Looky! A size comparison page that doesn't suck!

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2005-01-22 01:10pm

As far as I can tell, this guy's using accurate (and not party line) numbers! nifty.

http://www.st-minutiae.com/misc/comparison.xhtml

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-01-22 01:56pm

Man, I love how Executor just dwarfs everything

Kruk · Post by **Kruk** » 2005-01-22 02:12pm

Especially when compared to V'Ger or Whale Probe

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-22 02:28pm

YES!

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-01-22 02:30pm

Kruk wrote:Especially when compared to V'Ger or Whale Probe

*shrug* Both of those are exceptions rather than rules. Executor lords over the common starcraft.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-22 02:32pm

And what the hell is V'Ger, anyway? That's way the hell too big to the the Voyager probe, obviously. Which is what I've been told it's supposed to be.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-01-22 02:37pm

It is? I thought the thing was supposed to be 100km long or something enormous.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-22 02:40pm

McC wrote:It is? I thought the thing was supposed to be 100km long or something enormous.

I dunno, something about how some alien race grabbed the Voyager probe and stuck a lot of shit on it to make it dangerous and sent it back was what I heard. 98 km worth is a lot of extra shit stuck on, though.

VT-16 · Post by **VT-16** » 2005-01-22 02:40pm

At it´s core is the Voyager probe, the rest was added on by a mysterious machine race... (No, not the Borg

)

And the two probes are apparently single ships, the Executor is an entire ship-class!

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-01-22 02:55pm

Rogue 9 wrote:And what the hell is V'Ger, anyway? That's way the hell too big to the the Voyager probe, obviously. Which is what I've been told it's supposed to be.

It's Voyager 6, "upgraded" by a civilisation of machines at the other end of a wormhole.

Actually, the drawing only depicts the physical core of V'ger. In the movie, it was surrounded by a "cloud" measuring 82 AU across - they reduced it to 2 AU in the Director's Cut.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-01-22 03:07pm

You think the probe was all machine-race-built? I thought they gave it the ability to build onto itself, and it simply "grew" to be that big over time on its journey back to Earth. That's what I got out of the dialogue, anyway.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2005-01-22 03:13pm

Wow, that was a sane trekkie

. No, I really liked his charts, and it's good that he separates himself from some other elements.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-22 03:26pm

nice link

Are there Haloverse ships in it by the way? Always wondered how the earth cruiser in Halo looked like compared to others

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2005-01-22 03:33pm

Rogue 9 wrote:And what the hell is V'Ger, anyway? That's way the hell too big to the the Voyager probe, obviously. Which is what I've been told it's supposed to be.

Yeah, and where's the whole cloud part?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-22 03:46pm

wautd wrote:nice link

Are there Haloverse ships in it by the way? Always wondered how the earth cruiser in Halo looked like compared to others

The Pillar of Autumn's size is rather hotly contested. As for what it looks like, here you go.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-01-22 04:01pm

YT300000 wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:And what the hell is V'Ger, anyway? That's way the hell too big to the the Voyager probe, obviously. Which is what I've been told it's supposed to be.
Yeah, and where's the whole cloud part?

The whole cloud was supposed to be 1 astronomical unit in diameter if I recall correctly, that might put it a little too big to be put on a diagram - the cloud dissipated when Vger entered the solar system as well IIRC.

EDIT: Or, I could actually read what had gone before. Dumbass.

Kruk · Post by **Kruk** » 2005-01-22 04:04pm

all right all right. The Vorlon Planet Killer. Or even better. Shadow Planet Killer (assume that the black background is SPK

)

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-01-22 04:31pm

Kruk wrote:all right all right. The Vorlon Planet Killer

Which only ever demonstrated possessing a single main weapon that was incredibly unwieldy and required the vessel to be escorted by dozens or hundreds of support ships?

Executor = teh win

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2005-01-22 05:29pm

Nice pictures. I wish I knew all the show they're based on.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-01-22 05:35pm

Cool.

Post by **Coyote** » 2005-01-22 06:51pm

Sigh. I'm going to have to do one of these when I get my site up and running dealing with my Empires universe.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2005-01-22 07:47pm

Kruk wrote:Especially when compared to V'Ger or Whale Probe

Yes, well the author of that page left out the two Death Stars. I guess to have those on the chart would make everything else single pixles.

Gothmog · Post by **Gothmog** » 2005-01-23 12:45pm

Here's another comparison page.

http://www.wolfsshipyard.mystarship.com/SizeComp.html

Gothmog · Post by **Gothmog** » 2005-01-23 12:45pm

Sorry. Double post.

Mange · Post by **Mange** » 2005-01-23 12:52pm

Hmm, no SW ships there.