Right, but even being generous that way, that is still far less than the millions of ISDs and other ships that certain warsies have made claim to for the Republic and later the Empire. It means from a Versus debate perspective that the Empire, even if it goes full out with it's three best ship yards, won't be pumping out many millions of ISDs in a year or two to crush Star Trek's Federation or any other franchise's interstellar nation so easily.Jedi Master Spock wrote:According to how the SWRPG measures it, KDY has 5,781 standard "slips." And those slips, on top of it, have a 0.5 quality multiplier, so they work twice as fast. It's still not intractable from a completist perspective when we're talking about the famous 25,000 figure. Remember, in the EU, we have the following other Star Destroyers produced at Kuat:Mike DiCenso wrote:Yes, I see that now. But this is a necroed thread from almost four years ago. Even still, the one thing I noted from back then and still applies now, is that even if you were right, Kuat Drive yards does not have hundreds of thousands of large starship slips, but rather has something like 1,200 or so. Which means that Kuat would have to pretty much be on a total war footing by dumping all other contracts and devoting it's resources to producing ISDs to get the ridiculous numbers many Warsies claim the Empire has. So let's say that Kuat is paid handsomely by the Empire to devote 10 slips to the construction of of each ISD for a maximum of 120 ISDs every 1.2 years. In 20 years, the Empire would have 2,400 ISDs, assuming that they started production virtually the very day after the Clone Wars ended. And that would mean that there was an immense amount of R&D well in advance to allow that kind of off and running production of ISD Type (which does actually fit in with some of the EU sources).
-Mike
As mentioned on right in my first post in this thread, Kuat (by the rules) can produce 18 ISDs/week, or 1265 per year when we use the 70 week Star Wars calendar used in the RPG. The Empire was around for about 23 years before Endor, so if you assume Kuat was running at full capacity the whole time, that's about 29,000 ISD-equivalents in terms of production - or, by my rough extrapolation, about 87,000 VSDs, or about 290,000 Gladiators.
- Gladiator Star Destroyer - 500m, produced about 10x as fast
- Interdictor cruiser, also called a Star Destroyer - 600m, produced 7x as fast.
- Victory Star Destroyer - 900m, produced about 3x as fast
Strictly by the book, according to the RPG rules, out of Kuat. (IIRC, the RPG book also had Rendili and Sienar listed, and their capacity was much smaller. I could go look up the figures, but it doesn't really matter.)
Since the quote referring to 25,000 Star Destroyers doesn't specify ISDs, and VSDs are (if anything) more common in the EU (not to mention the rapid proliferation of the prequel and Clone Wars ships into the more recent EU books), this really isn't a problem for the RPG mechanics.
-Mike