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Re: subs in spaaace

From: Jonathan Jarrard <jjarrard@f...>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 10:14:56 -0400
Subject: Re: subs in spaaace

Charles Gray wrote:
>    
> They were both referred to as "semi-submersible" ships in the perfect
> manuels (maybe the carrier didn't have the "semi" in front of it.).
> OTH, neither ship was ever shown underwater, and the carrier would
have
> made a lousy sub in any case.  The implication was that this was
> acceptable, since they were anti-alien weapons, and the submersible
> aspect of the ship was just to allow them to mover around when the
enemy
> held orbital superiority.  Obviously, the designers didn't realize
just
> how much orbital superiority the bad guys were going to have :)

Cool!  So I guess the Daedelus really was an AMPHIBIOUS assault ship.
:)  The things I miss just because I can't read Japanese. . .


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