Articles by Cyrus Tregessar

These are collected thoughts, assumptions, and musings based in great deal on spending too much time reading old posts from the giant nerds fine people on stardestroyer.net and FractalSponge's discord. Full disclaimer, I haven't seen much of any of the cartoons, in part because the...

This is a crosspost from shipbuilding god Ansel Hsiao aka fractalsponge, who's designs for Star Wars ships grace many a factory submission. Link is here. Give him hits if you like, the guy is a 3d modeling genius. For folks who enjoy going a little more in-depth when it comes to writing up a...

Jamming is not a method of stealth. It is not used to evade detection. It is properly termed electronic attack and should be considered as such (that is, an offensive action). Indeed, jamming someone tells them that you are 100% in the area and have hostile intent. What it DOES do is (hopefully)...

- Why did EU authors make up one-off alien races? Oh I guess they're still doing that rather than validate the occasionally questionable choices of the EU authors. karking Delphidians, amirite? - How does viewing art allow you to tell a species from a a single tactical manuver any-ah kark it I...

This entry is prompted by one misconception I've seen quite a bit of, but will likely meander into more general stuff, bear with me. Or you know, don't, nobody is gonna force you to read this. To address that initial point, we start with Admirals, otherwise known as 'Flag' ranks. So called...

Star Wars canon is known for many things, and perhaps first and foremost is that it is woefully inconsistent. This unfortunate trend covers just about everything, but is perhaps most prominent when it comes to military matters. That's not really a surprise, the Star Wars movies are really a...

This was a specific point brought up in the 'Fleeting Guide?' thread by the esteemed @Valiens Nantaris and as I'm incredibly bored at work today I figured I'd write something on it. Military ranks can be something of a mystery to people who have no experience with the military. Hell even within...

A rebel cruiser withers under the barrage of an Imperial Star Destroyer. It is outmatched, and the raid has failed. The captain gives the order to route power to shields and engines, and turns to withdraw. It's the moment the commander of the ISD has been waiting for. Weapons fire begins to pour...

What makes a ship a ship and a boat a boat, goes the old nautical joke. The answer of course is that 'ships can carry boats.' It's deliberately vague, similar to how ship classification has been vague and nebulous in history. The USS Zumwalt, a modern Destroyer, displaces as much as a...

At long range, any large platform like object in space can be easily detected and its trajectory plotted. At that point, all it takes is developing a track that will put a large, fast moving mass on a collision course and viola, no more space-station. Sure, you can shoot said object, but just...

This stems from boredom. I originally figured that 9 Darr Itah's were completed prior to the collapse of the One Sith. They were divvied up and at the end of the day after following threads people made and stories they were writing, there ended up being 10 11. Whatever. They exist as follows. 5...

LOADING TACTICAL MANUAL... LOADING INTRODUCTION... FIND SECTION 3 SUBSECTION A ENCLOSURE 7 APPENDIX D... GIVEN GENERAL TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIVALENCY, NO SINGLE SHIP OF A GIVEN CLASS CAN BE EXPECTED TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGE IN COMBAT OVER A SHIP OF A SIMILAR CLASS, ESPECIALLY IN THE REALM...

SECTION 3 SUBSECTION B ENCLOSURE 7 APPENDIX E... ...WHAT FOLLOWS IS A BRIEF REVIEW OF ALL THE MAJOR SPACE NAVIES AND ANALYSIS OF THEIR CAPABILITY TO CONDUCT ADVANCED WARFARE TACTICS AND OPERATIONS. THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AS THE FINAL WORD ON ANY MATTER DISCUSSED, MERELY VIEWED AS...

The title of this blog post is a lie. I haven't outright stated it before but I don't think there is a simple 'how to fleet' guide that can be written, because everyone does it differently. It's not like writing a space battle on your own because you don't get to create the conflict and...

This post is prompted by @Cathul Thuku's post on economics, but is actually not going to touch on that much. It IS going to focus on the One Sith-Republic war and what that region of the galaxy is looking at when it comes to armament following 5-7 years of constant warfare. Obviously you can't...

I realize that Star Wars is not trying to be even remotely realistic when it comes to depictions of warfare in space (or warfare on the ground, or warfare in general, really) but there are a number of things that appear in writing here (and in novels, and the movies, and so on) that occasionally...

SECTION 6 UNIT COMPOSITION IS A COMPLEX TOPIC THAT COULD BE DISCUSSED IN MANY PUBLICATIONS FOR ETERNITY. IT WILL SUFFICE FOR NOW TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO ONE PERFECT FORMATION FOR A SQUADRON. THAT INFORMATION THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS CHAPTER SHOULD BE CONSIDERED GENERAL GUIDELINES, AND...