Re: Blakes 7 Ship Stats

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	  steve@pugh.net wrote:

> > > Liberator: Big. 
> > > Pursuit Ships: Small.
> > 
> > Actually, the 'Starburst' class Pursuit ships were almost as big as
> > the Liberator 
> 
> True, reading the fan tech manual last night I saw that they had 
> listed the pursuit ship at just over half the length of the 
> Liberator. Of course they give both lengths in millispacials rather 
> than meters...

Ok, if anyone's interested - from "The Horizon Blakes 7 Technical
Manual" and have your NaCl at the ready... :-)

MASS 436,210 tons
Overall Length: 24.84 mSP (Millispacials)
Overall Height: 13.22 mSP
Overall Breadth: 14.55 mSP

Scaling from the Crew Deck Plan (with a scale of 30' to 37.5mm, or 1' to
1.25mm) the overall crew hull width is 188' at its widest end (listed as
175' in the doco. - presumably thats internal dimensions).

Using the overall Internal layout plan, the crew section is 15.5mm at
its widest end, so the scale is 188' to 15.5mm, or about 12.13' to 1 mm.

On the same diagram, the hull length (not including the forward probe is
216mm, or 2,619' 10.5" (798.5 m), with the probe, the overall length is
247mm, or 2995' 10.5" (913.1 m)

On the largest plan (with the "Millispacials" scale), the overall length
is 305.5mm, so the scale is 9' 9 2/3" to 1 mm, or 1:2989.
1 millispacial = 14.2mm = 42,443.9mm, or 42.44m or 139.25'

Given the accuracy of my measuring, say 1 mSP = 140' or 42.67m (bit odd)

Comparing the dimensions quoted above, the scale is more like 1 mSP to
120' or 36.75m.

Checking by Height: measured is 185mm, scales to 553m,
so 1mSP = 41.8m - closer, I guess the probe is probably truncated.

So, 1mSP = 140' or 42.67m

Length = 3,477' 7" or 1060m (about two-thirds of a mile)
Height = 1,850' 9.5" or 564m
Breadth = 2,037' or 621m

>From the tonnage, she'd be 436 MASS to be 'in scale' with Fleet Book
ships (based on tonnage) - a more sensible value would be to halve that
(1 MASS = 200 tons) to 218 MASS (about right for a capital)

> 
> But the pursuit ships 'feel' small compared to the Liberator. :-p

Starburst Class

MASS (none listed) (say about 100)
Overall Length: 11.98 mSP (1,677' or 511m)
Overall Height: 5.10 mSP (714' or 217.6m)
Overall Breadth: 7.68 mSP (1,075' or 327.7m)

Ok, about half the Liberator's length, but with a proportionally shorter
probe.
And there's a command variant too (don't remember that from the show!)

Supreme Command HQ
Overall diameter: 161.5 mSP (4.28 miles or 6.89 km)
Overall Height: 18.4 mSP (2,576' or 785m)

from this drawing, the Pursuit Ships in the SCHQ hanger are 212m long -
obviously a smaller, version

The ubiquitous Class 16 Transport Ship (Prison Ship 'London' et. al.)

Unladen Mass: 2,972 tons (MASS 15)
Overall Length: 179.5' (54.7m)
Overall Height: 82' (25m)
Overall Breadth: 114.8' (35m)

Six variants are listed.

Scorpio (Wanderer II Class) was:

Unladen Mass: 4,752 tons (MASS 24)
Overall Length: 337' (102.7m)
Overall Height: 114' (34.75m)
Overall Breadth: 140' (42.67m)

Spaceworld Patrol Ship ('Little Liberators')

Scaling from the diagram gives:

Overall Length: 16.9 mSP (2,366' or 721m)
Overall Height: 3.9 mSP (546' or 166.4m)
Overall Breadth: 3.95 mSP (553' or 168.5m)

MASS isn't given, say about 40-45

Ships I haven't got details are include:

Numerous alien ships
cargo ships, passenger ships, and, of course;

The Supreme Empress Command Ship (Season 3)
Commissioner Sleer's Ship (Season 4)

> 
> > (in 'Dual' we get a reasonable comparison of sizes as
> > Liberator almost rams one - I don't recall ever seeing the two ship
> > types together in any other shot).

> 
> Two ships in one shot? Don't be silly that would have used up the FX 
> budget for the entire series!
> 
>	Steve

Maybe it did :-)