Re: Capital Ships (AKA Huge Freakin' Ships)

On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Eugene Shumu1insky wrote:

>       Wow!

    Hope that's a good Wow...

>       I just have one question:  If the big ships (Leviathans) stay out
> for less than eight months and then come home, where do they go too?

    This will depend on a person's individual campaign.  In my own, each
of the spheres that the elves have a major presence in has a base, which
the Armadas return to regularly.  The bases are all in space, somtimes
orbitting a planet, sometimes free-floating.  Most are constructed from
multiple Men o' War fused together, like the base mentioned in Realmspace
(and in Space Lairs, though they term it an Armada).

> Ships this size should probably be self-cantained biospheres, and act as
> immoble (barely mobile) stations.  IHMO, of course... (:

    They certainly could be, but what's the fun in that? :)  It kind of
defeats the reasons I created them.  That's why I have bases as well as
the larger Armadas.  Besides, if they were to be used as bases, I doubt
that they would be build along the same lines


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