> On Apr 22, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:05 AM, <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say x3 is a more common ratio.
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> If we want to keep our putative "obsolescent battlecruiser" smaller than a canon dreadnought, then ~150Kdton is better.
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> I really don't see what the author wanted with a million displacement ton vessel. Even if we figure the fighters at 20 dtons (heavy fighters rather then basic light ones), hanger space for three hundred would still run less than a 1Kdton. Maybe it was supposed to be both a fighter carrier and a fleet tanker?

The Head of the Presidium said “I want a battleship of “...sticks little finger in cheek...“One Meeelyun tons!” so they bolted enough obsolete ships together to make a very impressive-looking ‘battleship’ ‘

Wonder if they told him it had a ‘wave motion gun’ too :-P

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