A long while ago, There was a website of Star Wars Technical Discussion, covering many topics like the size of Star Destroyers, the Falcons internal layout, the size of planets, the ecological repercussions of the destruction of the second Death Star and other bits.

The discussions were firmly planted in correct science theory, and were complex in their nature, and I think were created by someone who's name was Brown.

This site vanished along while ago, but I think some of the ship schematics are still out there... notable the line drawing and very colorful deck plans for the Falcon and Slave 1.

I was wondering if anyone else knew of this site, and if the information is still available anywhere?

(I am aware much of it might be redundant now, what with 'canon' sources having stated the 'actual' figures of the topics discussed)

Cheers

RD

The Star Wars Technical Commentaries site is still technically up, just the main page died, so Google it and you can still access the sub-pages.

Deckplans major players are the Deckplans Alliance and Colonial Chrome

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This is certainly one of the sits I remember from back then... but there was another, I found Mr Saxtons work via a link from the page I was originally remembering.

I think the author was Rob Brown or similar... he did a really really indepth look at the layout of the Falcon (Which, I admit, has probably been replaced by the miriad of 'official' layouts currently available, but his designs either inspired, or manage to get it 'just right' (Albeit, with the Main Hold at an angle in order to make it 'fit' as accurately as possible based on his observations on the films.)

That is one I cannot find, I think the site expire or moved and ive failed to track it down. (We are talking maybe 10+ years ago)

RD

EDIT: Robert Brown, Ship of Riddles... found it, but seems its only an Archive, and maybe the rest of his stuff has been lost..... which would be a shame, it was (In my memory) a fascinating read!

SW Tech commentaries, you're thinking of Curtis Saxton. Far as I know it is still up and running in some form or another, he's a fairly nice guy, used to have quite a bit of corrospondence with him back in the late 90's and early 00's talking crap about spaceships, communications gear and other stuff.

Rob.Brown used to run the B2's Star Wars Stuff page and forums about a meeeeelion years ago, like back in 1997 or something! He was a fairly cool guy too.

Far as I know it no longer exists.

As a side note, I think that the crew sizes of most larger ships are off - for example, the Nebulon B has a crew of 920; I think that it would make more sense for it to have 300-400 crew tops, before passengers/carried troops that is.

I often took Saxtons stuff with a heafty grain of salt. The problem i had was he would make an assumption then run with it, without making several assumptions and figuring out what was more or less possible. The taking pretty much any source and running with it, the idea of hypermatter and what it was and did was a good example.

THere was some good information there tho.

B Squared's Falcon page was a pretty significant thing in my Star Wars fandom. You've got to remember that back then there wasn't a Wookiepedia and you couldn't just Google "Falcon deck plans" to find information. These strange web pages were the only places that Star Wars fans could discuss the game outside of the official EU-filled sources. WEG and the novels were really filling SW fandom with tons of crap and it was refreshing to take a new look at the original movies and sources to see if there was a different approach. I wish FF had done more of this with there EotE game instead of trying just copying EU stuff without considering whether it makes sense (forex COMPNOR, backup hyperdrives, rampant iconism, etc).

http://web.archive.org/web/20010412141709/http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/index.html