An ISD is 1,600 meters, 60 turbolasers, 72 star fighters, 9,000 troops and 37,000 crew.
Should a pocket star destroyer be:
a) 200 meters, with 2 turbolasers, 10 quad laser cannons, 3 star fighters, 50 troops, and a crew of 250?
OR
b) 400 meters, with 10 turbolasers, 20 quad laser cannons, 12 star fighters, 250 troops, and a crew of a thousand?
I've got smaller versions of ships than that, but much smaller than this seems like force recon rather than a capital ship.
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I'm thinking (b) because it still has a squad of starfghters, which is important.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you using the word "pocket" to mean? Because to me, it means pocket battleship, and those things were about 1/4 the size, and kind of like overgunned cruisers.
ReplyDeleteSo B, only bigger?
800 meters, then, Jonathan Beverley?
ReplyDelete20 Turbolasers / Ion Cannons. 24 starfighters, 1,500 troops?
I've got stats for these all the way down, halving the length every distance. I figure an ISD is a fleet onto itself. The 800 meter long variety is close to a Victory Star Destroyer (900 meters), which sounds about right.
The pocket, yes, is meant to be a smaller version you can fit into a pocket. A scaled down star destroyer, still with the primary capabilities but scaled way the fuck down.
The thing about the historical "pocket" ships, is that they were an artifact of a treaty. They explicitly aren't "scaled".
ReplyDeleteI don't know too much about them, but mostly that armor is heavy so way less of that. Good engines and small guns on big mountings, so that the day war was declared they could swap the guns out for bigger ones.
So I should use a different name. :-)
ReplyDeleteEscort maybe.
Light Star Destroyer might be a better name. Escort Carriers were meant to escort convoys to protect them from submarines, so they were slow, lightly armored and carried a far smaller complement of planes. Light carriers were smaller, but just as fast an as well armored as the big boys.
ReplyDeleteSo, let's see:
ReplyDelete1.6 KM: Imperial Star Destroyer
800 KM: ??? SD
400 KM: ??? SD
200 KM: That's probably not a Star Destroyer. This is just barely larger than a CC.
You should name the 800m the Imperial Star Cruiser, just to screw with people.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the Nebulon B Frigate is 300m, 12 turbolasers, 12 starfighters. So you might be able to use that as-is instead of your 400m scale-down.
ReplyDeleteThe Nebulon B is also weirdly shaped. I never understood why it was shaped so different from other ships. Is it to better accomodate being a carrier?
ReplyDeleteI heard something once about separating the drive systems from the crew areas for radiation reasons, but that (entirely reasonable design consideration) doesn't match anything else in the setting.
ReplyDeleteIt's designed that way because it looks cool.
ReplyDeletewell, yes.
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