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Skriven 2007-04-24 10:36:25 av Jeffrey Kaplan (282.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Relative ship sizes in the B5 universe (and others)
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It is alleged that Vorlonagent claimed:

> OTOH we have the Nimitz class carrier.
> 1092 feet long (333 meters)
> Crew: 3200 before we even talk about the air wing (another 2800).
> 
> Now let's talk about the effect of size on volume and mass.  An Omega-class 
> destroyer is 1500 meters long.  If we want to super-size a Nimtiz class 
> carrier into that range, we're talking 4.5 times the size.  That means 4.5x 
> the length width and height for  91x the interior space, 91x the mass.  The 
> Typhoon class would need an 8.6x multiplier to get to the same size as the 
> Omega, which would mean 636 times the mass and volume.  It's safe to say the 
> crew is increasing too, by many, many multiples, but dunno if it strictly 
> multiplies with volume.
> 
> The resources the US used/will use to build its entire fleet of 10 
> nimitz-class carriers would only buy Earth 1/9 of a single Omega-class 
> destroyer.  Let's not even talk about a Warlock-class destroyer.  This is an 
> insane amount of ship to expect a crew of 1150 or so to handle

First off, it's not just Earth building the Omegas, it's the Earth
Alliance, a multi-planet nation, and they were built off-world. Second,
it may be an "insane amount of ship" based on +today's+ capabilities,
but this is what, 200 years in the future?

For comparison, in Moore's Battlestar Galactica, compare the Galactica
to the Pegasus.  The Pegasus is what... half again as big as the
Galactica?  Twice as big?  Yet it needs only half the personnel to be
fully crewed.  Not only is it simply newer, it's also got a lot more
automation.

And one more point about the Omegas:  only about one third of the total
length has any kind of gravity effect at all, which places its own
limit on how large the crew can be.

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