What do we know about the TECTOR What

What do we know about the TECTOR?

What do we know about the TECTOR? 1. At least one brim notch on each side 2. There’s no hangar where an ISD would have one (if this ship is inverted with respect to EVERY OTHER CAPITAL SHIP PRESENT) 3. These fixtures appear on the bottom of an ISD - near its main hangar

What do we know about the TECTOR?

What do we know about the TECTOR? …that’s about it…this is as much as we SEE in ROTJ

What do we know about the TECTOR? ? There’s not much here but: 1. Looks like evidence of a brim notch. Presumably one on the other side? 2. This is where the reactor bulb would be on an ISD’s underside

What do I conjecture about the TECTOR? Look at this mess. Ship’s holding station on repulsor in very low “orbit” over a critical location that must be defended. I think that the Republic/Imperial Navy looked at the Battle of Coruscant and said “this is what we’re going to need to do in the future. We need to optimize a ship for this sort of fight. ”

What do I conjecture about the TECTOR? That ship became TECTOR. They decided that it needed to be: 1. Heavily armored against attack from every direction possible 2. Able to project firepower into every possible part of the sky What I think they ended up with was a ship with twice the main gun armament of an ISD (16 vs 8 heavy turbolaser turrets)

What do I conjecture about the TECTOR? Based on the preceeding images, I estimate that we’ve seen roughly this much of the ship. Obviously…this is an ISD, not TECTOR.

What do I conjecture about the TECTOR? I’ve eyeballed it here on one of Fractalsponge’s excellent orthos. Again, ISD shown, and I’m assuming it’s largely the same layout as TSD.

What do I conjecture about the TECTOR? Flipping her over…we see that the main battery would (just barely) be out of the field of view that we’ve seen in Ro. TJ. So those guns might be there…just out of view.

Imperator-class Star Destroyer Engineering or “How big is a hypermatter annihilation reactor anyway? ” I hear assume without much proof that the ventral bulb underneath the ship is the reactor. This seems like a hideous passive defense design oversight to me…but the common interpretation is that the reactor bulb is so large that it cannot be economically fit within the main hull armor envelope.

I’d say about this big…using a shot of the original filming model of Devastator (remodelled here as ISD 2 for ESB). Assuming a spherical reactor cavity the aspect doesn’t matter. This contradicts the ICS cutaway though. I’m also here eyeballing and assuming that the reactor bulb has the same hull/armor thickness as the dorsal and ventral planes do…

Or about this big…judging by the ICS cutaway and this figure (which has errors). Again, assuming spherical symmetry of the reactor, and that the armor on the reactor bulb is at least as thick as dorsal and ventral planar main hull faces. ISD II in scale to ISS, STS, Correllian Corvette, and Empire State Bldg. 1 small block = 10 meters, large blocks = 100 meters. Thanks to Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions Page: http: //www. merzo. net/ Conclusion: In a close in fight like the Battle of Coruscant, it would be Really Nice™ if the dorsal and ventral superstructure of the ship covered that reactor completely and deeply.

So what? Note that in each of these three sources, the main reactor complex looks like it squeezes comfortably within the second dorsal terrace level. You could eliminate at least the upper terrace and still have room for the reactor inside the superstructure. Probably the upper TWO terraces… Thanks to Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions Page: http: //www. merzo. net/ Conclusion: If we assume that the Kuat builds the ISD and TSD out of very similar mass produced components, it would make sense to keep the reactor, engine, and spaceframe configuration the same for both vessels.

So, what does all this mean for the TECTOR design? So I think: • The Battle of Coruscant is an example of the sorts of battles that were fought during the Clone Wars. • Kuat designed the TSD to operate in this anticipated threat environment. • Kuat used components that were already in production for their home defense fleet. By this I mean: • Drives • Reactor • Heavy turbo lasers • To maximize protection with the given shielding hardware, it would make sense for KDY to keep TECTOR as small as possible. • Kuat then offerred a “variant” – the much more successful (and useful to the Empire) ISD.

Conjectural TSD #1 This of Sadly, is itactually just isn’t my that favorite Much an engineering of that centerline and the internal superstructure logical consistency on the underside point ofor Sort reminds me of simple. thesefrom Imperial warships from old MARVEL Comics… the view. topside would and should be visible in the film from Rot. J. So this design doesn’t really work at all…if a truncated ship like this had been at Endor, we would have seen it 1. The guns can see pretty much everywhere in the long shots… 2. The armor is relatively unhampered by superstructure 3. Good fields of view for the sensor and tractor targeting systems

Conjectural TSD #2 This design works best with the novelization interpretation that the Millenium Falcon was flying on the underside of the ship picture in Rot. J. It captures the salient features of the underside (no bulb, no hangars), and strays as little as possible from the ISD look. Please note that the upper ventral terrace has been removed and the command tower thus shortened. This is the one that would be easiest to put in game I think… A few more ideas in the backups if you’re interested.