Quote:Well, let me put it to you this way - You're in the process of restoring an alien wreckthat relies on this wierd force field thing that is at best half-understood to not collapse under its own weight, let alone try to maneuver. The lab guys say it works, the test rigs say it works, and the scaled down versions built into DeSdroids and variable fighters have worked... but do you really want to trust this absolutely irreplaceable rescource to that without a test somewhere close to the same scale? For that matter, will the reverse-engineered ship-scale ganerators even work the same way, or do they need to be laid in differently than the (uniformly damaged to a greater or lesser degree) original alien models?
SIF surface ships? Well, sea-naval, anyway?
Now, you're in the former Pan-Asian member bloc - and one of the OTO members has reported in an EDTO session that they've started building a ridiculously huge surface ship based on the reverse engineered tech, are you going to let them be the only ones?
Now, you're the Prime Minister of Britain, and the bloody foreigners are getting uppity again. Perhaps you should have a quiet word with some chaps you know in Bristol, and remind the lot of them just why a tiny island held one of the greatest empires in history through the quality of Her Majesty's Navy, eh wot?
As for two ships per arm... nah. If nothing else, flight operations would be even more of a bitch with two sets of bridge structures to avoid.
- CDThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows