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    I hate that I just sat and did a spot the difference on these images. I feel like I am propping up a stereotype.

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        The three things I spotted were hangar bay has a fin type thing above it, there’s an extra bit on the rear of the “neck” from saucer to engineering hill and the position and rake of the pylons is shorter on the Nemesis version which brings the nacelles forward a touch and opens up the rear of the engineering hill a bit.

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          A little fin, shoulder pads, and a bit more junk in the trunk.

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      Meh, embrace the stereotype. I love being a Trekkie stickler. I’m also now annoyed that I realize there’s a difference. :/

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      The difference is actually a bit more noticeable, as the Imperial II communications tower definitely had a different design from the Imperial I tractor beam array (on top of the bridge). The other differences between both are probably not even visible. Victory I and Victory II on the other hand, I’m not sure about the visual differences.

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        Doesn’t the victory 1 have the giant “wings” in an x shape in the side and the victory 2 doesn’t?

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          Both versions have the atmospheric maneuvering surfaces.

          Can they really open up outside of fanart? In all official artworks I’ve seen they look pretty connected and rigid.

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            Oh wild. I didn’t even know the victory 1 and 2 were canon tbh. I was thinking of it from Tie Fighter.

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          The big difference in the models are the landing gears. In A New Hope there are only three. After that, there are five.

          I don’t know about the missing hallway, but now I’m curious.

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            I can’t find it anymore, but I think it was something about the second hallway to the main cargo bay.

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    I never knew there was a difference. Is it just the nacelle placement and the little “hump” just aft of the saucer?

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          form drag is proportional to:

          • The denisty of the medium.
          • The velocity of the moving body (squared).

          Interstellar space might be very undense, peaking at about 10^-15 kg/m^3…

          However the enterprise E is very fast, with warp 9.9 being approx 20,000 c or 6 * 10^13 m/s, and that matters twice as much

          This puts the overall cosmodymanic forces at Cd * 3.6 * 10^12 N/m^2 or approximately the same as experienced by a Sandworm going mach 30.

          So sure why not, Einstein and Newton are dead so can’t complain, and I’m pretty sure I could beat up Bill Nye.

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      Moving mass towards the center to reduce rotational inertia and increase manoeuvrability! Little changes can bring great improvements in space battles.

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      checkout out the treball channel on youtube; they did an entire one hour episode on the differences. tldr: they’re all extremely minor and there’s lots of them.