Re: Favorite ship?
Josh Yuan (jjyuan@yahoo.com)
Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
Well I forgot the name, but it is the red flag ship of
Kircheis fleet. And the Imperial Fighter.
On naval design doctrine, we could only speculate.
But if you have played Traveller or it's variations
and used the Fire Fusion Tech design souce book, you
could draw some similarity. I think the war ship are
made up of 7 primary parts. 0:Anti Grav Engines
1:Sublight Engines 2:FTL Drives 3:Primary Weapons
4:Secondary Weapons 5:Fighter/shuttles Bays 6:Troop
quarters.
The FPA Fleet:
The FPA fleet's design doctrine could be seen as
"maximum firepower". I don't think they have Anti
Grav Engines. Since they use shuttles to move troops
between planet side to the ships. (ofcouse this could
also be done to minimize maintance on ships) This
allow Aliance ships to use the extra space for Shuttle
bays and weapons. Their Sublight drives and FTL
drives is probably similar to the Imperials. Because
they dispense with the Gravity drives Aliances ship
could carry more primary and secondary weapons. Some
fighters are carried but FPA use carriers for fighter
support. (Reason why they always forget to launch
them?) Don't know what is the troop complement of the
ships. Basically FPA warships are just that warships.
They are build to destroy enemy ships.
Imperial
Imperial doctrine is base on utility and control.
Their ships have the full complement of drives so they
could land their ships and dis/embark troops and
supplies. (Quicker turn around time to prepare ships
for combat.) Ofcouse this mean ship for ship Imperial
ships carry less weapons than FPA ships.(They probably
skim on the secondary lasers, and keep the same number
of primary Partical cannons.) But the ships could be
use for other duties when not in combat, unlike the
FPA's battle only ships. They carry more fighters
(Oh, no carrier strike here.) Imperial ships are
design to control large territories. Each ship could
function alone, with it's own fighter support. Being
able to land on planets also mean they could do force
landings where troops could be safely disembarked.
After all planetary rebellions usually wouldn't have
thousands of warships sitting in space to contest the
fleet, but ground forces could shot down landing
shuttles. And if you are a rebel, what would you
think when you see a giant black ship the size of a
skyscraper flying down toward you with guns blazing?
--Josh
--- Justin Ho wrote:
> On purely aesthetic grounds (ie disregarding whose
> ship it is) is everyone's
> favorite ship?
>
> My usual indecisive self has 3: Brunhild (sleek)
> Parcival (like a bird or
> manta ray) Hyperion (elegance in its functionality)
>
>
> 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.
>
> Justin
>
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