Ship Design Philosophy

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Starwarships: Is this the DUMBEST ship design in Star Wars? - Legends Lore

The Assaults Frigate Mk. 2 may very well be the dumbest looking and designed ship in Star Wars history. I'll roast it in today's Star Wars Lore video!

The Assault Frigate MK2 was a variant of the dreadnought class heavy cruiser used by the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic. The dreadnought was one of the most famous Star Wars capital ships and was created by the Galactic Republic before the Clone Wars. All that and more explained in today's video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLGk45-ZMVU


1. Does heavily manned vessels make sense, in view of automation costs?

2. Structural section add ons, in terms of original hull configuration, which sort of creates a hybrid.

 

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Inspiration: Disney's Star Wars hotel: Tickets, opening, how it works

Disney’s Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel opens March 1, 2022, and general bookings begin Oct. 28, 2021. Nothing like this has been done before, so let’s break down all the details of this two-night vacation where you can live inside your own Star Wars adventure. Bridget Carey nerds out to explain how it works, what it costs and what to do before you go.

00:00 - Galactic Starcruiser everything we know
01:40 - Galactic Starcruiser location
04:06 - Galactic Starcruiser pricing and booking
06:17 - What to pack
07:51 - Galactic Starcruiser story
10:53 - How to prepare for your trip
12:07 - What I’m looking forward to the most
13:48 - Future of theme park experiences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYQErgoF6oA


I think, this is one case, where a virtual reality headset might be the smarter option, though I doubt that Disney would permit that.

I kinda suspect this programme would be rather large, and heavily Hondo Ohnakaed.

 

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Starwarships: Lesser Known Starships of the Rebel Alliance

We take a look at some Rebel star ships who don't get as much recognition as they should.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2xdh0qIhaY


1. I get the impression that the ships are a series of barrels glued together.

2. We know that the Falcon was supposedly a half eaten burger.

3. Repurposed building sort of implies tail sitter.

4. You'd think that anyone who turned their tractor beam on you, would enjoy the full attention of the ship's primary weapon systems.

 

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Starwarships: The Venator Breakdown You Won't Want to Watch

I don't honestly hate the ships. But they could have been so much better, with very little effort. But that's true of a lot of Star Wars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7H_PC_OV5M

 

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Inspiration: I wish the Nightflyer would night-fly off into a sun. Ironically. You can do better, SyFy.

No.

Really.

I'm not kidding.

It's that bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2R8gFEOVE

1. Presumably, that's why you have six separate modules.

2. Redundant gravitation; not having seen the series, I'm speculating that the idea might have been to spin the biodomes when the spaceship isn't accelerating; how that works at the angle shown while acceleration, I'd probably have opened up the actuators like a flower at a right angle, how that works out in terms of collisions with space debris, your guess is as good as mine.

3. So the guys at Battletech appear to have it down pat, plus, the modules are armoured.

4. You got to love hamster cages.

5. Captain Peaking Tom.

6. Dumping biohazardous waste.

 

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Spaceships: Hulls, Planetoids, and Detachable Bridges

1. In theory, it doesn't seem plausible that a planetoid hull can have the detachable bridge option.

2. If you think about it, if a planetoid can have hangars that have direct access to space, than you certainly can have a detachable bridge.

3. What appears to be missing is an option for a detachable command bridge.

4. My estimate would be a hundred tonnes, and probably at either 1.05 megastarbux per hundred tonnes, or 1.2 megsarbux per hundred tonnes.

 

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Starwarships: 13 Ugliest Starships in Star Wars

We take a look at 13 ships that dishonor the hyperspace lanes with their terrible aesthetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_p2xq6Zbg8


1. I think the terms are unbalanced unaesthetic.

2. In theory, the blocky ones are more likely viable spacecraft designs.

 

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Starwarships: Bridge, Linguistics, and Star Trek 09 USS Enterprise warps into a trap

Captain Kirk attempts to rescue the Enterprise from warping into a trap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpLe91qsNg

 

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Spacestations: Given Starfleet represents the whole of Terra, "Starbase Yorktown" was a really weird name choice

I love Star Trek and I am a life-long Trekkie, but even I have to admit that the Starbase Yorktown makes utterly no sense, at all, anywhere, at any point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySp33wAV1JQ


1. I happen to like floating around and do crazy stuff.

2.

 

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Spaceships: The True Cost Of The Most Advanced Aircraft Carrier | True Cost

The USS Ford is the most advanced aircraft carrier the US has ever built. The tally for the total cost is $13.3 billion, nearly 30% more than initial estimates. However, more costs are expected. The Navy accepted the Ford in 2017 without some of its newest technologies operating, and the ship still won’t be completely ready for battle until 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSRHB-wJ14


1. You want to avoid the consequences of munitions mishaps.

2. Our annual maintenance cycle is two weeks; operational, plus weekly transitions.

3. Sometimes it works out, like the Dreadnought.

4. Optionally, we could have used internal combustion, steam or rocket assist, instead of magnetic or rail catapults.

5. Vacuum pressure toilets; try to avoid connecting the toilet systems.

 

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Stawarships: 10 Lesser Known Starfighter of the Rebel Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOON519paj0


1. Haich Wing - too awkward to control, and too man power intensive.

2. Cutlass Nine - no comment.

3. Tempest Bomber - if you had a fission reactor power plant on the far side.

4. Delta Seven - interesting concept in a minimal design, using plug ins like human psionic pilots and a diagnostic droid.

5. Spearhead - Ai Wing prototype.

6. Reconnaissance Ecks Wing - okay.

7. Ecks Four Gunship - turrets.

8. Bellbullab Twenty Two - Thirties aesthetics; Art Deco?

9. Starchaser - no comment.

10. Tea Wing - looks like just attaching engines on wingtips, of what looks like a Star Trek Federation shuttle.

 

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Spaceships: Computers and Factor Zero

1. Can you have a Computer/0?

2. In theory, Manoeuvre and Library programmes require no, or none perceptible, bandwidth.

3. Extrapolating known computer performance, you might come up with technological level five (which I rather doubt), and maybe five kilostarbux (about eighteen percent of succeeding computer).

5. More realistic may be technological level seven, just cheaper with s lot less Random Access Memory.

6. More interesting would be the /bis variant, that would allow a monojump with an additional five bandwidth specialized for that function, at seven and a half kilostarbux.

7. You might think there's not much point in having a computer/zero, but when you're cutting corners, and don't need more than the very basic programmes, why not?

 

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Starwarships: I wouldn't even give the B-Wing a B grade

I have no idea why someone thought a massively overly-complicated, massive pain-in-the-ass-to-maintain monstrosity would make a good startfighter, but here we are.

At least it has a lot of guns?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYuP3wTUpw


1. Probably follows the Ai Wing; much as Why follows Ecks.

2. Hamster cage, where the tail wags the dog.

 

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Starwarships: The Battlestar Galactica is an astonishingly large warship, and I'm here to talk about... its phones

But seriously, though. The "Re-Imagined Series" Battlestar Galactica is an amazingly awesome warship... but I'm still going to focus on the sound-powered phones and the damage control stations.

Because way too often writers just hand-wave past that stuff. BSG isn't your momma's science fiction where everyone always knows everything that's going on, and there's always some gadget somewhere that will fix all the problems. Nope, this is a damned-near fully-analog story, where, yeah, people talk to each other on wall-mount phones, and, yeah, sometimes stuff breaks and you have to figure out what and where.

I mean, sure, the show was a lot more about exploring the definitions of humanity and sentience and sapience and all that stuff, but it's the attention to detail that really sells it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUdpwocUGPQ


1. Cease the means of reproduction.

2. Isolate ship systems.

3. Unpowered transducer; voice powered.

4. Missile magnet.

5. Distributed damage control stations.

6. Thank you for your sacrifice.

 

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Starwarships: The X-Wing is a horrible starfighter design. I said what I said.

And I mean it, too.

And, as horrible as the B-Wing was itself, at least it had a certain style about it. This thing? Meh.

About the only positive things that can be said for it is that it is hyperspace capable and it does bring a lot of guns and torpedoes to the party.

Which is good.

Because you're going to be missing a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpIoaXWLmiE


1. Commentator mental breakdown?

2. Exactly what's the probable range for space fighting?

3. Even dogfighting is within ten kilometres.

4. Would think the spread out lasers actually assist accuracy.

5. Do we have inertial bubbles?

6. Inert torpedoes until armed?

7. All joking aside. I rather doubt they're using turbines for propulsion.

8. And spread out engines should help with manoeuvrability.

 

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Starwarships: The Incredible Fighter that replaced the X-Wing | Star Wars Lore

Today we take a look at the incredible starfighter that replaced the X-Wing -- a full breakdown of the E-Wing and more on today's Star Wars Legends Lore video and ship breakdown!

Render by ManPerson, based on a design by MultiH: https://twitter.com/MultiH4

Music by ALISON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0_msz7nsBI


1. Avoid having either an engine directly behind your cockpit, or a cannon.

2. I'd say over economized.

3. I suppose you could work with that hull configuration, but move the upper cannon.

4. Moving most of the processing functions into the astromech does allow you to economize, depending how much starbux we're actually talking about.

 

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Starwarships: All Greek Star Wars shuttles are stupid. (They're called Abecederian? Really?)

And, yes, all these shuttles are stupid. Deal with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVyElfriUM


1. High hangars.

2. Ornithopters.

3. Onboard gravitic lifters; atmospheric stabilizers.

4. Depends on whether the threat is mostly in the front or in the rear, and with Vader, he's attacking.

5. I think they employ shields, and shields are pretty much plot orientated.

 

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Inspiration: Billionaire Star Trek - SNL

A new Star Trek spinoff follows the adventures of Captain Jeff Bezos (Owen Wilson) and his brother (Luke Wilson).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD66suMp3J4


If you're rich enough, you can go anywhere.

 

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Starwarships: The Definitive Guide on How Starship Technology Worked in the Star Wars Universe

Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy!

Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:39 A Brief History of Starships in Star Wars
1:42 Fundamentals
6:04 Navigation and Hyperspace
7:21 Deflector Shields
8:48 Outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-Vsz3Ijsw


1. Except that part about the communications and sensors (presumably in real time), sounds about how our starships operate.

2. Okay, so they have antimatter reactors.

3. They've got ions, we've pretty much generated gravitational thrust.

4. They have lifters, with us it's ambiguous.

5. We travel in straight lines through hyperspace, so our astronavigational programmes don't need to be that sophisticated; and if there are collisions, we've never heard of them.

6. Deflector screens would be useful from frontal collisions with space debris.

 

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Spaceships: Bridges, and Detachability

1. This bridge design can be ejected from the ship in an emergency to become a lifeboat for the command crew. The bridge has two weeks of life support and battery power, while emergency thrusters give it basic manoeuvring capabilities, equivalent to Thrust Zero. A detachable bridge is even capable of soft–landing on a planetary surface.

2. A detachable bridge can be made larger or smaller as normal.

3. Which begs the question, what is the formula?

4. Since a ten tonner is fifteen tonnes an a twenty tonner thirty tonnes, we could assume that twenty tonnes and below is fifty premium.

5. Smallest viable would be for a one and a half tonne cockpit, which would be two and a quarter tonnes, and three and a quarter tonnes for a double cockpit.

6. Cost for the cockpit variants can't be eight hundred kilostarbux, but probably one hundred thirty percent of listed cost.

7. Six tonner would follow fifty percent premium, so you end up with nine tonnes.

8. It's a bit more vague for above bridges above twenty tonnes.

9. Forty tonner is one hundred twenty five percent at fifty tonnes, while a sixty tonner is one hundred sixty sixish percent, so not consistent.