Re: More on Star Wars Ships

At 12:17 PM -0800 3/5/02, Brian Bilderback wrote:
>I found this very interesting website:
>
>http://www.galacticempiredatabank.com/
>
>If the other ship titles are for ships comparable in mass to the 
>same class in FT, then we can assume that Star Destroyers are on a 
>scale that dwarfs even SDN's, and SSD's would be well, even more 
>silly in hugemongousness.

I think the thing to remember with Star Destroyers is that they are 
not Destroyers. The radical difference between the role of the 
Frigate in the days of sail and the current use/size comparison 
between them and other men of war is a very good illustrator of point.
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