Originally posted by Dragon
all ships that you could fly there were quite big and bigger that the Dragon is.
I'm not saying that the Lance is larger than those ships, but it could definetly be in range of some of them. The Tarsus definetly doesn't look too big, and we're never told the size of those ships. Meanwhile, the Lance is 40 meters long, and it's very wide.
And since you could not prove your "teories" as well
That's because there's nothing to prove...
just because in a novel that say that at the time of the end there were... and dont go say anything after that and we are forced to take conclusions on incompleate data does not make it a real fact.
OK, again.... The novels said there were 40 Lances built...
we're told that that ten of them are captured (and some of those destroyed later on), and ten of them are destroyed in Speradon...
We're told that there are twenty Lances left, and IIRC all of them were transfered to the Vesuvius...
We know that the Vesuvius is destroyed and therfore so are any fighters that are still inside, and any fighters near it that didn't surrender.
The conclusion, there's precious few Lances left, if any.
Now, the public wouldn't like Confed using the Lances, so the government wouldn't let them build more of them. The government wouldn't also aprove of Confed mas producing such an expensive fighter.
No, these aren't hard facts, but it's close enough. You can't say: "there's a ten year difference, a lot of things could happen and we just didn't hear about them" because then you couldn't say anything about the universe.
[Edited by Earthworm on 01-27-2001 at 22:37]