Starkiller Base scaled one in ten million

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<p>Originally published here: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3903759">Starkiller Base scaled one in ten million by tato_713 - Thingiverse</a></p><p>The new version of the <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57266-death-star-scaled-one-in-two-million">Death Star</a>; an unnamed, Pokeball shaped "planet" covered by snow, decorated with mountains, and wrapped in a <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57301-earth-with-exaggerated-topography-scaled-one-in-si">Earth</a> like atmosphere, used as a mobile base with a huge fisure for carring a massive weapon, that appears in the film <i>Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens</i>. It is said to be 660 km in diameter, similar to that of small moons of <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57355-saturn-scaled-one-in-500-million">Saturn</a>: <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57256-mimas-scaled-one-in-ten-million">Mimas</a> (the Death Star mimic moon) and <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57254-enceladus-with-known-topography-scaled-one-in-ten-">Enceladus</a>. My first thought was that the Starkiller base was an icy moon similar to those, specially because of their ongoing popularity as "icy worlds" after the Cassini mission, but it is likely a rocky body, after the presence of mountains, and lava (liquid state of rocks). A similar sized rocky body is <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/57247-4-vesta-scaled-one-in-ten-million">Vesta</a>, the second biggest object in the <a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49291">Main Asteroid Belt</a>. However a rocky object of that size is unlikely to be round, Vesta is not the case. It has a prolate ellipsoidal shape (aside for the wide aperture), with the difference between the axis similar of that of the previous Saturnian moons.</p><p>I didn't see the film, I've just used the videos linked in the section "References" to take measures. The orientation and rotation is never said, so the labels in the files names "north" and "south" are arbitrary. The Starkiller base can be made in the same scale of the Death Star. You can make the <a href="/tato_713/collections/one-in-four-million-scale">one in four million scale</a> Starkiller base with the <a href="/tato_713/collections/one-in-two-million-scale">one in two million scale</a> Deathstar of a half of its size (the latter will loose a lot of details); or you can make the one in two million scale Deathstar with the one in two million scale Starkiller base (the latter needs to be printed in a 35x35cm bed or bigger, or you can the model in some pieces).</p><p>The file's names explained:<i>name_1_x_10_y.stl</i> is 1 : x* 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.</p><p><br>I spend part of my time making these models, letting them available and free for everyone. If you want to support my work, you can contribute with me by <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=Vs2In7MOO1j3F3ADS858-hZWS3wOL6ebfWXIdzdoOOEZ1cUxa2oRlM9H9kgUT_dfml4aLaLfL32ZgvTv">donating to this PayPal account</a>.</p><h4>References</h4><ul><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4512-surf2stl">Surf to STL function for MATLAB</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HmWDdmTAE8">The video of the base firing</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYeb6hJM6NI">the one of the base being destroyed</a>, used for the reconstruction.</li></ul><h3><strong>Other astronomical objects</strong></h3><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49826">Inner Solar System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49832">Artificial</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49820">Near Earth Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49291">Main Belt Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49829">Jovian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49828">Saturn System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49830">Uranian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49345">Neptunian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49827">Centaurs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49833">Comets</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49341">Trans Neptunian Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49824">Extrasolar Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49837">Sky Maps</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49831">Ancient</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49822">Speculative</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49821">Science Fiction</a></p>