Re: Blakes 7 Ship Stats

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:40:48AM +0100, steve@pugh.net wrote:
> > > Liberator: Big. 
> > > Pursuit Ships: Small.
> > 
> > Actually, the 'Starburst' class Pursuit ships were almost as big as
> > the Liberator 
> 
> True, reading the fan tech manual last night I saw that they had 
> listed the pursuit ship at just over half the length of the 
> Liberator. Of course they give both lengths in millispacials rather 
> than meters...
> 
> But the pursuit ships 'feel' small compared to the Liberator. :-p
> 
> > (in 'Dual' we get a reasonable comparison of sizes as
> > Liberator almost rams one - I don't recall ever seeing the two ship
> > types together in any other shop).
> 
> Two ships in one shot? Don't be silly that would have used up the FX 
> budget for the entire series!

According to an interview in SF&FModeller a few years back, B7 was
given the same special effects budget as the show it replaced:
unfortunately that was a police drama and hence the effects budget for
series one was 50 quid an episode... Hence: There are six federation