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Originally Posted by Major Diarrhia Sounds like a bomber, it's going to need to be manned, considering the Colonials don't trust automation. It's going to be a big craft anyway, to hold a jump engine and a bunch of nuclear tipped missiles. Although, the nukes in nBSG are extremely small yet potent, so the missiles don't need to be too big. |
Well a raptor would have to jump in and find the targets. So i imagine that the missile would be controled from the raptor. If for some reason the raptor lost control, i believe it would be able to continue on its own. Its not so much the colonials that don't trust automation, as it is Adama that doesn't trust it.
Such as the fact that Pegasus is 200 meters longer than Galactica, and yet its max crew is smaller than the skeleton crew on Galactica. The Bucket has 2,000 crew on it and that's reduced for decommissioning, so we can assume that she would have several thousand more. The Beast has 1500 crew, and Cain said she only lost 700 in the attack on the shipyard they were at.
Anyway, as for showing him the scale. I'm just going to put up a small box that represents the size of the missile compared to the ship.
1 pixel= .63 meters
Well I'm off to work on the drawing. I'll post an update before i go for the night.
EDIT: Sorry didn't see the other post. No the Ares doesn't have fighters. However its hanger bays will have room to store a few fighters in emergency situations.
And one last thing. The old gunstar weapon was 14 meters in diameter to house the larger components that extend all the way to the tip of the barrel, as well as extensive reinforcing to allow the barrel to withstand the forces of multiple shots without damaging the gun. Needed since it would be firing a projectile nearly a meter in diameter at higher speeds than a normal cannon.