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Re: Comparing Starfighter Speeds
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Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:42:35 GMT
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Andrew Summersgill <ajs@blahblahblah.co.ukANTISPAM>
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> I've found some disturbing stats about relative starfighter speeds:
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> Classic Movies:
> A-wing = 1300 km/h*
> B-wing = 900 km/h*
> X-wing = 1050 km/h
> Y-wing = 800 km/h*
> TIE Adv = 1250 km/h*
> TIE Int. = 1250 km/h
> TIE Fighter= 1200 km/h
> Cloud Car = 1500 km/h*
> RBR = 950 km/h*
> Snowspeeder= 1000 km/h
> Incom T-16 = 1175 km/h
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> Prequels:
> Naboo N-1 = 1200 km/h*
> Droid SF = 1180 km/h
> Jedi SF = 1200 km/h
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> EU:
> Z95 Hunter = 1150 km/h
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> Umm.. hello? does anyone notice that the three Prequel fighters, • designed
> and made years before the class movies all go faster than the X-Wing? Even • the
> z95 headhunter is faster!! Wasn't the X-Wing supposed to be an amazing • upgrade
> to everything that came before? It looks more like a step down! (at least
> speed wise).
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> And uhhh, the Twin Cloud Car can outspeed the A-Wing and the TIE
> Interceptor? Whaa? This whimpy little thing has better speed than two of • the
> most formidible Starfighters? I can only guess that the Cloud Car is • designed
> for atmospheric travel, while the A-wing and Tie-Int are for space • fighting,
> but still.
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> Someone please tell me that these figures aren't correct. They seem so
> contrary to reason.. ughh
THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!
This sort of thing is what annoys me about prequels and the like - take
Enterprise (yeah I know, different franchise) - they've already met
Klingons, Romulans and have a ship named Enterprise that pre-dates the ship
we "know" was the FIRST one named Enterprise, but no-one at the studio seems
to care. And the Klingons have lumpy forheads but we "know"that in Kirk's
time - they, erm, didn't.
If there's a logical explanation for all of this, I wish someone could
provide it to me.
What's with all this revisionist stuff anyway?
Turning back to this Starfighter malarkey - unless the explanation is that
the rise of the Empire led to a technological "Dark Age", I can't think of
any reason as to why this information would be correct. As for the twin-pod
cloud car being faster than a TIE Interceptor, that's just ludicrous. Give
me a TIE Int any time. The twin-pod thingy is an atmospheric vehicle - how
can it be the fastest thing around when it has air resistance and gravity
and stuff to overcome when a TIE Int has no such problems? And if they can
design an engine that can speed a ship to 1,500 km/h in atmosphere - why not
fit it onto a Starfighter and REALLY get some speed in space?!?
In summary - I don't know what's going on!
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Regards,
Andrew.
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| (...) That Klingons got lumpy heads in the first place was revisionism - Paramount simply had the budget to do it, and wanted to make them look a bit different from Terrans (Earthling is such a despicable sounding term <g>). All we need is for them (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) The explanation is that the original Star Trek art and costume department had a crappy budget and couldn't make humanoid aliens look very alien (or far-out aliens look very realistic). Just like Lucas wanted to go back and redo all three (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Ummm... The first Enterprise is most certainly older than anything from Star Trek... (URL) on the "Before World War II" link. The first space related one went into service in 1976 though it never made it into space. Frank (21 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Using this site as a reference: (URL) = data from UCS stickers from Gareth's fbtb.net section I've found some disturbing stats about relative starfighter speeds: Classic Movies: A-wing = 1300 km/h* B-wing = 900 km/h* X-wing = 1050 km/h Y-wing = 800 (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jan-03, to lugnet.starwars)
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