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Despite the extreme speed required to pull off hyperspace travel, some starships out there get it done despite being absolutely gargantuan. Many of the biggest ships on offer in this regard come courtesy of some of the more egotistical villains in the original and new trilogies in the Empire and the First Order, while others are ancient and mysterious constructions that have no equal in the modern canon.

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Updated October 12, 2023, by Kristy Ambrose: The fleet of starships in the Star Wars universe continues to grow, and that refers to the size as much as the number. Several impressive big ships have appeared in the franchise. Some stun audiences in video games or onscreen in movies and television shows, while others are part of ancient galactic lore. In a universe that makes interplanetary travel a part of the scenery when it comes to trade, politics, migration, tourism, or war on a galactic scale, there are going to be a lot of really, really big multi-use vehicles.

The menacing starship came to an explosive end during the iconic Battle of Endor. The Alliance pilot Arvel Crynyd deliberately flew his A-wing starfighter into an explosive collision with the ship. Crynyrd, a Green Squadron leader and elite-level pilot, presumably died on impact, but his sacrificial efforts were not in vain. The hit crushed the Executor's power and caused it to crash directly into the Death Star II in a suitably brutal finale to this infamous warship.

The Eclipse was one such vehicle, serving as the home starship of the Empire's sinister leader soon after his initial demise in Return of the Jedi. The ominous vessel was unsurprisingly seen as a waste of resources by many within the remnants of the Empire. Despite the blowback, Palpatine eventually greenlit a second copy's construction after the demise of the original during a Force-focused showdown between the cruel Sith Lord and Luke and Leia.

Beyond Supreme Leader Snoke's fancy robes, distinctive ring, and cruel, arrogant manner of speech, nothing indicated his sizable ego more than the absurdly large flagship space vessel, The Supremacy. The gargantuan starship serves as both the base of Snoke's operations and the setting for his shocking demise.

Perhaps the most recognizable of the biggest starships, the notorious Death Star was literally the size of a moon. Although it was referred to as a space station, it could move at a slow pace and even had a Class 4 hyperdrive rating, giving it all the capabilities of a conventional ship.

Centerpoint Station isn't just the biggest starship in the galaxy, it's also one of the oldest, and many of the details of its construction are a mystery. It was already about 100,000 years old by the time of the Battle of Yavin, and was apparently built by the now-extinct Killik race at the request of beings known as Celestials.

The Harrower is capable of holding its own against Starfighter fleets or multiple smaller warships but is best used as the backbone of an Imperial Fleet- coordinating attacks, absorbing damage and launching devastating volleys where needed. The energy and material cost of building a single Harrower is roughly equivalent to ten years' output of a major planetary mining colony. The loss of a Harrower is enough to pain logistics operators across the Empire.

Starships acts as a continuation of the Beyond Earth story, which supposes that you've successfully set up a working world government on an alien world, and are now ready to take to the stars again. You receive a signal from deep space, supposedly from a second colony ship dispatched from Earth, so you set your sights on that part of the galaxy to meet with the lost colony. Whether you'll meet on friendly or adversarial terms is up to you.

To see what I mean, lets talk about the design of naval warships. Now, in a way, the design of historical warships is, if anything more restrictive than the design of most space warships, which tend (in their respective fictions) to be built in space and never operate in atmosphere. Ships that ply the seas rather than the stars are constrained by the shapes they must have to sail effectively; starships have no such limitations.

I also get a laugh out of how wonderfully spacious every room in a starship is, including warships. Living quarters, for example, often seemed bigger than my apartment. On a real warship it is more a matter of how many people can we stack in as small a space as possible?

Often, mile-long starships are considered to be "harder" than small ones, partially because a slower-than-light ship would need to be huge to carry all the fuel and supplies needed for a decades-long voyage.

Live-Action TV

• In the Babylon 5 'verse, jump capable ships tend to be massive due both the size and power requirements of jump drives. Some specific examples:
• The spinoff Crusade had the Excalibur, which was 3000 meters in length, and had an internal rail line (similar to that on the Babylon 5 space station) running along its length for transportation within the ship.
• Also, the Babylon 4 station, which preceded Babylon 5, had a propulsion system (unlike its successor), so it could serve as a mobile base-ship and carrier that was 6 miles in length (Babylon 5, meanwhile, was 5 miles in length).
• There were also the Explorer-class vessels. Their task was to travel to unexplored systems, identify those worth permanently occupying, and deploy jumpgates. At 6.1km/4.8 miles long they're about three quarters the length of Babylon 5 itself, making them by far the largest ships operated by EarthForce and significantly larger than any other ship seen in the show not operated by one of the First Ones. They are so large that the pylons of the Babylon 5 jumpgate had to be moved apart to create a jump point large enough for one to pass. We're told that they're incredibly rare, mainly because they're incredibly expensive to build and operate, and those that do exist will spend most of their time out in the furthest reaches of explored space. Even most EarthForce officers will never see one in person.
• Minbari Sharlin-class war cruisers are about the same size as a star destroyer, though that's in height, not length (they're taller than they are long).
• The largest ships to date are Vorlon Eclipse-class planet killers. Estimates put them at 26-36 miles in diameter (they're circular). And they're definitely visible from planetary surface as one partially eclipses the sun when it briefly arrives over Centauri Prime.
• Pretty much every major EarthForce warship measures around a kilometer, with the Omega-class destroyer breaking the mile barrier at 1700m, it's successor, the Warlock-class making over 2000, and the Poseidon-class supercarrier being of similar length to the Warlock but much wider.
• One of the smallest jump-capable ships known is the Asimov-class luxury liner, at 600 meters. Due the power requirements it only mounts small anti-fighter weapons.
• As stated above, jump drives are generally massive and are power hogs anyway, forcing jump-capable ships not built by the First Ones to be large (the Vorlon have been able to build a jump-capable ship the size of a Cessna, showing the massive technological disparity). Aside the First Ones, only Vree, Centauri and Minbari have shown the ability to manufacture jump drives for ships smaller than the Asimov, and given the power requirements the Vree and the Centauri are limited to barely armed transports. Only the Minbari can make jump-capable practical warships, and even they prefer either small non-jump capable warships or large jump-capable ones for anything but recon duty.
• The Battlestar Galactica was over 1.5 km, the Pegasus over 1.7 in the 2003 series.
• In the 2003 series, the Battlestar Galactica is 4740 feet long, while the Battlestar Pegasus is 5872 feet, making it more than a mile long and the largest battlestar class in the series.
• Word of God from Glen Larson is that the original Galactica was "a mile long". A collector of the series props and costumes worked out, using screen grabs and the known size of the full-scale Viper mock-ups, that the ship was 6080 feet long, which is one nautical mile (or was before the unit was revised to 1852 m). There's obviously a huge margin of error in this because of the large amount of extrapolation required, and similar calculations using other screenshots have led to smaller figures around 4100 feet (approximately 1250 m), which is very close to the length of the 2003 version as quoted on merchandise. Against that, early pre-production and merchandising for the original series had the Galactica as being 2000 feet long, though this is generally considered to have been superseded by the later, larger figures.
• Even the scale model used in the Classic series was over 6 feet long! 76 inches, in fact.
• Doctor Who: In "World Enough and Time" the TARDIS lands on an unnamed ship that's 400 miles long and 100 miles wide. The bridge is caught on the edge of a black hole and is trying to reverse back out but that's a lot of ship to move. Meanwhile the top levels are undergoing Time Dilation compared to the lower levels, for every minute that passes on the bridge years are passing for the people further down.
• In The Expanse the LDS Church commissioned the Nauvoo, a two-kilometer Generation Ship, to take them to the next "promised land." In season 2 the Outer Planets Alliance commandeered it to knock Protomolecule-infested Eros into the Sun, but missed. They retrieve it in season 3, and refit it into the solar system's biggest warship. Though the engineers doubt it could actually hold its own, it just looks intimidating.
• In the show Lexx, the Lexx itself is an insect-like ship that is 10 kilometers in length. The cast use dragonfly-like helicopters to get around inside it. On several occasions they were boarded and it took multiple episodes before anyone noticed.
• The Red Dwarf is 6 miles long, 4 miles tall, and 3 miles wide, according to the novels. The TV show states "5 miles long" repeatedly, but we might assume this refers to the ship's habitable volume, and the 6 mile figure includes the ram scoop and main engines at the front and back of the ship respectively. It originally had a crew complement of 169. Then in series 3 it was retconned to 1,169.
• Of course in most series it has an organic crew complement of "two", plus several robots, the ship's computer, and a Virtual Ghost, none of whom use anywhere near all of the ship. So the inconsistencies might be excusable.
• The first Red Dwarf novel, Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, isn't limited by a BBC cast and effects budget and gave the original crew size as 11,169.
• Stargate-verse:
• The Ori warships in Stargate SG-1 were established by ancillary materials as 1.1 kilometers long.
• Wraith hive ships in Stargate Atlantis were described as roughly thirteen times larger than an SGC Daedalus-class battlecruiser. This gives a ship around 2.9 kilometers long. The super-hive that appears on the series finale is much larger, making it the largest known starship in the setting. Meanwhile, Ancient city-ships such as Atlantis are about 3 kilometers in diameter.
• Star Trek:
• The Deep Space Nine episode "Valiant" provides a Jem'Hadar battleship described as twice as the size of a Galaxy-class starship. A quick calculation based on the DS9 Technical Manual results in a ship just under 1.3 kilometers long. Another Jem'Hadar capital ship that is similar but much larger is seen during the Battle of Cardassia in "What You Leave Behind" (though this may simply have been a scaling error in the special effects: the Defiant herself changed size practically every other shot).
• Borg cubes are generally built around 27 cubic km. (That means 3km for all twelve edges) The Borg Tactical Cube shown in one of the final episodes of Star Trek: Voyager is five times larger.
• Star Trek: Enterprise:
• "Azati Prime" has Captain Archer being taken through time and brought on board the USS Enterprise-J. Due to time constraints with making the episode, the designer of the ship admits that they only had a couple of weeks to flesh out a concept, which is only very briefly shown in a fuzzy holographic computer display in the episode itself. The ship was never shown from the outside in the episode, so supplementary material filled in for that. The Enterprise-J was built as a generational ship, capable of folding space to instantly travel to other galaxies. It is so large that its turbolifts are replaced with site to site transporters, and it features massive parks and even an entire university on board. Its saucer is roughly 26 miles in diameter.
• "Countdown"'s script describes the Xindi-Aquatic cruiser as five times the size of the NX-01. This puts it in the ballpark of 1,125 meters (official sources put it around 1800 meters).
• The Romulan D'deridex class warbird is slightly over a kilometer in length. Most of it is empty space though.
• Even Starfleet is close to the trope, with the Enterprise-D and -E being close to half a mile in length.
• The Voth city ship shown in Star Trek: Voyager beamed the entire titular ship into its cargo hold, which has plenty of space for dozens of such ships. It's no wonder some EU material suggests the Voth might make good allies against the Borg.

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