Lexx length

I think the LEXX measurements are accurate, from what I recall of the measurements of the scale drawings.

The measurements for the Megashadow and the
Foreshadow seem broadly accurate.

Nevertheless, it does seem to me that the measurements for the Gigashadow and the Cluster are way too small by an order of
magnitude.

I had the impression that The Cluster was
a fair sized world or planetoid. Recall the scenes where the prison transports fly in
under the covered portion of the planet, passing over an immense city, including an ampitheatre built to the scale of the LEXX, with the LEXX itself a figure in the background.

The Cluster appears to be an airless moonlike world, so there’s very little reference for size.

The Gigashadow’s voice refers to burying itself in a small planetoid. Which would
support the tiny worldlet contention.

Also, given the motivation for centering
the Divine Order on The Cluster, the size
of the planet was irrelevant. The modern
equivalent would be the Catholic Church ruling a planet spanning religious order from the postage stamp sized “Vatican State”
in Rome.

Still, my impression was that The Cluster was a world somewhere between lunar and terrestrial sizes.

While you’ve been quite astute in analysing images, I’m not sure that there are adequate images which properly place the LEXX and Gigashadow in perspective to each other.
Unless the two objects are physically in contact, all referents are unreliable. I don’t think that the Gigashadow’s ‘tendril’
which may not be wholly material, is a reliable inference.

The other thing is that the Beans aren’t necessarily masters of their own scale. Numerous examples – FX producer Willie Stevenson objected to the 10 km size of the LEXX, feeling that geography scales made it too unwieldy, an aircraft carrier size would have been better. – There was considerable argument over how high the Cities on Fire were, originally scripts called for them to be 15 km, but arts department objected, arguing that from that height, you wouldn’t even see the ground, you’d be poking out of atmosphere and curvature of the horizon would be pronounced. Height was reduced to
5 km and then 3 km. David Haackl, the designer, said it only looked about 1 km. But in Tunnels, Stan and Xev report walking down 40,000 steps, which implies at least 8 to 11 ll. – Or how about this, Texx LEXX, the LEXX destroys pluto from Earth in about a minute. Problem, LEXX’s beam moves slowly enough that Kai was able to dodge it in a moth from relatively close range, which suggests its moving at light or sublight speeds. But Pluto is six light hours away. It should have taken Stan 12 hours from the time he gave the order to the time he saw his result. – Or, in Web/Net/End, the LEXX is able to fly to The Center of the Universe in only a few days from wherever it was. It’s also able to search out every apparent doorway/bruise/node between the Universes before fleeing. Those have to be vast distances.

Overall, I think the beans attitude is that they haven’t worried overmuch about stuff like this, and there may be similar lack of proportion crawling in as became problematic in King Kong or 20 Million Miles to Earth.

So, if the question is how long is the LEXX,
that’s been answered by the beans. The size of the Megashadow can be extrapolated by comparing the hologram shadows of the LEXX and Megashadow together.

The size of the Foreshadow can be worked backwards, starting with Kai’s size, which allows us to estimate the size of the Stinger, which allows us to estimate the size of the Control unit it plunges into, which allows us to estimate the total size of the Foreshadow’s span.

But the Cluster and the Gigashadow? I think the ground gets shaky all of a sudden. The description in the script might be very specific but not wholly consistent with the images on screen, or the understanding of the parties.

Does the LEXX move like a 10 km object?

I may just have to go back and ask someone about this.