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Cinder Spires Airship Specs So Far
Second Aristh:
Can we square this circle somehow?
(click to show/hide)Behind the desk, in a case, were minature replicas of each and every airship in the Aetherium Fleet of Albion, from the mighty battleship Dreadnought, the size of Rowl, down to the tiniest destroyer, Energetic, no larger than Gwen's smallest finger.
Compare that to
(click to show/hide)Grimm had read accounts of battleships and dreadnoughts that had attempted a dive, only to have their lift crystals tear themselves entirely free of the ship when attempting to arrest their descent too rapidly.
Seidmadr:
Correct me if I'm wrong here...
But wasn't Dreadnaught mentioned as the name of Albion's largest Battleship, rather than as a class of it's own?
Also, Predator is mentioned as being Destroyer-sized, but in the very opening narrations it's described as explicitly not being a military ship. It lacks the armour of a military craft, for one thing.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 02, 2015, 03:43:00 AM ---Can we square this circle somehow?
(click to show/hide)Behind the desk, in a case, were minature replicas of each and every airship in the Aetherium Fleet of Albion, from the mighty battleship Dreadnought, the size of Rowl, down to the tiniest destroyer, Energetic, no larger than Gwen's smallest finger.
Compare that to
(click to show/hide)Grimm had read accounts of battleships and dreadnoughts that had attempted a dive, only to have their lift crystals tear themselves entirely free of the ship when attempting to arrest their descent too rapidly.
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My best guess would be that the mighty Battleship named Dreadnought was the original of a new design (and a flagship by the sound of it) and that afterward they started mass producing a new class of battleship based on it's design.
--- Quote from: Seidmadr on October 02, 2015, 09:12:52 AM ---Correct me if I'm wrong here...
But wasn't Dreadnaught mentioned as the name of Albion's largest Battleship, rather than as a class of it's own?
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Both, actually :)
--- Quote ---Also, Predator is mentioned as being Destroyer-sized, but in the very opening narrations it's described as explicitly not being a military ship. It lacks the armour of a military craft, for one thing.
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To be fair that may partly be an organizational distinction as much as a practical one. Preddy is heavily armed and certainly a combat vessel, but still a civilian vessel rather than a military one (ie part of Fleet). And the merchant ships of the pirate days were often at least as well armed as the military ships.
Lind:
--- Quote from: Second Aristh on October 02, 2015, 03:43:00 AM ---Can we square this circle somehow?
(click to show/hide)Behind the desk, in a case, were minature replicas of each and every airship in the Aetherium Fleet of Albion, from the mighty battleship Dreadnought, the size of Rowl, down to the tiniest destroyer, Energetic, no larger than Gwen's smallest finger.
Compare that to
(click to show/hide)Grimm had read accounts of battleships and dreadnoughts that had attempted a dive, only to have their lift crystals tear themselves entirely free of the ship when attempting to arrest their descent too rapidly.
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Another squaring possibility is that Albion has no active dreadnoughts with their fleet capping out at the battleship Dreadnought. This leaves open several possibilities such as other spires may have active dreadnoughts, Albion's dreadnoughts may be mothballed and only brought out during war time because of maintenance costs, or that the crystal requirements for new dreadnaughts are so steep that they effectively become unreproducible relics (with Albion not having any at the moment).
Seidmadr:
--- Quote from: Quantus on October 02, 2015, 12:46:24 PM ---Also, Predator is mentioned as being Destroyer-sized, but in the very opening narrations it's described as explicitly not being a military ship. It lacks the armour of a military craft, for one thing.
To be fair that may partly be an organizational distinction as much as a practical one. Preddy is heavily armed and certainly a combat vessel, but still a civilian vessel rather than a military one (ie part of Fleet). And the merchant ships of the pirate days were often at least as well armed as the military ships.
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I agree that merchantmen used to carry heavy armaments back during the golden age of piracy. But my point here is that all military vessels we see in the book are armoured. Predator isn't. The closest classification I can find for her is a Q-ship: A warship disguised as a merchantman, but carrying military-grade weaponry.
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