On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:34 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:

I have a quibble with a 1,000,000 ton battle cruiser.

I agree.

Must have been a typo.

Going by the displacement given for the cruisers (75,000 dtons) and the RL historical precedent that battleships are generally twice the mass of cruisers, the displacement of the Fair Phyllis *should* be 150,000 dtons.

[More realistically, the author was probably just pulling numbers out of his posterior . . . ]

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