>>>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?

No. IIRC a White Star is a full-size warship, not a fighter craft. A Shrike would be a gunboat, or perhaps a super-heavy fighter like a Crusader/B-Wing.

>>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,

Pretty much.

>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.

In that universe, not this. In UF, a ship of a kilometer's length is -damn- long and usually -goddamn- expensive.

In UF, a general range of scale would be 20 to 80 meters long for gunships, 50 to 150 for corvettes, destroyers and guncruisers, 120 to 250 meters for light cruisers, 200 to 400 meters for heavy cruisers, 300 to 900 meters for battlecruisers, and 500 meters and up for battleships or dreadnaughts.

The SDF Wayward Son was 1170 meters long, IIRC; the Wandering Child (SDF-23) which followed is, I -think-, 2460 meters. The GENOM Executioner and Dreadnaught were both Super-class Star Destroyers, 8000 meters long.

Redneck (CFA New Orleans, BTW, is a hair over 3000 meters- but it's not a warship)

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