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Star Destroyers are capital ships in the fictional Star Wars universe. Star Destroyers were produced by Kuat Drive Yards, later Kuat-Entralla Engineering, and serve as "the signature vessel of the fleet" for the Galactic Empire, the First Order, and the Sith Eternal in numerous published works including film, television, novels, comics, and video games.
The ING headquarters building (in Amsterdam, Netherlands) has been described as looking like something out of Star Wars that could "move forward on its legs". [7] Conversely, the Trinity College, Dublin, Long Room Library is thought to be the basis for the Jedi Academy Library in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. [8] [9]
Previous systems had used carbon-based lasing materials, but calculations showed that the energy could be greatly increased by using a metal rod instead. [16] The idea had been largely theoretical until a key test of the new concept in November 1980.
Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction.The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and sometimes it is simply a plot device that looks scientific, but has no ...
Almighty links itself to a solar system's star on the quantum level via an energy beam and breaks it down into usable fuel, warping to another system before the star collapses into a supernova. Nightmare's fortress from Kirby: Right Back at Ya! can be classified as a megastructure because it is the size of a small planet.
Conical roofs are frequently found on top of towers in medieval town fortifications and castles, where they may either sit directly on the outer wall of the tower (sometimes projecting beyond it to form eaves) or form a superstructure above the fighting platform or terrace of the tower.
According to Star Wars: The Force Awakens: The Visual Dictionary (2015), and the trilogy novel series Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, after the Galactic Empire was defeated at Battle of Endor in 4 ABY in Return of the Jedi, thousands of worlds rose up to join the Rebel Alliance, and destroy the disorganized Empire, which had fallen victim to warlordism.
In 1821, at the end of the initial three years, Holland took a further 21-year lease on the site, but he sold this in 1825 to the Welsh Slate Company which considerably extended the quarry. [3] The Welsh Slate Co.'s undertaking was the lowest on the mountain it became known as Lower Quarry - also known as Lord Palmerston's Quarry.