>>Given the fact that ships as small as X-Wings and H-Valks can mount a
>>Hyperdrive motivator, I dont see how the power demands are high enough
>>that not mounting one would give you a significant power advantage.
>>However, given the fact that, for example, the Star Kingdom of
>>Manticore is out there, I'd expect that there IS a chance that at
>>least some of the locals in her neighborhood still use LAC's.
>
>Nah. LACs are replaced in UF by either fighters or gunboats.

Which would make a Shrike the equivalent of a White Star?

>Also, in UF a kilometer-long ship is at least a battleship, and -not-
>a light cruiser as in the Harrington books.

*blinkblink* *checks his reference* Well, going by the table in the front of Ashes of Victory, yeah, you can make a case for a CL being a kilometer long, but I remember _Terrible_ being quoted as being four, so I'd call it a bit on the shy side of half that. <500m. Which is still really big, but a lot of the tech in that universe seems to be rather... bulky.

And, if it's allowed that a Manticoran superdreadnought like say, a Gryphon *blinks as he notices the name* or Medusa/Harrington class is, in fact, a little over four kilometers, a light cruiser one eighth the length and one one hundredth the mass doesn't seem _too_ out of line.

If this causes a discrepency with the rest of UF, then they can either be toned down a bit witht he excuse of UF's more compact tech, or, well, those Manticorans just build big ships, y'know?

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(Who is too lazy to look up how long the SDF-23 is supposed to be.)