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Edited by Omnitron310:
9/11/2015 2:33:42 PM
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I calculated how big Oryx's Dreadnaught is (spoiler: it's HUGE).
It's pretty easy to do. You can see how big it is in relation to Saturn's rings during the arrival cinematic for the new Crucible map, The Dungeons.
Saturn's rings are 73,000 km wide. From the cinematic, the Dreadnaught is about 0.07 times as long, and in the same plane as the rings. That makes the Dreadnaught...
[b]5110km long![/b]
That's over 5 million metres.
From other, better quality images of the Dreadnaught, I've calculated that one side of one of its square ends is about 0.3 times as long as it's length. Therefore, that gives a total volume of...
[b]1.2 x 10^10 (12000000000) cubic kilometres![/b]
So, yeah. It's pretty damn big.
[b]Edit:[/b]
Obviously, I am not expecting that we will be able to visit even a tiny fraction of this. Just like how we cannot visit all of the Earth, Venus, etc.
Also, I find it likely that Bungie does not actually intend for it to be this big, and instead either didn't realise (or expected other people not to realise) just how big Saturn's rings are. That, or it's just to make it look more badass.
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Highly advanced militarized race Always are on the offensive DREADNOUGHT I expect this thing to have been bigger. The only other ring I i expect in this game to be near as big would be a cabal capital ship.
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Meters? What the -blam!- is this shit?
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And yet he uses the space as puzzle rooms
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My dreadnought is bigger, just ask your mom
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while i read this, star wars music went off in my head.
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its smaller then the death star
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2 RepliesHow many miles is that
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3 RepliesEdited by argo206: 9/11/2015 7:31:30 PMIf I did the math correctly it's more than 3000 miles. Bigger than the United States. Edit: a little smaller than the U.S.
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Volume?
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2 RepliesEasier method, how big is it compared to earth?
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14 RepliesWhat is that in American?
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Bump for science
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THATS WHAT SHE SAID
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33 RepliesEdited by Ronin Tanuki: 9/11/2015 1:38:12 PMYou realize Bungie screws up scaling, don't you? Take a look at the Earth from the moon, it's way bigger than it should be. Or, alternatively, look at the moon from Earth, when was the last time you saw a moon so huge? It's intentional, I'm sure, because it's more "cinematic." You can see more details and such.
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This post turns me on.
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Did you just measure his foot size??
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That's no moon... that's a space station!
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23 RepliesEdited by TechRonin: 9/11/2015 8:25:43 PMWill just leave this here http://www.deviantart.com/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051
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That's what she said...
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1 ReplyEdited by Sixclicks: 9/11/2015 6:56:15 PMI doubt that's anywhere near accurate since everything in game is shown in a "perspective" view rather than an "orthographic" view. Meaning if the ship is closer to you than Saturn's rings in the picture, then it could appear larger than it actually is compared to the rings in the background.
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26 Replies[url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale]SciFi writers have no sense of scale.[/url] Or mass, for that matter. Now just try to wrap your mind around just how much power you would need to even move something like that.
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1 ReplyBUT, is the patrol just as big......me thinks not. Sad face!
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3 RepliesEdited by Krieghund69: 9/11/2015 4:05:44 PMCool. Now calculate the possible mass lol.
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8 RepliesI'm sure it's fuel economy is crap too.
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Then where us the rest of earth, Moon, venus and mars?
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1 ReplyOh, man. So we're going to be exploring 0.01% of it, haha.
