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Re: Nano-fig Cap-ships, Construction complete!!!
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 12 May 2000 14:08:28 GMT
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in article 563lhssqq1lktjgvqpc3aptsgd2ov47hmp@4ax.com, Stephen F Roberts at
wubwub@wildlink.com wrote on 5/11/00 4:44 AM:
> Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
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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.
>
> ...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 largest Coast
> Guard ship is
> not a capital ship since its designed more to stay close to home rather than
> operate
> independently away from us.
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> ...Capital ships often lead fleets of smaller ships (destroyers, cruisers, and
> related).
> They often singularly represent a government's presence in a region. Thus
> carriers are
> capital ships, but submarines and cruisers are not. If a cruiser or sub pulls
> into port,
> its nice and all, but when a carrier pulls into port, its a _whole_ different
> ball game...
Hoo-rah to that! 8)
Ben
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