Size of the Executor

[Mr. Oragahn]

It seems that with the Expanded Universe constantly reshuffling the deck, lenghts get retconned every once in a while, jumping to 8, 12, 17.6 and 19 km.

I for one favour the 17.6 km long figure, but it's only because the production notes had the Executor model to be displayed as 11 times the lenght of an imperial star destroyer mk II.

Which I lazily accepted as being 1.6 km long. That said, I'm not aware of any prod note that says it should be that long (or short).

A good way to verify the 19 km claimed lenght would be done by using the official lenght of an ISD (I suppose, still 1.6 km), and check on screen how does that fit in terms of proportion... if in the end, we're closer to 17.6 km, or 19 km.

Let's recap the ways to mesure the Executor.

- A-Wing wingspan vs bridge windows. Assuming the transposition to bridge vs whole ship will work.

- A-Wing missile before just before it hits the sensor/shield globe. Then globe -> bridge tower, and bridge tower -> whole ship.
But there also are shots of the whole Executor model, where we can see the globes (even the eight of them).

- Executor's trench during the fire exchange with a medical frigate.
This one wouldn't be easy, notably due to the very weird curved trajectories followed by the turbolasers.
Knowing the size of the frigate would be hard as well. We could use the Millenium Falcon when it's docked to the ship, at the end of TESB. Of course, it would mean to decide which MF dimensions to use.
But we could also try to do it with the size of the window which Luke and Leia are looking through.

- Nearby ISDs floating above and next to the Executor.

- EU sources. I had a couple of EU guides, notably one which had some art about a damaged Executor class ship, the Guardian I think, and it also featured ISDs. In the end, it was exactly 11 times longer than the ISDs.

[Mike DiCenso]

The 19 km figure works just as well since the image that Curtis Saxton most often uses to cite:

http://www.theforce.net/SWTC/Pix/cards/wide/fleet.jpg


Shows an ISD in the foreground of the Executor, but this only would establish a lower end size as the SSD is an unknown distance behind it, and it could be a little bit larger. Uncertain is the distance behind the Executor for other two ISDs are, which we might at least, using trigonometry, bracket the distances between all four ships.
-Mike