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Well, simple fact. Star Trek ship masses use the same volumetric calculations as I think it was either a probe or the shuttle. It's also why you have relative consistency between the first ship and the NCC-1701-D, Rick Sternbach made sure to have about the same mass/cubic meter relation.

It's not length that matters(okay this is a bit cliche) but INTERNAL VOLUME.(Why do so many freaking people forget this?) Has anyone bothered to check habital volume on WCU warships? (On the other hand, it's probably true that the masses are a bit on the low side along with fighters being...

Modern military service ribbons are denoted by service theater in addition to the ones representing things like medals and campaigns as well as meritorious conduct. Commonwealth nations on the other hand don't have particular stationi based medals AFAIK, but they do have additional fluff like...

Anyone have a clear schematic view of the Rapier-G?(Or H or whatever that model in WC2 is supposed to be.)

How do you mean, Loaf? Just going by this piece, I just find it unlikely the Raptor's one and a half times the length of a rapier by any stretch, particularly in comparison to the launch sequence artwork for the size/scale of the Raptor vs the pilot.

Simple feet/meter mix-up doesn't really account for the scaling problem between the two fighter designs. Though I think these lengths fit better with the capship lengths established which seem to stay consistent next to things like artwork aboard ship.

Okay, this is an extrapolation based on the "Is the Raptor too big or the Claw too small" debate on the Tiger's Claw launch tubes thread. I took the Claw Marks images of the Rapier-II and Raptor scaled the latter to be in the proper scale with the former then compared them to(again) a scaled...

Has anyone actually ever tried scaling the fighters using say a comparason between their cockpit sizes and the size of a comparable conventional fighter to come with a more reasonable length than usually arrived at? I seem to recall trying this with the Rapier-G early on in the XWA conversion...

Cost sounds like a big reason for dropping the Reaper. Afterall there were presumeably lots of ion cannons around, being that they were a main weapon on at least two production fighters. As for the "non-seen" fighters, why would they even be out of service? Just because CVEs in the Atlantic...

Stiletto might be a "cut down" Morningstar or the latter might have been based on the former. Plenty of examples in RL with similar things occuring. Or the only thing that they have in common might simply be that they had the same design team.

Hm... The exposed engines definitely does look a bit too much of a design flaw to be a practical thing. Could the simply "embedded" engines of the Ranger/Concordia class be adapted in shape?

Hmm, alright. The Joan's I had at hand had a silhouette described as "Concordia-class" with CVS-65 as the design outline, but then the weaponry description having the PTC attributed to the Confederation-class Dreadnought. It's an odd situation, I'm not sure if it's simply an oversight or...

Judging from this and the Hellcat pictures, I'm assuming you guys got the whole smoothing issue on surfaces thing figured out? Looks nice, though something about the canopy makes me tilt my head.

It's pointless. This is like trying to power a modern carrier vessel by rigging it like a Napoleonic Frigate but with really really big masts. Wrong way of going about this whole space development thing. Barking up the wrong tree? Yeah that's the cliched way of putting it.

Thing that might best be added: Why does Joan's silhouette describe Concordia as "Concordia-class"? (At least this was the case in my WC2 manual. Might be part of the reason for the WCIV confusion.) And- Mention of the fact that they first tried to cram in the WCII model into WCIV when...

The idea's not new, and I guess more importantly this isn't feasible space flight in the way that it can get useful amounts of payload into the orbit. Until heavy lifting allows payloads into at least geo-synch orbit you're not gonna see any major developments up there aside from tourism.

The Borg episode in the second season "Regeneration" seems to kind of support that theory, since the wreckage there was supposed to be a piece of the sphere blown away by E-E.

Wasn't Bear's "promotion" to Commodore listed as a "courtesy promotion" at the end of the war before they beached him and put him on half-pay? Though since he apparently was a DesRon commander I guess Commodore as a position rather than rank might make sense, too. Wasn't Tarawa "crippled" in...

Does the Jutland have another contemporary source, or is it solely a bible creation?

Just flipped through the WC Bible, noticed something about the description preceding the Jutland class. The Waterloo is post-scripted with the words- "Waterloo-class cruisers are also configurable as carriers, with these modifications:" Followed immediately by the Jutland stats. The...