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Could we build a Star Destroyer on earth?
Short answer, no. Long answer, there are several key components to a Star Destroyer, or any capital ship for that matter, that we simply do not have the technology to make.
How fast is an Imperial Star Destroyer in space?
Powering the Destroyer were seven main engine units, including Cygnus Spaceworks Gemon-4 ion engines, and could accelerate to speeds of up to 975 kph.
How heavy is the Imperial Star Destroyer?
100 million kilograms
It weighs 100 million kilograms. If you look at a picture of the ship and consider that cruise liners are fairly boxy, we can approximate its volume as 360 x 55 x 60 = 1.188 million cubic meters. Hence the Imperial Star Destroyer is approximately 44.4 times the volume of the Allure of the Seas.
How many times can a Star Destroyer carry?
Its armament includes over 5,000 turbolasers, ion cannons and tractor beam projectors and it can carry more than 1,000 vessels. The crew of the Executor numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
What happened to the Imperial II -class Star Destroyers?
In 5 ABY, three Imperial II -class Star Destroyers were part of the Imperial Navy, which fought in the Battle of Jakku against the New Republic, the Rebel Alliance’s successor state. However, the Star Destroyers fled from Jakku, and after jumping out of hyperspeed in Wild Space]
What is the Star Wars Star Destroyer’s history?
The Imperial II-class Star Destroyer was originally created for the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. In Legends, the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer first appeared in the The Empire Strikes Back’s novelization, written by Donald F. Glut, which was released in the same year as the film itself.
What happened to the Star Destroyer torment?
Following the death of Emperor Palpatine in 4 ABY, the Imperial II -class Star Destroyer Torment was dispatched to Naboo as part of Operation: Cinder, an order from the late Emperor to destroy Imperial planets with satellites. However, the attack was thwarted by the Rebel Alliance and the Torment was destroyed before it could withdraw.
How many stormtroopers were on the Star Destroyer?
All these vessels were stored in the ships’ two large hangar bays, which were located side by side in the anterior wall of an indentation in the ventral hull. 9,700 stormtroopers crewed the Star Destroyer, along with various other Imperial Military personnel such as TIE fighter pilots and Imperial officers.