Gorefiend wrote:Aren’t we talking about general fighting powers of a super star destroyer?
Yes. I wasn't aware you were attempting to call into doubt its shield capacity as well.
Armaments is pretty clear from the Eu's point of view.
The surface of the Executor was dotted with all sorts of weaponry. Its front arc was covered by 200 heavy and light turbolaser batteries, 50 concussion missile launchers, 100 ion cannons, and 20 tractor beam projectors. Its side arcs each boasted coverage by 75 light turbolaser batteries and 50 heavy turbolaser batteries, as well as 75 missile tubes, 50 ion cannons and 10 tractor beam projectors. The rear arc, traditionally the least defended area of a vessel, had an impressive weapons array of 50 heavy turbolaser batteries, 50 missile tubes, and 50 ion cannons.
From the Star Wars Website
Saxon gives it more then 5000 turbo laser and ion canons in his guide, as he counts batteries as several separate weapons, unlike the other sources. So there is no real conflict there.
That's because a battery
is several separate weapons.
Dictionary.com wrote:bat·ter·y
n. pl. bat·ter·ies
1. An emplacement for one or more pieces of artillery.
2. A set of guns or other heavy artillery, as on a warship.
3. An army artillery unit, corresponding to a company in the infantry.
Underline emphasis mine. That's the second definition 'group' for the term, the others being irrelevant for the discussion.
Dr. Saxton wrote:The flat hull surfaces of the Executor are covered with raised, rectangular blisters or panels that are a few tens of metres across. Some are narrower than others, but all have approximately the same area has the primary turrets on a star destroyer. They could be weapons batteries too, although individual gun barrels would not be resolvable at the structural resolution of the Executor special effects model.
Emphasis mine. So, counting various raised hull structures, Dr. Saxton comes up with a number of ~940 blisters, not all of which are necessarily HTLs. Most of them aren't of regular dimensions, which would argue against a standard HTL emplacement. Some might be shield projectors, sensor suites, missile tubes, etc. They also probably consist of heavy ion cannons as well among those that are squareish in shape.
Your EU numbers suggest 350 total HTL batteries, or roughly 44 times the HTL armament of an
Imperator (with 8 batteries of 8 guns each). Much as you said, there doesn't seem to be a conflict here. 350 HTL batteries * 8 = 2800 guns (:shock:). If the "5000 turbolasers and ion cannons" number is a combined total of individual guns, then it's probably something of an
underestimate, given that the ship sports 2800
HTLs.
In case we're not clear, HTLs are the guns that tend to kill most ships in a shot or two. And you think
Executor is weak...how?
As for fighter compliment. EU generally gives it something like this...
The ship generally carries up to two hundred smaller vessels, including Lambda-Class shuttles, landing craft, and up to twelve squadron of TIE fighters, interceptors, and bombers.
from Wotc Starships of the Galaxy.
(btw. Another nice fact from that book is that...
Other Super-Class Star Destroyers had slightly different configurations of weapons, crew, and troops, depending on the circumstances of their construction and their intended missions.
)
Saxon gives it several wings of starfighters. Which really could mean anything from 144 fighters up to infinity.
A) Starships of the Galaxy is a gaming supplement. I happen to own it myself. The sheer fact that they use "
Super-class" casts their entire article's validity into doubt, given that the ship is
Executor-class. Good ol' WEG bullshit being carried on once again.
B)
Executor also lugs around planetary garrisons. Those eat up a lot of space, I imagine, compared to something like a
Venator, which is dedicated solely to starfighters and personnel/mechanized combat rather than installing actual outposts. Your "slightly different configurations" quote probably goes a long way in terms of "slightly" meaning "well, if we take out the garrisons, we make room for another thousand fighters" or some such.
The cortex guns are probably Gorefiend's LTLs, such as those we saw tear apart the X-wing behind Arvel Crynyd's A-wing just prior to his fateful plunge through Executor's bridge.
