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Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :

. . . how many Star Destroyer types there are, and what sizes they're guesstimated to be?

*sits back to watch the carnage* 8)

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

There's a triangle one. A bigger triangle one, and a bigger triangle one.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Well, there are the old Victory Class Star Destroyers, which have fins on the sides of the ship. The Fins are shaped likea x in the X-Wing games, but are folded into a wedge in WEG and other sources. There's also supposedly 2 variants of Victory Class, a type I and type II.

Then there's the Imperial or Imperator Class Star Destroyer, There are 2 possibly 3 variants of this one. Type I are usually shown with a white engine, such as the Devestator in ANH, but Type II ones have Blue engine exhaust, as in ROTJ. There's also supposedly a Type III with some tiny difference that i can't tell.

Then there's the Super or Executor Class Star Destroyer. Sizes on this vary from source to source. Ranging from 5 miles to a whole lot bigger.

Then there's a Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyer, which is even bigger, don't have the numbers on this one either. This is not in the original trilogy

Then there's a Sovereign Class SuperStar Destroyer from the comics. This one is pretty much supposed to be a slightly scaled down version of the Eclipse.

Then there's supposedly a really old Republic Class Star Destroyer. Don't know exactly what it looks like though.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Here's some more ISD info http://www.theforce.net/swtc/isd.html

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yes, I usually go with the Tech-Comments as well. The eclipse is said to be only, like, 8/10's of the Executor, but far wider and deeper, making for much more mass. It's got a small superlaser as well.

Then there's the Sovereign-class. This is my favourite of the postMovies-invented apocrypha-ships. Also has a superlaser mounted along the spine, but looks beter than the Eclipse, IMO.

And we forgot the lovely Interdictor/Immobilizer, with its Gravity Well Projectors. This is my favourite vessel of the original ISDs. Because it's the smallest SD (~600m) it must be so manouverable and fast. It sure was in the games...

There's a Interdictor variant, mentioned in the SWTC up there, that has had the gravity-spheres removed and many gun-towers installed instead. Man I'd like to see a rendering of that...

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

hmm, i never really considered the interdictor a star destroyer, just a generic "dagger-shaped" imperial ship. If ALL Dagger shaped ships are "star destroyers" then there's also the Vengeance, Dark Jedi Jerec's ship.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

Well, the Interdictors are classified as cruisers, so I don't suppose they'd be Star DESTROYERS.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Well the design and placement of basic elements is the same as the other designs. It's actually hard to tell them apart when you're in a furball...

Cmptr: Alpha One, disable that interdictor so the freighters can hyperspace to safety!
Me: Allright, allright, I'm working on it! Oh no, it's not this one, it's that other one!
*freighters explode spontaneously*
DAMN! Repeat mission! (Well, this was about six years ago...)

Jerec's ship is also a Sienar Fleet Systems design, yes. And a nice one at that, with a not-so-conventional tower module. Good one, Vannie!

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Omega, i wouldn't go by what they call the ships in the SW universe. After all, the Star "Destroyer" should probably be a Battleship or Carrier instead of "Destroyer" judging by the huge size.

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Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :

This is one of the things I'm trying to get the author of the technical commentaries to look at, but he hasn't replied yet.

I never thought of them as destroyers, as compared to cruisers or frigates or whatnot. I always ALWAYS heard it as "destroyer of stars".

The 18km length of the Executor and her ilk is straight from ILM and the filmed material, as the author of the tech commentaries expounds at length. WEG pulled the 8km figure out of their ass.

--Jonah

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I rewatched "TESB" a week ago, was astonished at how many scenes with the Executor they actually showed! I was very happy!
There were so many scenes, the Hoth, the asteroid field, Bespin... No wonder, it probably cost them to build the damn thing, Lucas prolly thought "Now we must use it as much as we can, damnit!"

And Lando calls her "Star destroyer" when warning the crew as they leave Bespin, so it's safe to say that the name is conceived for dramatic effect, not for being a small ship between a corvette and a frigate.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

I always thought of it as small, medium, large, and super-sized varities.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

That's actually a good and accesible classification-sys for laymen. Never thought aboot it...

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

It's also the MacDonald's French fry varieties.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Well they are look like pie slices. To us.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Hmm. It's a good thing I'm so busy these days (I seem to be a first-year sophomore taking junior-level courses...hmm...). Otherwise I'd scream at a few people.

Either way, I fully endorse SWTC as expressing my personal opinion.

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Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :

There are lots of SD desings out there, Imperial class, Soveriegn class, Eclipse class, Victory class, just to name a few, I've heard so many different lenghs for eatch of them i just stopped caring,

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Yes, we mentioned those. Then there are all sorts of boring subclasses and mini-SD's(covered in SW:Tech Comments) used only for a single issue of a SW-comic sometimes.
I prefer to stick with the ones we've listed.

What I want is a big comparison chart for SW-ships, as canon as possible, Ep-1 ships included. There should be three categories; attack fighters and small corvettes (10-50m), small and medium capital ships (100-500m), large capital ships and battle fortresses 1200-SSD) and a separate chart for the real biggies.

Anyone got any? I saw one once, but it was 600x200 or something, real shitty...

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