>>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.

Hmmm... I'd be more inclined to think of both as a rough equivalent of a PT boat, but you're the writer dude. (and, on a slightly less metaphorical level, both were revolutionarily nasty due to unprecedented power-generation capabilities)

>>*blinkblink* *checks his reference* Well, going by the table in the
>>front of Ashes of Victory,
>
>Pretty much.

Only if you take the 3,200m scale to indicate -half- of the bar thingie.

>>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.

So? Manticore's rich.

More seriously, it need not be taken that they have very -many- of them... Manticore, even if you're writing it as a small multi-system polity, still has very little ground to cover. A few almost unbeatable ships would make more sense for them than, say, Salusia.

Or, one could just be arbitrary and divide the given HH sizes by four. Regardless, I want to see a Medusa.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(I think this's been asked before, but am too lazy to check. What replaces the Manticoran Wormhole Junction? Nexus of trade routes? Metaspace gate? Nothing, they're just good at building stuff? Nothing, it's still there? A three million ton flounder? Other?)