On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

. . . and I always wondered about the ships in that article...the BB Fair Phyllis seemed rather...tame...compared to an Imperial DN with its spinal mounts and myriad of bay weapons.

Although it is true that the adventure claims that the Fair Phyllis is a "first line battleship" and that it's accompanied by "enough support craft to take on an empire," the text is also very careful to refer to "the interstellar government" rather than to the Empire.

So it's possible that the "government" in question is actually that of an Imperial client state. And this state has bought an obsolescent hand-me-down IN battlecruiser which it *calls* a "battleship" for pride's sake. :)