No argument there. But we havn't seen too many large carrier types in B5, and to me the sensor array on the Nebula looks like a carrier deck on a ST:TNG-type ship.

Of course, there is always the carriers from Space: Above and Beyond. Just a little too "clunky" looking for my taste. But they would work well with the general look of the B5 Universe ships.

Michael

The Lovely Angels: When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight!

When it absolutely, possitively has to be accidentally blown up overnight!

-Z

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We are Dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.

-Z

IIRC, there's already a design for a B5 Earthforce carrier floating around someplace- I want to say that the site for the company that does the minatures for B5 Wars has a shot of it, but don't quote me on that.

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(I _like_ that look.)

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Eric J. Heckathorn
ericjh@stargate.net

I've been involved with things on the Babylon 5 Wars boardgame (canonical material, reviewed by JMS or his representative) for years now, and believe me, there are lots of carriers.

The Earth Alliance sector flagships, as of the show era, are Poseidon-class supercarriers, equipped with advanced C3I technology and carrying 8 squadrons of Thunderbolt model Starfuries (96 planes in total). This is, I believe, the largest carrier currently fielded in the B5 universe; although the "Strike Cruiser" carrying 1-2 squadrons of fighters as organic support units are a very common sight - fielded by, among others, Earth, Narn, Centauri, Minbari, Brakiri, Cascor, Balosian, etc.

It's a very fun game. :)

>Of course, there is always the carriers from Space: Above and
>Beyond. Just a little too "clunky" looking for my taste. But
>they would work well with the general look of the B5 Universe ships.

If you're going to go 'clunky and ugly', go Earth Alliance -- the flying bricks, complete with howitzers.

>
>Michael
>
>The Lovely Angels: When it absolutely, positively has
>to be destroyed overnight!

--
"Eat hot blazing photonic pulse fire, you alien invading human-abducting saucer-alien bastards!" -- Captain of EAS Bellerophon, firing on a Vree cruiser.

I keep waiting for some minor game house to come up with a mod of SC2 for B5W... Oh, that'll be a LOT of fun... ^_^

>>Of course, there is always the carriers from Space: Above and
>>Beyond. Just a little too "clunky" looking for my taste. But
>>they would work well with the general look of the B5 Universe ships.
>
>If you're going to go 'clunky and ugly', go Earth Alliance -- the
>flying bricks, complete with howitzers.

One of the lesser things I've always like about that show was how each race had such an immediately identifieable 'style' to their naval architecture... And while my favorite SHIP may have been the Narn G'Quan, I've always loved Earthforce's STYLE.

*drool*

Blessed be.
Nathan Baxter
(Something about the rotational gravity section, I think...)

Hmm , but while what we see in 'Space:Above and Beyond'
is just plain *ugly* (I mean , come on people , get some
style) Earthforce craft are IMO the kind of 'ugly' that
appeals to one's heart , like the A-10 or the YT-1300 .

But that's just my two 'grosze' .

-Griever
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- Almost, at times, the Fool."

Hell yeah. EA ships like the Nova DN, Olympus DD, Artemis FF, these are the soul of "cool through ugliness". I haven't seen the minis yet for the 'new generation' (post-Shadow-War) EA fleet, except for the Warlock, but that one looks like something a Fahrvergneugen-trained naval architect could love - slab-sided, big, bigger guns, BIGGER guns, and lots of cool detail.

>
>But that's just my two 'grosze' .

And that's my two grotzits. ;)

>
> -Griever
>"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant
>lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
>Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of
>use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a
>bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-- Almost, at times,
>the Fool."

--
"Eat hot blazing photonic pulse fire, you alien invading human-abducting saucer-alien bastards!" -- Captain of EAS Bellerophon, firing on a Vree cruiser.