Re: Plunketts
Originally posted by -<Stiletto>-
But no, Does anyone realize that the Plunkets look *a lot* like Freespace Fenris/Leviathan?
Anyway, off topic but, In Freespace...
Destroyer=Carrier/Dreadnaught
Corvette= Cruiser
Cruiser= Frigate/destroyer
WTF?
Plunket looks like Fenris?
Kind of...
But I think a better comparison would be with the science vessels (class-name escapes me at the moment). While the Plunket doesn't have the spinning (gravity?) section that the FS science vessel has, I still think the resemblence is there.
And with regards to your chart...
Corvettes were added in FS2, though. They filled the hole created when beam weapons were added. In FS1, guns were largely impotent except when massed in the quantities found on destroyers. The only weapons capable of large scale destruction were heavy warheads. Cruisers 'cruised' areas of space (can't keep a fighter out for very long, after all), and destroyers destroyed things. Thus, the terms fit.
When beam weapons were added, there was an obvious gap between the cruisers and the destroyers which the corvette filled. Cruisers have beam weapons, but not enough to make them effective.
Too bad there almost certainly won't be a Freespace 3.
Actually, Star Wars has a similarly 'odd' model. The cruisers and corvettes are in similar positions to where one would expect to find them in the real world (corvettes at the bottom of the feeding chain, and cruisers above them), but the monsters at the stop are the destroyers.
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