Correlian Corvette
At 165 meters, turbolasers, and giant engines the best analogy isn't a cargo truck. It's not even an oil liner; it's more like a military destroyer.
With potentially 84,000 square feet and a cannon-defined passenger space of "hundreds", that's maybe 420 square feet per person; assuming hallways, kitchens, crew quarters, etc then we're talking around 100 square feet per pax. That's not unusual; ships often have small rooms. Even luxury liners.
But, it is peculiar to have room for hundreds of passengers on a military-grade destroyer. That's weird.
What type of ship is it, then?
Some obvious things; it's a universe where being armed and armored makes sense for civilians. We see this in other ships -- the Falcon is essentially an 18 wheeler with an M60 mounted to the roof. In space, where mass is more important than on ground.
And the Corvette is a fast passenger liner with guns and armor. Guns, armor, engines are a lot of expensive overhead and mass to haul around passengers.
I know what that is; it's an APC.
In a universe where the authorities enslave and conscript, it makes sense to be able to run. In a universe with gangsters who'll steal your ship, it makes sense to be capable of fighting back.
That's the scenario under which the Correllian Corvette makes sense; a bleak dystopia where the Titantic needs is more concerned with pirates than icebergs, where Viking River cruises takes the name literally, and Carnival cruise ships have AA guns.
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It's very "Age of Adventure", which really fits the sci-fantasy label Star Wars has.
ReplyDeleteSo yes, the Corellian Corvette is the space equivelent of an armed convoy through a warzone. Or a caravan through the badlands.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars certainly is a bleak dystopia when you start analysing it. People own very little, homes are often carved out of the ground. There is little in the way of government and services. The ruling classes have it better, and in the core worlds people at least have public transport and fancy clothes, it's unclear what their actual quality of life is.
But living in the outer rim or around the edges of the core worlds puts me in mind of living in any recently war-torn country, where people make do with what they've managed to scabble together from the rubble, content with their lot because currently no-one is fighting in their home town.
The difference though is that in Star Wars being a hero and resisting evil can actually make a difference.
... and, of course, I enjoy it immensely. I just don't want to live there.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly: I'm fairly sure all labor is done by droids, and humans are essentially hangers-on. That everything we see is the remnant of a past golden world that has fallen.
Also: Rogue One finally answered a long standing problem for me: At the beginning of A New Hope, where are the Devastator's tie fighters?