Quote:SkyeFire wrote: (The "Skylark of Valeron," IIRC, carried the previous (2nd-previous?) model in a hangar bay in case it were ever needed for... well... some secondary task. And when you consider said "lesser version" was once used to destroy a galaxy-dominating fleet simply by ramming them all at Ludicrous Speed... The Trope about fiction writers having no sense of scale could use Doc as its poster child, except that Doc quite possibly did have a sense of scale -- he simply treated it like the laws of physics -- a minor obstacle to be walked all over using Rule of Cool boots)Planet-dominating, not galaxy dominating.
Skylark of Space was the globe-shaped ship used in the first book to travel to Osnome and took considerable hull damage just from proximity to the team's X-splosive ammunition during a gunfight.
Skylark Two was a rebuild using arenak, which proceeded to bulldoze through the Mardonale fleet when Seaton decided that the hull-thickness and drive power was enough greater than Mardonalian ships to make it a viable target.
Skylark Three was the three kilometer-long Urvanian-built hull fitted out by the Norlamians for Seaton to use against the Fenachrone and carried Skylark Two as one of its auxiliaries. Probably a good thing since Three was obliterated unceremoniously at the beginning of the next novel in the series.
Skylark of Valeron - the ship used once they get to throwing planets and even stars around like marbles - was spherical once more and around 1000km large since that was as small as they could make some of the apparatus aboard and still make it precise enough to control the end-effects of the projectors over the intergalactic distances. (Seaton notes that for what he has in mind the preferred size would have been four light years which he admits wouldn't be practical). As with Skylark Three, the Skylark of Valeron used Skylark Two as an auxiliary craft.
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