Lit The Official StarWars.com Blog Thread - That's right, I went there

I love how these articles toss out very interesting new details in the captions alone:
"'Lando's Commandos' consisted of a rotating assemblage of scoundrels, including the Tonnika sisters and veterans of the Battle of Taanab."

 

Hilariously enough those would be the Taanab system militia pilots he insulted outright when he recounted that battle to Voren. Unless of course he brought along a few of those Norulac freebooter guys (who he also claimed would be hard pressed to fly in a straight line).

 

http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/in...ars-mysteries-exacting-executor-measurements/

And some here thought he does not read TFN... this sounds as if coming straight out of our textbook

 

I only skimmed it, but at least it confirms that the 8,000 meters figure was a load of baloney from the beginning, based on the intended scale of the Brass Star Destroyer. I had never heard of the Brass Star Destroyer before, so I found that very interesting.

 

Curtis Saxton even had that Encyclopedia figure on his site and commented that WEG didn't invent it.

People think the fan measurements just came out of nowhere, but it's hard to argue for the five mile length since it came from a probable misreading of the script, novel or the Empire Strikes Back Official Poster Monthly. All that was known (outside of ILM, that is) was that Vader's flagship was "larger and stronger than five ordinary Star Destroyers" and incidentally, there's five Star Destroyers with the Executor in the movie.

 

So the US government shut down over debating SSD lengths actually... we know Obama is a Star Wars fan! All the other reasons are just secondary and a cover up like Roswell, landing on the moon and 9/11.

 

Good God! Pablo just restarted the SSD Wars!

So, if the model makers intentions are true canon, the SSD is only 13,469 meters long? Sweet Jesus...

--Adm. Nick

 

No kidding, and the Viscount and Strident-class Star Defenders are becoming just as controversial.

Indeed, General Winter is a pushover compared to length debates. I myself have even become rather opinionated on such matters.

 

lets ask them what they intended for the Mon Cal cruisers and Home One

 

Which ones, the ILMers that wanted 17,600 meters or the ones who made the ISD to scale? And I thought we couldn't use movie visuals for accuracy...

 

The blog comments on that thing are gonna be a nightmare.

 

A nightmare indeed, people have already brought up Home One and the Tantive IV dramatic reversal retcon, though it has been civilized so far.

 

This is why I hate scaling.

Honest to God, at this point I just want LFL to decide on a scale for all ships and make it Gospel. Lord knows that between the various model makers, writers, novelists, and other folks that lengths are all over the place. I just want something set in stone at this point.

--Adm. Nick

 

The fun thing about the HO is that they made it CGI two years ago. It, the Nebulon-B, the Corellian corvette, the Gallofree transport. All in one shot, too. Wonder what direction the ILMers followed, because the HO cruisers look absolutely massive, next to those three. Closer to Saxton's estimates, even.

 

That would be me then and someone else

 

Yeah... Someone else...

 

I never understood the interest in these numerical canon debates, but maybe, just maybe, we can consider the matter closed after this?

Naive? Maybe, but what other authority are we looking for here?

 

always two there are...

 

Ain't in the holocron. Yet. There's still the case of ILM's 17,6 km figure. I'd accept that before this.

Plus, he says it suggests the size in the article. I wonder what the scale of the ROTJ shot with the two ISDs would suggest?

You know, there was a time where I'd be in a blinding rage from someone calling Pablo Hidalgo an "authority". His handling of certain issues and fans is only slightly better than that of a certain CW-era author.

 

Which will probably get changed by some other source at one point. Hence why LFL needs to issue a definitive statement and put the issue to rest. Like I said, I couldn't even care if they rescale all ships at this point. I just want a final, definitive set of numbers that LFL says is canon. That way we can all move on.

--Adm. Nick

 

So, you about done down there? You've got the internet back up and running after the SSD comments crashed it?

 

I think that, in such a case, referring oneself to the maker's intentions to determine canon is both useless and tricky. To give you a single example: the Imperial rank plaques system. What was the maker's intention? None, or so little. John Mollo has freely admitted that no clear, regular system had been invented at all.

Same thing here with the Executor. Since its relative size seem to vary depending on what it is compared to--other destroyers or the DS--it seems pretty pointless to use the original makers' intent.