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Re: Favorite ship?

Graeme Lennon (graeme@balefire.net)
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:13:35 -0400 (EDT)


> On purely aesthetic grounds (ie disregarding whose ship it is) is everyone's 
> favorite ship?

I don't really know enough of the ships by name to say, I'm afraid.

> On a more serious note, is there any information on the two sides' ship 
> design doctrine?  Or is this area completely open to speculation?  Looking 
> over the sizes, I can only marvel at how incredibly huge some of the 
> Alliance flagships are and the number of cannons they carry and wonder at 
> what the rationale behind them was.

I don't think we know enough about how their technology works to work out
what their design doctrines are. For instance, it's obvious that
traditional fuel-to-mass ratio limitations are't really a large factor!

(Hank, Lee: I'm back! I'll see you on IRC once I get my computer hooked up
-- I'm writing this from work.)

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