On the sea or in space, a battlecruiser is a cruiser putting on the airs of a battleship, and a fast battleship is a battleship cosplaying as a cruiser. This doesn’t become a problem until the types start to overlap.
Admiral Brandel Tsurilen, First Shore Lord
Gentles all, for those of you who liked the tunnel carrier I described a while back, I have gone forth and struggled manfully with image-generation models to bring you a fully-realized rendering of Daiségai at sea, somewhere outside the Great Bay on her shakedown cruise: And since it is well
The classical image of the aircraft carrier remains that set by the Third, Fourth, and even Fifth Oceanic Dominances - from the flush-deck carriers common at the start of the Third, to the V-deckers that dominated its ending, the Fourth, and into the Fifth, the romance of the flattop continues
I saw this picture today, via an Astral Codex Ten post on distinguishing human art from AI art, but that is not the context in which I reference it: Instead, I merely point out that it would be an accurate representation of what the Royal Alatian (later Imperial) Navy would
pennant number: The Imperial Navy’s best attempt at a general purpose identification code for ships, other means having proven inadequate. It is generally held that the true identifier of a ship is its name: that is, after all, what is written upon the hull, and with it travels the