Star Destroyer (Star Wars) - Fleetyards Mission Briefing 

Another good point of the design is that it CAN do a broadside, but given the wedge-shape BOTH broadsides can also be focused forward, bringing a ridiculous amount of firepower to bear on a target in front of it.

Star Trek actually is notorious for having very small crews for their ships for one reason... they didn't want to have to pay for to many extras at the start.

One of my favourite sci-fi capital ships of all time. It's funny to see Trek experts try to make sense of a Star Destroyers. I'm a huge fan of both series, so this was fun to watch, great video. Good job guys!

For each square on an Imperial officer's chest they get an extra square foot of room in their quarters, with the red squares being special since they're worth 2 extra square feet! And three yellow squares gets you a mini-fridge. I might be biased to suggest this, but I think the Kestrel from FTL: Faster Than Light would be an interesting episode.

"I don't think these things are supposed to be atmospheric' ISD in Rogue One: "Hold my drink..."

Others have commented on the crew sizes but here is my take. The Star Destroyer serves as both a battleship and a carrier. A modern carrier the USS Ronald Reagan is 333m long and 77m across. It carries 90 fixed wing and heilcopters with a ships crew of 3,200 and aviation crew of 2,480. so nearly 5.000 personal and they do not have a marine complement for landing actions. The Star Destroyer is 5 times longer and many times wider. It only carries 60 to 70 Tie fighters plus landing craft and shuttles. Total crew is 37,000 which includes officers and pilots down to cooks, cleaners and mechanics. It then carries nearly 10,000 ground troops which do not operate the ship. I really think that the numbers to keep a warship of this size operating in a warzone 24 hours a day 7 days a week would need to be this size. Don't forget also the crew numbers reflect the level of technology at the end of WW2 for starwars, before a lot of miniaturization and advanced computer processing. These are just my thoughts.

A few things, regarding some stuff, as I know the Imperial class fairly well. (Not great, but I've had a soft spot for it, especially after using them in Empire at War...) Anyways, firstly, for crew quarters. I've gotten the impression from both cross sections of this, and from cross sections of the older Venator class, (I have the same book that Samuel has!) that extra crew spaces are on the sides of the main hull flanking the main internal guts. Combine that with compact crew quarters, and the 40k crew complement seems doable. However, I suspect that the ship' screw is still smaller, with maybe 20k being a likely number, and 40k (or more) being for dedicated assault missions. The main gun turrets vary between build batches. The large twin gun turrets were the original version's armament. However, later flight II builds use the octuple turrets seen in the fan model. The octuples from what I remember were slightly less powerful per shot, but allowed for more rapid firing and an increased total damage output per broadside/salvo. Don't think they can be used as anti-fighter weapons, however I do believe the larger amount of individual guns was designed to allow better responses to numerous smaller rebel cruisers. As for engines, the four little ones seem to serve several uses. They're auxiliary ion drives (I think) to provide extra boost thrust and as a backup should the main engines be disabled. However, seeing as they are seen to light up when they go to hyperspace in Empire Strikes Back, they probably have some sort of use in the hyperdrive as well. I've also never gotten the impression that these ships have any business going anything below low orbit. They always have more than enough drop craft to deploy troops, and can remain in orbit to perform a multitude of tasks such as bombardment, preventing enemy reinforcements, catching fleeting enemies (unless they have ion cannons of course...) and just plain being a big looming blot in the sky reminding the rebels on the ground that there's no hope of escape or rescue. Not to mention being on the ground seems like an invitation to sabotage or attempted entrapment. Nice scale chart, really puts in perspective just how massive the Imperial class (and Dreadnought class) really is. Just wish Samuel remembered the Romulan D'deridex class. Always loved this ship. She has a certain sense of invincibility about her that few other sci fi vessels ever achieve. Anyways, another excellent video, Trekyards!

the humans in the Starwars Universe have been traveling around the Galaxy for over 10,000 years, so a star destroyer hovering over the surface of a planet would be no problem

Star Destroyer... yes, love this episode. For crew quarters they probably like real navy ships do a lot of hot bunking. Also they probably have at least two or three full crews running on rotation like a real navy ship would. For size and crew complements the USS Nimitz is 1,092 ft (332.8m) and runs with a crew of over 5000 while the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is 947.ft and according to Memory Alpha has 450.

They were called Star destroyers because they were like naval destroyers just in space not because they destroy stars

As for the crew complement of the JJ Verse Vengeance, remember that Scotty had lots of space to hide.

In Star Wars hyperdrives and realspace drives share a lot of parts. Hyperdrives also take up a relatively small percent of the mass of the ship when compared to warp engines, though as they share a lot of parts with the realspace engines it's kind of hard to draw the line. Basically when a ship moves through hyperspace, it still needs its regular engines to push it in the right direction. I assume warp drive would be the same (just because you're warping space doesn't mean you still don't have to move). The Imperial Class Star Destroyer is actually very fast in realspace. I agree with our illustrious hosts that it is not very maneuverable compared to Star Trek ships, but Star Destroyers are fast for any class of ship other than fighter, and really scary fast for their size (this is to catch fleeing ships in tractor beams before they can get far enough away from a planet to jump to hyperspace).

Just a few comments: 1. The VICTORY class Star Destroyer could enter an atmosphere, the ISDs could not. 2. They didn't an aerial assault in the battle of Hoth because a) they wanted to capture the rebels alive, and b) there was a theater shield, which protected from orbital bombardment, (which is why they needed to land walkers a good distance away, then march them under the shield). The Empire didn't have aircraft that were hardened against the cold of Hoth, so those were out of the question. 3. The militaries of Star Wars are paranoid about very high degrees of automation, which is why we see many manual systems; The Separatist ships from the Clone Wars series required no organic crew, and had many fewer crew in general. 4. Hyperspace/Hyperdrive doesn't work like Warp drive, and AFAIK, you enter Hyperspace, then use your conventional engines to propel yourself through it, but you don't have the restrictions of mass and the speed of light limitation, like you do in "real space"... 5. In Star Wars, vessels are typically built by private contractors, and NOT by the actual factions directly - IIRC, the ISDs were built by Kuat Drive Yards - so the Empire would send them specifications, and the contractor would submit designs for approval.

In Empire Strikes Back, the rebels on Hoth did have ground weapons installations (Ion Cannons) capable of damaging/disabling Star Destroyers and shields capable of deflecting orbital bombardment. They used the weapons to disable Star Destroyers so the evacuation ships could escape. It would have been a mistake to hoover above them in that instance so the ground assault actually makes sense. The ground assault was sent in to knock out the generators powering the shields and weapons.

The tie fighters hang in racks on the hangar ceiling, they don't have landing gear.

I'd love to see a fleetyards on the the short and long range tie fighters.

in regards to star destroyer vs. Borg, I can see a captain as a last resort ramming the cube in order to destroy it.

I always found it amusing that the star destroyer is the reason I know (roughly) the difference between a mile & a kilometer.

I was always under the impression that the Type II (Empire Strikes Back) Star Destroyer did not have repulsor-lift engines and therefore could not operate in planetary atmosphere and that the largest Star Destroyer that could was the Victory at 750 meters. The one in Rogue One is a Type I (A New Hope) Star Destroyer with the taller communications tower, so maybe that's the last Impstar that had repulsorlift engines before they were refitted before Empire Strikes Back. Or maybe they just retconned it.

I think, you found a cross section of the Victory-class. That was much smaller and was more built for bombardment. it also had more cannon emplacements in the superstructure.

in old canon, the Victory design is the one capable of atmospheric operation. (the Acclimator which is the ones you see in the prequels, also can.) It's also worth pointing out they have to have serious inertia canceling tech in star wars, as they cross the GALAXY, in weeks or months (Where as Voyager would take 70 years without all the short cuts Janeway took). So it's entirely possible that the Imperial, and maybe even the SSD can perform atmospheric operation. I also wouldn't wanna be the Borg Cube to test a star destroyer in combat, particularly if the ion cannons work in that fight like they do in the SW universe. (all star wars weapons are a form of plasma weapon too, superheated to varying degrees.) I THINK I remember reading that they also had torp tubes, an forward firing fixed guns, toward the bow, in the old rogue squadron series. The Imperial is just cool. Love looking at them. Can you guys do one on the Victory? Seems harder to find good images, and information on the Victory. EDIT apparently the Imp2 can at least move 975km/hr in atmosphere. Jesus lol Another possible to do would be an Emperor class battleship from 40k...

I would imagine that the Stormtroops aboard the Star Destroyer would live in bunks similar to a barracks to maximize living space, and if it is anything like a Modern Day Aircraft carrier that the enlisted crew would likewise share bunk style living quarters as much as 3 bunks high. Cramp for sure.

@trekyards I seem to recall that originally the Enterprise D (and by extension the entire Galaxy-Class) was meant to have a crew of about 15-20 thousand but Roddenberry (or an executive) vetoed that because it would create issues with regards to extras and our bonding with the focus characters (because there would likely be quite a bit more).

i would like to see the opinion on a super-stardestroyer.

Probably the best thing about this design is that weapons along the front edges of the "triangle" can fire either forward or broadside, which is a big deal in the SW universe. Also those domes are supposed to be shield projectors I think, but I might be wrong on that one.

Oh dear. This one was fun! Some additional data, a wing of TIE fighters, typically 2 fighters squadrons, 1 bomber squadron and 1 scout squadron is the standard compliment. The four secondary engines are backup thrusters. Hyperdrive needs no exhaust. The ventral weapons battery changed between Episode 4 and 5, the first version had 6x2 heavy turbolaser turrets and 2x2 heavy ioncannons. The second version had 8x8 turbolasers. If the star destroyer is angled down all the weapons batteries can superfire. The globe domes uptop are sensor domes. The Vengeance would still wipe the floor with the star destroyer.

OMG What happend with youtube?! But what a great video guys! I'm so excited to see Rogue One tomorrow

🖖😎👍Very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed indeed on the Star Destroyer guys👌.

Remember, most star wars ships usually have only one hyper-drive operating at one time.

The crew size is not ridiculous at all, plenty of tower space etc.

Someone else has probably answered this but the reason they didn't blast the rebel base on Hoth from orbit is because Admiral Ozzel entered the system too close to the planet and alerted the rebels of the attack. The rebels turned on the shield forcing the AT-AT's to land a few miles away and take out the generator from the ground.. After that they started dropping landing craft, and Vader, close to the base.

Echo Base on Hoth had a giant shield generator, thus the ground assault with the walkers. That was the point of them going for it during the battle

Actually the Imperial class doesn’t have Point defense weapons, that’s what the Tie Fighters are for. The Imperial class is meant purely for anti-capital ship, anti-space station, and orbital bombardment combat. The idea being to bring overwhelming firepower, having a frontline ship that can rip the enemy to shreds.

Great episode, Fellas. You should do the Finalizer.

When you think military, don't think comfort. Everybody got use to watching Star Trek TNG with personal living in whole apartment size quarters. On a standard Nimitz class aircraft carrier has a crew of over 4,000, and that is around the length of Constitution Class Enterprise. If a ship that small can carry over 4,000, then a star destroyer can comfortably fit of 37,000 crew members.

That must be a Voyager Borg cube, because I remember the original cube was supposed to be around 28 cubic kilometers (which is a little over 3000 meters on each side) and that's what maybe one? Though the SD is still probably only a third the volume of even that size cube. But Borg cubes and spheres do vary in size depending on how they are being used in the shows and movies. it actually makes sense they wouldn't be a standard size given the nature of the Borg though, as I imagine they have ships much bigger than even the big cubes. Hell maybe they even have small planet sized ships that are capable of traveling around the galaxy for all we know.

Star destroyers - such iconic ships, great to see them here! Although Star Wars had some very cool shots of them, I always felt like the portrayal in the movies never really did them justice. After all, for all their oh-so-great armaments, they frequently get tricked by an old smuggler vessel. Like the Stormtroopers and most of the empire - these things were successfully designed to look imposing and grand - but in the actualy scenes they were featured in, they always seemed just incompetent and useless for the most part.

That bulbous part is armour for the reactor housing.

Please can you do the Super Star Destroyer. Great video.

Star Destroyers are multipurpose, this means they have a number of different specialties it can handle including capital ship, carrier for troops/weapons/fighters, and base of operations. This ship does specialize in ship to ship combat but it does have other tasks it can handle hence a bigger crew. I honestly love these ships.

fyi: Rogue One gives an answer as to why there was a weakness found in the 1st Death Star. :)

The dome underneath the ISD is probably an artificial gravity generator: look at the Empire's Interdictor cruisers, they have massive domes designed to generate gravity wells to stop ships escaping into hyperspace

[32:08] If you watch The Empire Strikes Back you will see that General Veers tells Darth Vader that their is a shield up that was stopping any bombardment. Only matter can be passed through shields, that means a Stardestroyer COULD go through the shields but I guess that would be a costly manoeuvre compared to dropping some AT-ATs,

Anti-Gravity technology in Star Wars is pretty advanced. Star Destroyers are perfectly capable of planetary landings.

Perhaps in Empire Strikes Back they didn't want to let the Star Destroyers enter Hoth's atmosphere because if a ship is temporarily disabled by the Ion Cannon in orbit it's not lasting harm. If it gets disabled and loses power while hovering in atmo... oh ohs.

Incredible video! I'm so hyped for Rogue One!! Thanks for the info guys!!

The model you are using is of an Imperial II class Star Destroyer which appear in the films from TESB. The ones with the bigger two barreled guns are Imperial I and it is that which appears in A New Hope and Rogue One. Exactly the same space frame just with different guns and a slightly differently configured segment on top of the command structure. This is the biggest and most easily seen identifier.

I saw Episode 4 in 1977 at the age of 5 and it is the first movie I remember seeing in theaters. According to the Essential Guide To Vehicles and Vessels Published in 1996 A Stardestroyer is 1,600 Meters long with over 100 Weapon Emplacements Has 72 Tie Fighters (6 Squadrons of 12)20 AT-AT's 30 AT-ST's and (,700 Ground Troops and was capable of Atmospheric Flight.

Fleetyards suggestion: Any of the later human ships in SG1.

The first cross-section is a Victory-class star destroyer, escort for the ICSD

Love y'all, but the feedback about the cubeship is correct. Seven of Nine's mom said the first cube they encountered was 27 cubic klicks in volume; i.e., a bit over 3 km per side. That matches the cubes in TNG, First Contact and the rest of VGR rather nicely :) Also, recall that the destroyer nomenclature refers to its role in a wet navy fleet, only in space. Much bigger ships, like the Executor, would be the equivalent of "star" dreadnoughts. Indeed, we typically call them, rather colloquially, Super Star Destroyers -- but that's largely because Executor and her ilk are basically vastly upscaled versions of the many smaller dagger-shaped Imperial ships.

The big engines provide forward thrust/movement. The small engines are kind of like rudders in that they help the ship to turn. The Hyperdrive is located in that spine above the engines. It works kind of like Warp Drive in that it doesn't need an engine to achieve FTL. It makes use of Hyperspace, which is an alternate dimension of space time in Star Wars that allows travel through space at speeds much faster than light. This enables the ship to travel vast distances in a relatively very short amount of time, about 15 days, give or take a day or two.

The ship looks like a flying acropolis, awesome review!

@ samuel. Those are actually Ion Engines. I don't think the Empire would be so bold to use chemical engines on their ships

The first time I watched A New Hope, I remember thinking the corvette in the opening was a big ship--until the Star Destroyer goes by and then pulls the corvette into the main docking bay.

I would guess the reason these star destroyers seldom go into low atmospheric positions is because the vast amount of energy used to maintain itself there, leaving it vulnerable to surface attack (like you guys said anti-grav systems). Probably it was hovering over Jedha to quickly obtain kyber crystals or preform some function before the city gets destroyed. Also Hoth had that giant Ion cannon that could disable these star destroyers with one shot, is likely the reason they did not attempt to inter low orbit (in Empire).

That's a small ass Cube. The Assimilation Cube is supposed to be 3,040 meters in length, height, and width. That's a good deal more than the 1,600 meters of the Star Destroyer.

Regarding not being seen in atmosphere above Hoth: remember the Ion Cannon - the Star Destroyers couldn't approach the base without getting fried. I always wondered how they landed the AT-ATs and troopers to begin with, they probably 'landed' one outside of the Ion Cannon's range and marched there, while the remainder blockaded outside of that cannon's range.

The other thing I was slightly reminded of with the Star Destroyers is the Aztec & Mayan Step Pyramids. If Star Destroyers Hangers did have physical doors one place they might be in in the actual hanger walls - those large slab pieces on the internal hanger wall might be the storage placement for the doors - and they come down and filter through the floor and along in segments like a garage door to cover the gap. there is a suggestion that there are other hangers and other doors to launch the larger craft. but without a sense of scale it's hard to say if they use the main bay for everything including Pre-fab base deployment and the ATAT Transports. Though it might be possible to lower ATATs down with tractors or even chains if the ship is in an atmosphere at the time. especially if it's equipping a garrison rather than on general patrol.

Remember that a US aircraft carrier has a crew of 5000, and it's the size of the Conny.... so yes, they can cram a LOT of crew into a small space. Ent-D was originally designed, as you've discussed, to have a crew of 4000, but Gene nixed that idea because of lack of extras. Doing some quick scaling, it would seem that the SD is about 100 decks high at the rear, and a mile long (1600m)... and probably 600m wide... so we're talking about 12 city blocks in surface area of floor space... and averaging filling that with 30 story buildings.... that's a LOT of volume for people, hangers, storage, etc. Just my thoughts, NOM

I feel the triangle part is all storage and hangers and engines and mechanisms, and the top 'layer cake' is where the crews are. Those exhausts would be ideal bulls eyes.

Something that I note at 26:51 is that the actual crew of the star destroyer is 275 (The officers , vehicle maintenance, and gun crews) plus thier fighter crews of 117 meaning that just under half of the listed crew has nothing to do with running the vessel. in a fight or otherwise and are ground troops the the star destroyer would deliver to the planet.

Destroyer is a class of ship. Smaller than a cruiser and a dreadnought or battleship. Star is just added like "starship". For example, "star cruiser," and "star dreadnought." The "star" prefix just makes it sound more larger and ominous than "spaceship," or "space destroyer."

Cool video gents! Very much enjoyed it

When you consider the standard complement for a Nimitz class aircraft carrier is around 6,000 (including aircrew). The carrier also has a massive internal hangar to service the numerous aircraft types she carries. I think there's a good probability that a Star Destroyer could have a complement in the 40,000 personnel range.

I know a huge amount of Trek vs Wars comparisons of ships seem to rely on some technical guides. I often got the sense they got carried away with the Star Wars guide coming up with the power of the turbolasers and kept adding zeros to the end - because a shot from one of those now seems to have the impact of several nukes.

The reason it did not go into the atmosphere in Empire to capture the Rebel base was: The energy shield preventing direct landing. The Empire wanted to interdict traffic out of the base. They can't do that if they are on the ground. They could have used Ties but I think they wanted to use tractor beams to capture the transports.

The model you are looking at is the upgrade Imperial II model which traded out the big bulky gun batteries for the more sleek version.

a little late to the particular video but the borg cube isn't 1 kilometer. it's 3 kilometer, it should be three times the size it's shown

It's 25 meters longer than the Vengeance from Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Just a side note, the ISD posted isn't the one from ANH. That one had a different center "stack" between the two spherical Shield Generators, at least they were the shields in the X-Wing computer games. I think they have changed that since then though.

I wouldnt say Star Trek is more advanced as Star Wars just per se. We dont have any numbers of actual power outputs, field strengts and so forth ... we see phrases like hyper matter engines/ reactors ... and look at these crystals they use in lightsabers and for that doomsday laser on the deathstar. Star Wars is in part dealing with some other kind of technology or physics here for sure.

I believe a destroyer was a class of ship meant to intercept and destroy submarines, torpedoes and aircraft attacking the fleet. So a Star Destroyer not only has nothing to do with destroying a star but may also be named after the wrong class of ship.

A lot of planets in the star wars universe ,especially the more populous ones, have planetary shielding which protects from star destroyer bombardments,thus the AT-ATs and ground assault forces.Echo base on Hoth had such a shield which when it was destroyed the rebels scattered like flys.

Nice video.

The reason that the Star Destroyers didn't enter Hoth's atmosphere was because of the planetary shield. No ship in SW that I know of can pass through a defense shield with repulser lifts. The phantom menace is a perfect example the MTT's couldn't go through the sheild the gungans had because of their repulsor lifts only the slow ground-based battle droids could.

Isn't the Borg Cube 3km aka 3,000 meters or about twice the length of the Imperial Star Destroyer?

While you're right the Aclamators were designed as troop transports and we see them taking off, we actually do see Venators* landed in Episode 3 as well. There are some on Coruscant in specialised landing bays, and there's one landed at the back of the Kashyyk scene (which really helps sell it on the size because you just don't notice it at first because its so big!) * Which you should totally do a a fleet yards on. Better looking ship imo. :D

The render you use is an Imperial 2 class. It unfortunately does not have point defense turrets, it relies on its TIE wing to screen fighters, those are twin linked, quad turbolasers (light or medium) to ravage capital ships. It carries hundreds of turbolasers of various sizes. The imperial 1 (identified by the x shaped antenna above the bridge) has anti-fighter turrets

The wedge shape maximizes firepower in the forward direction, while giving them a fantastic field of fire in any direction by rearward. Star destroyers don't have any large guns relative to it's size, and instead if has dozens of turbolaser emplacements.

Those windowed bits are probably barracks for fighter pilots, storm troopers and other launch bay related crew

When you talk about how oversized the crew is you need to remember that 9000 of them are stormtroopers and also that somewhere between 143 and 406 of them just man the guns. Plus it has 92 smaller ships inside its hangers. 48 tie fighters 12 tie bombers 8 shuttles 24 tie defenders 68 heavy turbo lasers 62 ion cannons 5 Medium Turboladers Also the 8 big guns that I am not sure what they are.

These things were pretty much the Swiss Army Knife of the Imperial fleet. They filled every role a capital ship could have: battleship, carrier, troop carrier, etc. They were just so clunky though.

It’s simple: the enterprise D is one third in length. Let’s just assume that the volume per length ration for bot is the same. The volume of the STar Destroyer is 3x3x3 = 27 times the volume of the enterprise D. The D can take comfortably accommodate roughly around 1000 people. The Star Destroyer has 27 Times the volume. So it can very conveniently accommodate 27000 people. Let’s not forget that the volume per length ratio of the Star Destroyer is bigger than that of the Enterprise D. And people could easily be cramped closer together than in an Enterprise D. So the numbers add up!

they didn't bombard echo base because it was shielded

5:35 I have seen multiple size charts contradicting each other. Ranging from ~1000 to 1600 metres. 6:48 Kind of reminds me of a pyramid from this point of view. 9:06 No joke about the dune buggy? 9:55 They have food synthesizers aboard the Constitution-class. 11:10 I could’ve sworn that the Borg Cube was around 3000x3000x3000 metres. 12:12 The Dominion Battleship is like what … 4500 metres? 34:57 It also happens in “The Empire Strikes Back” with an asteroid.

Actually there was expplanation for why ships in SW have such big crews. It was tated that at one point in history ships were highly automated to a point where one preson could control entire fleet. Unfortunatly after few mischaps when one mad commander could destroy entire fleet and some AI uprisigs this was changes into more manual operations. This also helped agains boarding actions.

I'd like to see an episode on the Warlock Class Destroyer from Babylon 5

IIRC, Vader was pissed one of the captains jumped in too close to Hoth, alerting the rebels. If the Empire had gotten the jump on them there's a good chance the battle of Hoth would have had no ground invasion, just orbital bombardment of their surface to space ion cannon and theater shield followed by a mop up operation

I have long thought about a cross universe fight between the two. A ground battle would have to go to the Empire, at a crew size of 40k, the Federation would put up a good fight, especially after a war like the war in ds9. However, in terms of weapons, the only thing that would break those shields would be a super laser, due to the power of the kaiber crystals. The borg would rip it apart, especially a tactical cube or any version of fusion cube. The empire also lacks the shield power to withstand something as disroupters and phasers, as in the later case of the Federation. While the lasers will do some damage, in the end it would not be enough. Their advantage would be those squads of ties, the numbers each ship can bring to the theater of battle would make them a threat as the federation does not have attack wings with those kinds of numbers. The Remans, however, do have those equal numbers, which would be able to turn the tides. over all, the empire has the numbers, with out something like the death star, even with the super star destroyers, throw the borg or any number of alien races into it, the would be drove back, assimilated, or even obliterated. especially even with the 25th century ships.

It's bigger than most Star Fleet vessels in the Prime timeline. The D Deridex class Romulan Warbird and the Dominion Battle Ship are almost the size of a Star Destroyer.

Another channel did their take on Empire vs Borg. I can't recall if they used a star destroyer or the death star, but their conclusion was Imperial win! Their mistake was just looking at firepower. I pointed out, in my comment, that the Galactic Empire doesn't have transporters, doesn't know transporter technology, so doesn't have SHIELDS against transporters: so, while the Empire may very well destroy the cube, their OWN SHIP will have been thoroughly boarded by Borg drones assimilating crew & technology. My conclusion was: the Imperial ship may very well fly off the "victor", but it would arrive at its next destination & announce: "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile."

"Star Destroyer" is mistake by calling this ship, the full name is called Kuat Drive Yards Star Destroyer Class Imperial Mark II. Term Star Destroyer was used to all ships bigger than frigates in Star Wars Universe, except mobile attack pods.

this was designed as a multi-purpose ship, not only does it stop doors from closing but it also stops rebel fleets.

Isn't a Borg Cube supposed to be 3 - 4km per side? So it would be almost twice as long as a Star Destroyer...

You guys questioned whether a ship the size of the Constitution class is the right kind of size for a 5 year mission stating it is the size of an aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers can stay at sea for 70 days before re-supply with a crew of 6000. The Constitution class has a crew of approximately 300 which is 1/20 of the crew. Assuming a similar allowance for food storage that would lead to the Constitution class being able to stay in continuous service for 1440 days a a time or just under 4 years at a time, in theory at least as we know from the original series the Enterprise made several stops at star-bases where they could be re-supplied during that 5 year mission.

I just watched the scene from empire strikes back where han detaches from the star destroyer to float away "with the rest of the junk"and yes the destroyers engines flash/pulse when it goes to light speed,so the rear engines,couldn't tell which ones,DO cause the faster then light effect,rather then a hyper space generator like babylon 5 for example.

okay you're wrong on the opening. There were two versions of the Star Destroyer. Star Wars 4 and Rogue One along with Rebels were the Imperial Class I with the famous 'X' bridge tower. The phase 2 destroyers were in 5, 6, and 7 with the cross 'T' bridge tower and the phase 2 were much larger.

The reason they didn't go in above Hoth was that the Ion cannon. you send 5 of those down, hit each one with an ion blast and the thing crashes right into the planet's surface killing all on board. It had to be a stand off assault because of the ion cannon.

Was that that proper size for a typical Borg Cube (if there is such a thing)? I thought they were over 3 kilometers in length, width, and height (as mentioned in Voy: Dark Frontier). That would be triple the length of a Star Destroyer and possibly rival a Super Star Destroyer in volume (or 27 cubic kilometers).