Re: [FT] B5 Ships Scale Question

I like to think that the Omega is a destroyer in the same sense that the
british jumpjet carriers were "through-deck cruisers" - if it helps get
the
appropriation passed - call it a tugboat.

The Omega is based on the Nova-class dreadnought hull, which only
confuses the
issue for some people.

--- Indy <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote:
> Charles Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > In message <SIMEON.10103301152.D@eng_fr92920303.uwe.ac.uk>
> >	      Phillip Atcliffe <Phillip.Atcliffe@uwe.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > I don't mix "identical" models, but I do use the FA versions of
the
> > > supposed "smaller" classes with the larger big ships. After all,
the
> > > size of the Olympus "corvette" in the large "scale" (would that
they
> > > _were_ in something related to scale!) is ridiculous -- unless, of
> > > course, it's a CT in the same way that an Omega is a DD! <g>
> > 
> > Actually, the Olympus 'Corvette' is an appreciable fraction of the
size
> > of an Omega, at least in a scene in 'A Call to Arms' - one of the
few
> > places you see one.
> 
> And for those of you who missed this discussion from the past, note
> that JMS' naval nomenclature does not necessarily correspond to
> contemporary naval designations. Thus the Omega Destroyer would be
> essentially, for all intents and purposes, equivalent to an attack
> carrier or an SDN. It was just *called* a destroyer. The Hyperion
> _heavy_ _cruiser_ was noticeably smaller. 
> 
> Okay, my two bits for the week.  :-)
> 
> Mk
> 
> 

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