Coalition wrote:
Completely true. Let's measure the two vessels:
A World Devastator is a roughly rectangular vessel 1 mile long, 1/4 mile wide, and 1/2 mile tall. This is a total volume of 1/8 a cubic mile. You do have that narrow part in the center (which makes no sense), so this could be more like 2/3 of that value, or 1/12 a cubic mile.
A Star Destroyer is 1 mile long, ~1/2 mile wide, and ~1/4 mile tall. That ould normally be a solid with a volume of 1/8 a cubic mile.
However, that Star Destroyer can be treated as a pyramid, with the engine being the 'base'. That base is actually a diamond, so the height and width of the vessel is halved. From there, you plug in the formula to find the volume of a pyramid:
V=1/3 * B * H
B in this case is the area at the back of the Star Destroyer, or 1/2 mile * 1/4 mile * 1/2 = 1/16 miles^2. H in this case is the length of the Star Destroyer, aka 1 mile. So you get:
V = 1/3 * (1 mile) * (1/16 miles^2)
V = 1/48 miles^3
So a World Devastator at the same length of a Star Destroyer has 4 times the volume of a Star Destroyer. The Silencer, about twice the length, width, and height, would have a volume of ~32 times that of a Star Destroyer.
Which is still absurdly insufficient. Take for example a modern shipyard. Then add up the factories that produce the advanced technology for it. Then the foundries that refine the raw materails. The factories that produce the key structure for the ship from them. Then the machine shops to build all the little bits and peices. Then the powerplants and so on to run it all...
The infastructure DWAFFS the thing that is built by an order of magnitude or more. And the same holds true for star wars. Look at the shear size of the factories on Geonosis, which produced nothing but battledroids.
Or the resources of the KDY shipyards that build Imperial class Star Destroyers. Even with a full TWELVE slipways working on the project (which is the maximum resources that can be brought to bear on even an Executor class), ISD's require six months to be completed. Yet we are supposed to believe that these WD's are able to build similar levels of construction onto themselves in far shorter periods of time, using nothing but its internal factories?
Construction Droids on Courscant which are based on the EXACT same technology as WD's and are COMPLETLY walking factories are not seen to be far beyond conventional systems. In 'Dark Apprentince', one going full bore only moved one of its feet every 30 minuites when chewing through a building. And it was building quite low tech stuff compared to things like starships, just basic buildings, expressways and so on and the thing clearly wasn't building 1:1 its size to output, despite not having overheads like defensive systems, propulsion (beyond its 'feet') and so on.
The World Devestator has to fit in its powerplant, sublight and FTL engines, storage areas for the material it intakes and breaks down, countless factories to build countless specalised things from huge ISD sized additions to its own systems to small droid fighters, with all the parts in between needing to be made. Add onto that hanger space for zillions of small craft, assembly areas where large craft including capital ships are built internaly. And also all the crew compartments and so on.
Now bear in mind a WD doesn't simply EQUAL an ISD in offensive/defensive abilities. It is able apparently to completly IGNORE their best shots. When ISD's bests shots can at least damage Executor class Star Destroyers, if not very seriously! Also probably including MC-90 class heavy cruisers which were present at the battle and can withstand sustained fire from an Executor for a significant time and hit back with very heavy guns and very easily outclasses an ISD. There were also MC-80 B's present like Mon Remonda present that was eaten by a WD that itself chewed up ISD's without much problem in the long Zanji campaign.
It would NEED four times the volume of an ISD all devoted to the ships weapons systems to try and approach the kind of level where it could ignore ISD's and even heavier Mon Cal cruisers. But of course thats absurd, one would think at best only half the ships volume is dedicated to combat purposes, and THAT is being generous when you consider all construction droids using the same techology are only able to do.
And THAT is probably being generous when you look at some of the pictures of the ships in action, the ventral surfaces under the two 'towers' fully ripping material from under the ship, implying the ships factories are all in the towers and the 'spar' contains the reactors and everything else.
Could World Devestators be potentially very powerful and useful construction ships? Damn right. Could they realisticly be super warships of DOOM that can't be scratched by a NR fleet, which is perfectly able to bash through the escorting Alleigence and Imperial class Destroyers? Hardly.
In short, its wanktastic.
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