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Yeah, what?

Presumably you mean to draw attention to this?

The second Death Star's size ballooned to about 900 kilometers in diameter, far larger than the original, and featured a superlaser of greater power. Not only could this prime weapon deliver a more devastating blast, but it could fire more often and with greater accuracy.

The second Death Star, if completed, would have featured over 30,000 turbolaser batteries, 7,500 laser cannons, 5,000 ion cannons and 768 tractor beams.

I clicked that why?

The Death Star II always looked like it was grinning to me.

Needs moar RPG statz!

I remember reading a "report" linked to the Wikipedia article for the Death Star, in which the writer claimed the Death Star II CANNOT be 900 kilometers in diameter. (The link has since been removed from Wikipedia.) Now that Lucasfilm has made an official statement to confirm the Death Star II IS 900 motherfucking kilometers in diameter, that'll silence A LOT of Trekkies' arguments against the Galactic Empire's industrial capacity.

Edit: Changed "meters," which is incorrect, to "kilometers."

Sidewinder uses metric ITT.

17 km SSD............................check
900 km Death Star...............check
more than 3 million clones....next target

PayBack wrote:I clicked that why?

It's been bumped up to 900 km, duh.

I saw this on the same page:



What the fuck?

Elfdart wrote:I saw this on the same page:



What the fuck?

Costume designers really phoned it in for the prequels.

Fire Fly wrote:17 km SSD............................check
900 km Death Star...............check
more than 3 million clones....next target

19 km Executor, and the blurb for Order 66 speaks of "hidden armies". Still utterly insipid, as the problem was how do they fight a galaxy wide war of attrition, but a slow step in the right direction.

So the DS2's been popped up another 100KM. Interesting.

So with a radius of 400KM it had a volume of 268,082,573 cubic KM, a 450KM radius would give it a volume of 381,703,507 cubic KM. That's a 42.3% increase in volume.

Do we have any figures on crew complement?

Also, The Complete Locations gives the same figure.

Sidewinder wrote:I remember reading a "report" linked to the Wikipedia article for the Death Star, in which the writer claimed the Death Star II CANNOT be 900 meters in diameter. (The link has since been removed from Wikipedia.) Now that Lucasfilm has made an official statement to confirm the Death Star II IS 900 motherfucking meters in diameter, that'll silence A LOT of Trekkies' arguments against the Galactic Empire's industrial capacity.

wow

ExarKun wrote:

Sidewinder wrote:I remember reading a "report" linked to the Wikipedia article for the Death Star, in which the writer claimed the Death Star II CANNOT be 900 meters in diameter. (The link has since been removed from Wikipedia.) Now that Lucasfilm has made an official statement to confirm the Death Star II IS 900 motherfucking meters in diameter, that'll silence A LOT of Trekkies' arguments against the Galactic Empire's industrial capacity.

wow

Well that was insightful. Care to elaborate?

Maybe a more descriptive thread title should be used.

havokeff wrote:

ExarKun wrote:wow

Well that was insightful. Care to elaborate?

Death Star smaller than an Imperator.

Ender wrote:Costume designers really phoned it in for the prequels.

It looks like some kind of a goof, like when Ewan MacGregor wore that goofy helmet while making AOTC.

Elfdart wrote:

Ender wrote:Costume designers really phoned it in for the prequels.

It looks like some kind of a goof, like when Ewan MacGregor wore that goofy helmet while making AOTC.

Personally, I was thinking either torture device or a very kinky sex toy .

Title changed because huh describes fucking nothing.

Venator wrote:

Elfdart wrote:

Ender wrote:Costume designers really phoned it in for the prequels.

It looks like some kind of a goof, like when Ewan MacGregor wore that goofy helmet while making AOTC.

Personally, I was thinking either torture device or a very kinky sex toy .

Who is that supposed to be? An alien or something?

One of the Coruscanti barflies from AotC. I highly doubt there's an actual proboscis under there.

Elfdart wrote:I saw this on the same page:



What the fuck?

Looks like a Who escaped Whoville and got into porn.

By my calculations, thirty thousand turbo-laser batteries equals to one battery for every 85 square kilometres.

^ Of course, we don't know how big a battery is.