• Maultasche@feddit.de
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      The difference is actually a bit more noticeable, as the Imperial II communications tower definitely had a different design from the Imperial I tractor beam array (on top of the bridge). The other differences between both are probably not even visible. Victory I and Victory II on the other hand, I’m not sure about the visual differences.

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        Doesn’t the victory 1 have the giant “wings” in an x shape in the side and the victory 2 doesn’t?

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          Both versions have the atmospheric maneuvering surfaces.

          Can they really open up outside of fanart? In all official artworks I’ve seen they look pretty connected and rigid.

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            Oh wild. I didn’t even know the victory 1 and 2 were canon tbh. I was thinking of it from Tie Fighter.

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          The big difference in the models are the landing gears. In A New Hope there are only three. After that, there are five.

          I don’t know about the missing hallway, but now I’m curious.

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            I can’t find it anymore, but I think it was something about the second hallway to the main cargo bay.

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    I never knew there was a difference. Is it just the nacelle placement and the little “hump” just aft of the saucer?

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          form drag is proportional to:

          • The denisty of the medium.
          • The velocity of the moving body (squared).

          Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3…

          However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much

          This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.

          So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can’t complain, and I’m pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.

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      Moving mass towards the center to reduce rotational inertia and increase manoeuvrability! Little changes can bring great improvements in space battles.

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      checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they’re all extremely minor and there’s lots of them.