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Just because you like huge ships, doesn't mean you can really call 1 km long dreadnaughts 'weenies.' While you can build at most a few dozen of your dreadnaughts, I could build a couple of hundred of mine.

I have approximately 4200 ships in my offensive fleets, excluding fighters, but including armed transports and carriers. Someone has to hold extra missiles and other supplies.

Remember that I had armour long before shields, so I still put a lot of emphasis on armour.

Moontian Defence Contractors has finally developed a fleet of shielded ships. These ships have been tested and have been in secret production for a short time, enough to build up defences on all Moontian Empire worlds. Here are the stats, except for speed and acceleration, which are still classified...

Damn, that's just a little bigger than my new cruiser.

An interesting idea, JJR.
As for the power plants, the shields take up a lot of power, and so require one for itself. The anti-matter weapons need to get their anti-matter from somewhere too. There are two spare plants, to be used just in case something happened with one of the others.

Hyperspatial Travel wrote:I would expect it to be a frickin' huge leaf. One that ran away when it was attacked by enemies, and explained that it followed 'the way of the leaf' when it was called to account for running away.

Perhaps a trefoil lleaf, to represent Avendesora.

Damn, your super dreadnaught seems to me more like a small colony just wandering around the universe.

So someone else has been reading Robert Jordan's work.

Speed and acceleration are low. Most of my ships have acceleration up to 7 g's, and these dreadnoughts are only half that.

I currently have something like 9200 ships in my main fleets, including a small experimental one, but something like 6300 of them are fighters brought in by 90 carriers, and another 960 or so are FTL capable fighters.