A defensive Death Star?

[Darth Vaildra]

So I was thinking to start the long process of getting a space station made and thought about a Death Star. It would be modded to NOT have the star killing laser. It would still have torrents, but the main purpose is as a massive flag ship built to house ships, lodging and to surve as a portable safe point for Vitae.

Do you think this should be done or is this thinking too big? I have other ideas if this is too much, but I want to offer this up for discussion.

Possitive critism only and do not turn this into a slamming of someone's words please.

 

[Onrai]

It would still have torrents

#thepiratebay.sith

 

[Coren Starchaser]

As sad as it would make me to see something that could wipe societies from the galaxy not gaining its full potential, the idea seems solid. A well protected space station.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Hakora Rhapsodos"]
The flagship can be a max of 5000m. So as long as it complies with that anything is possible.

...if you do the 400 post dev thread anyway!

 

[Boethiah]

[member="Hakora Rhapsodos"]

Few people have done a flagship thread for various reasons... The ship has to be unique, it can only be a maximum of 5,000 meters, and it has to be owned and operated by a Major Faction. So when it comes to fleeting, having very powerful semi-unique destroyers at 100 posts in a dev thread is a lot more beneficial than having a solo flagship. Of course, you get what you write for, so there's no telling how unique or special a flagship could be -- as long as you have a good imagination.

That said, I think it's awesome that you want to take on such a large project but remember before you do to find a major faction that's willing and the writers necessary to put out 400 posts!

Edit: I don't believe anyone's completed one, my bad if I suggested that in my original post. People have however done similar projects per the old rules.

 

[Darth Vaildra]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

From what I can see, a Death Star fits this size requirement...

 

[Boethiah]

The death star was the size of a moon

Just an example is Vader's super star destroyer was roughly between 11,000-20,000 meters or 7 to 12 miles long for those who don't use the metric system! That's a pretty big perspective, but then again, on Chaos a flagship would still be the most powerful ship in existence. Unless one were modest in its development.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Hakora Rhapsodos"]
The Death Star was dozens of kilometres wide. I believe that 160km is the figure most agreed on.

Which is, you know, a little bigger than 5km....

 

[Boethiah]

[member="Valiens Nantaris"]

it might get closer to 5km when it's cold out.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

[member="Anja Aj'Rou"]
Shrinkage?

 

[Fatty]

I have never done a Flagship thread, though I have created a ship of a similar concept! It was my jewel when I first made it, but looking on it retroactively it's not that great a ship... or perhaps I just don't know how to properly use the damn thing to its fullest potential

It's called the Girth of Gluttony, and its a 2km Diameter Sphere with 500 droid starfighters that can change themselves into four different types on command (one form to act as the ships anti-starfighter turrets, another to be a bomber, one to be the basic gun with engines, and one I dubbed as a Sniper), and can be replaced by debris in space via a moderate molecular furnace. It was also double shielded, with one shield extending I believe, 1 km outwards. Oh, one last thing, it only had one entrance for a single occupant (A ghost inhabited very powerful holocron) and 20 other guests, the rest was automated.

So if you wanted to use that as a model, feel free!

 

[Edric Vanyan]

Why not just add a moon randomly to a planet, (Or us a existing moon) and create a massive complex on that moon that acts in the same exact way you are thinking off. A: You get your base B: The thing cant move and C: It breaks no rules...

 

[Darth Vaildra]

Back to the drawing board, but riddle me this. Is there a bigger thing than a flagship? A Death Star moves very very VERY slow so it isn't eaxactly a flag ship, but more a moving space station?

Bump up the post limit and make one?

 

[Ellie Mors]

Back to the drawing board, but riddle me this. Is there a bigger thing than a flagship? A Death Star moves very very VERY slow so it isn't eaxactly a flag ship, but more a moving space station?

Bump up the post limit and make one?

There is nothing bigger than a flagship. The maximum sized ship allowed is 5000m. There's no leeway on that, what you get is what you get.

 

[Ellie Mors]

Also it should be noted that the 400 post development thread should be a public thread that is open to opposition and is only a single thread.

 

[Shane Williams]

out of curiosity why the imposed 5km limit when larger have existed in the universe?

 

[Fatty]

[member="Shane Williams"] Because it's unnecessary to have something that big. 5 km is rare in universe, beyond that is even more so, and is used at Staff's discretion during specialized events.


And also because originally the site canonically was just coming out of a galactic dark ages where ships of that size were utterly unfeasible. Now that some time has passed, the ships rule have expanded to include ships of 5 km length, which is 3 km larger than what you were allowed in the beginning of the site. So be grateful! lol

 

[Shane Williams]

[member="Fatty"] I see these dark ages seem to explain why tech hasint advanced as much. Also super star destroyers were fairly common enough in the empires time during the civil war but i see your reasoning. To create such large ships usually required massive ship yards like the mon calmari's or the yards of kuat.

 

[Boethiah]

And also because originally the site canonically was just coming out of a galactic dark ages where ships of that size were utterly unfeasible.

People should remember this more often!

It's honestly an amazing tool to promote roleplay.

 

[Fatty]

[member="Anja Aj'Rou"] Indeed!