How much would a Star Destroyer cost?

A Star Destroyer will cost $636 billion to build the parts on Earth, plus $44.4 trillion to get it all off Earth and to Mars. At that launch cost, it's definitely worth investing in asteroid mining and refining technologies first.
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How much would a Star Wars ship cost?

Since those aircraft carriers cost around 10.44 billion each, a Star Destroyer would cost an estimated $464 billion. And that's the cost for Star Destroyers that can't really do anything: no turbolasers, no engines, not even any electricity. It's those extra costs that bump the total cost up to $636 billion.
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How much does it cost to build a destroyer?

As a result, the DD(X) is now expected to displace more than 14,000 tons and by the navy's estimate, cost almost $3.3 billion each. Originally, the navy proposed building 32 next-generation destroyers, reduced that to 24, then to 7, and finally to 3, in order to make the program affordable.
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How much does a Death Star cost?

Together, construction and launch of a small death star to low Earth orbit would cost around $1,370,000,000,000,000,000,000. A larger Death Star, like that seen in more recent Star Wars movies, would cost significantly more.
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How much would a Venator cost?

First of all, on average, the US F-35 costs roughly 100 million dollars. Given that a Republic credit is equal to around 2 dollars, and the Venator costs 59 million credits, the Venator would cost 118 million dollars.
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How Much Would A Star Destroyer Cost?



How much would a TIE Fighter cost?

According to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Revised Core Rulebook, a standard TIE Fighter costs 60,000 credits new, or 25,000 credits used.
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How many clones could a Venator hold?

Venator-class vessels generally carried a crew of 7,400 personnel, including officers, pilots and enlisted crew, but could also hold some 2,000 troops in addition.
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How much would it cost to build the Millennium Falcon?

Adding It All Up

There we have it, all the costs that go into constructing and maintaining a real-world Millennium Falcon. Now, the final step—adding it all together. Based on the above figures, we can conclude that the Falcon costs $18.2 billion to assemble and power with an onboard nuclear reactor.
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Could the Death Star be built?

Brooks Peck, a curator at the EMP Museum in Seattle believes that creating enough metal to build the Death Star is also theoretically possible—but only if we already have an established space infrastructure to support it. We technically do, but it's still in its infancy.
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How much steel would it take to build the Death Star?

Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 1.08x1015 tonnes of steel. 1 with fifteen zeros. Which seems like a colossal mass but we've calculated that from the iron in the earth, you could make just over 2 billion Death Stars.
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What is the cheapest destroyer?

Likely owing to the use of only fully-developed technologies and subsystems, the Sejong the Great class destroyers cost only $923 million per-vessel. This price tag makes these vessels among the most inexpensive AEGIS warships ever constructed.
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What is the cheapest warship?

Unit Costs based on Total Costs as of 31/12/09:
  • Rafale (France)-$125 million.
  • MH 60 R SeaHawk-$47.47 million.
  • MH 60 S SeaHawk-$29.48 million.
  • NH90 (European)-$48 million.
  • P 8I Poseidon-$279.84 million.
  • V 22 Osprey-$115.5 million.
  • CH 53K Super Stallion-$127.63 million.
  • Sea Avenger UAV-$20 million.
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How big is a Star Destroyer in real life?

At 1,600 meters (5,200 ft) long, Imperial-class Star Destroyers are crewed by 9,235 Officers, 27,850 enlisted personnel, and 275 Gunners. The Imperial I is armed with 60 turbolasers, 60 ion cannons, and 10 tractor beam projectors for space combat.
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How fast can a Star Destroyer go?

The rated speed of the Star Destroyer is only 270 m/s (972 km/h), which we would reach after nearly four days.
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How many Star Destroyers did the empire have?

At the peak of the Empire, over 25,000 Imperial Star Destroyers were in existence, with the Empire's primary source of Star Destroyers and Destroyer-equipped shipyards located at the industrial manufacturing center of Kuat.
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Is there an Earth in Star Wars?

While it doesn't play a major part in the Star Wars universe, Earth has appeared in canon and non-canon material. Star Wars fans will be familiar with the phrase, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," which marks the beginning of each film in the Skywalker Saga.
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Was the Death Star 2 bigger?

The Death Star II was the second Death Star battlestation to be constructed by the Galactic Empire. It was significantly larger than its predecessor, measuring over 160 kilometers in diameter, and was built after the destruction of the first Death Star at the Battle of Yavin.
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Can the Death Star destroy Earth?

Alderaan and Earth are very similar, so we'll look at what it would take for the Death Star to destroy Earth. For that, the Death Star would have to overpower the forces that hold the planet together—in this case, gravity. The gravitational binding energy of Earth is 2.24*10^32 Joules (that's 240 followed by 32 zeros).
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What fuel is used in Star Wars?

In Star Wars spacecraft and other large structures, fusion reactors powered by the fictional "hypermatter" fuel are considered the most common source of energy. These fuels are typically hazardous to organic life, taking the form of corrosive liquids or poisonous gases.
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How much is the real Millennium Falcon worth?

The folks over at Twizzle got to wondering how much it would cost to produce a real life working Millennium Falcon. After crunching the numbers and applying a good dose of real world logic, they determined that the Millennium Falcon would cost 1,988,348,881 British pounds, or $2,474,132,337.
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How long would it take to build a Death Star?

In most construction cases, materials represent about one third of total project costs, so at the very least, a Death Star would actually run you about 50 septillion dollars. Conservatively. But since it's going to take around 30 million years to complete the whole project, we've got time to save up.
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Why didn't the rebels use Venators?

Venators weren't created until after the OT was done. In Legends the rebels did have some Clone Wars ships but usually nothing as big as a Venator for the same reasons, lack of crew and most being scrapped. It was just simpler to point at Jedi Fallen Order as an example.
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How many starfighters did a Venator have?

Its hangars were far larger than those on other Star Destroyers like the Victory-class. Prior to the formation of the Galactic Empire, a typical Republic Venator carried a complement of 420 fighters: 192 V-wing or V-19 Torrent starfighters, 192 Eta-2 Actis-class interceptors, and at least 36 ARC-170 starfighters.
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Can Star Destroyers land?

In Episode III, you see that Venator-class Star Destroyers can land, load troops and perform other logistical operations and in Episode II, you see the same with Acclamator-class cruisers.
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