's Sci-Fi....what did you expect ?
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Reply #3 on: March 15, 2005, 01:41:23 pm
I'm just trying to get my mind around all that refined metal/steel/whatever - you'd nearly have to gut a planet!
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #4 on: March 15, 2005, 01:59:16 pm
Hail to the Empire.
lol wtf
 

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Reply #5 on: March 15, 2005, 02:00:33 pm
These are the real scales. What's the problem?
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Reply #6 on: March 15, 2005, 02:21:03 pm
Well, the Galaxy Class Enterprise was around the size of a Victory class. The Death Star possibly would take the resources of an entire planet to build, it is, after all, a small planet itself.

We were actually considering the 'Daedelus Project' involving a vessel with a Hydrogen scoop ramjet of these proportions nearly 20 years ago ;)
 

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Reply #7 on: March 15, 2005, 02:51:54 pm
Out of interest, any idea how large the Eclipse class SSD is? If I recall correctly that's the largest starship in the SW universe to date (not counting the Death Stars of course).
 

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Reply #8 on: March 15, 2005, 03:26:11 pm
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Originally posted by Flipside
Well, the Galaxy Class Enterprise was around the size of a Victory class. The Death Star possibly would take the resources of an entire planet to build, it is, after all, a small planet itself.

We were actually considering the 'Daedelus Project' involving a vessel with a Hydrogen scoop ramjet of these proportions nearly 20 years ago ;)
Daedalus would also be almost entirely fuel.  Not refined metal, complex alloys and expensive electronics.
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Reply #9 on: March 15, 2005, 04:50:21 pm
Knowing NASA, it probably would be, just for the hell of it ;)
 

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Reply #10 on: March 15, 2005, 04:54:06 pm
I still feel sorry for the Ewoks when the 2nd Death Star exploded. Think of all that radiation poisoning. Not to mention all that debris.
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Reply #11 on: March 15, 2005, 04:56:48 pm
They'll just gang up, form a huge furry pyramid and use a really big sling to knock the bits out of the way :)











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Reply #12 on: March 15, 2005, 04:57:38 pm
They deserved it. Supplanting the Wookies from their rightful role...
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Reply #13 on: March 15, 2005, 04:59:12 pm
Well, that will change in Episode III. The Wookies will pwn the screen... I have forseen it...
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Reply #14 on: March 15, 2005, 05:09:09 pm
Perhaps there's some signifigance to Episode III name being derivative from an early title for Episode VI (Revenge of the Jedi).
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Reply #15 on: March 15, 2005, 05:40:01 pm
Come on, Sandwich, let your imagination stretch a little... I mean, when you've got a whole galaxy at your fingertips... ;7
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Reply #16 on: March 15, 2005, 06:40:08 pm
Who said the Death Stars were completely solid? Maybe they doubled as gigantic sports arenas.
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Reply #17 on: March 15, 2005, 07:31:26 pm
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Originally posted by TopAce
These are the real scales. What's the problem?


I know those are the real scales. They're also an unimaginable amount of resources to build any one of those but the ISD!
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #18 on: March 15, 2005, 07:51:12 pm
Hey, Sandwich, the image isn't loading for some reason.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Grey Wolf

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Reply #19 on: March 15, 2005, 07:52:14 pm
The significant fact left out by that is that the only one that was built in any quantity at all is the ISD.
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