Forgive me if this is a topic already discussed. The search was useless as usual.
I just put my Galaxy nose to nose with a D'dedierax, however its spelled. I started calling them Didi's.
The Didi was twice as big. I tried to find TNG pictures when they were nose to nose didn't do to well to find scale. But I think they were more or less even, maybe the Didi was 10 or 15% bigger.
Even if the scale is correct canon wise I think it's a bit much game wise. Especially in sector space. Things are getting crowded
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Mass and size are two very different things. The D'deridex has less mass because there's empty space between its wings, but for that same reason it's quite a bit larger than the Galaxy.
Here are some ship size comparison charts courtesy of Bernard Schneider and his site Ex Astris Scientia.
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/alien-huge-chart.jpg
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/alien-chart.jpg
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/fleet-chart.jpg
and the ha'apax utterly dwarfs the d'deridex, lol. theres no hollow section, just a big thick center cylinder that by itself has many times the volume of the d'deridex. even separated, both sections ether have about the same volume or 2 or 3 times more. and each section ether has double or tripple the turn rate of the d'deridex. its a complete joke.
I don't think you'll find such an image.
However Andrew Probert who designed the ship clearly places it at twice the length of the Galaxy class.
I think this image of his design sketch illustrates this:
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/7/77/D%27deridex_design_sketches.jpg
And strangely enough while the size varies a bit between publications, the always show a length of 1 kilometer or more.
Even the old Star Tre "A history in pictures" is consistent on this matter adn it's not even a technical manual of any kind.;)
BTW...when I read the size on that ship the first time...I scratched my head too.
The same thing happened to me years later when I read the size of the Valdore from "Nemesis".
http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/8/8f/Nemesis_comparison.jpg
but then I remembered the D'deridex and thought to myself "Why am I surprised? Typical Romulan design";)
Just FYI...you can't hotlink to images on EAS.
It's a function Mr Schneider disabled years ago because people tended to link to his site so often it killed his server's limits too many times.;)
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The head alone probably contains more internal space than the entire Galaxy class saucer and stardrive hulls.
I will concede, many of the TNG episodes that featured the D'deridex didn't present it as being quite so large but that has a lot to do with distance and perspective, and some of them did get it right.
I know is looks more the Mogai (and the Mogai WAS based off the D'Deridex), but the concept ship that has the D'Deridex nacelles, and head, but no lower wing pylons could make for a good curiser at Tier 3 along side the Mogai.
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