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Subject:	Re: Defining the term "Capital Ship"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space
Date:	Sat, 31 Aug 2002 05:00:41 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jude Beaudin writes: > What is the minimum length (studs) of a 'capital ship'? I follow the Shipyards (Jon Palmer's) site minimum stud lengh specification of 75-100 studs. Given some of the ships out there, it should probably be over 100 studs at this point, but that would cut a lot of people out of the cap ship building realm. My caps exceed 100 studs normally. > > Can a 'capital ship' land on a planet? I don't think it should be able to land. That's what elaborate landing craft are for. As stated earlier, the energy costs are not worth the effort. > Does a 'capital ship' have to carry smaller craft? Nope. > What functions can a 'capital ship' serve in? Just about anything, ranging from military to research (civilian or military) to economic (civilian) or even as mass transports such as long range colony or city ships. > What would be the minimum crew complement of a 'capital ship'? For some of the smaller minifig scale ships - as low as 10-20 men, do to brick quantity constraints. More realistically, a micro-scale capital ship would have 50-100 and much much more. > Have you built a 'capital ship'? > If so, please give a URL to some pictures. I have built several minifig scale capital ships: http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/index.html (main link) Ships: http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDFConstitution.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDFHercules.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/Mtron_archer.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDFBailey.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDFOsiris.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDF_IT420.html http://home.cogeco.ca/~tpruden3/TDF_IP560.html more pics for these ships can be found on my brickself account: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=tpruden

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		Re: Defining the term "Capital Ship"
"Trevor Pruden" <trevor_pruden@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H1oz95.CKr@lugnet.com... (...) specification (...) the (...) effort. (...) In StarWars technology, they use repulsorlifts for planitary travel, and sublight engines for space travel. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)

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		Defining the term "Capital Ship"
For the sake of this discusion, all LEGO ships refered too should be minifig scale. What is the minimum length (studs) of a 'capital ship'? Can a 'capital ship' land on a planet? Can it take off again? Does a 'capital ship' have to carry smaller (...) (23 years ago, 29-Aug-02, to lugnet.space)

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