We all (very few) know that a Correlian Corvette is 150 meters long.
We know this because Wookiepedia says so. It also checks out - an ISD is a mile long, and the ISD that captures the Tantive IV looks about ten times as long.
What we don't know is the interior dimensions.
UNTIL NOW.
I know you've all been waiting. Impatiently.
The best person I know, Robert Kopp, gave me his large scale Correlian Corvette from X-wing for my birthday. Sure, he was done with it. Still, I experienced joy at it.
It also means I can do some measurements. Better ones than when I used the small scale a while ago.
Length: 33 cm
Engine Height: 6 cm
Engine Depth: 10 cm
Engine Length: 10 cm
Main Height: 4 cm
Main Depth: 4 cm
Man Length: 16 cm
That's not counting the hammerhead, which should be 33 - 26 = 7 cm. I just measured, and that's about right.
The first measurement anchors the model to the ship; 150m is 15,000 cm, so the ratio is about 1 to 455 (454.545454545). I'm going to call that 450.
Which is to say, 33 cm times 450 is about 150 meters (off by < 2 meters).
This tells us:
Engine Height: 6 x 450 = 27 meters
Engine Depth: 10 x 450 = 45 meters
Engine Length: 10 x 450 = 45 meters
Main Height: 4 x 450 = 18 meters
Main Depth: 4 x 450 = 18 meters
Main Length: 16 x 450 = 72 meters
In my mind, the hammerhead is all about command and control and the main part is all about living -- and, I guess, control of the guns or whatever.
So, how much floor space is this, if we laid it all out?
A height of 18 meters supports, at 3 meters per floor, 6 floors. This is essentially six floors of 18 by 72 meters, so 1,296 square meters per floor -- or 7,776 square meters of potentially useful floor space.
For those of us in the US, that's almost 14,000 square feet per floor. And six floors. So, 84,000 square feet of potentially useful floor space.
The USS Arleigh Burke, a US destroyer, is 154 meters with a crew of 33 commissioned officers, 38 chief petty officers, and 210 enlisted personnel. That's 280 people, and about the same size.
According to wookipedia, the crew of a Correlian Corvette is 165. That's substantially smaller. I'd wager this implies better living conditions.
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ReplyDeleteThis is genuinely going to be useful in my next Star Wars game.
ReplyDeleteI would say for the crew discrepancy between modern ships and this, Star Wars is never about nice living spaces. 165 won't include the 100 droids and there are so many crawl spaces and ducts and cable tunnels that you might only be able to squeeze four floors into the corvette.
Ohhhh, the droids. How did I forget about the invisible, always present workers that make Star Wars machinery continue to function, Brian Ashford? You are absolutely correct.
ReplyDeleteTo wallow for a moment: Invisible workers is an especially problematic element in star wars. In a world of warrior monks, magical faster than light travel, and moisture farms, the invisible bread-for-it invisible-to-the-force worker class remains the greatest sin, especially as their labor is simply stolen by organics. And even the warrior monks don't see a problem with it, as droids are invisible to the force and, therefore, don't matter to the jedi.
Droids in Correlia are infrequently battle droids -- repair, astromech and counterpart translation droids are much more common. While organics are likely the ones with the guns (which checks out with A New Hope), the droids are likely as common as enlisted personnel on the Burke.
Heck, if Droids represent the work done by enlisted personnel and the personnel are essentially non-coms and officers and the ratio stays the same, then we'd expect ~2.4 times as many droids as the Burke has enlisted personnel -- call it 480 droids. Then, each person is responsible for 2-3 droids. That may be a high estimate: certainly, Leia has a couple personal droids, but she's going to be the exception to every rule.
We also know that a Corvette can be used as a consular ship. That's a princess and staff. If the corvette is designed for this, I'd expect quite a lot of space dedicated to it. If not, then I assume she has the Captain's quarters and her retinue the best officers quarters. There may be a special "Admiral's quarters" or somethng along those lines for a visiting dignity, but in a ship based around engines any extra mass is going to be trimmed.
So:
ReplyDelete84,000 square feet of potentially useful floor space, right?
Less than 200 people.
Armor
Guns
speed like a motherfucker.
That sounds like a moving hardhhold to me. Fuck up the crew some, and you've got an AW-style hardhhold.
If there's cargo space, then it might just be a smuggler ship. Or, at least, good for smuggling a few high value people -- like a rebel princess.
Outside of being a blockade runner for a military rebellion, what is such a ship good for?
Emergency response (Medical/Evacs/First response)
ReplyDeleteMilitary Courier
Surveying dangerous volumes of space
Mobile HQ for spec ops (based in deep space with a couple of sisterly civilian vessels in the hold)
Piracy
ReplyDeleteGot anything neither piracy nor a military?
ReplyDeleteEssentially: Got anything civilian for use of a large ship with guns and lots of thrust, in a galaxy far far away?
Smuggler comes the closest, I think. Assuming the Empire is bad, this seems like a reasonable thing to do.
In a world with pirates, smugglers, lots of criminals, and a corrupt empire, a fast ship with guns and extra space would be useful to just about anybody... miners, traders, thieves, scientists, law enforcement, organized crime, colonists, exogorth hunters, refugees, religious groups, anyone trying to do bad things or anyone protecting themselves from same. Or anyone trying to make a buck. It would make a decent schoolbus, if the school's really big, the kids are scattered around several space stations, and they only go home on weekends or holidays.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that in Star Wars everybody is poor. The Corvettes we see in all the films and official shows are all owned by literally one of the richest men in the galaxy.
ReplyDeleteI guess my point is that civilians wouldn't have these things. If there is one in operation it's being financed by a government.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the nearest equivalent is a destroyer like the Burke, and those aren't exactly in private hands. There's (probably) private corporation, but capitalism is gross.
ReplyDeletePossibly a coop, where the ship is owned by the crew. Or at least officers.
William Nichols OK, so a bunch of people scrabble together enough credits or repair-hours to have a functional co-op run corvette. Why would they? Necessity or Profit I guess.
ReplyDeleteNecessity: Their Outer Rim community is not safe. But now they can protect both their home and the local trade routes. As long as the Empire don't come sniffing around everything will be fine. Oh look, it the rebels. Apparently they "need" our ship. Like we don't? Idiots.
Profit: It's a big ship, and it's fast and tough. When word gets it of a spike in demand we should be the first there with a full cargo hold even if we don't take the dangerous shortcuts through Hutt space.One year should do it, every trader in the sector will hate us but after one year we should have enough to buy our way into the core worlds.