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With regards to length, games use something on the order of 6 kilometres.  Where is the 17 km figure coming from?

:On starwars.com, the height (not the length) is quoted as 12.8 kilometres.  17 kilometres sounds like a reasonable guess for its length.  However, the games may use a significantly different figure.  Could somebody please boot up X-Wing Alliance to check what figures it uses? --[[Robert Merkel]]

[http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html#size Here]. This guy analyzes it in more detail than I could ever stomach. Also note that only the movies are canon: if any information in them conflicts with anything else, even &quot;official&quot; sources like the games, the movies always take precedence. In the movies, the SSDs are between 11 and 12 times longer than the ''Imperator''-class SDs, which we already know to be about a mile (1.6 km) long. Other methods, including judging by the bridge towers and measuring the actual models, confirm the 17.6-km figure. -- [[Xaonon]]

:The idea of "movies are canon" is quite interesting.  We are talking about a fictional creation here, and saying that the Executor <I>is</I> of a certain size because that's what the movies appear to indicate gives the impression that the movies reflect some actual universe whereas the games are taking liberties with this "real world".  To me, it seems more accurate to say that  the movies (which are considered "canon" by Lucasarts and some fans) portray the SSD's as about 17 kilometres long.  Some games based in the Star Wars universe portray the SSD's as significantly smaller. 



:Of course, this is all incredibly anal.  The real point of the SSD in the movies was to make the already really big and evil-looking ISD's look puny and meek by comparison.  Exact measurements are kinda irrelevant. --[[Robert Merkel]]

I know, but that doesn't make a very satisfying &quot;in-story&quot; explanation. Any diverse fictional setting is bound to have contradictions, but fans like their story universe to be internally consistent. The resolution is to have rules to keep straight on what is and isn't certain. ''Star Wars'', ''Star Trek'', even ''The Lord of the Rings'' has lists of which sources are and are not canon. There are further rules as well, such as the one that newer canon material overrides older, to improve the consistency even more. -- [[Xaonon]]

Refer to the making of the magic cd rom vehicles section. From memory the Imperial class2 star destroyer ssd is around 7.6km long (Rhysevans)

:''See also :'' [[Star Wars]]elcome to Wikipedia! May I call you "24" for short? [[Ed Poor]]
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I have no problem with rewrites, they generally improve articles, but I have a big problem with people removing whole articles of relatively uncontroversial stuff that no one else has bothered to define or research at all.  Also with people who assume that just because a political party advocates it, it must be somehow biased or wrong.

I am not a "vandal" and don't like that term.  I'm getting used to the process here.  I am not sure I like serious essays being labelled 'junk' by some golfer or geek.

It's not like I don't have a theory of what I'm doing.  Check the entries in the meta defining ethics and NPOV itself.  You might see where I'm coming from and why I think certain things are important and others might not be.  I want my facts straight, but I don't want to see typo-corrections reversed by a clique of self-appointed gurus.  What you need here is a consensus process.
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''Note: I extracted the above three quotes from the talk after moving all but my welcome to the talk page. Please forgive me if I have overstepped my bounds. [[user:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]], Wednesday, April 10, 2002