fleet carriers.

By draugoner1, in Star Wars: Armada

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Is any one lese looking to see fleet carriers such as the flurry in the game? 250px-Flurry.jpg

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Looks like an Alliance Escort Carrier from the PC game StarWars Rebellion. Depending on how squads work, it might be interesting for Armada.

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It's class name is technically the Quasar Fire-class bulk cruiser, but yeah, it is typically called an Alliance Escort Carrier. It actually comes from Truce at Bakura, and then later appeared in Rebellion and Empire at War. And I've always had a soft spot for it for some reason (despite not liking the book). A long distance, mobile base of operations for a fighter squadron just makes SO MUCH SENSE for the Rebellion/Alliance. It's one of the ships I sincerely hope finds its way into the game.

It certainly looks a lot better than it's ugly imperial counterpart (which I also have an unexplainable love of): ESCCAR.JPG

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Funny thing, while it looks awesome and makes sense, it also DOESN'T make sense. At all. Look at this schematic. Is there no way to get from the bay to the bridge? That neck doesn't seem thick enough. Where does the crew sleep? or stay during trips. Does everyone just hang out in the launch bay and set up tents?

Yeah, I think I'm going with tents in my head canon from here on out. :)

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Hmm, other depictions apparently increase the size of the neck. That makes sense.

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Funny thing, while it looks awesome and makes sense, it also DOESN'T make sense. At all. Look at this schematic. Is there no way to get from the bay to the bridge? That neck doesn't seem thick enough. Where does the crew sleep? or stay during trips. Does everyone just hang out in the launch bay and set up tents?

Yeah, I think I'm going with tents in my head canon from here on out. :)

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Just to point out that the X-wing wingspan is the same as the thickness of the neck area. So that makes the neck at least 14m, which is more than 4 storeys high! Plenty of space for crew quarters and so on. Also the rear pod is around 110m deep and 45m high. So given the bay will probably be only around 40m of that depth you have a lot of space behind for quarters etc.