Well, Star Wars is a society on a completely different scale from Freelancer. It's like comparing Battlestar Galactica with Warhammer 40,000, or Dune with the Xeelee Sequence. So, it's not necessarly ludicrous by their standards. The idea of 150 planet strong federations like that of Star Trek is probably ludicrous realistically to Freelancer people outside of unknown level civilizations like the Daam K'Vosh and C'Tan, but not necessarily so by Star Trek standards. If you can establish a society made of tens of millions of worlds, I'd say building 19,000 metre Star Dreadnoughts or 960,000,000 metre Death Star IIs isn't too beyond your industrial capabilities. From our eras perspective, nearly all science fiction is inherently absurd because most of it relies on violating basic laws of physics (that of the speed of light and general relativity in macroscopic entities).
An Imperial I or Imperial II Star Destroyer is 1800 metres in length. There aren't, to my knowledge, any 8000 metre ships in the Empire, besides a fictional class called the Super-class invented for senate budgetary approval and public relations reasons.
But, Starfliers are indeed quite bulky in comparison to smaller and thinner T-65 Incoms, so you are correct in that regard.
mind, i like the rediculous sizes of star wars ships. - it makes things a lot more "epical" to know that there are - on the one hand these really small fighters like tie-fighers / X-wings... and on the other hand those HUGE battlesships.
if its science fiction - why not just get the full amount of it. ( regarding to that - i prefer star wars before star trek ) i never liked the habit of star trek to "explain" their tech with a lot of nonsense pseudo tech talk. - in star wars... stuff exists.. simple as that.
no one asks why the death star is as big as a small moon - with the turrets mounted on the "surface" like they re mounted on a planets surface - but when the ships dock on it.... they don t land "on" the survace, but fly into it .. as if the death star is not build around one central core ( like a sphere ) but contains countless horizontal decks.
anyway - its simply cooler to see a huge ship like a star destroyer blow up, than some wannebe realistic shuttle. ( and explosions in star wars allways looked better than explosions in star trek:laugh:- well, i m biased, i dont like star trek. - imo, the only "cool" sci fi is firefly .. and the only rather realistic sci fi is space 2140 ( or something like that ) [ oh and lexx the dark zone, everyone wants to fly a giant dragonfly]
Heh.. the main problem with Star Trek is many people think it's more realistic than Star Wars. It isn't, it's just some aspects of it are afraid to admit that fact. Though, some have done some (in universe physics) things on Star Wars at Dr Curtis Saxton's SWTC.
On Topic: An interesting note; Compare the size of ships from the outside to how they fit within hangers in battleships.
about hangars - i spotted that only recently... the rather "small" rheinland cruiser has a fully textured hangar, too. - but i don t think that even a starflier would fit into it. i think its the only cruiser that has a hangar. ( leave the outcast destroyer, with its toy hangar )
I found a size comparison chart somewhere, and downloaded it, but it's a 14MB JPEG, and it's something absurd, like 7600x14000. I base my assumptions in terms of size from the videos on the Bonus Disc. On it there is a Lib dreaddie dropping about ten Defenders from the bay. I think the original idea was to make the cap ships -much- larger.
Also:
What is the correct way to spell the Nomad's creators? I've always spelled it Dom K'vash...
EDIT: Wikipedia's article spells them Dom'Kavosh...
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
Daam K'Vosh is the correct spelling, according to the Bonus Disk. Interesting to hear the original game would have had realistically sized capital ships. It's a shame so much got cut.