CG is great and everything, but am I the only one who thinks the EG pic is better? I'll clean the FF pic up either way, but it's not no texture, and it's just...sitting there. The EG pic has action! CooperTFN 19:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- The CG image's legs look too stumpy, too. And I don't know if I'm the only one, but does the EG seem to make the droid too short? I was alwas under the impression that it stood on actual ground and stood at least as high as the upper levels. Commander Mike 19:14, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
These images definitely do not represent what is described in X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
The droids in the book:
- Had a maw into which the old building would enter.
- Could demolish on one end while the other built the new building.
- Had ancilary droids for some tasks.
The images in the article clearly do not match that. Besides, the droids shown would have to stop for a speeder to land. In Wedge's Gamble, that was not required. The speeder carrying the rebels simply landed. Someone then came out and demanded they leave. Will (talk -- contribs) 04:20, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- The maw is located underneath the cylindrical battering ram, and the pictured droid does indeed have two ends for demolition and construction. The landing pad is the disk located on the demolision end, on top of the "head." As for the ancilary droids, I don't see any problem. They just aren't seen in these images.--Darth OblivionComlink
05:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I know the pad is there. The problem is the droid's pad is not stable while the droid is working. All speeders would have to be secured to the pad with cables or something. Furthermore, the book had the droid building a new computer center while stimulously attacking a computer center that was presumably several miles away. No matter how you look at it, the droid has to dwarf the buildings it is working on. Will (talk -- contribs) 06:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Give us a break please. Who cares that the images don't coordinate with the novel. Whoever wrote the book had a different idea than whoever drew the image. For the last time Mr Will Pittenger, please accept that Star Wars is fictional and written by various people who don't always agree. MyNz 06:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- What did you want broken? Seriously, since Stackpole's novel invented the concept, his version takes priority in my mind. Did he approve the image? If not him, how about George Lucas? Perhaps a construction driod appeared in a movie. That would make it G-Level canon -- which novels, even those that predate the movie are not supposed to contradict. Will (talk -- contribs) 04:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Were not removing the images just because you don't accept them as canon.--Darth OblivionComlink
04:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I dont remember "several miles" or several "klicks" ever being mentioned source the page please. I would be glad to see it.SargeLIVES 00:05, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't to nit-pick, but which source says that the EVS construction droid is 200 meters tall like it says in the sidebar? All three RPG books (Jedi Academy Sourcebook from WEG, Coruscant And The Core Worlds from d20, and Threats Of The Galaxy from SE) all indicate that the droid is "40 stories" tall. If that holds true, then the droid stand about 120 meters tall (based on a story being almost exactly 3 meters), not 200 meters.
Even if we set aside the pictures for artistic license (the YT-1300 is just shy of 35 meters length, and the color picture from Threats makes the EVS droid seem only about 70-80 meters tall), it still seems awfully odd to say that this droid stood taller than the Nebulon-B Frigate (by over 10 stories even). Even with the landing pad on top, 120 meters seems more reasonable, and is still amazingly huge (it would be as tall as about 5 or 6 sandcrawlers stacked up).
Like I said, this seems like a minor detail, but I wanted the best info on it available for personal use, and the sidebar was contradicting other sources I had. If someone can just confirm the height from a one or more novel sources, I'd like to possibly correct the height entry to reflect the more accurate stat. --Eindrachen (talk) 22:58, February 8, 2013 (UTC)
Eindrachen I know for CERTAIN that when it appears in the Jedi Academy Trilogy the height is stated to be 40 Stories. I only jsut read it last week. I have no idea if you'll even know I put this here three years later SargeLIVES (talk) 09:17, January 1, 2016 (UTC)