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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Well, we already know that a warp engine is easily packed inside of a shuttlecraft-sized ship. The range is questionable, but a fighter could manage for at least a couple of hours on its own. The colonial defense idea sounds feasible. Fighters would probably take a lot less maintenance compared to a full-fledged starship sitting in orbit. Even one of Masao's Kestrel-class patrol cruisers isn't well suited for long-term defense of a single planet. A dozen or two small fighters could collectively hold back an attacking Klingon cruiser for a short while... and certainly keep any Orion Raiders or other nasties at bay. As I said, the fighters wouldn't be able to take on the full-fledged cruisers, like the D7's or even smaller D6's. Or to pick Starfleet equivalents, I wouldn't want to send a squadron of fighters against a Miranda, and certainly not a Constitution. It's mainly the smaller fry that the fighters would go up against. Which means that the fleet-scale options for fighters are pretty limited. As for carriers, I'd say that carriers are necessary, because fighters can't travel interstellar distances on their own. They'd have to rely on the speeds of a heavy cruiser (carrier-type ship) in order to get from point A to point B. The carriers would definitely be necessary. I just don't think that they'd be very useful in a Dominion War-type setting. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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