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Subject:	Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space
Date:	Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:58:46 GMT
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> > Super Star Destroyer: 12,800 Meters > Death Star 1: 120,000 Meters in Diameter > Death Star 2: 160,000 Meters in Diameter > > -Jason > > Jason, unfortunately you've used a reference for the Executor class Super Star Destroyer length which falls for the old "5 mile fallacy" or to be more precise, "8 mile fallacy" (no, nothing to do with the new Eminem movie). Every "official" source has continued to use either the 8000 meter length inexplicably arrived at by West End games years ago, or the revised but still hopelessly incorrect 12,800 seen even on the official SW website. While I sometimes chastise people for not simply using their eyes and looking at the films closely, I'll skip it and go right to the definitive source to end the debate: Dr. Curtis Saxton's Star Wars Technical commentaries at Theforce.net. He explains in exhaustive detail how you can clearly show that the Executor is 11 times the length of a 1.6 KM Star Destroyer, or 17.6 km (11 miles) in length. The easiest way is to use the bridge structure as a perfect comparative reference. The two ships share THE SAME bridge, which provides an exacting way to compare length. Rather than ramble on any more, I'll let this pic and the site itself do the talkin!': The argument ending photo (LOOK at the bridge towers)!: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/ssd/ssdisd.gif The entire section on Super Star Destroyers (includes "the history of the 5 mile falacy": http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html And, for those with about a MONTH of free time to read it all, the entire Technical Commentaries: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ Is this site amazing or what? Sorry for the rant, but I've been a champion of the truth about SD scale since I was a kid and could see on the screen that the Executor was obviously bigger than was being claimed! -Brian

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		Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
In lugnet.starwars, Brian Tobin writes: <major snippage> (...) ROTFLMAO!!! "Truth?" It's not called Science _Fiction_ for nothing!!!!! That said, there's way too much information there. James (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

		Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
(...) That's what I really dislike about SWTC. He pulls some factoid that sounds right, and uses it as though it were fact. I first noticed that on his description of AT-AT stride length, but also on his AT-AT height description, and (IIRC) some of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

		Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
Another piece of evidence supporting this: given that the Star Destroyer and SuperStarDestroyer have at least similiar shaped bridges: if the bridges were the same size (which is a valid assumption), then the length is 17.6km. But if the (...) (22 years ago, 18-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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		Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
(...) Super Star Destroyer: 12,800 Meters Death Star 1: 120,000 Meters in Diameter Death Star 2: 160,000 Meters in Diameter -Jason (URL) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)

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