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In the defense of the fanfic ship, the Johnny Greene stayed on station for years at a time with only one crew.
Yeah, but it's hardly realistic to man a ship with a crew of five with only five people. A person's gotta sleep.
I'm pretty sure you can 100% confirm that there's no way to know.
The best we could possibly do would be to speculate as to what the author had in mind... which would, if anything (and that's a huge if) be the Exeter, Paradigm or Gilgamesh-class ships.
Good point. Although I would speculate Exeter or Gilgamesh since those were both in the "core" WC-games. WC-Privateer, and Privateer II were kind of more peripheral than WC-1 or -2
This is a fairly stupid story that fans came up with to explain a problem which doesn't exist. The Battle of Terra didn't destroy hundreds or thousands of one particular class of destroyer... and the Confederaton that was fighting a desparate barely-holding-on battle with the Kilrathi didn't have a secret cache of 'these are slightly too old but still work as well as anything' warships that they were waiting to put into service. In actuality Blair simply encounters Gilgameshes in WC2 and Southamptons in WC3 - and that's the end of it. Neithers existence at a specific point implies the lack of the other somewhere in Wing Commander's vast universe.
It would seem though that the Gilgamesh is more advanced than the Exeter, and certainly that the Southampton is the oldest of them all. Other than that, you're pretty much right.
We do see Paradigms as early as 2664, from the blurb about them included with ORIGIN FX.
Yeah, but WC-1, WC-2 and WC-3 were the core games. Privateer and Privateer II were kind of peripheral to the plot, not the center of it. But yes, they were around as early as 2664.
[quoote]We know they're considered old in Wing Commander III, though - the novelization says so, and claims that the Sheffield (and the Ajax) were as old as the Victory.[/quote]
They were all from the mid 2630's. The Yorktown class was much older though.
I believe the quote is that the Kilathi have several thousand Ralari... and the implication is that the vast majority of space combat and territory holding is done by warships rather than the precious few carrier groups.
How did the Ralatha fare in popularity compared to the Ralari?
There's no solid entry date for either, but we can date them both back to to at least the early 2650s. The movie novel has Gilgameshes (including the TCS Gilgamesh herself) in 2654... and the earliest known Exeter dates to around 2652 (the 'Gwenhyvar' was supposedly captured 'a couple' years before The Secret Missions started). (That's not to say either design necessarily originates in that era... the sad fact is that there just aren't any stories about the first half of the war to fill out that sort of detail.)
If the Gwenhyvar was captured a few years prior, why did they have Rapiers? I never understood that part.
We can speculate as to intent a little, based on the non-canon (and often since-contradicted!) information in the bible. In that instance, the Exeter gets a lower designation than the Gilgamesh.
The Exeter does strike me as being an earlier design. Slower for one, no AMG's, etc.
BTW: This is a question which might be a tad off topic, but why were the new capships in WC-3 less capable than the ones in WC-2? There were no WC-1 ships in the game...
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