How long do they take to consume a planet?

How many star destroyers would you get from consuming a planet?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Ah. A few months im guessing then.

In all seriousness, I think they probably just eat the top layer of the planet. It would entirely depend on how big the ship is, and the older it is the bigger it is.

But the heaviest - ie, best - metals would be located closer to the core.

It would take a long time for even a very mature World Devastator to eat a planet, just for the sheer mass that the things have. Assuming it can eat an area of 1 km by 1 km, and one meter deep, every second, that would be.... well... a lot (yeah, I'm lazy... sue me).

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Ewww hot molten magma!


What about that sea of magma between it and the core?
Whats it gonna do? Scoup it up a bit at a time blow on it till its cool THEN eat it?

I wonder how fast they can make ISDs

Certainly depends on the size of the Devastator.
I guess Silencer-7 would need about 1 month.

Well using the following sets of figures : For a planet I'm using the Radius of Earth at the Equator 6378 km. Which will hopefully average out between the Mountains and the sea floor and all the empty space between them. This gives us a Volume of 1347827311392 Cubic km.
For the ISD I'm using a Rectangle 1.6km by 0.6km by 0.6km. This gives a lot of emtpy space but that helps with factoring in all the extra marterials needed to create Hypermatter for the reactor and Neutronium for the hull as I doubt the Devastator can do a 1-1 conversion of ordinary matter to those types of exotics so we're overstating it to take that extra into account. this still only gives a Volume of 480,000,000 Cubic Metres, or a little less than 0.5 cubic km.

So agian the assumption is that the Devastator converts matter to whatever form it needs to for it's building purpose and the extra space used in the ISD volume is to allow for the extra minerals the Devastator would need to mine to make the more Exotic elements in the ISD's construction.

Using these (very) rough figures we get a total of 2,695,654,622,784 ISD's fro one planet. Of course where your going to get the crews for them is another matter.

That fast?

Well if it goes through a Cubic Km a second it'll take 42,710 years on an Earth sized planet.

I think he was slightly out

Yea but aren't Devastators only used to destroy bases, cities, and towns, not the entire landscape of the planet. B/s i thought i read somewhere that they only take in metal compounds *of course they take organic if they suck the land* and then turn them into simple compounds after that then reform it to build other things and grow the ships.

Maybe I got it wrong lolz...but for real who would waste time using a Devastator to eat an entire planet?

Cyaround,
Jason

You've obviously never met Deimos Anomaly on ASVS.

To be honest I think the WDs would chew through a planet in a few years. I mean, the DSII was 900km across, thats not very big compared to a planet but they DID have that thing half built in 6 months.

Also, I would bet it takes them a short period of time (relatively speaking) to build a Star Destroyer. It may take a month to built one, but they undoubtedly can build them thousands at a time so you get an effective rate of 1 star destroyer every 45 minutes. This is speculation, but again lookit the DSII. half complete in 6 months. How many SDs would make up half a DSII? Millions, easilly. Even at 1,000,000, thats 160000 a month!! At that rate its one star destroyer ever 17 SECONDS.

It's ll a matter of volume. The volume of a Planet and the volume of throughput the Devastator can manage per second. Take a look at the Calcs I did for an Earth sized planet, at 1 Cubic KM per second it would take 1,347,827,311,392 seconds or 42,710 years. The opening is only (at most) 1km wide by 0.25km high, and the opening at the rear isn't much bigger, it could possibly push out an ISD but it would be a close fit. to do it in 2 years you'd need to process 14,236 cubic km a second, which means your looking at an opening about 14,000 km wide if the ratios are the same, your world devastator would dwarf the DS2 by some margin.

[quote="Rob Wilson
Well if it goes through a Cubic Km a second it'll take 42,710 years on an Earth sized planet.

I think he was slightly out [/quote]



You misunderstand. He was talking about building a star destroyer, Imperator Class.

You misunderstand. He was talking about building a star destroyer,
Imperator Class.[/quote]

You're quite correct. Oops.

Still it then comes down to resource output, and we have no figures for an upper limit as Silencer seven was pumping out TIE droids at a fair old rate and not even approaching it's maximum production levels.

I also note that they drop what they make out of the bottom of them and they are large enough to hold at least one ISD, so the use of robotic manufacturing and the speed of raw material ingestion should allow an ISD to be made in about 2 weeks to a month (though that's now in the realms of pure spoeculation, so your guess is as good as mine.)

Is that assuming that the WD would use every bit of the planet? The amount of metal in the planet is small compared to the amount of stuff the WDs would not be using ( rocks and stuff).

What did the WD makes Ties out of? I don't have the comic.

Maybe silicon?

Most rocks contain a fair amount of metal, as can be told by their oft-metallic luster. Volcanic rocks are usually mostly iron. As is the mantle's molten magma.

Since any resonable construction facility would be able to handle molten materials, one would think it reason able that the WD sucks up What it can use on the surface, cuts a big old hole in the planet, and drinks the magma like I'd drink a slurpee. It'd still be fairly slow, but it would be better than waiting for it to solidify.

It's the most efficient way to eat a planet, I would think.

Of course, as blasphemous as it sounds, Star trek's transporters would be very well suited to the job of eating a planet...

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That's what I originaly meant when I said they'd just stay on the surface. Just go find a nice volcano and chill ( is that possible at a volcano?)

[maths professor voice]Good, now do an exponential growth study![/maths professor voice]

Seriously, if the WD adds to itself and thus its manufacturing capacity at a given rate, I may be able to run some calculations.

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It would be cool if in the future NJO the Imperial Remnant has been spending most of it's ship construction ability to build a World Devastator wich they have been "feeding" and having it make itself larger so it could manufacture ISD's and other capital ships.