World Devastators

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-09 04:33pm

The WD were also artificialy intelligent. If one was sent in secret to eat an astroid field in an unvisited system it would be very big by now.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-09 06:02pm

Yeah it'd be cool if they found a GIGANTIC WD somewhere thats been gorging itself on an asteroid field or something

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-09 06:05pm

I know what it would think when it saw the YV

MMMMMMMMMMMMM tasty!

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-09 06:08pm

David wrote:I know what it would think when it saw the YV

MMMMMMMMMMMMM tasty!

A light snack.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-09 06:16pm

Has anyone read the Dark Empire comic's authors comments. It shows a scetch of the WD mothership. It frickin' huge!

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-09 06:44pm

I tried to order it from Amazon.com but they were out of it.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-09 06:49pm

I tried to order it at the bookstore and the lady said she couldn't do that.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-09 07:19pm

David wrote:I tried to order it at the bookstore and the lady said she couldn't do that.

Silly lady...

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-09 09:57pm

Indeed, I ordered my monkey to poodoo on her.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 12:40pm

Another monkey?
*carpet bombs Africa*

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-10 02:17pm

This is an American monkey, but that's getting way off subject.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 02:31pm

David wrote:This is an American monkey, but that's getting way off subject.

Oh well
*Eclipse SSD hypers in and fires on the american continent*

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-10 02:37pm

But misfires on Finland.

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-07-10 03:03pm

Yes! Now we've got a nice warm climate in Germany for the whole year!

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-10 03:11pm

It is that way in Texas anyway.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-07-10 03:16pm

Yes they could build 45 at the same time...
But where would they put them?

Like he said they could work on abunch but you'd have to make a bigger ship first and that would just slow things down to much to make it worth it
Maybe

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 03:22pm

David wrote:But misfires on Finland.

Hardly matters since I am off planet at the moment.

*giant monthy python foot stomps America*

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-10 03:37pm

Where would they put them? In my back pocket of course.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-10 03:55pm

Put what where?

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-07-10 03:58pm

World Devastators, I think.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-10 04:18pm

Yup, I got some of those baggy jeans.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2002-07-12 04:07am

Just a quick question. IIRC, the World Devastators churned out unmanned TIEs did they not? If a WD made a Star Destroyer, would it necessarily be crewed? I'm purely speculating here. Has SW ever had any truly massive ships (ISD size and up) that were unmanned? Could they do it with droids and maybe even a small crew of people? That would cut down the manpower requirement if that was a legitimate concern

XPViking

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-12 04:34am

Thoe TIEs were uncrewed, but they were easy to destroy. They were only effective in swarms.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-12 10:07am

A WD might only be required to take off the top 1km of a planet, but it could stay on the planet for far longer to make more ships. As a WD grows, it probably develops more "feet" to suck up the ground, and then when it becomes so large it looks like a big black mark on a planet (about 1000km long, 500km wide, and 100km tall), it would make only ISDs and other capital ships. To get a crew for an ISD, the WD would probably go into space briefly to launch the ship, and then the bare minimum crew needed to man an ISD would fly it to somewhere where it could be comissioned.

It is also said that a WD could make another WD, which could probably be used to go to another planet, or continue consumption of the current planet.

And my "fully mature WD" would have a volume of 50,000,000km3. Assuming a 1 cubic kilometer space for each ISD, and half the WD dedicated to producing ISDs, and 20 days required to construct an ISD (I don't know if that is a conservative estimate or a high estimate), over a million ISDs could come out of a "mature" WD every day. Because the material going in far exceeds the material being converted into expansions and ships, the ship would start out expanding itself so these materials could be stored at high density, and then, after they are full, the WD can stop consuming the planet for a few weeks, and fabricate other ships. Just my idea.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-07-12 10:23am

XPViking wrote:Just a quick question. IIRC, the World Devastators churned out unmanned TIEs did they not? If a WD made a Star Destroyer, would it necessarily be crewed? I'm purely speculating here. Has SW ever had any truly massive ships (ISD size and up) that were unmanned? Could they do it with droids and maybe even a small crew of people? That would cut down the manpower requirement if that was a legitimate concern

XPViking

They turned the Lusankya into a oneman fighter