On 9/6/20 12:39 pm, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
> On 6/8/2020 10:10 AM, Alex Goodwin 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?
>
> If that's a "battlestar", I'd hate to see what happened when it met
> something along the lines of a Tigress.
>
> Are there "battlestar" style ships in Traveller?  Yes.  That ship,
> however, is a piker.
>
Fair enough Kurt - there is a small matter of 3500 odd years or so
between the two designs.  I doubt ships much over 100kdton were even
_considered_ in the IW era.
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