[Draft/RFC] The Myths of Fenspace

[ECSNorway]

ECSNorway wrote:

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Indeed, I've been noodling over various conspiracy-theory possibilities regarding the Stingray myself.




Especially given that they'd be launching nowish, and Dodge's crew would've had access to the entire 'Through the Looking Glass' series
and the refit of the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade...

Eh? What here? Is this something I missed?

Ringo and Taylor's Through the Looking Glass series. The second and third books involve the voyages of a spacecraft that used to be a US Navy submarine. Only they used an Ohio instead of a Seawolf. Mostly because it's got a lot more room inside... which brings me to the Conspiracy Theory angle.
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Ever since the ship's launch in 2012, various fans of Things Military have been discussing, analyzing, re-analyzing, and announcing themselves hopelessly confused, by the capabilities displayed by, and the deeds ascribed to, the United States Navy Spacecraft Stingray. It is frequently asserted that the Seawolf-class submarine is simply too small for its role as a spacecraft. Moreover, several rather confused reports received during Operation: Great Justice seemed to indicate that the sub was in more than one place at the same time... or that there were in fact multiple subs.
It is therefore "agreed" by various conspiracy theorists, as much as anything can be agreed on among such personalities, that in fact the identification of the submarine is a sham, and that the US Navy has a much larger program ongoing. Theorists tend to assert that there may be one or more Seawolf-class vessels operating in FenSpace, but that the primary vessel is in fact an Ohio-class SSBN. The much larger vessel would, especially with the missile bay removed, provide much more interior space for supplies, personnell, and science equipment needed for the missions the craft is supposedly undertaking.
The pundits in question then tend to go off on tangents, speculating and vehemently disagreeing on such things as how many support vessels are operating, whether or not the Navy has established a base somewhere in the solar system (the Benjamin Franklin space station is a common candidate for this, as is Starbase One and the Village Hidden in the Asteroids...) and, of course, just how much of the supposed boomer's missile bay was removed....
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Duane, any comments?
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