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<blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 8745918" data-attributes="member: 49017"><p></p></blockquote><p>That will of course depend on the technology assumptions of the SF setting in question. </p><p>One thing that clearly won't be the case when compared to modern sea patrols is that there's no distinction between sea and air movement; which means no aircraft manoeuvring at speeds a large ship can't match. To use Traveller as an example, Dreadnoughts aren't inferior in acceleration to Destroyers unless you build them that way. </p><p>And from a purely technological point of view, a large ship has more area for it's distributed sensor arrays to be spread across, so it's likely the best sensor platforms will be large Or they'll be "throw-away" drones, and again a larger ship will have space to store more. </p><p></p><p></p><p>As has already been mentioned, the disarming of civilian vessels is a very modern effect, and in some areas where piracy is a problem ships are regaining the right to carry weapons. Note that the weapons in question tend to be machine guns or grenade launchers, possibly even just small arms, which fall well short of the type of weapons that are useful against warships. though in the past, plenty of merchant ships would have had guns comparable to small warships - some ships from the East India Company in the 18th/19th century were the size of frigates and mounted the same 12pdr cannon (though fewer of them). In some periods the distinction between a merchant ship and a warship could be uncertain - galleons spent most of their time carrying cargo, but were mobilised for war and among the most effective vessels in a military fleet.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Bluenose, post: 8745918, member: 49017"] [/QUOTE] That will of course depend on the technology assumptions of the SF setting in question. One thing that clearly won't be the case when compared to modern sea patrols is that there's no distinction between sea and air movement; which means no aircraft manoeuvring at speeds a large ship can't match. To use Traveller as an example, Dreadnoughts aren't inferior in acceleration to Destroyers unless you build them that way. And from a purely technological point of view, a large ship has more area for it's distributed sensor arrays to be spread across, so it's likely the best sensor platforms will be large Or they'll be "throw-away" drones, and again a larger ship will have space to store more. As has already been mentioned, the disarming of civilian vessels is a very modern effect, and in some areas where piracy is a problem ships are regaining the right to carry weapons. Note that the weapons in question tend to be machine guns or grenade launchers, possibly even just small arms, which fall well short of the type of weapons that are useful against warships. though in the past, plenty of merchant ships would have had guns comparable to small warships - some ships from the East India Company in the 18th/19th century were the size of frigates and mounted the same 12pdr cannon (though fewer of them). In some periods the distinction between a merchant ship and a warship could be uncertain - galleons spent most of their time carrying cargo, but were mobilised for war and among the most effective vessels in a military fleet. [/QUOTE]
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