At 09:02 PM 10/28/95 -0700, you wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Charles C. Liu wrote:

At 11:46 AM 10/29/95 +1000, you wrote:

On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, For Love of Peorth wrote:

  Wing.  [ If I had a choice, I'd choose the Defiant and use it as a

pirate

		ship with a few modifications. :) ]

You know - this has given me a thought (heaven forbid..) - what kind of 
ship in the ST/TNG or *any other* universe would people be interesting in 
*acquiring* (as in given a choice, which ship would ya take)...

        That depends on what I'm going to use it for and what kind of
limits. If there were no limits than I would want a Borg Battleship.

        If we are not limited to the ST stuff then I would go for an
Asgerd-class Imperial planetoid from David Weber's "The Armageddon
Inheritance" That might be a bit of an overkill though :)
holes). In that book this is a standard ship!! And the Fourth Empire had
more than 100,000 ship of that size!! Let's see if you could beat that

Brett!!

Rather than "Standard" I'd say they were more like the Iowa and 
Wisconson.  Small in number, specialized battlecraft.  I'd still prefer 
the "moon" class planetiod.  Slower, less armored, wimpy weapons (in 
comparrison) but the computer kicked butt! (As opposed to your 
Asgard's retarded number cruncher which would have to have it's systems 
totally rewritten.)

        Are you getting you're ship from the same book? The Asgerd-class are
all-around type ship of the Empire. Not like the Torsan-class(heavy energy
weapons) and Vespa-class(planetary assault) planetiods. And its not small in
number either using the Imperial Guard Flotilla as a standard it contained
52 Asgerds, 16 Trosans, and 10 Vespas. That makes the Asgerds the most
common ships! When you're referring to the "moon" class planetiod are you
talking about Dahak? I know that Dahak is self-aware and the new ships
aren't but that's why the new ship has a crew complement of almost 1.2
million! And as to computational power Dahak only uses molecular circuitry
while the Asgerd uses Fold-Space circuitry which makes the Asgerd many times
faster and capable of storing much more information. And you could make the
Asgerds Self-aware too!

Bruce

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