Well the Scimitar appears to be slightly smaller than the D'deridex warbirds that make up the backbone of the Romulan Starfleet. So construction material wise they would require slightly less material. The main costs for the Scimiatar would be it's powerful shield generator, large number of disruptors and torpedo launchers. The Thalaron beam weapon is probobly expensive too.Thanas wrote:However, the resources it must have taken to create a ship that huge were not worth the cost. How many warbirds could have bee build instead?
Scimitar with competent captain & crew
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I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
Wasn't it about 10 times bigger?
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Perhaps. But if he doesn't have Romulan art to examine before the battle, he's fucked.Master of Ossus wrote:I doubt it. GAT has god-like abilities, but he needs something to work with. Also, he tends to do much better with groups of ships than with a single ship at his command.Praxis wrote:We could put Grand Admiral Thrawn in a slow, battered, barely maneuverable garbage scow that barely can knick an asteroid with its weapon (notice not plural). Do you think Thrawn could defeat a warship in that (without ramming it into anything)?
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Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)