An upcoming book had a nice size comparison chart I thought some of you may enjoy. As you can see it has the new Y-Wing... which doesn’t look hugely different than the BTL-A4. Hopefully the full book will have a complete breakdown of each of these when it comes out next month
Here’s just the Fighters. I hope we get all of these in Armada eventually
Edited by GrandAdmiralCrunch
Huh. Apropos of nothing, I suppose, but I am amused that in nuCanon the provenance of the Nebulon-B remains KDY ...despite never appearing in Imperial service in any media (none of the movies covering this time period, or TV shows, or indeed any canon novels I am aware of).
Obviously in the old EU, the Nebulon-B made frequent appearances in Imperial service, which made sense given it was produced by the same system (clearly loyal to the Empire) churning out Star Destroyers. I guess I would have assumed in the washing them from all media that occurred going from EU->canon periods, they would have dropped the KDY nomenclature and had them made somewhere else. Hoersch-Kessel or something, I dunno...
10 minutes ago, xanderf said:Huh. Apropos of nothing, I suppose, but I am amused that in nuCanon the provenance of the Nebulon-B remains KDY ...despite never appearing in Imperial service in any media (none of the movies covering this time period, or TV shows, or indeed any canon novels I am aware of).
Obviously in the old EU, the Nebulon-B made frequent appearances in Imperial service, which made sense given it was produced by the same system (clearly loyal to the Empire) churning out Star Destroyers. I guess I would have assumed in the washing them from all media that occurred going from EU->canon periods, they would have dropped the KDY nomenclature and had them made somewhere else. Hoersch-Kessel or something, I dunno...
I liked EC Henry’s Imperial redesign and backstory that the rebels stole stripped down rejects and did the best they could with them
9 hours ago, GrandAdmiralCrunch said:I liked EC Henry’s Imperial redesign and backstory that the rebels stole stripped down rejects and did the best they could with them
Agreed, it's not a bad design and not a bad explanation - very akin to the change between Republic Y-Wings -> Rebel Y-Wings.
Only thing it really needs to be excitedly embraced by the entire community is the idea of an Imperial Nebulon-B in canon. IE., an Imperial Nebulon-B showing up... ANYWHERE . Like, anywhere *at all*...
Blimey the medium transport is UUUUGE.
5 minutes ago, flatpackhamster said:Blimey the medium transport is UUUUGE.
The diagram is deceptive! The grey box is at a different scale to the white box - the Medium Transport appears in both.
1 hour ago, Hedgehogmech said:The diagram is deceptive! The grey box is at a different scale to the white box - the Medium Transport appears in both.
I feel like such a numpty for not spotting that. I blame massive sleep deprivation caused by a 2-year old.
I love how Disney followed the golden rule of bigger is better even down to the starfighters. I wonder if by teh end of the 12th movie we'll reach the point of CR90 sized "fighters"
2 hours ago, Norell said:I love how Disney followed the golden rule of bigger is better even down to the starfighters. I wonder if by teh end of the 12th movie we'll reach the point of CR90 sized "fighters"
Ha ha. Except they don’t?
-The T-70 is smaller
-The RZ-2 is slightly longer but lower volume
-The BTA-NR2 is a much more compact craft except for whatever those stabilizer things are that trail behind the engines.
-All of those are still smaller than the B-Wing
The T-85 is distinctly bigger. I guess that’s what you meant. Unless you mean the resistance bomber, which is intended as a B-17 or B-29
equivalent where making it huge made sense.
Im all for taking shots at JJ for embiggening everything. But this is essentially the only part of the sequel trilogy where he didn’t make things bigger for no reason.
Links broken be for me?
5 hours ago, DUR said:Links broken be for me?
This is where I found the pic at:
Wow. I thought the T-70 was a little ugly, but the T-85 looks like b-movie scifi.
Really, they continued that thing in canon now? That's a weird history!
Yeah guys, we got this really old ship introduced at the start of a conflict ages ago which got discontinued and later used by the rebels because that's what they could get. Also all of its capabilities have been improved upon by newer and apparently better designs such as the ARC-170, the X-Wing series and the B-Wing series. But you know what? Let's build a new version 50-60 years later. It totally won't be invalidated by the T-85 X-Wing or B-Wing MkII!!!
On 10/20/2019 at 8:47 PM, xanderf said:Huh. Apropos of nothing, I suppose, but I am amused that in nuCanon the provenance of the Nebulon-B remains KDY ...despite never appearing in Imperial service in any media (none of the movies covering this time period, or TV shows, or indeed any canon novels I am aware of).
Obviously in the old EU, the Nebulon-B made frequent appearances in Imperial service, which made sense given it was produced by the same system (clearly loyal to the Empire) churning out Star Destroyers. I guess I would have assumed in the washing them from all media that occurred going from EU->canon periods, they would have dropped the KDY nomenclature and had them made somewhere else. Hoersch-Kessel or something, I dunno...
My headcanon explanation for that is, that KDY produces it for the free market and is selling it to (approved) security forces such as Jinata Security or the Aldeeranian Royal Guard. It's clearly a combat ship, bit pretty unsuitable as full millitary or at least all out war vessel, given its fragile structure. So maybe it was designed for protection and action against pirates and such with the specification of not posing to much of a thread against the proper imperial Military. I've created a thread about that in the off topic section she time ago.