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Re: Fighter Launch Rack and other Hangar Bay Questions
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:15:42 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Bill Jackson writes:
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> By the way, do you think capital ships should be able to carry other capital
> ships?
Your fleet; you make the call. Though eventually there'll be a ship that can't
be contained by what's considered a 'vessel', so you might want to re-consider
your nomenclature as it pertains to your milieu. Mobile stations (a la Death
Star et. al.) are, of course, another (tasty) subject :)
> 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?
Feasible, shmeasible. It depends on the scale and purpose of your operation.
> The
> Eclipse Star Destroyer could hold an entire Star Destroyer in its docking
> bay.
I don't know if the Eclipse was the only ship in it's class, but even if it
was, I can well imagine the term "capital" being removed to the larger vessel
once it was built.
> Is it reasonable to build a very large capital ship with a small force
> of strike cruisers inside the hangar?
IMO, the size of the force depends on how good those strike cruisers are.
Just for argument's sake: does each strike cruiser have fighter squadrons of
its own? If the capital ship holds 4 strike cruisers, and each cruiser has 4
squadrons of 6 fighters, would that be enough? That's 64 fighters per capital
ship then.
Even then, I can't imagine cruisers and fighters being the only protection for
the capital ship. I would suspect it has turrets, cannons and torpedoes of its
own.
I also could imagine that the strike cruisers could offer some protection,
though probly none if they were pretty much enclosed in a hangar. But they
could be docked differently. What if while docked, they had a side exposed:
that side could have at least one turret mounted on it that could be
automatically controlled by the larger ship.
Just some thoughts.
-Tom McD.
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