Ship of the Week: Nebulon-B Frigate

[Duskofdead]

tens of thousands.

only?

I guess they mean that's a tiny number in terms of patrolling the whole galaxy with.

[Monroe]

tens of thousands.

only?

When your Empire holds millions of systems and hundreds of trillions of subjects that's a very small drop in the bucket.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Attacking the spine of that thing's a well-known military tactic. Krennel calls it 'breaking its back' in 'Isard's revenge'. A horrid design flaw, there.

And it's supposed to be able to carry two squadrons of starfighters. Thing is, where? I don't see much room for that in this spindly piece of junk.

[Monroe]

Attacking the spine of that thing's a well-known military tactic. Krennel calls it 'breaking its back' in 'Isard's revenge'. A horrid design flaw, there.

And it's supposed to be able to carry two squadrons of starfighters. Thing is, where? I don't see much room for that in this spindly piece of junk.

The front section carries the fighters. And what would Star Wars be without a design flaw?

[sunnyside]

If I understand correctly part of the novelty of the origional Star Wars was their odd ship designs.

Prior to that spaceships were shiney, symetrical, and generally looked like they belonged in the back of some womans sock drawer.

Star Wars ships were all funky. It's quite possible Lucas realized which designs were winners as the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers took center stage. These things are funky enough to be interesting, but not good enough for a "lead role" as it were.

[Mikey]

IIRC, it was intentional all along to have the difference between the rough, utilitarian original trilogy ships and the sleek, clean prequel ones.

And did I once hear correctly that the Falcon design was inspired by Lucas' half-eaten burger and an olive on a toothpick?

[Duskofdead]

If I understand correctly part of the novelty of the origional Star Wars was their odd ship designs.

Prior to that spaceships were shiney, symetrical, and generally looked like they belonged in the back of some womans sock drawer.

Star Wars ships were all funky. It's quite possible Lucas realized which designs were winners as the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers took center stage. These things are funky enough to be interesting, but not good enough for a "lead role" as it were.

Actually according to Wookiepedia (dammit you guys have me actually looking up SW stuff on a SW Wiki) the um... Corvellan? corvette, the thing that carried Leia at the beginning of Ep IV, was the original Millenium Falcon. It was decided (it implies by the team overall, rather than by Lucas himself) that it looked too much like every other traditional spacecraft to be unique.

[Sionnach Glic]

IIRC, the Consular class cruiser was based on rejected concept art for the Falcon.

[Monroe]

IIRC, the Consular class cruiser was based on rejected concept art for the Falcon.

Aye: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Consular ... ce_cruiser

[stitch626]

And did I once hear correctly that the Falcon design was inspired by Lucas' half-eaten burger and an olive on a toothpick?

Yes, that is correct. The final design was based as such, though I don't see it.

[Captain Seafort]

IIRC, the Consular class cruiser was based on rejected concept art for the Falcon.

It is, though I think it's based on that design because it wasn't rejected but swapped with the blockade runner concept art, and then modified further to become the final CR90 design. The idea was to make the TMP cruiser a predecessor of the blockade runner.

[Sionnach Glic]

Ah, right.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

There are levels of design flaws. This one has one of the bigger ones I've seen. Albeit my knowledge is limited, but still...

[stitch626]

Right up there with the hole in the 1st DS.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Right up there with the hole in the 1st DS.

One bend in the tube would've been fine. Or a simple grate over the port.