Re: [FT] Wacky question - non-FTL Carrier

Alexander Williams wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Jon Davis wrote:
> > Sounds like a fine idea, but you probably won't see them
> > in a backwater colony or system.  A system defense carrier
> > would be a major colony/homeworld asset.
> 
> It seems just the sort of thing
> you /would/ give to a new colony you're courting for your space
> empire.  Non-FTL, to keep costs down, relatively "low tech" so
> maintainance can be done locally, high-manpower/low-tech to further
> that agenda, and its a fine gift.

>From an infrastructure sense, they are a new colony.  From a political
sense, if a major power is wooing them, then any fleet resource is 
possible.  A small system defense carrier would be more mobile from 
a local and strategic vantage point.  I can't see it carrying more than 
four fighters groups for economy reasons, but your views may vary.

> Further, if you have a purely solar power, one limited to one solar
> system, its one of the means of force projection they'll already be
> using on a regular basis.

Do you mean a system without FTL technology?  Or a preexisting ship
prior to FTL acquisition?  It could be both.  

BTW, my name is spelled 'Jon'.	Thanks.