Re: Size Class Escalation

I'd recommend having a look at these two articles:

One article by David Manley on refitting times
http://www.homestead.com/SFSFWFT/files/SFSFWFT.html#DH

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Another by Michael Wong on the science of huge ships
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Size.html

While neither address the core issue of why capital ships are more
expensive 
per se than escorts or cruisers they do raise issue like
why capital ship refitting needs to be timed for offensive (and thus
warn 
the target's intelligence agencies) and why super sized ships represent
a 
huge leap in technology

Donogh
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