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Re: Fighter Launch Rack and other Hangar Bay Questions
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In article <FsIw0I.Bw2@lugnet.com>, Bob Jackson <omegax@newrealm.net> wrote:
> By the way, do you think capital ships should be able to carry other capital
> ships? The larger ship would have to be a truly great size and the smaller
> ship would have to be a frigate or gunboat class, but is it feasible? The
> Eclipse Star Destroyer could hold an entire Star Destroyer in its docking
> bay. Is it reasonable to build a very large capital ship with a small force
> of strike cruisers inside the hangar?
While I don't see any reason to declare "capital ships cannot carry other
capital ships", my imagination can't come up with a reason why one would
bother. I can understand the idea of "docking" two ships together, but why
would one devote a huge amount of space simply toward enclosing another
ship that is itself already enclosed? Similarly, once you've moved it
into this enclosed area, what do you do with it? Grab it with that very
same docking collar you were going to use before? Or "land" the ship on the
deck, though capital ships aren't often designed to "land" on things?
Enclosing the space would allow one to pressurize it so minifigs could work
on the ships without space-suits, but I doubt that would really be worth the
expense. Similarly, if it were, would it make more sense to have this
thing be part of another ship, or simply its own structure orbitting some
planet?
I've done some work towards building a carrier bay that could handle my
"Galactic Mediator++" (it's similar in design to the Galactic Mediator,
but twice the length and twice the width), and the sheer scale of that was
way too big for my meager lego collection. And I don't consider the GM++
to be a capital ship...
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) The best reason I could think of to carry a Capital ship would be if you were using rules about jump drives/hyperspace engines and fuel taking up significant amounts of space, ala old Traveller. In Traveller, a ship carrying a normal amount of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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| Does anyone have any ideas for a fighter launch rack? I saw one onboard a huge microfig carrier on this Japanese site and it looked very cool. It consisted of a weird technic contraption with the fighters attached to it. I'm building a carrier for (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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