Re: Sa'Vasku Ship Lifecycle
From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 11:49:40 +1000
Subject: Re: Sa'Vasku Ship Lifecycle
G'day guys
>The concept of "mating dreadnoughts" is a bit boggling.
>Perhaps, given the owners' origin, they arrange things
>analogously to fish, ie the female lays corvette-sized eggs,
>then male provides fighter-sized bits of its replicative coding.
Now that's a mating rush I want to keep WELL clear of!!!!! Something
like
that could close space lanes ;)
Mind you I'd always though of the SV ships as being distinct to the
SV...
but then I guess my future counterpart was one of the jobs lost in the
OUSIRO's latest funding cutbacks ;)
Beth
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