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Not a trek question, but a starship one nonetheless: How long is the Leviathian supposed to be? I've been watching the farscape marathon this week and cant nail down the ship's length...over 200 meters at a guess but mabye someone has an exact figure?
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Yeah, but he's also got the EA Hyperion as almost as large as a Romulan warbird and larger than a Mimbari Sharlin cruiser so.....
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Sharlins have about the same reputation for size as the Defiant, though.
({[<The length of the Hyperion has, to my knowledge, never been in dispute, and lies somewhere in the vicinity of 1000 meters.>]})
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I never thought a Hyperion could be over 400 meters long (based on the cramped bridge and it having no fighters). It always seemed to me to be a equivalent of a modern naval destroyer at most.
...OTOH, B5 ships are bloated in the extreme for what they do -unless they carry huge amounts of foodstuffs, a non-replenishable oxygen supply and solid fuelstores for extended missions without resupply.
...no: there's just no way the Hyperion is larger that the SDF1 or a Shadow veseel for that matter!
Look how it (supposedly) dwarfs the Galaxy class!
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Okay, Jeff's -2X page has the Sharlin severely undersized, but the -10X page seems to have the sizes about right, at least to my eye. Here's a screen shot I took: b5-sizes.jpg
The only thing out of place there to me is the Vorlon cruiser, which I think needs to be much bigger.
Of course, this doesn't help with the original question of Moya, does it?
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Well, here's two more sources: Star Trek Minutiae lists Moya as 1542m long, but he admits he's pulling it out of his rear. And I saw something else saying that the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, Washington lists Moya as 1.5 km long, which agrees with the above.
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In the episode where we see the actual EAS Hyperion, we DO see a fighter leaing a docking bay of some sort... Didn't look 1000 meters long to me.
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The reason B5 ships are so bloated, at least those in use by the Earth Alliance, is the unquenchable thirst of their fusion reactors for deuterium, owing to the stuff's low energy density, and so they need to store a lot of it, which is easier and more efficient to do on larger ships, since internal volume is a cubic function of an object's dimensions, but, of course, for a race that still hasn't totally climbed out of the galactic cradle yet, constructing even one 1.7km long warship might be just a few bridges, or shipyards, or megascale engineering abilities, too far, so, I don't know, except that the number of commas in this sentence is getting really excessive, so I am going to place a period behind it now.
[[Also, big ships look better on screen.]]
{{Also also, the Omega class destroyer <<and the Alexi Leonov it was copied from>> has to be my favorite ship design EVAR.}}
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In In The Beginning you also see Sheridan's ship (aargh, forget the name - oh, wait, now I remember), the Lexington, lauch a fighter I think. Piloted by Ganya Ivanov, which totally went against continuity - in the actual series, Ivanova bloody asks Sheridan how he destroyed the Black Star, with no mention of the fact that her brother got killed about 5 monutes before. . .
One of the B5 tech sites insists on giving Omega-class destroyers masses in the tens of millions of tons; this despite the fact that they're a fraction of the size of B5 itself which only weighs in at a 2.5 million tons.
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