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Acclamator -> ISD scaling
Posted: 2003-05-26 08:50am
by His Divine Shadow
I did some rough scaling on the Acclamator and ISD reactor sizes to try and figure out possible figures for an ISD, here's what I've got:
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Acclamator reactor
72m diameter sphere - volume: 195432m^3
Total output: 2e23w
Output density: 1e18w
Shield rating: 7e22w - 35% of reactor output
ISD reactor estimations:
165m diameter sphere - volume: 2352071m^3
Total output: 2e24w
Output density: 1e18w(derived from Acclamator scaling)
Shield rating: 7e23w - 35% of reactor output(derived from Acclamator scaling)
Posted: 2003-05-26 10:14am
by Ender
1) Reactor sphere for an ISD is 140 meters
2) 156 meters for the Acclamator sphere? I remember talking to you about this last year when ICS first came out and you said it was 70
3) an ISD has 25% of it's power sent to it's shields as per the quote from the Imperial sourcebook
4) According to my email to Saxton, reactor volume and power have a log - log relationship, not a linear one
5) Even if you were going to try and use a linear relationship, you'd need another datapoint, such as the DS reactor, before you could plot it to determine ISD power.
6) According to the ICS, an ISD has several reactors; the main one, and ones for each engines, discounting the numerous small fusion ones
Posted: 2003-05-26 11:27am
by Illuminatus Primus
Ender wrote:6) According to the ICS, an ISD has several reactors; the main one, and ones for each engines, discounting the numerous small fusion ones
Exactly what I was going to bring up.
The majority of the ISD reactor is not the sphere. And it is
a lot larger than the Acclamator's according to SW ICS
Posted: 2003-05-26 03:54pm
by Ender
HDS, how did you scale the Acclamator reactor anyways? Most of the bulb itself is obscured by the superstructure and hull plating in the ICS image I have.
Posted: 2003-05-26 04:50pm
by Towlie
I remember reading in one of the official publications that the Acclamator eventually evolves into the Imperator. I hope they mean in terms of design lineage and that Lucas doesn't try to pull something gay in EpIII like the Acclamators being "enlarged" into ISDs. There is a rumoured scene in EpIII with an ISD or ESD bridge. [It could be the Executor, but that would override the EU significantly, wouldn't it...]
Posted: 2003-05-26 06:10pm
by Ender
Yes it is a precursor in the design lineage, yes there looks to be a SD bridge in Ep3
Posted: 2003-05-27 01:57am
by His Divine Shadow
Ender wrote:1) Reactor sphere for an ISD is 140 meters
According to the blueprints I found at the SWTC it's 165m
2) 156 meters for the Acclamator sphere? I remember talking to you about this last year when ICS first came out and you said it was 70[/quote]
I don't remember that, but the 156m figure is a typo, it's 72m according to my scaling.
4) According to my email to Saxton, reactor volume and power have a log - log relationship, not a linear one
Whats a log?
Posted: 2003-05-27 01:59am
by His Divine Shadow
Ender wrote:HDS, how did you scale the Acclamator reactor anyways? Most of the bulb itself is obscured by the superstructure and hull plating in the ICS image I have.
I used that image and some extrapolation, we saw roughly half of the thing anyway so a little mixing and such in photoshop allowed me to get an estimate on it.
Posted: 2003-05-27 02:03am
by Wild Karrde
Ender wrote:Yes it is a precursor in the design lineage, yes there looks to be a SD bridge in Ep3
There's always the VSD...
Posted: 2003-05-27 02:18am
by Ender
His Divine Shadow wrote:According to the blueprints I found at the SWTC it's 165m
Checking myself I see multiple sizes. Whatever then.
I don't remember that, but the 156m figure is a typo, it's 72m according to my scaling.
Whats a log?
Mathmatical concept. A log - log relationship means that the formula works out on a graph where both axes are graphed with the log of the variable taken
Posted: 2003-05-27 08:33am
by Sea Skimmer
Wild Karrde wrote:Ender wrote:Yes it is a precursor in the design lineage, yes there looks to be a SD bridge in Ep3
There's always the VSD...
Or the half dozen other destroyer classes Saxton has noted.