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

Well, not to put too fine a point on it, you won't.

Here's why.

(1) The Harrington novels' hyperluminal technology is an order of -magnitude- slower than the -slowest- hyperluminal technology in UF.

(2) Ships can come out of FTL -much- closer to a gravity well in UF than in the Harrington novels.

(3) Missile electronics don't last against enemy ECM longer than 30 seconds in UF. Ship-to-ship combat is at close range. No 'missile pods,' because missiles are not the main armament of UF ships.

(4) Harrington-novel ships are unrealistically large for any tech level. The sheer amount of -refined- metal in one Harrington-class super-dreadnaught exceeds the total raw iron content in a Belt-type asteroid of a 10-mile diameter. The ships of similar size in UF are owned by huge multi-system polities or fleets like the CFMF which are heavily subsidized by said polities. A four-planet independency like Manticore -might- build -one- such ship. Building fifty or more of them... no. Uh-uh. Not a chance in Hell.

The Manticoran fleet in UF is sizeable, but not outsized ship-for-ship to the other forces in UF. Their ships will be technologically advanced compared to most other nations of its size, and they will perform credibly. However, the tech, maneuvering, weapons load, etc. etc. etc. of Manticore's navy will be completely different from its origins, because those origins are just -not- compatible with UF.

Live with it.

>(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?)

Manticore sits on a natural break in the navigational hazards of Enigma Sector which was not discovered until Earth-humans settled it. Three new hyperspace routes later, Manticore became a new center of commerce in the widdershins part of Enigma Sector. Manticore was one of the first enthusiastic adopters of metaspace jump-gate technology and maintains a very large beacon network around its two gate points. It has also become a major industrial and research center.

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