Re: [FT]Modular Ships

[ship modularity]
> >There is a reason that no wet navy has tried this, even though it is
> >nice on paper.
> 
> Ummm... the very successful MEKO classes of German Corvettes, Frigates
and
> Destroyers have been using this for years. And the Danish STANFLEX
corvettes
> 
> take this to extremes.

While y'all are fixated on the wet navy analogies right now, don't
forget we're discussing a space combat game...and given the topic
of modularity in space, may I point out my favorite topic - The
Hubble Space Telescope. It was *designed* to be modular, completely,
and has had several successful Servicing Missions in which components
were swapped out and new ones swapped in. This is the forerunner for
how space craft are likely to be designed (at least multi-role space-
craft or those easily serviceable given the resources of the day, at any
rate;
NGST will not be modularly designed if anyone's interested).

Okay, I'll grant you that HST isn't a warship and the only combat it
has seen has been with micrometeorites, but I think the basic idea of
modularity holds itself in good stead here.

Mk