>>Why would anyone need a ship the size of a large country?
>
>First, it's actually the size of the moon. In fact - no joke - it's
>actually disguised as our moon at the beginning of the first book.

Well, like Dahak (kinda) says, how else to you hide something that big?

>Second, because they have Really Nasty Enemies(tm).

Genocidal fanatics with a fleet of (IIRC) ~30,000,000 twenty kilometer long warships would count as RNEs, yeah.

That universe is fun just 'cause its so utterly Over The Top.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter