ImperialFighter said:
We didn't actually include it here, but the 'Shuttle' element that is seen dropping down in 'Jedi', could actually also be included here, since it could perhaps indicate how Vader 'travelled down' to the surface....
Adywan - as far as the sequence of speculative 'mock-ups' shown on page 108 are concerned, I've just noticed that amongst all my comments, that this one is incorrect. Vader's personal Shuttle wouldn't in fact be seen exiting from this standard Stardestroyer's bay, because if he actually went down to the surface in his Shuttle, it would of course have exited from the 'Executor' Superstardestroyer that he was aboard at this point! Sorry for the confusion there.
As far as the rest of the sequence, I didn't think these earlier shots of the 'Imperial Fleet' would be needed as far as the 'mock-ups' shown were concerned, but just to clarify some things, here's a couple of thoughts about the scenes in the movie involving the 'Fleet, that came before Shot 1 on page 108) -
This earlier shot in the movie seems to show just some of the overall 'Imperial Fleet' (as there are other Stardestroyers scattered around various star 'systems' in the Galaxy, including the one that 'seeded' the 'probes'....), which are 'gathering in close proximity of each other', in a random order. There are 6 Stardestroyers shown in total here, including the one whose Command structure is passing closely 'overhead' -
....in the very next shot (which is shown below), that comes immediately after the one above, we see the 'closely passing overhead' Stardestroyer being 'shadowed' by what turns out to be the massive 'Executor' overhead. However, in this shot, we can now see an additional 2 Stardestroyers in the distance, heading in the same direction of travel as the 'shadowed' Stardestroyer. These 2 Stardestroyers are therefore not part of the 5 distant ones that were seen in the previous shot, shown above. Therefore, we have now seen a total of 8 Stardestroyers in this area of grouping, and still have the 'Executor' to see, which now gives us a final total of 9 ships that can be seen to make up this particular part of the 'Imperial Fleet'....
....in none of these other remaining early shots of the Fleet (shown below, where we see the 'Executor', and where Vader is seen observing the Fleet), do we get an indication that there are more than these 9 ships seen so far, except that the distant RIGHT-pointing Stardestroyer in the 'Executor' shot could be argued as being a 10th one -
....whether 9 or 10, there is certainly no more than that indicated in the movie, and it is not clear if all of these 'random-facing' Stardestroyers even ended up being ordered to escort the 'Executor' to the Rebel Hoth Planet or not.... The rest of the shots in the movie (as seen in Shot 1 onwards on page 108) do not seem to indicate many either, and the 'mock-ups' were done to reflect this. Even if all the 9 or 10 ships which comprised the 'Executor's' Fleet were ordered to head for the Hoth 'system', there is not a huge armada of them. The 'mock-ups' were merely intended to show a bit more of the few Stardestroyers we know about, in a way that didn't require a huge amount of 'additions', while still reflecting the fact that they were probably spread apart a good bit from each other, once they reached the Hoth Planet in question,
As far as the TIE shots in the sequence, the only reason they were also added was because of Adywan's previous hint that he may place a TIE in the background of one of the 'floating city' shots..... The 'balcony' one to be exact. So just for fun, the floating city TIE addition was added too, as a precursor to several other shots that are ready to 'mock-up' at some future time, that would follow-on from Shot 48 (the last shot where we see Luke's X-wing approaching Bespin), and which would show several potential points in the floating city scenes, where a glimpse of 3 'Executor' TIEs and some subtle extra floating city 'air traffic' could be shown also.... The one shown passing the window behind Vader and Boba was intended to be the first 'possible appearance' of the 3 TIEs, to convey the overpowering 'Imperial presence' that arrived before the Falcon did, and was to be the start of this second (much shorter) sequence....again, just as a bit of 'speculation'.
However, even doubleofive doesn't know that yet, so I'll have to see what he says first!.... ;)