:On starwars.com, the height (not the length) is quoted as 12.8 kilometres. 17 kilometres sounds like a reasonable guess for its length. However, the games may use a significantly different figure. Could somebody please boot up X-Wing Alliance to check what figures it uses? --Robert Merkel |
:On starwars.com, the height (not the length) is quoted as 12.8 kilometres. 17 kilometres sounds like a reasonable guess for its length. However, the games may use a significantly different figure. Could somebody please boot up X-Wing Alliance to check what figures it uses? --Robert Merkel |
Of course, this is all incredibly anal. The real point of the SSD in the movies was to make the already really big and evil-looking ISD's look puny and meek by comparison. Exact measurements are kinda irrelevant. --Robert Merkel |
:Of course, this is all incredibly anal. The real point of the SSD in the movies was to make the already really big and evil-looking ISD's look puny and meek by comparison. Exact measurements are kinda irrelevant. --Robert Merkel I know, but that doesn't make a very satisfying "in-story" explanation. Any diverse fictional setting is bound to have contradictions, but fans like their story universe to be internally consistent. The resolution is to have rules to keep straight on what is and isn't certain. Star Wars, Star Trek, even The Lord of the Rings has lists of which sources are and are not canon. There are further rules as well, such as the one that newer canon material overrides older, to improve the consistency even more. -- Xaonon |
[Here]. This guy analyzes it in more detail than I could ever stomach. Also note that only the movies are canon: if any information in them conflicts with anything else, even "official" sources like the games, the movies always take precedence. In the movies, the SSDs are between 11 and 12 times longer than the Imperator-class SDs, which we already know to be about a mile (1.6 km) long. Other methods, including judging by the bridge towers and measuring the actual models, confirm the 17.6-km figure. -- Xaonon
I know, but that doesn't make a very satisfying "in-story" explanation. Any diverse fictional setting is bound to have contradictions, but fans like their story universe to be internally consistent. The resolution is to have rules to keep straight on what is and isn't certain. Star Wars, Star Trek, even The Lord of the Rings has lists of which sources are and are not canon. There are further rules as well, such as the one that newer canon material overrides older, to improve the consistency even more. -- Xaonon