Lit Fleet Junkie Flagship- The technical discussions of the GFFA (Capital Ships thread Mk. II)

I can't get the 150m length for the CR90 out of my had. IIRC, isn't the 126m figure for the model we see in ROTS, which was noticeably different from the classic ANH Rebel blockade runner?

--Adm. Nick

 

Yup.

 

Did you guys see this?:


It's probably incomplete but still pretty impressive. Apparently it's every Imperial Canon ship to scale.

 

Wonder where they got the CC-7700 from. I don't think it's mentioned anywhere.

 

It's from "Tarkin."

 

Oh, I know they showed in Tarkin. I meant the size.

Btw, found some Imperial transports in ROTJ. They're mentioned in the script and show up to the right of the Northern hemisphere of the Death Star II in the film.
They appear and disappear at different parts of the film, so they're not part of the DSII prop itself. Marked in red on two shots, early in the film and gone in two others, later:
http://i.imgur.com/89ixpoX.png

 

So then, this would be out first clear, full image of a Tector? Why, if I didn't know better I'd say it was an ISD...

Cool image, though. I love these kinds of comparison images, aside from that AT-AT- anyone else think that it looks too big compared to the ISD?

 

It's 22 m tall. The main docking bay on an ISD is slightly bigger than a CR90 corvette. It's not that farfetched.

 

I guess that makes sense. Sure makes it easier to see why an ISD would have "only" 72 TIES, especially when the drop ships for the AT-ATs and the rest of the ground complement are also factored in. Come to think of it, the TIEs there look slightly too big, too, proportions wise.

 

I have a question about the Ravager. It's a SSD and supposedly a really good ship.
Is it the same type as the Executor? Or like the other weird non triangle SSDs from the EU?


I would look it up myself but I don't want spoilers because I'm not up to date.

 

...pretty sure non-Executor SSDs are still flying triangles.

 

I don't know if this is the best place to ask this but can someone tell me what the Rebel Gunboats are in Truce at Bakura. I recently finished it and have since been looking over Alliance ships and have not been able to find any mention of the model of ship that was used in the conflict. I know there is a sourcebook but sadly the is not much info on it.

 

According to Wookipedia they are supposed to be DP20 gunships, I think.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Truce_at_Bakura
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/DP20_frigate

 

Yup - it exists in the newcanon. And I presume that if a ship exists in both, the artist will default to Legends portrayal, when there's not yet a canon description that includes length.

Presumably the artist could put in a Lancer and a Secutor if they wanted.

They haven't yet taken into account the recent 325m Arquitens figure - maybe they could be notified?

 

Based on that, the size of the NEU canon Interdictor is around 1,000 meters, +/-.

--Adm. Nick

 

On the FFG Armada forum, I've seen it narrowed down a bit more:

https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/229838-scale-chart/

As a rough, rough, assumption plagued estimate: the new interdictor should be in the neighborhood of 1,120 meters. IE, it's big.

Methodology:

The method was based on one fundamental assumption derived from the concept art: the main hangar was directly sourced from Rebel's ISD-I hangar with only the external contours being changed to accommodate the new model's slimmer housing. As it's supposed to be a prototype ship, the in universe logic of sourcing existing parts rather than new manufacturing is pretty common and sound for similar ships. As an out of universe explanation, it could just be an identical and differently scaled source, but it's still something to go on.

So, I took two similar shots, the concept art and the shots of some Rebels ISD's, and overlayed them. From there, I used the photoshop gridded warp scaling to align and properly scale the hangars and draw down the centerline. Using the centerline with the hangars as the point of reference, I used a measuring tool to get the right relative measurements. It determined that the Interdictor is ~70% the length of the ISD-I (69.906, don't ask the margin of error, it's going to be fairly large, but the assumption of +/-10% is generous enough to work and 5% is closer). Anyway, taking that, we know the ISD's size, but something so close to 70% felt about right for scaling. Either way, the exact inferred measurement is 1118.5m).

 

Thanks.

 

I'm wondering if the Interdictor will end up being a common warship, or something specialized and more limited. I'd actually love it if the folks behind Rebels follow the old EU concept of it being built on the hull of a standard warship, just so that we can see a version of that model without the gravity well bumps. They really did a bang up job designing the Interdictor, it wouldn't be too hard for them to modify the model and use in other instances.

It's crazy to think that the Interdictor is roughly in the size scale of the MC80 cruisers used by the Alliance. I'm wondering how well armed the ship is? Do we see any visible weapons on it?

--Adm. Nick

 

Fractalsponge Mu-class shuttle

It's rather different from canon version:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mu-class_shuttle/Canon

and Legends version:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mu-2_long_range_shuttle

making me wonder what it's based on - one of the early computer games?

 

Isn't the only NuCanon Interdictor we've seen a prototype? Those are expected to be a bit larger than the regular one.

 

A real life fleet junkie news item, but the last shipwreck from the Battle of Jutland was just found, the HMS Warrior. One surprising thing for me, was that I knew stealing or salvaging bronze was a thing, but I am surprised it would still be lucrative enough to have it salvaged from ships on the ocean floor.

 

Very cool. The USS Independence was found off the coast of California by Ballard this year as well. It's always cool when they find old sunken wrecks.

--Adm. Nick