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Ender wrote:Borrowed it from a guy at work who snuck off the ship to pick it up (much like I am doing now)

Ok. Not great, not crap, but ok. some intersting technical information, and we get some new star dreadnoughts

What sort of Star Dreadnoughts?

Funny that EU authors are going gaga over Star Dreadnoughts now.

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Ender wrote:Borrowed it from a guy at work who snuck off the ship to pick it up (much like I am doing now)

Ok. Not great, not crap, but ok. some intersting technical information, and we get some new star dreadnoughts

What sort of Star Dreadnoughts?

Funny that EU authors are going gaga over Star Dreadnoughts now.

Don't let your hopes get up. From what I've heard it is only twice as powerful as an ImpStar.

FTeik wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:

Ender wrote:Borrowed it from a guy at work who snuck off the ship to pick it up (much like I am doing now)

Ok. Not great, not crap, but ok. some intersting technical information, and we get some new star dreadnoughts

What sort of Star Dreadnoughts?

Funny that EU authors are going gaga over Star Dreadnoughts now.

Don't let your hopes get up. From what I've heard it is only twice as powerful as an ImpStar.

No, when it i sitting there ideling it is tenatively classified as such, which means only that its idleing power is double that if an Imperial. Which says a lot about its crewing, not its peak power strength. Peak power, 3 of them were going to be enough to smash through a fleet large enough to blockade 5 worlds.

They are described as several times longer then a Hapan battle dragon and egg shaped, which gives them an astounding volume and proportionate power. Its hard to make an argument that they aren't badasses - if "several" only means 3x and they are 1/3rd as wide and all as they are long they ae already more powerful then an Executor.

Ender wrote:

FTeik wrote:

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote: What sort of Star Dreadnoughts?

Funny that EU authors are going gaga over Star Dreadnoughts now.

Don't let your hopes get up. From what I've heard it is only twice as powerful as an ImpStar.

No, when it i sitting there ideling it is tenatively classified as such, which means only that its idleing power is double that if an Imperial. Which says a lot about its crewing, not its peak power strength. Peak power, 3 of them were going to be enough to smash through a fleet large enough to blockade 5 worlds.

They are described as several times longer then a Hapan battle dragon and egg shaped, which gives them an astounding volume and proportionate power. Its hard to make an argument that they aren't badasses - if "several" only means 3x and they are 1/3rd as wide and all as they are long they ae already more powerful then an Executor.

Interesting. Are there any quotes on how they perform against other ships?

FTeik wrote:

Ender wrote:

FTeik wrote: Don't let your hopes get up. From what I've heard it is only twice as powerful as an ImpStar.

No, when it i sitting there ideling it is tenatively classified as such, which means only that its idleing power is double that if an Imperial. Which says a lot about its crewing, not its peak power strength. Peak power, 3 of them were going to be enough to smash through a fleet large enough to blockade 5 worlds.

They are described as several times longer then a Hapan battle dragon and egg shaped, which gives them an astounding volume and proportionate power. Its hard to make an argument that they aren't badasses - if "several" only means 3x and they are 1/3rd as wide and all as they are long they ae already more powerful then an Executor.

Interesting. Are there any quotes on how they perform against other ships?

I returned the book, but basically, 3 of them were mauling the crap out of entire fleets.

Is it that Correllian ship or some GFFA ship?

Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Is it that Correllian ship or some GFFA ship?

Corellian

I have the feeling that the Corellians and the Alliance are going to make a play for the Remnant's allegiance next.

It looks like COMPFORCE has returned in Tempest. So one of the things that I found remotely palatable about the NR/GA has been overturned.

Ender wrote:They are described as several times longer then a Hapan battle dragon and egg shaped, which gives them an astounding volume and proportionate power. Its hard to make an argument that they aren't badasses - if "several" only means 3x and they are 1/3rd as wide and all as they are long they ae already more powerful then an Executor.

several times larger as I recall, not specifically 'longer", but the egg-shape does give them tremendously greater internal volume, yes.

It should also be noted these "dreadnaughts" (they weren't literally referred to as battleships, they used the same misspelling) were optimized for powerful, short-ranged duelling (they were meant to get up close into the enemy's ranks and fuck them up badly.) The egg-shaped design could easily facilitate a very large powerplant (or series of powerplants) without it being exposed, and "shorter-ranged" turbolasers probably lack the long barrles or bulky turrets we would associate with heavy weapons (giving them a shorter range but also allowing more of them to be packed into a given volume, sort of like a Carronade I suppose.) Or atlernately they, like the Separatists went with projectile "turbolaserS" (shorter ranged but can pack a more powerful punch.)

I'm sure just how "tenative" you can consider the "twicec as powerful as an ISD" term, though and stretch that into "battleship grade" firepower. At most it migth be an order of magnitude off, at best. (