RE: RE-Starfire designs

They may be a bit small, but it's necessary for the sense of scale.  If
they're too big, they become too effective for a "throwaway" unit. 
For Allied ships to be comparable they just require building using
similar
masses.  It's not necessary to be strict in the FT class
interpretations.
(look at Honor Harrington; it's more of a log scale than a linear scale
in
the class differences).

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bif smith [SMTP:bif@bifsmith.fsnet.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:40 AM
> 
> Bug light cruisers?
> mass=40??
> bit small? more like a DD to me.
> 
> ps- I realise if you are using no FTL, mass 40 makes sense. But you
still
> need to compare them to FT ships, and it was the humans who said that
they
> were "light cruiser SIZED ship", not exactly light cruisers, but the
same
> size (roughly).
> 
>