I know some of us have been leaving comments in the episode threads, but I thought this warrants its own thread.
I've been trying to figure out a decent size to the Destiny, and for some reason I keep thinking that it's a lot smaller than it's been made out to be.
I remember reading somewhere that there are fifteen rows of windows on the pyramid thing. Assume there are four meters per deck, and you get a height of about 60 meters for the pyramid structure. The entire ship's height is roughly 2.5 times the height of the pyramid.
Therefore, at a height of 150 meters, that translates to very roughly 1100 meters long. Does that seem in the ballpark?
Certainly that's pretty big, but still nowhere as big as some of the other structures and vehicles we've seen the Ancients build. Somehow I always figured the ship would be a lot bigger. Especially considering it was essentially going to be a generational ship.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
I'd say it's size is exactly "big".
Mind you, I think it'd be better to use the shuttles as a basis for a scale comparison would be a lot more reliable than counting rows of windows since that usually involves a set of unfounded assumptions like how big or small the windows are and if they're on every deck, every other deck or each spanning across two or three decks.
As for it being a generational ship, I don't think that was ever established. From what I gather the Ancients' intention was to use the ship as a platform to explore with an active gate connection to and from Earth.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I'd actually expect it to be much smaller than the Ancient's more recent stuff; it had to take a hell of a lot more know-how to build a hypership the size of a city than to make a kilometer-long "FTL-but-not-hyperspace" research platform. I don't think they were going to be generational either; I thought they said they had intended to gate to Destiny after a long while and start exploring star systems (the way the onboard expedition is sort of doing, only, you know, with control over the main systems and jump clock ).
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Maybe the rest of the ship is storage for the trillions of pine tree seeds the Ancients planted everywhere.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
No no, that's why they call those other automated Stargate-positioning ships SEEDER ships. Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
*reminiscences about the old 'size of the Defiant' threads*
Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
I hearby decree that the Destiny is exactly 1 dan long. Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I'd actually expect it to be much smaller than the Ancient's more recent stuff; it had to take a hell of a lot more know-how to build a hypership the size of a city than to make a kilometer-long "FTL-but-not-hyperspace" research platform.
That's a good point. It's not the size that counts, but— eh, I mean... well, how long it can keep working?
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