Yet Another Brain Fart -- err, plot bunny

[drakensis]

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Going back over another point, the reason Jumpships are so huge relative to, well, pretty much everything else in space, is that the Terran version of FTL takes an unbelievable amount of power - Jumpships are mostly engine, and I'm not talking about the sublight ones.

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I'm getting something of a Battletech vibe here. Long spindly jumpships with pods attached? Or long and spindly jumpships with smaller dropships detaching for jump-point to planet travel? Large spherical or egg-shaped transport dropships (to maximise internal volume) and smaller, blockier combat vessels.
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