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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Toadkiller: [QB] Even the fighters in DS9 were apparently warp capable. In which case, why do they need a carrier? Under no circumstance is the UFP going to launch a large scale offensive warp-days away from their own systems/star bases - so you stage you fighters from a fixed point. At most you would need tenders. It would have been far more trekish for them to have called them patrol craft or even torpedo boats/craft or something. If they are not warp capable then they are useless except for system defense, and not even much use then. Send a couple of warbirds in (for example) one side of the system, wait for the sublight fighters to run over that way, then the rest of the fleet warps into the other side of the system.... Modern day carriers are powerful because ships have much longer range/endurance than aircraft. Aircraft are useful because they are much faster than ships. If the aircraft have similar endurance and less speed than ships then they can self deploy, but how do they catch their prey? As for warp capable lifeboats - wow that would be expensive and heavy wouldn't it? A gaggle of standard lifeboats and a handful of warp shuttles would seem a better bet. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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