ISD Question

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-01-22 12:03pm

Does anyone have the actual volume of the main reactor on the underside of the ISD? Also, does anyone know the precise dimensions of the unnecesarily huge hangar bay?

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-01-22 03:02pm

Power generator

Rough estimations, taken from the original ICS:

-The Star Destroyer in the picture is, roughly, 17" long. The power generator is roughly a cylinder with rounded ends. It is roughly 4" long and has a diameter of about 2". This gives it a length of 375 meters and a diameter of 188 meters. Then there are the backup engin reactors and the subsidiary reactors, both which have a diameter of slightly less than 1" (94 meters). Plus, there are several smaller 1/8" (11-12 meters) reactors strewn about the ship, such as an auxilliary reactor for the tractor beams.

Being lazy (I AM really lazy, you know), I just calculated the reactor size of the ISD as if it were a perfect cylinder, rather than having rounded edges (remember, I'm lazy). The numbers above give 10409667 cubic meters for the total volume of the ISD's main reactor... and, remember, this is a bit too high. The smaller (94 meter) reactors have a volume of 434892 cubic meters. The smallest auxilliary reactors have a volume of 5575 cubic meters.

Hangar bay

According to the ICS drawing, it has a length of 1 3/4", or 164 meters. This is barely enough to hold a 150 meter Corellian Corvette, so I fail to see how you can call it "unnecessarily huge". It also has a width of approximately 2" (188 meters) and creates a 1/2" impression (47 meters) into the ship's main hull at the centerline (at the edges, due to the ISD's angled hull, this impression is about half that, but a precise measurement can't be garnered from the ICS).

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-01-22 03:03pm

And, remember, since I'm lazy, I just plugged numbers into Abe's Volume Calculator (http://grapevine.abe.msstate.edu/~fto/t ... index.html) and rounded down to the nearest 1.

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2003-01-22 05:08pm

Unnecesarily huge hangar bay?

Maybe, if you assume TIE should be packed like sardines. If you assume it looks anything like the rebel hangars we have seen, with refuelling, reapirs etc. going on, the picture looks different. Do the numbers now that you have the size of it. I did.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2003-01-22 05:36pm

The TIEs are stored in racks adjacent to the hangar bay.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-01-23 12:21am

The idea of taking a ship into your own ship is pretty silly to me, it means your enemy can sacrifice a corvette to kill a Star Destroyer if he can convince you to capture one, and not use any Ion cannons, kind of like what we saw in ANH. Its too big, because we saw them take the corvette in without adjusting hangar space at all, which means there is a giant empty volume in a ship that is supposed to engage in combat. That's pretty silly, and a near fatal flaw if facing an opponent of equivalent volume that doesn't waste that much space.
Thanks for the info though.

meNNis · Post by **meNNis** » 2003-01-23 12:30am

consequences wrote:The idea of taking a ship into your own ship is pretty silly to me, it means your enemy can sacrifice a corvette to kill a Star Destroyer if he can convince you to capture one, and not use any Ion cannons, kind of like what we saw in ANH. Its too big, because we saw them take the corvette in without adjusting hangar space at all, which means there is a giant empty volume in a ship that is supposed to engage in combat. That's pretty silly, and a near fatal flaw if facing an opponent of equivalent volume that doesn't waste that much space.
Thanks for the info though.

well damn youre pretty silly yerself then sounds to me buddy!

ships do need to be repaired sometimes, y'know. among other things.

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2003-01-23 01:38am

That's what Deepdocks were made for.
And I resent the implication that I am 'pretty silly' I am nothing less than ridiculous, and I will thank you not to forget it.