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Re: how large would the ISD be compared to the Enterprise-D?
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space
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Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:16:32 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Adrick Tolliver writes:
> The conclusions drawn by Dr. Saxton in his Technical Commentaries are false.
> The "true" (as true as any fictional ship can get) length of a Super Star
> Destroyer is either 12,800 meters as stated on SW.com's databanks, or the
> 8000 meter RPG length. Both are official, and appear in *official* LFL
> products. Saxton's site is completely inaccurate, as he fails to take the
> official material into account (not just with the SSD article, the errors
> and fallacies on his site are too numerous to list.) An accurate
> perspective can *not* be achieved from the shots in the movie (there is no
> way to accurately judge distances by sight in space) or by measuring the
> models used in the film (model sizes do not always correspond directly with
> the sizes of other models.)
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> That said, speaking in-universe, the line of Super class Star Destroyers was
> produced mainly in the last four years before the death of the Emperor's
> death at Endor. Imperial warlords continued to produce their own Super
> Destroyers years after the Battle of Endor, but they were not always made to
> Kuat Drive Yard specs. Thus, due to the limited resources of these
> warlords, many SSDs could indeed have been only 8000 meters long. In
> addition, KDY produced at least one variant on the SSD line, Jerec's
> Vengance, and apparently shortened the Executor's (Vader's SSD, the first of
> her class) sister ship, the Lusankya. All of this accounts for most of the
> discrepancies regarding the length of a SSD. The Executor was 12,800 meters
> long, as stated on SW.com.
>
> I think I've just out-geeked everyone here. :)
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> TC
You are forgeting one very important thing here. Canon sources (the actual
movie) overrule any and all offical sources. This is the stated policy of
Lucasfilm, Paramount(Star Trek), and pretty much every major anything.
In Empire Strikes Back we see a shot with the Super Star Destroyer and other
Star Destroyers. In one scene we can clearly see that 1 SD is farther back
than the SSD. Another SD is closer than the SSD. Both SDs appear almost the
same size. (Obviously the farther back one is slightly smaller) Therefore we
can clearly get a fairly accurate size ratio from this shot. What we see in
the movies (second is the movie novelisations and third is the original radio
dramas) overrules all mere 'official' sources. Official sources are only
considered correct only if they agree with canon evidence.
-Mike Petrucelli
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