Star Wars: The Immense Size of the Executor-Class Star Destroyer

[@cchavezjr7]

The SSD is one of the coolest ships in scifi. It's large but still elegant.

[@Halfscreen]

I have to admit, i kinda like the design.

[@JaygerTroop]

Eclipse is better 💪

[@crusader2112]

I agree. But I still the Naboo ships though. 😎👍

[@dylanc1337]

@@JaygerTroop While the Eclipse is better in terms of weapons and mass, more Executors were made AND they saw a lot more action. Plus, even the Rebels got ahold of one or two because they were so great.

[@EroticOnion23]

The number of TIEs seems a bit low no?? Only twice the quantity of a regular SD...shouldn't it be at least 10x since the SSD is 10x the size of the SD...

[@williamgrand9724]

I remember the first time seeing the Executor in the movies and just being blown away at it. I still find it impressive and the most menacing capital ship I've ever come across.

[@bigart2022]

But you gotta remember the supremacy. The supremacy is twice as big as the executor or even thousand times bigger

[@alpha-cf2oi]

@@bigart2022 the supremacy is just like the new movies: it suvks

[@no1dea261]

@@bigart2022 I like the excutor for its aredynamic triangle shape and large engines The supremancy isnt that but still a cool ship ( Like aredrnamic ships are even needed in star wars )

[@user-fn8sy9tb4d]

I was never alive to see ESB in theaters I was born the year ROTS came out but when I saw ESB on DVD for the first time and saw the shadow of the SSD come over the ISD and then saw it physically my jaw was agape for the entire rest of the scene. 😂😂

[@alexanderc.broche4017]

@@alpha-cf2oi I AGREE THE NEW MOVIES TOTALLY SUCK THE CHARACTERS ARE PHONEY-AS-SHIT ! THEY ARE TRYING TI STEAL THE THUNDER OF THE ORIGINAL THREE MOVIES GEORGE LUCAS SHOULD HAVE KEPT ON MAKING MIVIES BUT HE IS JUST A LACKADAISICAL TOTALLY UNMOTIVATED INDIVIDUAL HES LAZY AS-FUCK THATS WHY HE SOLD ALL THE RIGHTS TO HIS LIFE WORKS HIS LUCASFILMS TO DISNEY BECAUSE HES NOTHING BUT A SELL OUT THAT DOESN’T WANT TO WORK ANYMORE

[@halod2566]

This ship was always tied with the Imperial-II class Star Destroyer as my favorite ship of all time in Star Wars. It’s an absolutely beautiful ship everywhere you look at it and it packed a huge punch in Legends especially. Loved this video!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank for watching!

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

[laughs in clanka as a seppy battlecruiser hits it with the main ion cannon once and fries a quarter of the ship, causing shortcuts and power interruptions in the rest]

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

@RandanaGold wth dude

[@metaknight115]

I've always loved the large warships more than things like the Millenium Falcon or Slave one (not to diss those ships, they're still awesome). The Chimaera, grand admiral Trawn's star destroyer, the Invisible hand, General Grevious's Providence class dreadnought, and the Executor are my favorites.

[@alexanderc.broche4017]

@@user-ft3jq5vi2l I HOPE THAT WHAT YOU SAW IN THE MOVIES YOU TOOK WITH A GRAIN OF SAND BECAUSE TRUTHFULLY SPEAKING IN REALITY IT NEVER WOULD HAVE PANNED OUT QUITE THE SAME WAY, NO I DON’T THINK THE EMPIRE WOULD HAVE TAKEN VERY KINDLY TO A FEW UNSATISFIED INDIVIDUALS SYCOPHANTS AND POLITICIANS WANTING TO YAKE DOWN AND DESTABILIZE AND TOPPLE THEIR WELL ORGANIZED SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WHO ARE JUST UNHAPPY BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN CONTROL AND WOULD DESIRE TO HAVE SOME UNNECESSARY CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY CONTROL . THE EMPIRE WOULD NOT TAKE VERY KINDLY TO A GROUP OF PHONEY-ASSED SO-CALLED-FREEDOM-FIGHTERS-FOR-DEMOCRACY JUST LIKE THE PHONEY-ASSED AMERICANS USE AS THEIR RALLYING POINT WHICH IS TOTALLY FAKE-AS-SHIT HYPOCRITICAL BULLSHIT PROPAGANDA ! I SINCERELY HOPE THAT YOU DIDN’T TAKE THE MOVIES WITH AN ONCE OF REALITY OR ACTUALLY TOOK IT SERIOUSLY BECAUSE LIKE THE UKRAINIANS LYING AND TELLING THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE WINNING THE WAR AGAINST THE RUSSIANS THAT THEY ARE CONSTANTLY DEFEATING AND DESTROYING RUSSIAN TANKS ANTI AIRCRAFT/MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND HOWITZERS AND ALL KINDS IF WEAPONS SHIPS SUBMARINES IT IS A LIE MANUFACTURED BY THE AMERICANS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES SO YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR BRAIN AND NOT LET OTHERS WHO WOULD WITH THEIR PHONEY-ASSED-FALSE-FAKE-MASS-MEDIA MIND CONTROL NEWS INFORMATION CLOUD THE REALITY OF THE TRUTH , THAT ANY HIGHLY TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION LIKE THE EMPIRE IN STAR WARS BE ADVANCED ENOUGH TO CREATE SUCH HUGE GIGANTIC TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED VESSELS SUCH AS THESE AND LEAVE THEM TOTALLY DEFENSELESS AND HOPELESSLY OUT GUNNED BY A RAG-TAG GROUP OF UNSATISFIED MALCONTENTS ITS JUST NOT GOING TO HAVE THIS IS FAIRYTALES RIGHT FROM THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PLAYBOOK IF CREATING FALSE-FICTITIOUS NON-EXISTENT REALITY

[@necronustheeverchosen1994]

The Executor-class will ALWAYS be my favorite line of Star Dreadnought! For my flagship is heavily, HEAVILY inspired by the Executor, along with the Eclipse 1 & 2, but with a lot of changes and modifications that I made myself.

[@markthomas6045]

Entire planets would have to be mined of their metal to build this...Incredible!!

[@negativeindustrial]

The shipyards, where they are built, exist within the orbit of a vast asteroid field that contains the majority of elements they would need to build them.

[@generalzod7959]

Actually not even close. Here's something to think about: There is more metal in one medium-sized asteroid (just one of many) in our solar system than all the steel we have mined on the earth so far. We far have more than enough metal to build the executor, death star etc in our solar system's asteroid field. Now, Actually establishing a shipyard in outer space and having something to power the the place and build these things? Well, we're quite a ways from that.

[@judsonkr]

Asteroids more like.

[@KaziKami]

Lol the galactic empire had access to hundreds of thousands maybe millions asteroids (which are usually packed with numerous resources.) and millions of miner droids, and drones. Shows how OP asteroid mining is

[@michaelsublet3283]

It's big but compared to a planet it's minuscule. World steel production in 2020 was 1877 million tons. The ship is about the size of Manhattan. Building the ship would be like building only 13 star destroyers.

[@butchmcqueen5625]

From end to end, this thing was close to 12 miles. Like, imagine having to cover a lunch break for someone on the other side? That’s at least a 20 minute drive or will take about 4 hours to walk over.

[@Halfscreen]

Crazy. It takes me only 15-20 min to walk one of those Caribbean cruise liners, assuming I don't eat at one of the buffet lines.

[@butchmcqueen5625]

@@Halfscreen same! Haha

[@mattkennedy6115]

I’d assume there would be a quick transit system

[@Scar-Predator]

@@mattkennedy6115 there would have to be. The Executor was huge.

[@Stussmeister]

@@mattkennedy6115 You are correct. From what I heard in another video about the Executor, personnel and cargo were ferried throughout the ship by rail jet carriers and turbolifts.

[@Cloofinder]

In star wars legends, there was another Super Star Destroyer being built in the shipyards of Fondor. It was having a Cloaking device added, but was destroyed prior to Endor. This can be seen in Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3: rebel strike

[@negativeindustrial]

The Lusankya was destroyed after Endor.

[@bunsenn5064]

This was what the Empire called a Star Dreadnought. Star Dreadnoughts were any ship in the imperial navy longer than 5,000 meters, with some exceptions. Such an extreme piece of war power.

[@Andrew-fq6zx]

Long have I waited for this video, many thanks to your great efforts on the Executor class Super Star Destroyer!

[@Halfscreen]

It was delayed since there wasn't any internal schematic of the SSD, so I focused mostly on the external.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Ye olde Rebel Assault 2 video game is the closest we got, to an internal schematic, also.

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

With the problem of getting ground forces down to a planet I'm surprised the Empire didn't take notes from what was done during the Clone Wars with building ships similar in design to the Acclamator class that was used for such things.

[@mich722]

Awesome work! And that ship is absolutely HUGE, this video really puts it into perspective.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks a ton!

[@SithEmpireV08]

The Executor Class Super Star Destroyer of one of the most iconic ships in Sci-Fi and Movie History since the design was amazing, scary, cool looking and powerful and this ship should get more respect and appear in a new movie or something because that will be amazing to see it in modern effects. if i owned my own Executor i would name it the Dark Devastator. keep up the good work btw. HAIL THE EMPIRE!!!

[@HwangInhoBooNam]

Any Titan-Class from EVE would take down the Executor without a lot of effort 😂

[@SithEmpireV08]

@@HwangInhoBooNam ok?

[@StarWarsJay]

I’ve always wondered if the command center on the SSD was the same size as those on the normal Star Destroyers.

[@StarWarsJay]

@@Armageist I noticed the size discrepancy between the SSD and the DS 2 too. When it crashes into the Death Star in episode VI, the horizon isn’t even curved.

[@nlowry8]

@@StarWarsJay the Death Star must be flat then

[@GuukanKitsune]

@@StarWarsJay it's not really a discrepancy. The DS2 is significantly BIGGER than the ORIGINAL Death Star. The original Death Star was the size of a freakin' moon. The Executor is the size of a small city. Which is a lot smaller than a small moon. At the time of the destruction of it's bridge, it was pointed at the Death Star, engines going full power. Unable to steer it, it just kept going until it hit the small planet sized DS2. This only took a couple minutes because of the power of the Executor's massive thrusters.

[@StarWarsJay]

@@GuukanKitsune I also always thought the rebels took it out too easily as well. What did it take, three fighters? Two to take out the shield generator and one a wing to crash into the bridge. I know, I’m nit picking now lol.

[@GuukanKitsune]

@@StarWarsJay That I always put down to sheer imperial hubris. I mean, they kind of have a track record of building huge imposing super war machines they tout as unbeatable that turn out to have an exploitable design flaw. (DS's exhaust port, AT-ATs are topheavy and vulnerable to tripping, the SSD losing it's bridge) Although, in fairness... the hit came just after a concentrated prolonged attack SPECIFICALLY TARGETED on the bridge's deflector shields, with gold leader probably intending to fire a proton torpedo right through the helm until he was hit and decided he could do more damage by BEING the torpedo at that point. I mean, much like the Death Star, the imperials figured nobody would be stupid enough to mount a smallscale attack of fighters, and geared the SSD up to take on entire fleets at a time instead. Didn't learn from the original DS, it would seem.

[@radagastaddams3703]

imagine if the turbo-lifts & troop transports stoped working. how long would it take to get from one side of Executor to the other ?? i guess crew would have assigned areas & would have quarters and facilities like mess halls, showers.etc near where they were assigned. otherwise it would take days to walk from stern to bow...

[@oliverdavis1910]

Just imagine all the sewage and water treatment station, along with pumps, moving water through out the ship.

[@christophercharles9645]

The Imperial-Class is just under a mile long; the Super-Size Executor-Class is nearly 11 & 3/4 miles in length. And that's not including interior corridors - so unless you wanted to don a space suit and clamber up on top, you're probably in for quite a ramble if you want to get anywhere if the lifts & transports & escalators are out of service. I'd hate to work in the facilities department for this monster! How many restrooms do you think this beast has? Guesses?

[@Scar-Predator]

@@christophercharles9645 it probably had way too many bathrooms than it needed.

[@johnwalker776]

"Ship is too big. If I walk the movie will be over" -- President Skroob.

[@toddwilliams8128]

Too badass for its own good. Would not turn one down, especially since I have a cool idea to mitigate the vulnerability of the command bridge position.

[@michaelspencer8024]

Thank god you put subtitles on your video

[@Zer0C0re]

Triangle-shaped ships make sense due to the fact that triangular structures are good at dispersing weight and force across their surface, so not only would the ship have high structural integrity, the impact from weapons fire (energy-based, or kinetic) would not be as damaging as if it was slamming into a completely flat side wall. At the same time, if the Executor-Class could angle itself properly in the direction of incoming enemy fire, its triangular hull would also give it the effect of sloped armor, letting any physical projectiles, and the kinetic energy and explosions generated by them, to slide off to the side, as well as, for all practical reasons, thickening the armor from the perspective of the direction of the shots hitting it. The only thing I _definitely don't like_ about them, as the video pointed out, is that exposed bridge. Shield generators or not, the thing is exposed, and shield generators only seem to be effective at repelling energy-based attacks, and explosions (to an extent), whereas objects with high masses and kinetic energy levels (such as an A-wing pulling a kamikaze attack) just seems to go right through them, armor plating or not. I'd have the bridge in the center of the hull (like on Covenant warships in the Halo franchise, or the USS Defiant and its class of star ship in Star Trek) and the tower that normally holds the bridge instead having folding armor plating that can be deployed over the rest of the ship's superstructure and citadel in order to provide additional defense when required. All the space inside what would normally be the bridge tower would instead be used to hold additional shield generators and motors to maneuver those fold-out armor panels I mentioned before.

[@177SCmaro]

For as much as Disney messed up the sequel trilogy the Resurgent-class Star Destroyers used by the First Order make somewhat more sense with their lower-profile superstructures, bridge, and shields (of course, Disney turned right around and screwed it up again by making the Xyston-class, which were basically cut, paste enlarge and add a super laser versions of the old SD). I think what George Lucas was going for with the original Star Destroyer design was imitating the appearance of World War II battleship superstructure, especially the conning tower and mast. What he apparently didn't realize was that most battleship conning towers were among the best protected areas of the ship with exceptionally thick armor precisely so what happened to the Executor in Return of the Jedi didn't happen in real life. In a spaceship an over-exposed bridge on top of the ship makes no sense and is a huge weakness especially given it's apparent lack of armor such that a single fighter in a suicide attack can take out the entire ship.

[@177SCmaro]

@@thatonewaspatyourpicnic7978 One can just as easily say the flames where a result of a lack of control due to the bridge being hit. That's the problem when something's not in the moive. If there was a line from Akbar about specifically targeting the SSD's engines for some reason then okay but there wouldn't really be an advantage to that. Even if you take out its engines it's just going to drift slowly in a straight line.

[@177SCmaro]

@@thatonewaspatyourpicnic7978 I know. I watched the moive too, ya know? He never said anything about the engines though.

[@T-10M]

I always loved this ship, & the blue lighting of the windows or whatever they are

[@COMET_C01]

This is still my favorite ship in Star Wars. The introduction of it in the empire strikes back was absolutely Epic. It truly showcases the night of the empire. I was upset tho when it was destroyed.

[@alexanderc.broche4017]

YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS MOVIE WAS WRITTEN ORODUCED AND DIRECTED BY A DORKY GOODY-TWO-SHOES SORT OF PERSON THAT TELL THE FICTITIOUS AND FAKE-AS-SHIT-STORY THAT IN REALITY WOULD NEVER EVER TAKE PLACE THE REBELLION WOULD CRUSHED ALL OF THE REBEL FORCED KILLED A ND EXECUTED AS TERRORIST AND SEDITIONISTS AND THE EXECUTOR WOULD HAVE COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND DEVASTATED EVERYTHING THE REBEL HAD ! AND MOST IMPORTANTLY GENERAL AKBAR WOULD HAVE BEEN ANNIHILATED ALONG WITH HIS GLEET THE EXECUTOR WOULD HAVE PURSUED GENERAL AKBARS FLEET FOR UNTIL THEY HAD EXHAUSTED ALL THEIR FUEL AND THEN BLOWN THEM TO SMITHEREENS

[@CoreyJones1977]

I always liked it because it looks like a giant arrow or spearhead.😁👍🏿

[@gearthehuman2115]

Wow, looking from the design and its size, the executor could be the size of the city

[@Halfscreen]

Technically speaking, it is.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

A great look at this gargantuan vessel!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks Matt!

[@JMark-zk5pj]

Any ship that size would have multiple back up bridges. One A wing hit taking it down is laughable.

[@jerrybond1757]

I totally agree.itmakes no dam sense.thats why rogue one is the only star wars movie that made sense to me.it truly lived up to what saga is and was to be.

[@Kiyosuki]

Seriously. The thing's the size of a city, it's ludicrous. I can let it go because its just for fun, and we can say it was allegorically designed with one bridge and no backup systems or anything because it's meant to represent how the Imperial forces for all their might and scary fronts are ultimately brittle on the inside. However if we're picking at it just for fun it really is one of the most ridiculous "..and then they won the end"'s in cinema history.

[@rottenroads1982]

The Executor class is, in my opinion, one of, if not the most coolest ship in Star Wars. I really like it’s long design, and how huge it is.

[@robertspencer1205]

Great video!

[@whytheheckarewedoinginhere1886]

*running feet heard from the inside of Executor, Vader appears wheezing through his mark while Pitt look at him* Darth Vader: if I walk, the movie would be over. Pitt: I see sir........wait an minute that from Spaceballs how did you.... Vader: you dare question me!? Pitt: N...no, sir, carry on sir Vader: Good.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

Excellent video, I wonder if you would do such videos on the variants of the Executor Class from the Expanded Universe, such as the Terror(equipped with a cloaking shield and increased hangar size for the TIE Phantom Project), Lusankya(given more point defense weaponry), Intimidator(Slave rigged version with crew requirements down to 15,000) and Night Hammer(stealth black armored to hide from visual, expanded hangar capacity to two thousand TIEs, hyperspace capable escape pods and largely automated version that cut crew requirements to 100,000 versions?)

[@Halfscreen]

The next videos will about the different variant of Star Destroyers.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@Halfscreen I look forward to seeing it.

[@oliverdavis1910]

I always thought the TIE compliments listed for Star Destroyers (144 for an Executor-class, 72 for and ISD) were rather a minimum guaranteed compliment assigned to the ship regardless of what it was doing. Given the compactness of TIEs and the size of the ships, I believe they could carry far more, and do depending on their missions, but don't always carry a full load of ships, troops or vehicles. Sort of how aircraft carriers in our world don't always have their full airwing.

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

@@oliverdavis1910 While they have the potential to be modified, most don't have the room for the TIEs as those areas are reserved for garrison, supplies and lodgings. There were some Executors modified to be carriers, such as the Terror and Night Hammer, but these were the exceptions to the rule and usually custom built. Remember that most of the Imperial High Command believed in Big Gun ships and that fighters were only for the small work or basic screening. That's largely because at the end of the Clone Wars, it was Big Gun ships like the VSD and ISD that put down the Sep Holdouts who generally relied on fighter swarms, so it was doctrinal and also big ships cost more money and have more status so careers and corporate deals were tied to the Big Gun Big Ship mentality. This wasn't helped by the fact that the two main proponents of fighter supremacy in the Empire(Zaarin and Batch) turned traitor or their projects blew up, discrediting the Fighter supremacy argument. Most of the top fighter believers in the Empire outside of those two defected to the Rebellion.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@oliverdavis1910 The old SW novel Darksaber listed 1000 TIE bombers aboard the SSD Night Hammer, and that was just bombers alone. So yes, it probably can carry way more.

[@logana6785]

this is sooo good love your work! you should Totally do the eclipse dreadnought

[@Halfscreen]

Great suggestion, I'm looking at other star destroyers!

[@14DaveHunter]

In The Empire Strikes Back radio program, Lando remarks it's bigger than Cloud City.

[@Brendyn4222]

All of a sudden the “mall map” skit in the family guy spoof seems more reasonable.

[@ricksadler797]

Sometimes bigger isn’t always better!!

[@Driver0378]

It was awesome seeing that on screen. Then I was kinda taken back on how easy it was to destroy it. Just kamikaze into the bridge and voila. Lol!

[@guidedmeditation2396]

Space ships have no need to be aerodynamic but this sure looks cool anyway. In fact for a ship of this purpose it's design would most likely center around intimidation as much as ability to perform its duties. Even outer space an effective show of force can reduce the need to ever use that force.

[@Kiyosuki]

I dunno, I bet it essentially being a gigantic arrow head helped it stab the Death Star 2 even better.

[@cyrbuzz6615]

A powerful ship that still got taken out by a tiny little fighter.

[@may86bear]

The amount of resources needed to build such a ship is just unimaginable 🤔

[@Halfscreen]

The executor is doable, but the DS would be insane.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Well, there was millions of planets or asteroid fields, available to mine. It's hardly a ringworld.

[@DrewLSsix]

@@chrissonofpear1384 yeah, even at its biggest Star Wars fails to showcase just how much STUFF a galactic empire would have access to. You could build a deathstar in every solar system and still barely tap into the local resources.

[@huynhydpooh1349]

Great content as always. Thank you!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mikeapp1319]

To understand the size - 19,000 meters equates to 11.8 miles. The entire island of Manhattan is 13.4 miles long.

[@keithw4920]

If you stood it on its tail on earth, its tip would be at nearly double the cruise altitude of airliners.

[@murdostuart]

Any plans to cover the other star dreadnoughts of the empire

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah. The next animation would about the different star destroyers. I'm actually trying to find some of the assets.

[@gearthehuman2115]

@@Halfscreen like the resurgent class?

[@Halfscreen]

@@gearthehuman2115 At first, I didn't, but I now have a detailed model of the resurgent class and it's sweet.

[@GGrey1975]

Good info, though it matters if you take only Canon or Legends information. In Canon, there are 5 named Executor-Class vessels: Executor (first of the line & Darth Vader's flagship), Annihilator (renamed 'Liberty's Misrule' by pirates after capturing), Arbitrator (hyperspace jump miscalculated & ended up in a black hole, oops), Eclipse (Emperor Palpatine's flagship) & Ravager (destroyed in the Battle of Jakku). Rebel Alliance's intelligence believed there were more than a dozen additional other than (First Order has &/or in Unknown Region?), though no confirmation of & might have been a result of Imperial propaganda (though still a scary thought). In Legends continuity, there were 10 named vessels: Executor (Darth Vader's flagship), Terror (had cloaking devices, destroyed by Rebels), Vengeance (believe destroyed at the Battle of Nocto), Annihilator (destroyed), Eclipse (Emperor Palpatine's flagship, developed into a new class with a super laser as its core weapon, destroyed by one of Palpatine's rogue Force Storm), Reaper (destroyed at the Battle of Celanon), Brawl (renamed 'Iron Fist', severely damaged the Battle of Selaggis, destroyed at Dathomiri shipyards), Executor II (renamed ' Lusankya' after capture by New Republic Forces), Guardian (captured by New Republic Force & put into service of) & Night Hammer (renamed 'Knight Hammer', was post-Galactic Civil War built, had stealth plating & destroyed by falling into the gas giant, Yaven Prime). There was an 11th being built during the time of the Galactic Civil war that was supposed to have enhanced cloaking, but it was destroyed at the shipyards. The Super laser's output for the Legend's Eclipse was believed to be only 25% of that used by the Drath Star; not enough to destroy a planet out right but powerful enough to crack the crust of. If you understand the math for the power needed to be anywhere between the dinosaur meteor extinction theory & that level of impact forming the Moon theory, it's somewhere in that range of magnitude of destructive capabilities.

[@Halfscreen]

thank for the info. Super helpful.

[@Nacho_Ferrari]

Wrong about the Lusankya: the New Republic didn´t give it the name Lusankya. This SSD was built at the same time than the Executor but on a different shipyard(Fondor, while Kuat took care of Executor), but since it was conceived to be a lifesaver for the Emperor in case Coruscant was under siege, the Empire classified it as a black project and gave it the same name as the Executor, to hide it and deviate the needed funds to build it without raising suspicions. It was fully finished and buried beneath Coruscant. Then the Emperor gave it to Ysanne Isard to use it as a torture facility and prison for political prisoners; to brainwash them and use them as dormant agents against the New Republic(Tycho Celchu was accused to be one of them). Isard knew all the time the true name of the SSD, and once she boarded it and took off Coruscant(destroying thousands of square kilometers of city in the process) its transponders started emitting its designation. It was captured by the New Republic after the Bacta War and Isard´s defeat and apparent death. The New Republic repaired it, put it under Wedge Antilles´s command and was in service until it was sacrificed to defeat the Yuuzang Vong.

[@GGrey1975]

@@Nacho_Ferrari I was trying to be as brief as possible with my listing (leaving out the history) & may have been my misunderstanding. Though, how did that Executor-class ship get then the name of Lusankya? Or are you implying that the Executor II was always (properly named & commissioned) as such?

[@Nacho_Ferrari]

@@GGrey1975 My bad if I sounded harsh, it wasn´t my intention. The Lusankya is my favorite SSD and I always got carried away when talking about it haha. The Lusankya wasn´t officially comissioned because it was a black project: the vast majority of people didn´t know it even existed, the engineers of Fondor thought they were building the Executor, and it wasn´t adscribed to the Imperial Navy; hence it didn´t appear on any database. It was built in secret under the name of Executor, brought to Coruscant and buried underneath the city. How? It´s rumored that the Emperor used the Dark Side of the Force to cloud the perception of millions of people while it was being buried. After that, the Emperor renamed it himself to Lusankya and gave it to madame Ysanne Isard, director of Imperial Intelligence, to use it as she pleased.

[@GGrey1975]

@@Nacho_Ferrari You have shown & were in defense of your passion, I can't fault you for that. I knew of the Lusankya through looking up the Legends information of the Executor-class, though none mentioned that Emperor Palpatine christened the vessel with that name (as a 'Black Project', Executor II would've been a designation, like serial number 002 of a series). The rest was though well commented on in the 'cliff notes' versions on. At best, I might had thought Director Isard named it as the facility used before the departure/use (& destruction of parts of Coruscant's surface/city) of the ship as designed. Speculatively looking back to the construction of, hiding it in the bureaucracy becomes actually elementary due to the departmentalization of the Empire for that "black project." As the Executor-Class was a new & 'experimental' layout (though all relative technologies used in were numerous & 'off the shelf' at the time); budgetary over-runs on construction could be "waved away" because it was "new" in needing development & research, deflecting the fact that two spaceframes were actually being built. Any later filings/paperwork that mentioned continued work at the Kuat Shipyards could then be explained as 'continuing the co-development of systems' for the class after one had been moved to Fondor in response to the Battle/disaster at Yavin (as if 'Project Stardust' was not enough of a disappointment/headache at that point!). As the Fondor Shipyards had been used for other capital ships, the finishing off the Executor's systems would been nothing new to see from a business aspect; especially if it meant any new construction of the class might be contracted to them. Also, in not knowing of the second spaceframe (later the Lusankya) was being finished off at the Kuat Shipyards, they couldn't have spoken of because they dd not have that information for any Imperial Budget Oversight Committee investigators to find. The burial of the Lusankya as a massive "planetary shield generator" looks good in filings/paper, though someone had to witness it. Staying with the wizarding that's known as the Force: if Palpatine was aboard during the 'instillation' of the generator, then a Force Illusion (mind trick on a massive scale) might have happened (look like what was supposed to be happening), with ISF sent out to quiet any "conspiracy theorists, rumor mongers & seditionists" (witnesses of that are a species the Force doesn't affect their mind or those that were believing them), which would not be out of line for their usual work to combat 'misinformation' on events (& no additional questions about asked). "All and all it's just another brick in the wall" - Pink Floyd "Another Brick In The Wall"

[@fundude9938]

This ship makes the normal Star destroyer look tiny

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah. It does. 😁

[@yogidemis8513]

Could you just imagine being the electrician working with a crew of 5 humans 4 weird looking alien dudes that you can't understand and 2 Droids and you only have 2 weeks to wire up the whole ship and make sure all systems are ready before Vader returns to force choke your ass if you couldn't beat the 2 week deadline.

[@WarlockGhorst]

Long live the Empire! Long live the Imperial remnant. Long live Darth Krayt.

[@keithlivingstone2525]

Not many more AT-ATs and TIE fighters on board relative to its size compared to the ISD.

[@zurrskirata1321]

exactly what thought

[@chrissonofpear1384]

I'd say that was more like the bare minimum complement. Plus a crew of 600,000 plus is pretty likely, ordinarily.

[@hendrikbarboritsch7003]

Should be more like 10 000 TIE fighters

[@michaelbedinger4121]

Super Cool!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you think so!

[@free-birdrocker8809]

Actually its pronounced Ex-e-cuter, as in execute a felon by hanging or lethal injection. Executive is a higher up in a corporation CEO being up at top...Good series, my man!

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Well as far as I know, executioner exists, in that usage, @Free-bird Rocker , but executor does not. And Executor is an old Latin term meaning 'one who carries out (or executes) a will', for a superior. So it could well be Ex-sec-utor instead. And that is how it's pronounced in the video game X-Wing Alliance, also.

[@snowman8157]

Looks beautiful. Great video. Beam a few quantum torpeados in and see you later....

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for watching!

[@bigbluebuttonman1137]

The iconic spear/wedge shape of the Executor has made every other type of space ship look kind of...dull, in comparison. The shape just has such a commanding presence, and it is very simple, yet elegant. Timeless...

[@crsrdash-840b5]

With a ship of this size, i wonder how many bathrooms are in this thing!?! With a crew of over 280,000, the lines MUST be long!

[@PhilipReeder]

A lot in STAR WARS "canon' is nonsense. Particularly the "accepted" dimensions of Star destroyers. All of the descriptions prior to the internet expert of the standard star destroyer have a length of from 1500 FEET (not meters) to 2600. The Super star destroyer was 3 miles, not 11. This is proven in the discrepancy in scale models of SD's which include "scale" Millennium Falcons . The mf's are always HALF as big as they should be, when placed on the backside of SD conning tower ie., TESB. THE 1600 meter measurement was a mistake made years ago when 1600 feet became 1600 meters (5200 feet). ANH, ESB, ROTJ Star destroyers are not a mile long.

[@yurgpowerful1444]

Yeah and 1 fucking shot took it down like a titanic...

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work 🥳 Thank youuuu 💜

[@Halfscreen]

You’re welcome 😊

[@Notaz1448]

Now I feel even more short >:( thanks a lot

[@Halfscreen]

😛

[@joenielmarrero8796]

Thanks for this video i really love it!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it Joeniel!

[@rayhill5767]

Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve created.

[@serginhoyamabuchi2004]

Amazing, simply the Best!!!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks again!

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Another amazing video

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks again for watching Muhammad.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

@@Halfscreen your welcome and pls call mr h

[@Halfscreen]

@@muhammadhabibieamiro3639 No problem.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

@@Halfscreen ok

[@Halfscreen]

@@muhammadhabibieamiro3639 Oddly enough, Mr. H Review is a channel I watched on a regular basis.

[@tarikaydogan6298]

Thanks! I war this Video a so long time !😃

[@Halfscreen]

I was hoping to get an internal schematic but it just doesn't exist.

[@auroratheicewingrainwinghy1665]

I appreciate that the Terminator narrates this channel XD

[@jonathanraven5939]

Absolutely fantastic ship

[@jordangustafson1365]

"Piat. You fool."

[@jklmnopski7421]

1:15 I like that there are gigantic palm trees on the hazy horizon that are at least planetary-scale.

[@aaronjhen18]

That's humongous!!!!!..... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tiefblau2780]

disgustingly BEAUTIFUL

[@geraldcapo4400]

It can take significant damage without repairs.. but went down by a single rebel intercepter flying into the bridge……….. the empire would ABSOLUTELY Smoke the living hell out of the rebels if it was real life

[@abc64pan]

Too bad that scrips are far more powerful weapons.

[@axnyslie]

If the scale is correct, crashing the Super Star Destroyer into the Death Star would have completely destroyed the station.

[@Halfscreen]

It's to scale.

[@spacemanspiff3052]

Excellent video! Happy New Year!!!

[@Halfscreen]

Happy new year and thanks for watching!

[@RhodesWC]

Requesting a comparison of the Assertor class DN and the Executor class DN, please.

[@Red-rl1xx]

Great presentation!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for watching

[@onetruekeeper418]

It also has factories within that can produce most parts and items the ship requires.

[@Dano7504]

Once again, love your videos, please keep it up, maybe tie bombers or interceptors?

[@Halfscreen]

That's the plan!

[@gearthehuman2115]

@@Halfscreen oh how about the resurgent star destroyer

[@Halfscreen]

@@gearthehuman2115 My next animation will be different star destroyers.

[@Kiyosuki]

Its a very cool ship but damn, this is what the Spaceball-1 was making fun of. lol Like, the thing is bigger than entire regions of cities, how much space do the imperial troops need? Are their lifts going an absurd speed to be able to get people around it? Or does it have a tram...that also goes absurdly fast? Don't get me wrong I know it's just rule of cool, huge ships are cool, so its not really bugging me or anything but its just so funny to think about for fun how absurd its size is. I wonder if people got really lonely on the emptier parts of it. Like, if ships of this size were generational ships or massive colony ships in space then it'd make some sense but for a military ship its just obnoxious. It works for Star Wars though because it's obviously meant to represent the Emperor's colossal ego- I mean, "spread fear across the galaxy to any who'd challenge the Empire."

[@maestro-zq8gu]

I wonder if that bridge weakness from the films happened in deep space. Maybe the ship would just float around until they could get it repaired enough to get back under control.

[@TheCrayon0034]

*Heh and yet one little bug was able to take down this huge ship like fly sinking a cruise ship* during the battle of Endor

[@ajmpatriot4899]

So cool !!!

[@CapitanRiley]

Se que hablas inglés pero... Me encanto tu vídeo, el ejecutor es mi nave favorita en el universo de Star wars, es triste saber que no hay tantos canales en mi idioma que se tomen el tiempo de explicar cada uno de los detalles de este tipo de naves, buen trabajo :D. Ahora que veo con más detalle el tamaño del ejecutor me puedo imaginar el gran daño que hizo en la estructura interna de la segunda estrella de la muerte.

[@Halfscreen]

Gracias por ver. No hay mucha información sobre el Super Star Destroyer. La animación es bastante básica.

[@julybrocos0755]

De los 100 km/h debe ser mentira. Por que en segunda película de la trilogía original de star wars vemos que va a 975km/h como los otros destructores estelares. Verdad que si?

[@Great_America]

Realistically, there was no way the empire could ever build these huge fleets. Logistically impossible, but hey it’s movie magic!

[@deltaraider87]

It's a big galaxy.. How wouldn't it be possible?

[@xertx1177]

They control an entire galaxy worth of resources, if anything they could build 100× more ships with ease.

[@bkriegel95]

That thing is literally a floating city

[@bones0013]

long live the empire

[@KC_Smooth]

The bridge being such a small part of the ship relative to its size really adds perspective of how big this ship really is. It would probably take an hour to walk from the bow to the stern.

[@andrewgordon235]

Reminds me of the ship from Spaceballs that has a bumper sticker on it that reads, "We break for nobody".

[@tomkam9783]

Are we sure about the compliment of TIE fighters, walkers and dropships? A US aircraft carrier is just over 1000 feet long and can carry as many as 130 aircraft. Considering its size and mission, an Executor class should be carrying THOUSANDS of TIE fighters, walkers & dropships. It should be able to seize and hold an entire planet by itself, and 144 TIEs cannot possibly do more than provide ship defenses. Furthermore, there's considerably more than HALF A BILLION cubic feet of space in this ship. if we take away 80% of that for machinery, cargo and armament and ship structure, that's still more than 100 MILLION cubic feet of space available for humans. One human consumes less than 2 cubic feet of space, so you could carry as many as 50,000,000 people elbow to elbow (which we wouldn't, of course), but compared to the aforementioned aircraft carrier which carries 5000 crew, you could comfortably carry 500,000 crew PLUS ANOTHER 100 military divisions of Stormtroopers and still have room left over. With only 280,000 crew on-board you could probably wander around all day and never see another living person. Executor is big.

[@Halfscreen]

It's really based on wookieepdia website. Rather it's correct or not, I'm not sure. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Executor

[@chrissonofpear1384]

And those stats come from outdated RPG stats, anyway, from when the ship was assumed smaller. Even then, they're pretty minimalist figures, often. Only the weapon count, has has been updated, to my recollection.

[@GRJCLyon]

This must be what G8s and Killary are building.

[@StatusQuoDefier]

To put that into perspective, the SSD is 11 3/4 miles in length.

[@letmetlo]

X Wings: *shut up lemme go inside*

[@HwangInhoBooNam]

Superdestroyer Executor Class: 19km length Also Superdestroyer Executor Class: destroyed by a hand grenade

[@MOTOKANDI]

As beautiful and as formidable as it looked, the SSD was all mouth and no trousers

[@EricLidiak]

Great video. Though honestly, 40 AT ATs sounds like a skeleton crew for the size.

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah I agree

[@ralan350]

What I would like to know from a realistic perspective if it was real is do they have shuttles to transport people from one end the other when necessary that would be a very long way to walk otherwise

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Almost certainly does have a shuttle system, @ralan350 . And watch a playthrough of Jedi Outcast, on the Doomgiver levels, to see a similar tram system at work, if you want.

[@akamatt67]

The Eclipse please!

[@bkjeong4302]

Honestly, seeing as this thing is already arguably too big but was still mass-produced (17 total), the Empire may have done better to just build even more of these rather than the DS.

[@Halfscreen]

yeah. I don't forget the supremacy, which is even bigger.

[@mahmoodanoorzai673]

How to fix: Make sure there are emergency shield generators just in-case one y wing takes it down lol. Next, Create some sort of shield which can deflect objects around the city-scape. (plasma shield) This will prevent rebel fighters from using this as an advantage as once they hit it they would be blown up by the shield. This would also remove the AA guns there and put my guns at the end of the ship making even have MORE firepower. Last but least, Don't make a trench style, Close it all up or at least leave a small gap to it's easier for AA turrets to get their targets and harder for enemy fighters to navigate there way in.

[@AL4LVE79]

X fighter drops out of hyper jump to Executor encounter " Hes so is compensating " - a female pilot with a smile . " beep beep booop deep " - R-2 Drone " Damn thats harsh " - female pilot with a damn look .

[@obviouslytom]

Why is it that on the bridge of the Executor, when they are looking out the window, they see the planet and not the rest of the ship that is ahead of them?

[@stfanboy]

This is Fractalsponge's model of the Executor.

[@mbogucki1]

Nice vid that also highlights the ridiculous and utterly unrealistic ship sizes that exist in Star Wars. But then again Star Wars is science fantasy, not science fiction so I guess its cool.

[@Halfscreen]

Well, its called Science Fiction for a reason.

[@DanY-mj4gl]

the entire thing can be made using just a few dozen asteroids, for perspective.

[@undpqbnu]

The Bismarck of the stars.

[@3Rayfire]

Did she actually have that many shield domes? I don't remember ever seeing the ones in front of and behind the command tower on the original model

[@Halfscreen]

I didn't model the original SSD 3D model, so it's possible it doesn't have that many shield domes.

[@3Rayfire]

@@Halfscreen Necessary improvement as far as I'm concerned.

[@halod2566]

It’s entirely possible, especially in Legends where the ship was noted to have extraordinary shield strength. One of the comics displayed it being able to take a hit from one or two Imperial-class Star Destroyers ramming it after emerging from hyperspace, and the vessel survived with only heavy damage to the shields. In addition, one of the crew members mentions that the bridge deflector shields were offline after we see rebel A-Wings destroy one bulb on the command tower, so it may be possible that each shield bulb we see covers a different part of the ship.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

At least six domes / sensor globes, have been spotted on the actual filming model. Two on the tower, two behind and below it, and one each side further out.