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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 1282912" data-attributes="member: 2723">Huh? Did you miss the Earth Civil War? How about the Drakh attack on Earth? During the Earth Civil War, in Mars orbit alone, there was a fleet of 30 Omega Class Destroyers that Sheridan and co. had to find a way to disable. Those ships alone account for your couple dozen figure. Then there's all those numerous battles that they engaged in with the White Stars, the ships that defected to Sheridan, the ships on patrol, the ships protecting Earth, etc.  Here's an interesting link regarding the size of the Earth Alliance fleet.  <a href="http://www.b5tech.com/science/misc/fleetsize/earthfleetsize.html" target="_blank">http://www.b5tech.com/science/misc/fleetsize/earthfleetsize.html</a>  As noted there, the novelization of "In The Beginning" states that at that time Earth Force had a fleet of 50,000 star ships. And that was at the time of the Earth/Minbari war. The fleet has undoubtedly grown since then, and of course, the Omega was introduced soon after that war. Here's an interesting paragraph from that page.    I had forgotten the number mentioned in the Crusade pilot, but I knew that the number of Omega Class Destroyers blown away in the Drakh attack was in the hundreds. And as was pointed out there, that loss didn't phase Earth Alliance. So no, Earth Force isn't exactly a pushover as far as when it comes to capital scale ships.</blockquote>