ISD docking with Death Star

Enola Straight · Post by **Enola Straight** » 2003-03-20 09:15am

Is the Equitorial Trench on the Death Star designed to allow docking with an ISD, or is the transfer of cargo and personell done solely through shuttles?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-03-20 09:27am

I don't think ISDs are going to be making cargo runs. And yes, the Death Star has the capacity to hold and service capital ships and the big freighters.

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-03-20 11:13am

It should be entirely possible to dock the Executor, considering the size of the equitorial trench.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-03-20 01:44pm

Lord Sander wrote:It should be entirely possible to dock the Executor, considering the size of the equitorial trench.

With what we've seen in the movies....I don't think so.
If you look at all the docking bays we've seen before the Falcon docked they are too small for the Executor.

Only at most the Star Destroyer length and size seams feasible for those docking bays.

Cyaround,
Jason

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-20 03:18pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:
Lord Sander wrote:It should be entirely possible to dock the Executor, considering the size of the equitorial trench.
With what we've seen in the movies....I don't think so.
If you look at all the docking bays we've seen before the Falcon docked they are too small for the Executor.

....

They might perhaps also have larger docking bays.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-20 03:33pm

wouldnt that be the coolest thing to see? a giant moon with a superlaser arriving in your system, and spreading away from it like dandelion petals, hundreds of star destroyers. ..

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-03-20 03:59pm

'Interesting' is rather subjective. I'd be more occupied with flying in the opposite direction to marvel.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-20 04:24pm

well, they'd be my honor guard.

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-03-20 04:31pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:With what we've seen in the movies....I don't think so.
If you look at all the docking bays we've seen before the Falcon docked they are too small for the Executor.

Only at most the Star Destroyer length and size seams feasible for those docking bays.

I very much doubt the ENTIRE trench only has those tiny docking bay types we saw used for shuttles and freighters.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-03-20 05:18pm

And I very much doubt that the equatorial trench was the only place on the entire surface that had docking ports.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-03-20 07:45pm

SPOOFE wrote:And I very much doubt that the equatorial trench was the only place on the entire surface that had docking ports.

The only problem is that all of you guys are facing is "might" "could be" and etc. We're assuming here.

I'm only taking what was shown from the movies. Why are you guys saying otherwise? It's like letting Trekkies say something because "it might". But we don't do we

Cyaround,
JAson

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-20 08:15pm

I think it would be cool to see the Executor in a large docking bay, with little docking tube things leading out of it.

Patrick Ogaard · Post by **Patrick Ogaard** » 2003-03-21 03:17am

I have no real idea as to whether or not the DS1 actually had sufficiently large hangar spaces to accommodate a 1.6 kilometer ISD. It is official, however, that the Death Star I was allocated four Strike Cruisers as auxiliary craft.

Loronar Strike Cruisers are 450 meter vessels, so the hangar facilities of the Death Star had to be at least large enough to accommodate those cruisers. Since there is no specification of the sizes of the other 20,000+ military and transport vessels that the DS carried in addition to its 7,000-odd TIE fighters, the Strike cruisers are about all there is to provide a benchmark. Of course, it's still a big step up from having a hangar big enough for a 450 meter vessel to a hangar big enough for a mile-long behemoth like a proper ISD.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2003-03-21 04:32am

The only problem is that all of you guys are facing is "might" "could be" and etc. We're assuming here.

Safe assumptions, I might add. Note that I'm not referring specifically to hangar bays for Star Destroyers.

Further... doesn't the novelisation mention that, when the Devastator flies towards the Death Star, it's intended purpose was to dock?

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-03-21 01:42pm

SPOOFE wrote:
The only problem is that all of you guys are facing is "might" "could be" and etc. We're assuming here.
Safe assumptions, I might add. Note that I'm not referring specifically to hangar bays for Star Destroyers.

Further... doesn't the novelisation mention that, when the Devastator flies towards the Death Star, it's intended purpose was to dock?

Ok ok ok...Now I think we're at a misunderstanding here.

All I said was that the Executor wouldn't be able to dock in the Death Star not a Star Destroyer.

I think it's feasible for a star destroyer .. just look at the other docks other than what the Falcon went in and compare. Don't take my word for it though. I'd have to watch again, but they were "LARGE" docking bays.

Cyaround,
JAson

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-03-21 01:58pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:All I said was that the Executor wouldn't be able to dock in the Death Star not a Star Destroyer.

The Executor going completely inside the Death Star may be unfeasable, but the definition of docking (in space, anyway) is two spaceships physically connecting. And the original question was whether shuttlecraft had to be used in any transfer or if they could dock. Well, it's a safe assumption to say they don't need shuttles or transports because they can physically connect to handle transfers.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-03-21 02:18pm

Lord Sander wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:All I said was that the Executor wouldn't be able to dock in the Death Star not a Star Destroyer.
The Executor going completely inside the Death Star may be unfeasable, but the definition of docking (in space, anyway) is two spaceships physically connecting. And the original question was whether shuttlecraft had to be used in any transfer or if they could dock. Well, it's a safe assumption to say they don't need shuttles or transports because they can physically connect to handle transfers.

Those must be some long transfer cylinders because I wouldn't want that large ship close to the Death Star.

Cyaround,
Jason