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I suspect that we should not expect coherence or clarity from someone who posts the entire contents of the U.S. Navy Fact File index in the text of the message rather than providing a simple link...
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But, when he printed it it fit on his arm.....
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quote:Originally posted by The Vorlon: So, we're all pretty much starting to agree on a fairly large Fed fleet, right? Okay, so then I'm going to throw registry numbers into the mix... =]
Currently, there are no NCC #s higher than 76000, and assuming that those numbers ARE chronological and are assigned to any ship SF builds (regardless of NCC/NAR, etc), then SF CANNOT have more than 76000 ships. Next piece of evidence; USS Ambassador with NX-10521 was built around 2315-2320, meaning that at that time, the Federation was no more than 11000 ships, which seems fitting for that era. During the almost 60 years between then and now, SF has built 60,000 ships or all sizes, and according to Romulan statements in "The Neutral Zone", the Federation had greatly expanded it's borders during the time the Romulans had been in isolation, this jives with the massive increase in fleet size.
Now, the oldest ships we've seen in the war had regs in the 31000 range. 76,000-31,000 - 45,000 ships most likely still in service. Again, Sternbach's comment about the 30,000 ship size of SF seems relativitly conserative, given various facts, and also quite realistic.
Gee, reg #s FINALLY work right for once. =]
Actually, there would only need to be one NX ship per class! FIgure one in ten NX ships become their own class of ships spawning between 50-200 ships each and you get a very large fleet.
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Clean-up time. I'm closing down most of the RAMA-inspired flamefests in S&T, and suggesting that the issue be discussed at the Lounge, where a suitable thread now exists. Have no fear, the "Size of Starfleet" question will pop up again in some form sooner than you think...
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