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The Star Wars Galactic Empire relies heavily on instant communications or faster than light communications to stay together. It's essentially a unitary, authoritarian state where "regional governors have direct control" and the emperor maintains a great deal of day-to-day administrative...

Scale aside, the Azhanti High Lighting, Gionetti, and Plankwell are very well done miniatures. They are up to the quality of the Honor Harrington minis from Ad Astra that I have hundreds of.

The Tigress is an ugly, ugly looking thing. It's also a bit bizarre to imagine a state producing ships that look like the Plankwell and then suddenly changing their style completely. Anyway, I stand corrected, no matter which calculation is correct. I guess the ships are reasonably to scale...

I now have the dreadnought, heavy cruiser, light cruiser and the Zhodani cruisers. They can't possibly be to scale. The Azhanti Lightning heavy cruiser is nearly as big as the Plankwell. The Plankwell is supposed to be 200,000 tons with over 1,000 crew. The Azhanti Lightning is 60,000 tons...

That's definitely true. But I don't think the warships are to scale with each other. That's what I was curious about. The heavy cruiser and the light cruiser seem too big compared to the dreadnought.

I didn't think they were to scale. The light cruisers looked huge next to the dreadnought in the renders they've put up. I found a few discounted here and there (after tons of searching) and picked up the Plankwell from Ad Astra (at an inflated cost, but oh well). I will take pictures when I...

Those seem to be the "adventure" scaled ships (1:2500 v. 1:7200). It's strange there aren't any pictures of the any of the Imperial warships anywhere. This product has been out a long time.

I know they are out of stock everywhere, so this is probably a moot question, but I wondered if anyone owned the Ad Astra Traveller minis, specifically the Imperial fleet box. What's the quality? Ad Astra's Honor Harrington minis are great (I have hundreds), but I haven't actually seen a...

I just got this book and it is an interesting read. This works much better than the answer you get counting hexes or the incredibly long timelines given elsewhere. I also noticed in GURPS Traveller, they imply that it only took Norris a few months to get back to the Marches after being...

Then he'd belong better in Star Wars' Expanded Universe than Traveller. I can see why MegaTraveller was such a huge hit . . . .

I don't think there's anything unrealistic about a Galactic Empire headed by a monarch. I could write on this for days (being something of a romantic monarchist and major history buff), but in his own simple way, science fiction author David Weber does a decent job talking about monarchies in...

It completely rules out him influencing events. One of the curious things about this data is that Norris (and other people not on Capital, like Margaret in particular) reacts unrealistically fast in some ways. In fact, the whole Civil War moves too fast. People react to the news almost...

I ordered the Rebellion sourcebook as soon as it was recommended but I don't have it yet. Thanks for the great information!

The vastly different times reported in this thread and in the various sources, encourages me to just make this information up.

I thought I read that the Imperium deliberately kept the routes at Jump 4, while information for the government moved at Jump 6 so it could control the flow of information. But that was at the Wiki, which also said it would take 4 years for news to make it from Capital to the Spinward Marches...