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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] Rogue Starship said: "I would not dismiss the idea of impulse fighter squardons launched from capital ships. Now I am not saying STAR WARS type battles, because the capital ships still fight. I'm just saying it's like having two ships, becasue when 12 fighters go up against a Capital ship, I can tell you that the capital ship is going to be out gunned." I'm not so sure about this. A small fighter (warp-capable or not) probably has only a single small fusion reactor to power the shields, weaponry and impulse drive. Therefore, each of these systems will be rather weaker than those of a large cruiser. An analogy would be a squadron of single-seat fighters of WWII vintage (like Corsairs or Hellcats) with machine guns or even 30 mm cannon attacking a battleship like Yamato. They could probably do a lot of damage to the superstructure but probably couldn't sink the ship without torpedoes or bombs. Sure they might get some sort of lucky hit and cause a chain reaction that consumes a magazine or something, but that's again kind of like Star Wars. That's another question. How small of a ship can carry a actual matter/antimatter reactor? How were shuttlecraft powered in TOS and later series? Runabouts are 23 m long: do they have matter/antimatter reactors? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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