3 hours ago, mintek917 said:

Best front arc ever, thats for sure.

Take one bucket of dice, this constitutes 10 red dice, 10 blue dice, and 10 black dice, and roll them to perform an attack, you may split this amongst different targets.

2 hours ago, Grumbleduke said:

Screen grab for anyone interested:

Looks a bit like the Viscount-class Star Defender - assuming that it is flying top-right to bottom-left. It could be going the other way.

Great, its nice to see that the Mon Calamari are the Kuat Drive Yards for the New Republic, question is do they still make the ships designed mostly for Mon Calamari to further make it so only their people can be the captains/bridge crew?

2 hours ago, GammonLord said:

Sooo, is someone going to start a "bring the Supremacy to Armada" thread? Why settle for the SSD? With this thing you could have Armada battles happening inside a ship that is participating in an Armada battle (Armadception? )

Love to see it do an inside turn with the manoeuvre tool. Not sure Jerjerrod will quite cut it....

They just need to add a new scale:

Small: CR-90s, Flotillas and smaller craft.

Medium: Battleships and large support craft like the Interdictor.

Large: Capital Ships like ISDs, MC80s, The Finalizer

Huge: SSD sized ships.

Mega: FO giants (I'd imagine that if they ever brought that ship to the game it would at least need two bases to support the weight, or one really wide one.

47 minutes ago, Flavorabledeez said:

I'm so glad this community is laughing at the designs of this upcoming movie. Yesterday I stumbled across an article that actually called the "evil" BB-8 droid "Genius." Yeah, that kinda worked in the Darth Vader comic book, but hey, that was a COMIC BOOK.

I thought I was losing my mind. Sticking the visual equivalent of a goatee on a robot isn't genius, it's a well worn out trope. I've relegated myself to the mindset of "I hope my son enjoys this movie," because based on what I've seen so far it seems like it could be 2 hours of baseline attempts at marketing.

I mean its not amazing, but I'd be more curious of the different head deigns, like if there are iterations of BB units like there were of R-series droids though that seems like stuff they are leaving mostly for the old canon. Though my complaint about the BB series is that they don't seem to be able to magnetize themselves like other droids since I think that would make it so they might not be able to move that well. It just seems to me that the astro-droid isn't doing you much good if it can't get to places to repair the ship or go out onto the hull to repair something like R2 did in Episode 1.

First Order: "As for me, I will find a level beyond super destroyer!"

Resistance: "So, what? Like a 'Mega destroyer'?

Resistance: "oh 'Ultra destroyer'?

First Order: "You're mocking me me..."

Resistance: "Maximum over-destroyer!"

This is Mega-disappointing...

So, look at those notches in the back of that ship. Those look to be docking slots for Resurgence class ships. That would make this more like 60km wingspan by ~20km chord length. 60x20km is still huge but now sits more reasonable.

Making it a mobile shipyard/base more than a starship would make sense if the FO was trying to avoid detection. I'm sure a super-nerd will find the original Resurgence class (or whatever that new dreadnought is called) that they built this thing on. I can get in board with this being more city than warship

+1 for design from me but the scale feels wrong unless it is unique

Am I the only one wondering where they get the resources to build this stuff? The Empire spent years building the Death Star. It began construction at the end of RotS and finished in Rogue One, roughly a 20 year span. Am I to believe the FO did the same thing but to a whole planet? And now they have a 60km ship?

Aren't these guys on the fringes or something? They don't have an entire galaxy to draw raw materials and slave labor from.

Given that the app images say length, not wingspan, I'm assuming 60km length until it's specifically stated otherwise.

It also states that this is the sole example of a Mega- class Star Destroyer.

Just now, Undeadguy said:

Aren't these guys on the fringes or something? They don't have an entire galaxy to draw raw materials and slave labor from.

Snoke is supposed to have watched the rise and fall of the Empire - it may be his ship, and not the First Order's.

60km lol... My expectations about the movie dropped even lower if it was even possible. This whole thing is utterly ridiculous. I think not Snoke but the mouse has some manhood issues.

1 minute ago, Undeadguy said:

Am I the only one wondering where they get the resources to build this stuff? The Empire spent years building the Death Star. It began construction at the end of RotS and finished in Rogue One, roughly a 20 year span. Am I to believe the FO did the same thing but to a whole planet? And now they have a 60km ship?

Aren't these guys on the fringes or something? They don't have an entire galaxy to draw raw materials and slave labor from.

If I recall right, Starkiller base was already a project by the empire that was leftover and the FO picked up, also they didn't need to BUILD the planet, just convert it, they had 30 years to do it, that's proably enough

3 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Am I the only one wondering where they get the resources to build this stuff? The Empire spent years building the Death Star. It began construction at the end of RotS and finished in Rogue One, roughly a 20 year span. Am I to believe the FO did the same thing but to a whole planet? And now they have a 60km ship?

Aren't these guys on the fringes or something? They don't have an entire galaxy to draw raw materials and slave labor from.

Note that the Death Star II was almost finished in 4ish years from scratch.

Just now, Undeadguy said:

Am I the only one wondering where they get the resources to build this stuff? The Empire spent years building the Death Star. It began construction at the end of RotS and finished in Rogue One, roughly a 20 year span. Am I to believe the FO did the same thing but to a whole planet?

The figure given for Starkiller Base's diameter is pretty small - 660 km. It may be less "planet" and more "asteroid with artificial ecosystem".

5 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Am I the only one wondering where they get the resources to build this stuff? The Empire spent years building the Death Star. It began construction at the end of RotS and finished in Rogue One, roughly a 20 year span. Am I to believe the FO did the same thing but to a whole planet? And now they have a 60km ship?

Aren't these guys on the fringes or something? They don't have an entire galaxy to draw raw materials and slave labor from.

I'm really starting to wonder if Snoke wasn't the leader of a large government in the unknown regions before he snagged the remains of the empire.... it really seems like the only way to explain all the new tech and massive ships

4 minutes ago, Norell said:

Note that the Death Star II was almost finished in 4ish years from scratch.

I'd give it 2/3 completion. It started construction after the first was destroyed, so the Empire already had supply lines established. It's much harder getting everything in order to begin mass production.

5 minutes ago, Ironlord said:

The figure given for Starkiller Base's diameter is pretty small - 660 km. It may be less "planet" and more "asteroid with artificial ecosystem".

Death Star 2 was 160km? So that is a much bigger volume regardless of what you call it.

5 hours ago, Darth Veggie said:

No, it is giga... Giga stupid!

For reference, can I know the value of a Single Stupid, so I can appropriately apply the metric modifiers going forward?

Is snoke the DC villan Captain boomerang?

Just now, Drasnighta said:

For reference, can I know the value of a Single Stupid, so I can appropriately apply the metric modifiers going forward?

I'm gonna say it's worth 2 incompetent, or 4 naive. But only a 29th of a well informed decision.

Well it looks like the director played Ace Combat 6.

Reminds me of a B-2 Spirit

Where are they getting the resources for this? How did the New Republic not see an organization that had the resources required to build these things as a possible threat?

Thats rhetorical, I read the books.

But still.

21 minutes ago, Noosh said:

Is snoke the DC villan Captain boomerang?

I knew I couldn't fool you, flasher.

As someone else pointed out on the internet:

if this is the sole ship in the Mega class, and it's called the Supremacy.....

...shouldn't this be a Supremacy class Star Destroyer?

1 minute ago, Maturin said:

As someone else pointed out on the internet:

if this is the sole ship in the Mega class, and it's called the Supremacy.....

...shouldn't this be a Supremacy class Star Destroyer?

We have gone beyond reason.

11 minutes ago, Undeadguy said:

Death Star 2 was 160km? So that is a much bigger volume regardless of what you call it.

In the newcanon, Death Star 1 is 160km, Death Star 2 is 200km.

Starkiller base is bigger than the DS2 - but the important part isn't the natural rock component, but the artificial metal components, that had been installed in the equator, after rock had been cut away.

Just now, Maturin said:

if this is the sole ship in the Mega class, and it's called the Supremacy.....

...shouldn't this be a Supremacy class Star Destroyer?

Possibly they don't use the "class is always named after the first example" convention here.

So, on "evil" BB8...

I was under the impression after reading the Aftermath series that the BB series of droids were made with the intention to be therapy droids, or at least a continuation of that line. It also made way too much sense when I watched TFO again and saw how BB8 behaved, and it really made the childish antics and obsessive connection to Poe more believable to me, considering that he's basically Poe's PTSD dog.

Now I could be wrong here, but to me that would make "evil" BB8 a therapy droid for someone in TLJ, which would be odd since The New Republic designed the BB series and The First Order was outside the ******* galaxy during the initial run and improvements of the BB series.

So either someone high up said "dude, BB droids are awesome, build me a black one" or Disney just wants to sell toys and doesnt give a **** about explaining it.

Just now, Blinkus Maximus said:

Now I could be wrong here, but to me that would make "evil" BB8 a therapy droid for someone in TLJ, which would be odd since The New Republic designed the BB series and The First Order was outside the ******* galaxy during the initial run and improvements of the BB series.

So either someone high up said "dude, BB droids are awesome, build me a black one" or Disney just wants to sell toys and doesnt give a **** about explaining it.

The First Order comes in two components. One is "Imperials rebuilding in the Unknown Regions" (which the New Republic and the Resistance don't know about- at least not early on) and the other component is "New Republic Separatists - a few worlds within the New Republic which seceded and started calling themselves the First Order.

Because the New Republic only know about the second component - they underestimate them - not seeing them as a threat.

It's possible that "Evil BB-8" was built in the New Republic by those who would later become secessionists - and went with them when they seceded.