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Re: Nano-fig Cap-ships, Construction complete!!!
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 10 May 2000 17:33:17 GMT
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JSPROAT@IO.nospamCOM
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Kama Uzinama wrote:
> Are capital ships supposed to look like a very wierd combonationof a
> Submarine, a babylon 5 cruiser, and a star wars ship?
Barbara asked me that same questions just last week! ;-)
A capital ship merely means that it's *huge*, and is supposed to sustain a
significant amount of abuse from the enemy. (1) A modern naval battleship is
a capital ship. A Coast Guard cutter probably isn't. I'm not sure, but I
would personally not classify most submarines as capital ships.
In a space theme, any ship massing over (e.g.) a kajillion tons could be
considered a capital ship, regardless of what it looks like. In Star Wars, a
Star Destroyer is a capital ship, but the Millenium Falcon isn't. In Star
Trek, the Enterprise is a capital ship, but a shuttlecraft isn't. In B5, a
Narn cruiser is a capital ship, but a light transport shuttle isn't.
Since starship models are notoriously difficult to judge in scale, any model
you or I make could be argued to be a capital ship.
HTH.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. American Heritage Dictionary sez, "a warship of the largest class, such as
a battleship or an aircraft carrier."
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Never leave a ferret to do a bunny's job.
- Bun Bun
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| (...) ...I would add a capital ship can operate independently for significant periods of time. Large monitor type ships that help defend a given planet IMHO are not capital ships, despite the fact that they are in general very large. Even the (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.build)
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