Rogue One Vehicles/Tech in Rogue One

Stardestroyer = 1.6 km length

Death Star = 140 to 160 km diameter (although same say it could be up to 900 km).

 

Yeah, then that explains why the Destroyers look so puny...

Actually, 140-160 km isn't a great distance (Kuala Lumpur to Malacca / Singapore City to Desaru Beach, Johor / San Francisco to Sacramento, CA / Melbourne to Phillip Island, VIC) as compared with the supposed 900km diameter of the SKB... But because people, cars, air transport, and even city-sized spacecraft are small, this makes the DS One look so massive!

 

Looking at the Super Star Destroyer Executor crashing into the second Death Star gives a better indication of scale.

 

Except with everything bigger

 

Wow, the Executor-class destroyers are much bigger than the ones in Rogue One as well as ANH, am I correct? Almost 20km long against the really tiny 1.6km Star Destroyers, which means it's easily ten times the height of Earth's tallest building now - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 830m!

Which makes that shot of the Executor crashing on the DS2 surface seem like a really huge and tall skyscraper going up in flames, from the base up...

 

we are definitely gonna see the Hammerhead Corvettes from Rebels

 

Yes....and a Nubulon B Frigate returns. Looks like we could see quite a few new designs too.

 

One thing that is never really mentioned is that the Empire used Nebulon Bs also (where do you think the rebels got them form?). It would be nice to see some of the same class ships fighting eachother, it is a Civil War after all.

 

Things like that should be left in the EU. It would only look confusing onscreen.

 

I suppose, but I can't wait to see some iconic Imperial Ships in the first onscreen space battle from the OT era since the Battle of Endor.

 

This is what's going to really make the movie for me. I loved TFA, but I was disappointed at the lack of fleet combat. Here's hoping they really pull out the stops for this space battle!

 

I was just on google images and came across this fan design for a ship- it looks very similar to the U-Wing.




http://adamkop.deviantart.com/art/Fighter-3D-Commission-404644399


EDIT: Ironically the guy did a drawing of the U-Wing:
http://adamkop.deviantart.com/art/Star-Wars-Rogue-One-U-Wing-618405647

Might be just a coincidence but it looks like they could have taken inspiration from it.

 

Millennium Falcon 888 wrote:


One thing always perks my mind about this shot from the second trailer - are the Star Destroyers that tiny when compared with the Death Star? We always envision the Destroyers as impressively-huge vessels of nearly 3km long that form the mobile units of the Empire, with the DS1 super-weapon as backup... But I'm surprised that these ships are so small, in actual fact!

The equatorial trench of both Death Star I (160 miles Diameter) and Death Star II (290 miles diameter) is approx. 1 mile in height.
So there could be plenty of Star Destroyer hangars in that area (I'd love to see a docking maneuver of a Star Destroyer in Rogue One, yet believe such a vessel would make a 180° turn prior to entering, and a tractor beam would then pull it in).

 

That only gets a slight mention in Ultimate Star Wars, right? There are a few things in that book that strike me as "off" and that's one of them. Personally, I think aesthetically, the Nebulon B is all wrong for the Empire. The Empire is all geometric shapes, and the Nebulon B is rather organic looking. Not that such a think would be impossible, but in films, form is often a shorthand language for things you information you want to convey without spending screen time explaining. To most folks The Nebulon B is a rebel ship, and if it were used by Imperials, it would necessitate a longish on-screen explanation. That would be better suited to a show like Rebels (maybe an episode where they steal a squadron of them).

 

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Confirmation of Blue Squadron X-wings. Near the end of the international trailer, markings are clearly visible.

 

Is there some significance to Blue Squadron that I'm missing? I mean, is it important somehow or is it just Star Wars fan pleasure?

 

Red Squadron was intended to be Blue Squadron in the nearly final version of ANH. However, they found that the blue markings caused problems when working with the blue screen technology of the time, and had to switch to red. This is a nice nod to that.

 

Ooooh. Is that why they all put on blue helmets when taking off? I always assumed it was just a flub.

 

Any Venators making a cameo I wonder?

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Very excited to see Blue Squadron! Since this is a civil war, should we see similar vehicles against each other?

 

It was made canon already in a comic, and before that it was ambiguously canon in one of the mobile games.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HWK-290_light_freighter/Canon

 

Found a screen cap on slashfilm.com showing Blue Leader (Merrick Simms?) diving down towards possibly a gate in a planetary shield? Edit: added link.
https://i0.wp.com/media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/rogueone-xwing-spacebattle.jpg

 

It could be, I'm not sure exactly why the other Starbird were blue. Everyone using the same helmet at launch is a flub I think, since we see different helmets in space.

 

So we have, at least, Red and Blue (and Rogue?) squadrons. Judging by the trailers, Red squadron may be the primary force in the space battle whilst Blue has the shield/ground as their target. And Rogue one (or squadron) is obviously on an infiltration mission. Just trying to get some sense in this bewildered SW fan's head

 

From the authentic ANH Fourth Draft, April 19, 1976, scene # 135, page # 102:

DODONNA
Yellow Squadron will cover for red on the first run. The green will cover for blue on the second. Any questions?

So from the early beginning it had been intended that four squadrons carried out the attack on Death Star I, nevertheless the actual color scheme was somehow in flux.