Starkiller Base scaled one in ten million

Originally published here: Starkiller Base scaled one in ten million by tato_713 - Thingiverse

The new version of the Death Star; an unnamed, Pokeball shaped "planet" covered by snow, decorated with mountains, and wrapped in a Earth like atmosphere, used as a mobile base with a huge fisure for carring a massive weapon, that appears in the film Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. It is said to be 660 km in diameter, similar to that of small moons of Saturn: Mimas (the Death Star mimic moon) and Enceladus. 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 Vesta, the second biggest object in the Main Asteroid Belt. 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.

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 one in four million scale Starkiller base with the one in two million scale 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).

The file's names explained:name_1_x_10_y.stl is 1 : x* 10y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.

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References

• Surf to STL function for MATLAB
• The video of the base firing and the one of the base being destroyed, used for the reconstruction.

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