Star Destroyer build time

How long does it take to build a Star Destroyer? I've heard everything from several months to ten years.
The ten yrs line seems too long.

 

I seriously dont think its 10 years. in fact its not! that would just be silly, there would be no point building a ship that size if it took 10 year. Id say anything from 6 months to a year for an imperial start destroyer

 

The second question is an SSD. BT?

 

pardon

 

Sorry. How long for an SSD?

 

oh I see. Well im no expert on the subject but id say that in proportion it would take prehaps maybe 2 years as it is far larger than an imp destroyer, i mean they didnt even bother to paint them they were that big. But i cant b sure, its often stated that SSD are a waste and that the material needed to build onr far exceeds the benafits(sp) of haveing one

 

I've always assumed that it would take maybe a year- year and a half to fully complete one. The empire had something like 27,000 (something up in that range) Star Destroyers, more than they could keep track of. That's a lot to build in 30 +/- years.

 

yeah but the empire had its shipyards running at full wack, 1 in 1 out, ive just been lookin at a list of known star destroyers just from literature its amazin how many there are. Also raises the question how the hell the rebels beat the empire! What i want to know is where all these star destroyers are now? i mean i dont think they destroyed 27,000 of them in the war!!!!!

 

The Rebels themselves did not destroy 27,000 of them, but the Imperial infighting cost them a lot as well. Then there is Byss where a large portion of the cloned Emperor's fleet was lost in the destruction of that planet.

Some Star Destroyer captains defected to the Alliance, some went there own ways and became pirates, etc.

As for the build time for a ISD, I would think only a few months if they were running at max capacity, and they had all the resources that they needed to produce one.

 

The empire needed two years to buildt the first DeathStar and a half year to buildt sixty percent of the second one.

My guess would be three to six months. As for what happened to the many ISDs: Many were destroyed by the infighting of the various imperial fractions, some in battles with the New Republic and a vast part of those ships in sector-fleets changed its owner together with the sector.

 

i think it depends on whose asking, too. If palpatine says 'i need a brand new ship with these features on it, asap' that thing will be done with a quickness.

 

The actual number or Star Destroyers out there at the height of Empire is anywhere from the 25,000 given in one of Zahn's books, to an estimate of 200,000 by some of our own posters, given that any empire as large as Palpatine's would necessitate a huge force to police and patrol within and without its borders.

The time to churn out a Star Destroyer would depend on which shipyard it is being assembled at. Large shipyards such as Fondor or Kuat would probably be even more efficient than American workers building carriers during WW2, about one every month. Plus, such shipyards are ringed around the entire planet, so several such ships could be in production simultaneously. It's probable that any yard of such size could build Star Destroyers by the dozen or even more than that. Those figures would be full scale wartime production, however. Smaller shipyards would be limited by resources and personnel, and could take close to a year to completely finish a Star Destroyer.

An Executor-class Star Destroyer, or other similar juggernaught warship would take longer, but could likely still be assembled with relative speed. Zsinj had nearly completed his second SSD by the time the NR even found out about it, so at most it takes a large shipyard about 4-5 months to finish one completely.

 

The almost-completed Star Destroyer Amerce took about a year of construction in Hero's Trial II: Jedi Eclipse, at the Fondor Yards.

 

I'm trying to recall how fast Executor was built, but I believe construction took only six months. The Empir ehad at least nine of them by the time of Endor, which might not count two that were built and then destroyued in action (Terror and Vengeance). ISDs came off the line like hotcakes, Garm bel Iblis remarks in Vision of the Future that at its height Star Destroyers were being added to the Imperial fleet so quickly many major bases couldn't keep their databases up to speed.

 

I had typically assumed it was around 6-12 months, which isn't bad considering the sheer amount of resources needed to do it. The other question is that of the 25,000 (according to Specter of the Past) that the Empire at one time posessed, at what time did their construction begin, and which shipyards were needed to do the job. I'm assuming the primary one was Kuat (being Kuat Drive Yards, and all), but the Executor was done at Fondor, and Thrawn had Bilbringi doing its share during his campaign.

 

Twilight of the gods, the carriers you're thinkign of are the escort carriers, not full sized ones.

Even still it took months to build an escort carrier. It's just they we're being built at multiple places so they could actually finish 50 in one year.

Very impressive but those carriers we're secondary. Then main fleet carriers took over a year each to finish.

The Empire would probably have hundreds of SDs under construction at a time, but each one would still take months to finish.

Take the USS Ronald Reagan for example. It was laid down in Febuary 98, launched in March 2001 and won't be commishioned until later this year.

 

By the way, Star Destroyers were painted. In one of the later novels which makes mention of Errant Venture, Booster Terrik had complained that the Emperor had a personal grudge against him by way of the fact that the only colour of paint available in sufficient quantities at reasonable prices to paint a Star Destroyer was SD White.

 

SSD were not painted, well except for the one Daala uses, knights hammer i think it was called, and it was black. but all the other SSD's ice heard about dont get the once over with the paint. i mean they are alot bigger than a normal imp SD.

 

In Darksaber, Pellaeon has a fleet of VSDs that are red, due to the ore used in constructing them. And Booster's Errant Venture is, as we all know, redder than red.

 

Don't forget that by the Thrawn Duo, there were something like 200 left.

 

Makes you wonder when it takes around 10 years to build a new aircraft carrier...

 

It would be eaiser to shift materials in zero-g in fact everything would b easier. Plus u have better technology and hundereds of droids. Thats proberbly why they can build these things so fast

 

Except that an SD is also over five times as long andit's volume is much much bigger, not to mention more complicated.

Don't forget, 0g also means everything has to be vacuum sealed.

 

True, true.
ok here's one for y'all, one which can not measure by comparing our real life situation. How long would it take the vong to GROW one of their captial ships? ive not really seen anything mentioning build time in the books, does any1 have any ideas?

 

Well the destroyed ship womb holding theworld ship could probably have only been under growth for a year.

I haven't read the book in a bit so if they give an exact figure i don't recall.