It's cute, but where do they get their numbers? A great many of them seem to be much larger than they should be. The Executor was not that much larger than a regular Star Destroyer, for instance, and the Shadow ship is absurdly large.
At the risk of sounding like a complete Star Wars geek (oh what the hell), the excecutor was huge Harold, you need to go back and watch ESB ;-)
I remember having a copy of the star wars sketchbook when I was a kid with some of the concept drawings. Even in that sketchbook I recall the Executor being between 10-15x the length of a standard Destroyer. I also recall rough dimensions in that book. Presumably Lucas and others would be working with those rough proportions as well.
According to the entry on Wikipedia (again, not perfect, but for our purposes a decent enough source) there seems to be some debate about the length but that the generally understood canonical length of 19k meters for an Executor class to be accepted by Star Wars watchers/nutcases/afficianados.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Starr_Destroyer#Exec...yer
I can only assume that most of the other dimensions are also published in concept art, based off comparisons from video stills, or - this is probably one of the most significant methods - based off of game adaptations (rps, computer, pen and paper strategy, etc.).
I have no idea about the shadow ship, though a visit to other fan sites might help clarify.
Here's some insight on the matter from the Wookiepedia article on the Executor:
"Many Expanded Universe sources have claimed that the Executor was only 8,000 meters long. Some other sources, most notably starwars.com, have claimed that the Executor was 12,800 meters long. Both of these figures are in direct contradiction with the films themselves, which consistently show the Executor to be around eleven to twelve times as long as accompanying 1,600m long Star Destroyers, or 17,600-19,200m. The 12,800m figure was apparently intended as a "compromise", being halfway between the length seen in the movies and the West End Games 8,000m version. In September 2005, the starwars.com Databank was finally updated with the 19,000 meter length. These lengths still remain a point of contention among some Star Wars fans."
At the very least it gives you a little more behind where those numbers come from even if they are disputed. But it seems that the starwars.com databank is also showing the 19k figure (as of 2005 per the above quote), and that is a fairly "official" source for star wars universe factoids.
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I remember having a copy of the star wars sketchbook when I was a kid with some of the concept drawings. Even in that sketchbook I recall the Executor being between 10-15x the length of a standard Destroyer. I also recall rough dimensions in that book. Presumably Lucas and others would be working with those rough proportions as well.
According to the entry on Wikipedia (again, not perfect, but for our purposes a decent enough source) there seems to be some debate about the length but that the generally understood canonical length of 19k meters for an Executor class to be accepted by Star Wars watchers/nutcases/afficianados.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Starr_D
I can only assume that most of the other dimensions are also published in concept art, based off comparisons from video stills, or - this is probably one of the most significant methods - based off of game adaptations (rps, computer, pen and paper strategy, etc.).
I have no idea about the shadow ship, though a visit to other fan sites might help clarify.
"Many Expanded Universe sources have claimed that the Executor was only 8,000 meters long. Some other sources, most notably starwars.com, have claimed that the Executor was 12,800 meters long. Both of these figures are in direct contradiction with the films themselves, which consistently show the Executor to be around eleven to twelve times as long as accompanying 1,600m long Star Destroyers, or 17,600-19,200m. The 12,800m figure was apparently intended as a "compromise", being halfway between the length seen in the movies and the West End Games 8,000m version. In September 2005, the starwars.com Databank was finally updated with the 19,000 meter length. These lengths still remain a point of contention among some Star Wars fans."
At the very least it gives you a little more behind where those numbers come from even if they are disputed. But it seems that the starwars.com databank is also showing the 19k figure (as of 2005 per the above quote), and that is a fairly "official" source for star wars universe factoids.
Here's the starwars.com entry:
www.starwars.com/databank/starship/supeers
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