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Sure. The simplest, most pragmatic and honest reason: They're damned fun to shoot with.

It doesn't seem to be called anything judging from the front cover. There might be some sort of "IC" reference about the timeline. Maybe Loaf or someone else could put up the rest of the universe references? If not I'd recommend just calling it the SFC manual.

2634.230 is the date referred to where Confed sends the forces to McAuliffe twice the size of the anticipated Kilrathi force.

Enterprise(CV-6) on her own had 7 more battlestars than the next closest carrier in the US Navy.(Essex, CV-9)And by virtue the only reason the Essex class stayed in production was because they'd laid down so many keels to begin with, it was just more economically viable to finish off the ships...

Avenger might actually be the same bomber design Tolwyn mentions in Fleet Action that Landriech is using that the UBW might have acquired from them on loan. (Converted shuttle.) The name sort of seems more in line with a Confed fighter, though. Particularly in relation to "Hellcat" and...

The problem here is the bit with Tolwyn and Banbridge talking about Vukar in Chapter XII Quoted specifically: "We won Vukar by the skin of our teeth. We lost the Trafalgar and Gettysburg will be in dry dock for a year...." As the exchange was about carrier assets in the Enigma(?) sector...

The numerical designations after a fighter's name I assume is more something from the generation of fighters since whatever Confed considers to be its original namesake. Hence Hellcat V may very well be named as the 5th type to be called that since the F6F. Just on a side-note. The End Run...

The Aubrey/Maturin series truly is a wonderful series of books, which get progressively better in terms of character stories as time progresses. If anything it's probably accurate what's been said about them, that they're all one very very long book. The movie itself is based primarily on a...

http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm Is a very good list of reasons why America eventually won the war.

Totally Games has actually been independent since the days of Secret Weapons, though they went through several names.

Only semi-close example I can think of is the F-20 Tigershark, which was made as a low-tech/low-maintenance fighter to replace the F-16 for foreign sales. Of course, thing failed, and Northrop essentially wasted all their money on developing it.

Hmm, am I the only one who's found the population figures a tad inflated overall? Taking a look at a military service figure. 35ish years of war, a production run of something like 80(?) carriers, a few thousand(for ease of calculation, let's round it to 5000) cruisers, twice or so as many...

Are there any pictures/references with these ships, or did they wind up getting thrown in the recycling bin? Just be interested in seeing what the Confederation class they planned for WCIV looked like.

Since we never see a "TCS Enterprise" despite the obvious significance of the name, and the presense of ships of a similar vintage in name(Lexington, Saratoga...okay so there isn't a Yorktown or Hornet, maybe WC writers had something against the CV-5 class.) I was gonna do a fanfic about how the...

Non-standard piece of fiction I guess, in that it doesn't involve things blowing up. More of a teaser than an actual chapter. The setting is 2670, about 10 months after the Treaty of Torgo. The title is taken from the poem "High Flight." "Ceres Unlimited Confederation Championship...

Judging from the commander's log in Voices of War, the CO of the Lexington sounds like it was either meant to be "Blue Hair", or someone who served with him.(Given the wording, references to K'kai, Shotglass, and age, if not for his death in Fleet Action, Hunter might actually fit the best for...

The term "destroyer" is actually a shortened version of "Torpedo Boat Destroyer". The DD was designed to counter small light ships from delivering torpedo payload to larger ships of the line(which consequently WC seemed to have followed prior to the advent of fighters) Subsequently...

The end of WC3 seems more like what would have happened had(very theoritically) Germany developed a long-range strategic bomber at the end of WW2 and used it to nuke NYC. The Kilrathi/Confed disparity in numbers/resources is more akin to the Kilrathi being the side of the Allies(remember, GDP...

A good source is the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships Online. http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/

Quick thought, couldn't shields be shaped in a manner that makes a design more aerodynamic(or even just be shaped in that matter altogether?) And then on second observation, the sudden shift in design really had a lot to do with hardware limitations. They went from prerendered sprites to a...