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11-28-2019, 07:06 AM | #12 | |
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Yeah, that's the interpretation I often go with.
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11-28-2019, 07:44 AM | #13 | |
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Force screens in SW are oddly limited. The screen at Hoth was flat and 2 dimensional. There were some original graphics in A New Hope (back in '77 when it was just "Star Wars") that showed the Millenium Flacons screens as being 2 flat plates above and below the ship. It made a little more sense out of "angling the deflectors" and it may ahve msolty meant tilting the ship. On the other hand, screens seem to be pretty powerful. Vader's whole division of Star Destroyers were apparently inadequate to knocking down the Rebel screen at Hoth. Then in the third movie Admiral Ackbar concentrated all of the Rebel fleet's fire on one Super Star Destroyer and got a mobility kill rather than space dust.
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11-28-2019, 07:53 AM | #14 | |
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I think a better rule of thumb for one like Star Wars where the interiors of spaceships look like water vessels is the old rule of thumb of 100 cubic feet per ton, which is about 0.35 t/m^3, depending on the ton you use. If the Death Star was 100 miles in diameter, it would have a volume of 7.7 x 10^16 cubic feet, and thus mass about 7.7 x 10^14 tons.
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11-28-2019, 07:57 AM | #15 | ||
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The Death Star also had a defensive screen. Because it was so big, the rebel's fighters flew through it quite a way out from the station itself, so I assume it was intended to stop attacks from large ships.
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11-28-2019, 08:21 AM | #16 |
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Re: Death Star Spaceship
The Death Star main weapons could probably be 'realistically' represented as a combination weapon that used the laser to drill a hole to the core of the planet and a mass driver to deliver 30 trillion metric tons of antimatter to the core of the planet. The 'low' setting, which is capable of annihilating capital ships, is just the laser while the 'high' setting, which is capable of annihilating worlds, is the laser plus mass driver antimatter delivery system. Of course, nothing is realistic about Star Wars, so take it with a grain of salt.
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