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Nope. The Sovereign-class was almost seven kilometers shorter than the Executor. Yes, seven. Using the canon film footage as primary reference material, the Executor is a whopping 11 miles long, or 17.6 kilometers - it's 11 times the length of a common one-mile Star Destroyer). The...

Re: Going back "I.S.S." is NOT used to describe Imperial ships. In fact, NO acronym has ever been used on Imperial ships. The Executor was the first ship of her class, therefore, her class would logically be called "Executor-class." And since the Executor is FAR larger than anything...

Before 1997, I used "Viper" and "Hollywood" for Wing Commander (I actually considered using "Maverick," but thought it too obvious). Since '97, I've used "Iceberg," both as a play on my surname (Berger) and on Casey's identity as Iceman's son (a chip off the old glacier).

As I understand, the Soviets actually took Hitler alive and just told the Americans that he was dead, then tortured him for a few years before he kacked it...

Tolwyn was a good choice for the head of the Strategic Readiness Agency, and would have continued to be so, had he not gone insane. The problem arose when he decided to manufacture an enemy for Confed to attack, and got worse when his paper tiger decided to get a Heart. And if Blair is the...

Actually, the lesson I was referring to was the fact that Paladin succeeded where Tolwyn failed. Paladin never forgot that he was working for and against people, unlike Tolwyn, and it was Paladin's compassion and leadership that pulled the Confederation away from the brink of a disastrous war...

First, ships in space don't rust. There's no oxygen in space to rust a spaceship the way an oceanic warship would rust. Second, there was a RECESSION going on. The Confederation needed the money much more badly in the civilian sector (which was suffering, especially in the Vega, Epsilon...

The Tiger's Claw (KEEP THE 'S IN THERE, DAMMIT!) is my favorite carrier. There's something about coming back to the old Claw with the old-school victory music playing that just has the good old heroic feel...

Tolwyn might have had a good *idea,* but his execution was way the hell off. He stopped seeing the forest, because all the damn trees kept getting in the way. Blair, in the "true winning" endgame, is doing more to ensure the future survival of humanity - by teaching its future defenders how...

EVERYTHING in the military is influenced by politics. In the 1960s, the United Kingdom parliament declared that the Royal Navy would have no more aircraft carriers. The RN decided that this decision was unacceptable, since it would rob them of the air superiority mission. So they...

Also, the Vesuvius might be officially called a "heavy carrier" even though it's actually a dreadnought, for political reasons. After all, the British Invincible-class carriers are referred to as "Through-Deck Cruisers," even though they have no capital armament and carry aircraft as their...

TOLWYN didn't say it was a "carrier," Blair did. A fighter pilot might not appreciate the differences between a carrier and a dreadnought. Tolwyn may have just not felt like correcting Blair at that moment. After all, he was trying to get Blair on his side, it wouldn't have done to harp on...

[/b] Dreadnoughts are the commandships of the WC universe - powerful, yes, but I doubt they're present enough on the battlefield to make much of a difference. Carriers, on the other hand, are numerous and very important (I counted six Concordia-class carriers in the losing endgame of WC4...

During the entire Kilrathi War and postwar period, carriers are the dominant warship. The fact that carriers can't take and hold systems isn't a mark against them - they're not expected to, any more than our modern carriers are. That's what the Confederation Army and Marine Corps are for...

At any rate, in the Wing Commander era, the carrier is the undisputed queen of space. It is explicitly stated in canon literature that a carrier entering a system is enough to establish dominance over that system, and there seem to be two different schools of thought as regards heavy carriers...

IIRC, the two reasons for taking out the destroyer were: (a) Its firepower would prevent you from making effective torp runs on the frigate, and (b) if it's not dead, it can close to gun range with the transports and take them out by itself. After all, they're just armed with a single...

I could have sworn it was a frigate launching the CAP missiles, with the destroyer present to protect it from hostile capital ships.

Overall, the Wing Commander universe appears to use modern (i.e. post-WWII) naval tactics, with fighters and long-range-weapon capital ships forming the main line of combat, compared to Star Wars, which uses World War I era battleship tactics for the bulk of fighting, and Star Trek, which uses...

Then either he deliberately misspoke, in order to confound possible spies, or the dialogue was simply written incorrectly (not without precedent, witness the nanojoules-for-gigajoules error in the Victory Streak manual).