On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

[Something *else* that the daemons ate . . .]

On September 15, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Cheng Tseng <cxt217@kennett.net> wrote:

I seriously doubt that story, especially since a major criticism of the SPRUANCEs was their relative lack of weapons compared to their size.

Ummm?

Wouldn't that SUPPORT the story?

A class of ship originally designed to mount a cruiser's armament yet actually armed only with a destroyer's armament WOULD have a "relative lack of weapons compared to their size."

Richard Aiken

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