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For a long time the TCS Concordia was the flagship of the Confed fleet. Well after she went down. What ship became the new flagship for the Confed fleet?
For a long time the TCS Concordia was the flagship of the Confed fleet. Well after she went down. What ship became the new flagship for the Confed fleet?
Take Admiral Fletcher during the Battle of Midway. His Flagship, the Yorktown, was a wreck, on fire, and unable to get moving under her own power after being attacked by Japanese bombers. He transferred his flag to a cruiser, if memory serves it was the USS Astoria. That ship was then his flag ship and the Yorktown lost it's "Flag" status.
... except when it doesn't. Origin FX makes the odd claim that the 'TCS Paradigm' (yes, a Paradigm) was the Confederation's flagship in 2663.
Do they specifically state that the TCS Paradigm was also a Paradigm-class ship? I mean, i'd rather have a CVE than a small destroyer/frigate/corvette/whateveritis that can be destroyed by a single privateer with a Tarsus.Origin FX makes the odd claim that the 'TCS Paradigm' (yes, a Paradigm) was the Confederation's flagship in 2663.
I was just rereading Fleet Action. Would it be fair to say that the Battle of Terra finished the Concordia? She would never see the frontlines after the battle of earth. So it seems like even though she survived, she was finished.
maybe confed's equivalent of 'air force one' was a paradigm
Do they specifically state that the TCS Paradigm was also a Paradigm-class ship? I mean, i'd rather have a CVE than a small destroyer/frigate/corvette/whateveritis that can be destroyed by a single privateer with a Tarsus.
I was just rereading Fleet Action. Would it be fair to say that the Battle of Terra finished the Concordia? She would never see the frontlines after the battle of earth. So it seems like even though she survived, she was finished.
I believe Vespus was supposed to be a somewhat quiet backwater - front lines but not in the thick of it.
I would like to see something done with this idea someday. (I don't think a warship gets a special callsign when the President is aboard, though; Space Force One would be a Hercules or something.)
We don't happen to know what Tolwyn's flag looks like, do we?
Er, I suppose the better question is whether or not flag officers in WC still carry on the tradition of having a flag created for them in the first place.
My guess is that he has one - tradition and all. He does "strike his flag" when he leaves the Victory in the Wing Commander III novel.
(We definitely see Tarawa's commissioning pennant in Fleet Action.)