Smallest possible ship to carry a gravity well projector.

[Mamatried]

Basically how small can you make an interdictor.

Does anyone know what is the minimum size for a ship to carry and use ONE gravity well projector.

[garhkal]

Well looking at the size of a GWP, we see The interdictor is roughly 600m long, and the four pack of GWP's take up roughly 1/3rd the size of the ship between them. So that to Me, puts each at being around 100-120m as a ball. So any ship around 200-300m technically should be able to house one.
Where the issue comes in IMO is on POWER generation.

Would say a Neb-B be able to generate the power needed to operate even just one Grav well? And where exactly would say a Neb B put it?
What about a Rendel Dreadnought?
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[Mamatried]

good points.

Indeed it would be power consuming, and i would think a ship the size of a nebulon while it could fit the projector somewhere (maybe) I would think it would need so much more power than what it has that it woud be without guns, much like you question, where the power comes from.

That being said how much more power would the imobilizer generate compared to the heavy cruiser it is based on?
How do the armament compare?

Also how large and how small can a gravity well be, some ships listed with the technology ranges from as little as 190m, to me this seems very small in fact when considering all the needed power.

[CRMcNeill]

It also depends on what kind of gravity well projector you're looking for. The projectors on the Interdictor have a 150 SU range in all directions. It's conceivable that something with a smaller fire arc or shorter range could be mounted on a smaller platform.
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[Mamatried]

[CRMcNeill]

There is a variant from the strategy game Star Wars: Rebellion - the CC-7200-Class Interdiction Frigate. While little official information is given outside of game stats, it lacks the obvious domes normally associated with the gravity well projectors on the Immobilizer 418. There is also an earlier version called the CC-2200 Detainer mentioned in the novel Rise of Darth Vader, with little to no information given about its appearance.

When I stated out the CC-7200, because of the missing dome, I decided to make it a Fire Arc: Front projector only, with a single projector equipped instead of four. Likewise, when I stated the CC-2200, I made it a generator instead of a projector, with the gravity well centered on the ship itself.

The Immobilizer's gravity well projectors really do have a lot going on. They have twice the range of a turbolaser, they project a gravity well roughly equal to that of an Earth-type planet, and they can shoot it in any direction relative to the ship itself. There's a lot there that can be trimmed down if you wanted to make a bargain version of the gravity well projector.
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[Mamatried]

Interesting indeed.
I have noticed the CC-2200 is suppoed to be the "little" brother of the CC-7200.

I was thinking with a dome shape, would a "turret" arch be totally unreasonable, over a driectional arch?..

I would think that the imoblizers maybe are "boosted" versions of grav tec.
with them being somewhat turret configurated as to fire arch, as you say they seems to cover it all more or less.


I know that the animated shows and the movies somewhat have canged things around, not sure if this applies to interdictors, but at hyperdrives have been extremely miniaturized, to the point where there TIE Defender HYper drive can be carried with little issues by a adult human.

Could some miniaturation of grav tech, be something, not man portable, maybe even not starfighter portable, but rather something that could be made to fit a ship like the Talon Karrde ( action V) meaning ships around 100m.

[Pel]

Here's something I cooked up several years ago:

Gravity Mine
Scale: Starfighter
Cost: 20,000
Availability: 4, X
Length: 8.5 m
Speed: 0 (deployed by mother ship)
Hyperdrive: Special
Hull: 1D
Sensors: Scan: 15
Damage: None
Blast Radius: 20 space units
Weight: 25 tons
Launcher: holds 1 mine.

Game Notes: After deployment in hyperspace, the gravity mine holds position via a specially modified hyperdrive motivator that can hold the device in hyperspace for up to 7 minutes (84 rounds). The mine detonates when it detects the hyperdrive signature of a passing ship, immediately dropping the ship back into real space. This effect is similar to that of the gravity well generators found on Interdictor-class Cruisers. While the effects are not lasting, ideally the fleeing ship can make good its escape while its pursuers attempt to repair any resultant damage and jump to hyperspace once more. After 7 minutes the hyperdrive motivators burn out and the mine’s internal components melt, destroying the device before it can revert to realspace.
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[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

Yeah, me either. I can pick and choose certain facets that can be explained away by tweaking them slightly, but in so many ways, TCW and Rebels are like somebody's crap fan fiction with an unlimited budget. I have, in fact, read fan fiction that I wish Disney would put to screen... But I digress.

While I'm okay with poaching ideas from DisneyWars (there are some great ship concepts in TCW and even in TFA), so much of it just falls by the wayside in my personal canon. And that includes how Rebels introduced the Interdictor and Gravity Well Projectors. That whole sequence was just silly.
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[Pel]

[garhkal]

LOL. That was a nice funny!
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[Whill]

[Zarn]

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