The Death Star was divided into 24 zones, 12 in
each hemisphere. Each zone was similar to a sub-battle station, had a bridge for coordinating all zone functions, and was divided into a series of
city sprawls.
Each zone had its own food replicators, hangar bays, detention blocks, medical centers, armories, command centers, and almost any other
facility necessary to provide full services and
fulfill any mission at hand. These facilities took
up a large portion of the crust.
Hmm, note FOOD REPLICATORS..........
WEG is good for some things, after all.....
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Master of Ossus wrote:Wow. That's weird. Does it explain what they are used to do, or what their capabilities are?
Well.....the DS has industrial replicators, and this quote explains that and
why the Rebels only had to pass through a weak magnetic field in ANH
to attack the DS.....
Personal Data Journal Entry #481, Tarkin re- cording
Chief Bevel has responded to my last set of design specifications with his usual speed and completeness. However, he has had to disap- point me in some areas, while in others he has outdistanced even my wildest hopes and dreams.
He assures me that he can include a weapon he calls a "superlaser" into the final design. In fact, the entire sphere will be dedicated to the sup- port and maintenance of this single weapon. Not only will it be able to rock a planet, Bevel claims that the superlaser will shatter worlds. Only asteroid ruins will remain after the weapon is trained upon a target.
However, to achieve such massive destruc- tive power, I must lose all but the most rudimen- tary shielding capabilities. Bevel assures me that the surface-to-air defenses will more than make up for the loss.
Moving the sphere will be accomplished through the use of massive ion sublight drives while in realspace, and through redundant hyperdrive en- gines for travel from system to system. Make no mistake, though. The Death Star will be slow. It will seem to crawl through the void between planets, and even in hyperspace it will be no faster than the most ancient tramp freighter. Bevel believes that he can get the hyperdrive multiplier down to three, but he warns me that it could be as high as five or six. No matter. It is fitting that targets of this station have an exceptionally long period of time to fear their ultimate fate.
Finally, he showed me plans to modify existIng space station replication plants to create a sup- plies manufacturing center deep in the bowels of the Death Star. The food will not be Imperial cui- sine, but it will suffice to keep the crew healthy and content. There will be room enough to store a better grade of food for the command contingent.
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Indeed, Well thats just basic human psychology entering into the thing whereby humans subconsiously avoid and apporach certian numbers.
Meanwhile that explains why the DS II was going to be so much worse, it was much much bigger than the DS I, and since you can already blow up planets I'm guessing thats for shielding tech
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I'm not sure about the shielding. According to Saxton, and consequently the ICS, particle shields only defelct high velocity objects. I thought that was the reason why the X+Y Wings were able to get through the DS's shields.
une wrote:I'm not sure about the shielding. According to Saxton, and consequently the ICS, particle shields only defelct high velocity objects. I thought that was the reason why the X+Y Wings were able to get through the DS's shields.
Well, if it wasn't in the ICS, it's still only Saxton's (albeit expert) opinion.
Particle shield donot extent that far from the hull of a ship any way. From the SCGWAT it state that it begin at the material of the hull( actual it reinforces the bonds between atoms..) and extents a few centimeter..
From Varies novel it states that imperial shields cover a radius of 15 meter... So a Star fighter would get very close in either case..
This is different from planetary shields, that are called energy screens. and appear different from the standard ray shield and particle shields that Ship carry...
Particle shields against all matter, independ from the velocity, and must be shut off if a ship launchs a missile or fighter craft...
In the movie NH the death stars contains three types of shield. A magnetic screen that the fighters penerated. Ray shields and particle shield, which the one exhaust port lack, due to some design error....
Particle shield donot extent that far from the hull of a ship any way. From the SCGWAT it state that it begin at the material of the hull( actual it reinforces the bonds between atoms..) and extents a few centimeter..
From Varies novel it states that imperial shields cover a radius of 15 meter... So a Star fighter would get very close in either case..
This is different from planetary shields, that are called energy screens. and appear different from the standard ray shield and particle shields that Ship carry...
Particle shields against all matter, independ from the velocity, and must be shut off if a ship launchs a missile or fighter craft...
In the movie NH the death stars contains three types of shield. A magnetic screen that the fighters penerated. Ray shields and particle shield, which the one exhaust port lack, due to some design error....
I have to disagree, the exact quote from the ICS is that, "particle shields forcefully retard high velocity projectiles." That's pretty clear in meaning.
Also the integrity fields and inertial compensators are mentioned in the ICS as being related to the structural integrity of a ship. Not the shield particle shields.
une wrote: I have to disagree, the exact quote from the ICS is that, "particle shields forcefully retard high velocity projectiles." That's pretty clear in meaning.
I think what he's saying is that the particle shields do not ONLY retard high velocity projectiles.
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omegaLancer wrote:This is different from planetary shields, that are called energy screens. and appear different from the standard ray shield and particle shields that Ship carry...
Planetary shields seem to be similar to starfighter shields in that they are 2 in 1 or basic deflector shields instead of seperate energy and particle shields. This is backed by the description of shields given in Wedge's Gamble.
In the movie NH the death stars contains three types of shield. A magnetic screen that the fighters penerated. Ray shields and particle shield, which the one exhaust port lack, due to some design error....
The Magnetic screen seems to be an artifical version of the Van Alten Radiation belts, something that, according to my limited understanding, are critical in making earth habitable by keeping out the harsher bits of solar radiation.
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Ender wrote:The Magnetic screen seems to be an artifical version of the Van Alten Radiation belts, something that, according to my limited understanding, are critical in making earth habitable by keeping out the harsher bits of solar radiation.
That's always what I assumed the 'magnetic field' was.
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