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

More likely the power core detonated.

 

It's not that impressive an explosion imo.

 

Impressive in the sense of it being stunning cinematic visuals, yes. But there's nothing to make me think the transport is souped up or filled with dynamite.

Though I think the ROTJ novelization said that some transports were filled with explosives, explaining what unarmed transports are doing there.

 

The novelization did, but it didn't specify which vessels, and even so not all GR75s are unarmed.

 

I may be mistaken. I thought it was a Neb-B. I'll need to watch it again.

If it is a Neb-B, it put the Battle of Attilon in a new light.

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I may be mistaken. I thought it was a Neb-B. I'll need to watch it again.

If it is a Neb-B, it put the Battle of Attilon in a new light.

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Oh wow that is small. I have not watched the film just on my own without doing a commentary since theaters so I guess I remembered the way it looked on the big screen which made it look just insane, though that was likely the zeitgeist cause let's face it who didn't have their heart skip a beat when the Devastator showed up? That was like one of my two "this film is perfect if" requests (the other was the Death Star theme which we kinda got)


Also holy crud imagine being on one of THOSE GR75s. Just fly it into an ISD "This is for saying we are useless!!!!!!!!!!"

 

I am sure they had an 'out'. Put on auto pilot and get to the escape pods.

 

They were jumping to hyperspace, I doubt that the crew had any time to get to the escape pods before it collided. So I think its sad to assume that 7 - 20 people have just been killed.

 

I am talking about the novel reference of loading them with explosives for fleet engagements.

 

I thought you were referring to Scarif.

Endor I can understand.

 

I am talking about the guys in the ROTJ novelization. Obviously the guys in RO had no chance to dodge. I mean in ROTJ imagine flying a ship that is there specifically to be blown up?

Edit: oh we are talking the same thing. Yeah that makes sense. now I wanna see that. Then again it would still suck cause GRs are not meant to take lots of punishment so one shot makes it through and it will likely explode before they can get to the pods. It would give the ships other than fighters something to do during Endor. My one issue with that battle is that the capital ships do almost nothing and the frigates do utterly nothing.

 

Sneak up behind them and ram the engines...with the hull full of unstable explosives....after you have abandoned ship of course.

 

Yeah I get that. My point is that it is a very risky job cause it the hull is hit hard enough those explosions could blow the whole ship up. Just cause there is a way for the plan to work without flaw does not mean it is flawless.

 

I'm pretty sure nothing actually CRASHES into the Devastator outright. Even the GR-75 just gets destroyed by fire at close range.

 

I'm pretty sure nothing actually CRASHES into the Devastator outright. Even the GR-75 just gets destroyed by fire at close range.

 

nah the GR75 crunches in on it then the debris gets pushed out of the way as it moves on

 

Shields full front....not actual ship to ship contact but the GR75 impacts the shields??

 

Looks a lot like ship to ship contact to me.

Spoiler

 

Definitely a collision. Then the turbolasers shred the Nebulon-B that is shielding the Profundity. Would be interesting to go through shot-by-shot to work out what other ships are left - and get confirmation of whether or not they also managed to escape. Vader seemed to know to target the Profundity (he's aware of where the plans were transmitted to), so perhaps that bought time for the other vessels to escape off-screen.

 

But looking at your second screencap, doesn't that look a lot like turbolaser fire about to hit? I guess I could see an argument for "impacted on the shields," but it really doesn't look like a physical collision.

 

Vader probably just attacked the biggest vessel, obviously the flagship. Also I find it interesting that the Devastator rakes the Nebulon with laser fire back and forth along the lateral hull, but the place the Neb actually crumples is at the base of the neck as it expands to the frontal hull, as opposed to the supposed torsional "weak spot" that ought to be center of the spar. Honestly it's impressive it lasted the 4 or 5 seconds it did under the full creeping barrage of an ISD.

 

Yeah that Nebulon held in there impressively well. I wanna know what the crew was thinking, I mean they where going to die blocking another ship that was also gonna die cause it was covering for another ship. Obviously they got people out but still someone had to stay back. Kinda was a short story in their heads

 

We see a trio of CR90's, two GR75's, and a single Hammerhead escape in the jump scene. Now, it's entirely possible more ships escaped. We only see a GR75, a Neb-B, and the Profundity actually lost. In the screen shots above, it's possible that the one Dornean gunship on the right side of the screen jumps. Ditto the handful of remaining corvettes around the Profundity. Considering how quick that scene is and how close everything was to jumping, I'd wager more warships that the six noted above escape.

--Adm. Nick

 

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Even if the transport was hit by turbolaser fire, it would have run into the *Devastator* from sheer inertia.

In other news, Super Graphic gives ship speeds (it looks like most of these were taken from the old X-Wing series):
(MGLT - Megalights per Hour)

1. Solar Sailor - 27
2. Imperial Shuttle - 54
3. Mon Calamari Star Cruiser, ISD, Home One - 60
4. Slave I, Separatist Dreadnought, Y-Wing, Imperial Landing Craft (Sentinel-Cladd) - 70 MGLT
5. Millenium Falcon - 75
6. CR-90 Corvette - 81
7. ARC-170, X-Wing - 100
8. TIE Advanced Fight XI - 105
9. TIE Interceptor - 110
10. Jedi Interceptor - 118
11. A-Wing Starfighter - 120

 

Does the book says actually say megalight or just MGLT?