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Posted by: anton1792
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Posted by: dalcaeus
That thing is bigger than a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer! If I remember correctly the S.Star Destroyer housed 1.5 million essential crew. No telling how many extra, not including Stormtroopers and such. So one super carrier would easily be enough to destroy an outter human colony. Having said that, the Super Carrier that was destroyed wasn't even the bulk of the fleet that razed Reach. Food for thought.
Wookiepedia lists ~280,000 crew and 38,000 ground troops, which seems absurdly low when compared to the volume a Imperator class SD. Based on ~300 times bigger than a Imperator I/II I'd expect it to carry up to 3 million ground troops and up to 11 million crew. And 21 thousand fighters. 15,000 walkers.
Given than a Super Carrier has more volume than a SSD...
I think we could work out the Supercarriers crew compliment. I am not sure if this Math is correct, it is 3am over here; tired.
Anyway, a standard carrier is listed as being able to carry up to 4000 crewmen. It is 1'455m long.
The Supercarrier is 27'000m long, or 18.6x longer than a Carrier. That gives it a volume 6434.9x larger than a Carrier. One Carrier Volume is 4000 crew, so the Supercarrier Volume should allow for roughly 25'739'424 crew members, nearly 26 million. (I rounded, so it will be +/- a few million depending on whether you have done the same)
Encyclopaedia page 265 is where the 4000 and 1455m come from. ;)
Does this sound alright?
It's less accurate than using numbers form an assualt carrier because they could be different shapes, but it's a decent upper level estimate. I wonder if that 4,000 is just the crew of the ship alone, the crew of the ship plus the air wing, or the crew of the ship, the flight crew, and the ground troop compliment. I'd think one of the first two.
It's interesting to compare it to a modern aircraft carrier, which(according to wiki) despite being a much much smaller vessel, has slightly larger crew.
Oh, it would also carry 1.9 million seraphs, 1.3 million banshees, and 220,000 dropships. Which means if they launched them all at full capacity, they'd be carrying 6.5 million troops.
Of course in reality things don't always scale nice and linearly, so these are only estimates, and quite likely on the high end.
[Edited on 09.27.2010 7:51 PM PDT]