On 9/6/20 3:39 am, Postmark - postmark.design at btinternet.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> 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
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Per the writeup, 30 kdton displacement, and one of (if not) the biggest
and shootiest battlewagons around for the era:

"Still, their sheer size, toughness, and firepower made them queens of
the battlefield for over a century"