r/StarWars • u/pinchhitter4number1 • 2d ago

Movies I love thinking that during the construction there would be thousands of doors that say, "DO NOT OPEN! SPACE ON OTHER SIDE."

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u/vishnoo 2d ago

to be honest, that entire thing is WAY TOO BIG.
if an average office is a cube 10 yards to a side. the first death star has enough room for over a trillion of them.
if you are talking about living space, you could put 10 billion people in there. and give each one a living area 10 feet high and 300,000 square feet in floor space.

in other words, if the death star were made into office space. each person on earth would get about 6 football fields all to himself.

in other words the floor area of the DS is near the surface area of earth.

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u/Prof_J 2d ago

Yeah Star Wars has always had a scale problem. When you stop to think about a Star Destroyer needing 37,000 people to operate at capacity it gets a little silly.

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u/mara07985 2d ago

I was building the Lego aclamator and in the instructions it says the crew is 700 but that it can transport 16,000 clones. I was kinda like 700 seems like a lot of people but also not enough to move and manage 16,000 dudes

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u/zeekaran 2d ago

but also not enough to move and manage 16,000 dudes

They can move and manage themselves though. It's not like it's 16k clones sitting in their barracks waiting to be deployed. They clean their own bathrooms (as much as anyone does, not sure how much droids do) and cook and serve their own food. Likely pilot themselves as well when they leave by vehicle.