Double Flee A

Death Star Sizes
"We are told the following in the prologue of the Return of the Jedi novelization:

"The Death Star was the Empire's armored battle station, nearly twice as big as its predecessor, which Rebel forces had destroyed so many years before—nearly twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. Yet it was only half complete."

In and of itself, this tells us little. For instance, I could say that the Galaxy Class Enterprise-D, with a length of 642 meters, was over twice as big as the Constitution Class Enterprise-A, with a length of 305 meters. Alternately, I could say that the Enterprise-D, with a volume of over 5.8 million cubic meters, is almost 25 times bigger than the Enterprise-A, which only has a volume of less than a quarter-million cubic meters.

Fortunately, we can perform the requisite scaling work to determine just how large the two Death Stars may be, and even more fortunately, some of this work has been done already. "

posted by dale @ 10:53 AM