And it turns out, Star Destroyers are really big. To better visualize this I took images of the various ships that make the most frequent appearances and put them together side by side at the same scale. A ship that is twice as long as another ship of the same shape is not twice as big in total mass and volume, but eight times as big. But seeing the numbers on paper usually does not really give a true sense of the relative sizes. A number of additional capital ships have become well established in the Expanded Universe over the decades, each with their own listed lengths. That’s their thing.īut in the movies we only ever see one of them next to a Corellian Corvette, which is one of the very smallest ships that is still considered in the capital ship category.
