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I wonder how high the loses would have been if the Dominion attacked one of those large spacedocks. I would assume that it has firepower equal or better than DS9. Also with those size stations, i would guess if a setup like the Defiant and DS9 was arranged, would it be better to have a couple more ships?
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I'm sure those Mushrooms pack a good punch. The only thing it's vulnerable for are Dominion suicide attacks, but they would need to throw multiple large ships at it. Better attack from the 'blind side' of the planet, I'd reckon.
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Hmm - made me think of ogging the starbase in the long lost days of netrek/paradise. I suppose the mushroom would have tractors to hold rammers off - or enough long range punch to destroy at a distance.
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I'd imagine instead of fifty shps destroyed, those starbases would take out well over 200 ships. Also I'd bet that the Dominion avioded those starbases like the plague, since even Weyoun complained about losing fifty ships to a starbase.
How many Defiants and ships of similar size and capability those could hold? I doubt a single ship at a starbase of that size would be an useful.
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Yeah, but didn't an attack wing of Jem'Hadar Fighters (6 in all) attack Starbase 257 in "Valiant"? Of course that raises the question - did the remaining 5 (1 left to chase Nog & Jake in the Runabout) destroy the Starbase?
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SB 257 was not a Mushroom, it was a redress of that research station in ST:II. Much much smaller. Still, you'd expect a starbase of any significant importance to be able to hold off a mere 6 vanilla attackships. Not with out damage, of course, the Jem'Hadar attack could have simply been intended to disrupt normal operations.
I feel ill everytime I think of the Spacedocks in Bridge Commander. Those things were about as well armed as a runabout.
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I don't think those Jem H'addar attack ships would be vanilla... more like fruitcake. And both SB375 and SB257 are the same structure, but 375 had ships orbitng around it.
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Besides Spacedock at Earth (is it still there during the DS9 era - i cant remember) and Starbase 74 (that was the one in the episodes with the Bynars; 11001101 or something - right?) how many other starbases are the mushroom type - which we have confirmed on screen?
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I thought we see the station one more time in TNG. But we never see them until the games came out. In Birth of the Federation, they have these stations capable of taking out entire fleets. Only a D'deridex or a Strike Cruiser coaked can take them out.
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