(And, remember, the SDF-1 was apparently doing some fairly serious fscking around with time and space in its interior, ISTR. Primitive version of dimensional transcendentalism, maybe?)

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>I realize that EA starship designs involve a lot of wasted space (half
>of the Hyperion's length is just scaffolding with a thruster at
>the end), but damn.

Yeah, there's also a lot of stuff that goes into B5 ships that Trek stuff just handwaves away - fuel tankage that isn't antimatter, life-support storage, hull thickness with reasonable amounts of armor instead of SIF's, etc. Personally, I think it's the Trek stuff that's undersized, for the reported crew levels....

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>I'm not looking to get into (or read) an argument about this issue;
>it's one step removed from the old "who'd win?" I'm just surprised.
>(I had also always figured that a Battlestar would be about the same
>size as a Star Destroyer.)
>
>All of which means that this chart is probably not accurate for the
>UF universe.
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>However, it is still pretty neat, and one of its scale levels has
>reminded me of a very nifty SF vehicle which I haven't used yet, so
>I'd say it was worth the visit.
>
>--G.
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