Acclamator -> ISD scaling

[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)

[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

[Illuminatus Primus]

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

[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.

[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...]

[Ender]

Yes it is a precursor in the design lineage, yes there looks to be a SD bridge in Ep3

[His Divine Shadow]

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?

[His Divine Shadow]

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.

[Wild Karrde]

Yes it is a precursor in the design lineage, yes there looks to be a SD bridge in Ep3

There's always the VSD...

[Ender]

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

[Sea Skimmer]

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.