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. . .