Re: Rant Warning below

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> My understanding is that Straczynski and Ellison intended to use naval
> terms, but didn't actually know them well enough to use them correctly
> and didn't bother to hire an advisor.

Pretty much, yeah. And JMS even stated in one of his posts that
he thought "destroyer" sounded neater than "cruiser" (after all,
it's meant to *destroy*, not *cruise*).
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And, to give credit, it did pull it out of the all-naval millieu. The
brass
were almost all Generals, don't forget. If you go to Legends of Galactic
Heroes, it's Generals leading Armies.

Course, that's also seemingly based on Napoleonic, but land warfare
instead
of Roddenberry's naval. ;->=

The_Beast