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https://sites.wustl.edu/fictionomics/2017/11/29/starkiller-base-cost/
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/15...-wars-death-star-would-actually-cost-to-build
The above link to be used as a reference. Including overall energy output, I thought it would be fun to discuss how much each super-weapon would cost in material and energy production compared to each other. The above links directly compare the Death Stars and Starkiller Base, but we don't have anything for the Xyston fleet.
I'll start off:
Talking about raw material, I think the Empire could have built over a million Star Destroyers (at minimum) with all the material they used to build each Death Star. Its diameter alone is equal to a hundred Star Destroyers lined up with each other. We all know how volume and area scale - Square/Cube Law means that multiplying something's the length/diameter/height by 100 would mean its volume is increased by 1,000,000 times. Given a Star Destroyer doesn't share the same dimensions as the Death Star, that could mean that even more than a million Star Destroyers could be made with the material of the Death Star.
Meanwhile, the Xystons are a direct scale-up of the Imperial Star Destroyer frame - 1.5 times the size, which would be a 3.35 x increase in overall volume and mass (I think). Based on that, I'd say the fleet of 1,080 Xystons would conceivably cost less than 1% the price of a single Death Star.
The site has a calculation for the destructive power of a single shot from the Death Star, so we know how much energy the Death Star super-laser produces at full-power: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:ByAsura/Death_Star_Upgrade_-_Star_Wars
To compare, it is safe to say that a Xyston-class Star Destroyer's axial super-laser would at minimum exceed a planet's gravitational binding energy after its firing sequence. The energy difference between GBE of an Earth-sized planet and the Death Star super lasers power output is six orders of magnitude - over twenty-thousand times the GBE, to be specific.
To put it simply, the entire armada would still wind up vastly cheaper than a single Death Star, both in terms of the material required to build them all, and about 10% the energy production necessary for all their super-lasers combined (individually, many orders of magnitudes less energy, both for the weapon and essential systems).
I.e. The material the Empire put into both the Death Stars could have been used to build at least ten times the number of Xystons stated to be in "Rise of Skywalker".
I don't have exact numbers, but what do you all think? Am I in the ball-park, or did I miss a crucial element?
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/15...-wars-death-star-would-actually-cost-to-build
The above link to be used as a reference. Including overall energy output, I thought it would be fun to discuss how much each super-weapon would cost in material and energy production compared to each other. The above links directly compare the Death Stars and Starkiller Base, but we don't have anything for the Xyston fleet.
I'll start off:
Talking about raw material, I think the Empire could have built over a million Star Destroyers (at minimum) with all the material they used to build each Death Star. Its diameter alone is equal to a hundred Star Destroyers lined up with each other. We all know how volume and area scale - Square/Cube Law means that multiplying something's the length/diameter/height by 100 would mean its volume is increased by 1,000,000 times. Given a Star Destroyer doesn't share the same dimensions as the Death Star, that could mean that even more than a million Star Destroyers could be made with the material of the Death Star.
Meanwhile, the Xystons are a direct scale-up of the Imperial Star Destroyer frame - 1.5 times the size, which would be a 3.35 x increase in overall volume and mass (I think). Based on that, I'd say the fleet of 1,080 Xystons would conceivably cost less than 1% the price of a single Death Star.
The site has a calculation for the destructive power of a single shot from the Death Star, so we know how much energy the Death Star super-laser produces at full-power: https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:ByAsura/Death_Star_Upgrade_-_Star_Wars
To compare, it is safe to say that a Xyston-class Star Destroyer's axial super-laser would at minimum exceed a planet's gravitational binding energy after its firing sequence. The energy difference between GBE of an Earth-sized planet and the Death Star super lasers power output is six orders of magnitude - over twenty-thousand times the GBE, to be specific.
To put it simply, the entire armada would still wind up vastly cheaper than a single Death Star, both in terms of the material required to build them all, and about 10% the energy production necessary for all their super-lasers combined (individually, many orders of magnitudes less energy, both for the weapon and essential systems).
I.e. The material the Empire put into both the Death Stars could have been used to build at least ten times the number of Xystons stated to be in "Rise of Skywalker".
I don't have exact numbers, but what do you all think? Am I in the ball-park, or did I miss a crucial element?
