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Re: Minifig Scales
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lugnet.space
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Fri, 1 Aug 2003 03:51:23 GMT
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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.space, James Wilson wrote:
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I’ve always wondered about this (okay, not “always,” only since Lucas
established the timeline). How in the heck was the Empire able to ramp up
production facilities to build such huge vessels, in the span of less than
50 years or so? In AotC we’ve got what looks like the precursors to Star
Destroyers; Anakin’s kids are mid-30’s in RotJ, and we’ve got Super Star
Destroyers.
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It’s actually only 22 years, according to the rolling timeline in the front
of every NJO book. Still, that’s a lot of time when you have an entire
galaxy of resources to draw from. If you think about it, Earth might be able
to build one Star Destroyers in the span of 22 years. Now, if you have 100
Earth-equivalent planets at your disposal... Also consider the fact that the
2nd Death Star was nearly completed a mere four years after the first one was
destroyed, and it positively dwarfed the Executor, which is gigantic compared
to the ISDs.
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Well according to Shadows of the Empire, the second Death Star was 60 percent
completed in the span of about 6 months, in secret. The sheer size of the
industrial capacity of the Empire is simply huge in order to do that in secret,
meaning know one really notices the reasources missing. That would be the
equivalent of Federation building about 2200 Galaxy Class starships every second
in secret for 6 months straight.
For a full description of the industrial capacity of the Empire compared to the
Federation see here.
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Oh, yeah, and in that Star Trek TNJ episode where a couple of crew members
got “out of phase” with their universe, how could they still stand on the
decks of the ship, when they could pass through other objects?
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I believe the official stance is that while they aren’t able to directly
interact with regular matter, physics still applied to them. Therefore, the
artificial gravity would hold them to the deck plates regardless of phase.
Oh, and a certain quantity of air got zapped with them or somesuch.
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You guys might want to read
here
right after Romulan Cloaking Device, about the Federation phase cloak and the
implications of the incident of which you are discussing on it.
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(Hey, at
least in DS9 they dealt with that issue openly when they shrank the Runabout
and crew). My stance on it is it’s a fun episode to watch as long as you
remember to turn off key portions of your brain first. After watching all of
the Season 1 commentaries, I’ve actually come to the conclusion that Futurama
episodes generally have more thought put into them than Star Trek episodes.
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Well that is the problem with generic soap opera writers working on sci-fi
series. While I enjoy watching Star Trek as much as I do Star Wars, Star Trek is
no more based on real science than Star Wars is, regardless of what some of the
die hard Trek fans claim. It all fiction and in good fun, or at least its
supposed to be.
-Mike Petrucelli
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| (...) It's actually only 22 years, according to the rolling timeline in the front of every NJO book. Still, that's a lot of time when you have an entire galaxy of resources to draw from. If you think about it, Earth might be able to build one Star (...) (21 years ago, 1-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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