we see a vesuvius getting blow up in Secret ops, Eisen have vapires that are assigned to heavy carriers so the Eisen is a heavy carrier, the midway had a hard time to pass the congress so new Carries (Heavy ones) classes are not very likely to get aproval.
All evidence points to the ONLY heavy carrier class around is the vesuvius.
Of couse that if someone sees a new carrier in the game...
Time to repeat myself again...
The fact that the a Vesuvius dies in Secret Ops is completely irrelevant... except to demonstrate that even in '73, the Navy wasn't as fund-starved as we've been led to believe. After all, at the time of the Crisis, we were only hearing about TWO Vesuvius-class carriers being built, and yet here's this third one out of the blue.
Yes, the Eisen is a heavy carrier. I'm not denying that
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Yes, there was trouble getting the Midway past Senate. You try getting a vast project like that past ANY Senate, ANY time, and you'll get trouble. But two things - 1. The Midway is not just ANY heavy carrier. It required tons and tons of research, and it's waaaaaay bigger than most carriers, including the much-vaunted Vesuvius class. Of course people were opposed to it - the way they saw it, it was just another fancy toy (ref: Secret Ops fiction). 2. However, other, smaller projects obviously were getting through - eg., Murphy, Plunkett, and of course Hades. Thus, there's no reason why a smaller, but nonetheless heavy carrier class couldn't have gotten through, if only to replace the ageing Concordia class. Obviously the Navy wasn't expecting the mega-expensive Vesuvii or the non-existent Midways to fulfil all the jobs. And as we know from various books, there really weren't that many heavy CVs around at the end of the war.
What you call 'all evidence' is simply lack of evidence to the contrary. What you're saying is that the Eisen is a Vesuvius because nobody can prove otherwise - a statement which in itself is irrelevant unless all the facts are there (and they're not).
Finally, I would like to point out that at the time that we first met the Eisen, we never actually
met it. Why is that? If it had been a Vesuvius, then surely they could have converted it to Vision (they did so only half a year later) in a matter of minutes, and knocked-up a 'defend-the-Eisen' mission just for the sake of the sheer neatness factor (we're obviously all very interested in seeing what the ship named after one of our favourite characters looks like). But instead of spending a few minutes converting an existing model, they chose to leave the Eisen out of the game... why? The answer, at least to me, is obvious.
And yes, I know the above paragraph is absolutely worthless as proof, because it's pure conjecture (sp.?). But it is something to think about.
[Edited by Quarto on 01-13-2001 at 12:44]