Quote:Hm... A quick webdive says CVN-99 Asuka II from Macross Zero was half that, but if the three ships in question were also new-build, the first 100% terran hulls to have been designed around use of the SIF system it would still be workable, I think.
even if the SDF-1's sister ships were only built to be as big, relative to their crews as a Nimitz class (which I'd call the minimum for their proposed role as command ships/elite cruisers), then we still end up talking about something the size of an Imperial Star Destroyer, which'd make those outriggers, what, five hundred meters?
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Oddly enoguh, I was thinking the sides of the main gun looked like they wanted Star Destroyer type detailing, you know kind of a beltline trench with lots of little gubbins and lights.
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I'd forgotten your mention of the beam-and-pod ships as being meant to be the new ARMORs - I think the suggestion that the refit subs end up like that is probably worthwhile, though. They wouldn't have provision for spin or blackbox gravity generators, so a ring section where the crew can work out to prevent microgravity health problems would be neccessary, and when you're already adding that much to the structure you might as well stick the overtechnology powerplant and engines out on the end of a shaft, well away from the normally inhabited sections of the ship.
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