Re: FT – Fleet Replenishment tenders (hospital)

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Hospital ships? They were converted/used by surface navys, but would
they be justified in the space..? If you get in an accident up there,
not
much chance to survive, yet far from the safety of planetside hospital
complexes or the huge space stations they might boost the morale
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Didn't these tended to be fielded only in cases of large conflicts?
Remember, these were usually for Gropos on front lines far from 'civ'. I
think naval units tended to pick up survivors, then high-tail it for
base
and med facilities there.

Natch, you have the rebel hospital frigate in Star Wars, which suggests
an
almost nomadic existence. On the other scale, a conflict as you see in
Legends of Galactic Heroes, with tens of thousands of ships and millions
of
combatants, I think hospital ships would be necessary for sheer volume.

Grimly, I imagine dual purpose ships, replacement personel carries going
out, hospital ships on return.

Sci-fi lit has a fair number of cases with mission-killed ships with
large
numbers of non-killed casualties. Would a warship have temporary stasis
or
automated med units of limited duration that a hospital ship could
'download' to longer term reconstruction units?

You end up making some specialized assumptions of future trauma
treatment
as well as assumptions about the number and severity of casualties that
trauma creates.

My, how I do go on.

The_Beast