On 8 Jun 2020, at 15:10, Alex Goodwin <xxxxxx@multitel.com.au> wrote:
>
> Described in pp 217-8 of GT: Interstellar Wars, we get a description of
> a vessel capable of standing in the main line of battle with big bang
> bangs (spinal meson cannon, repulsor arrays, 2x bay fusion guns, 5x
> heavy turrets with 2 fusion guns apiece) and toting a "double-strength
> squadron" of 20 laser-armed fighters.
>
> Going over to TVTropes entry "The Battlestar"
> (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBattlestar):
>
> "Instead, the flagship of the future becomes something that encompasses
> both artillery and piloting tropes: a hybrid carrier/battleship. It has
> the heavy armor and big guns of a battleship, along with the fighters
> and point defense weapons of a carrier."
>
> Have I overcooked things or are the _Indomitable_-class ships actually
> battlestars under the TVTropes definition?

I don’t know how big a battleship is in the IW period, but the Indomitable sounds more like a strike carrier than a dreadnought and a multi-role dreadnought (eg Tigress) sounds more like a battlestar.

Phil Kitching