[Spaceships] Hull size of Falcon...

[Polydamas]

Star Wars fans like to argue about the size of the Falcon, because its hard to fit the inside sets inside the outside sets. I would just assign it the size which SS says it should have given its apparent dimensions and shape.

Originally Posted by GoblynByte

For better or worse, though, linear size is the *only* quantified bit of data we have on any given Star Wars vessel. Taken from the only tangible and measurable source that exists: The movie assets (in this case, ship models). Everything else (e.g. the amount of cargo mass a YT-1300 can carry) is apocryphal at best, usually grabbed out of thin air by an author (with the occasional use of real-world analogues, as you suggest with the F-15) or supported by vague and useless statements in the script ("She'll make 0.5 past lightspeed").

That was true 15 years ago, but then Curtis Saxton, the physicist and Star Wars fundamentalist, got the rights to publish the cannonical books on vehicles in the prequels. So now there are all kinds of numbers with the Lucasarts imprimateur on them.

Whether you think they are interpreting a set of rubber-science movies wisely or not, Curtis Saxton and Mike Wong have done a lot of work to calculate the numbers they use.