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 be building at the height of their wooden-ship period.
Well, except that they would be using the junk rig. But apart from that.
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
Kaiju¹-class submarine battleship Builders: * Ethring Iron and Steam Works * Sukórya Graving & Drydocks * Telírvess Naval Yards * Captal Daëntry Naval District * Ambríël Electric Boat Manufactory Displacement: 72,830 long tons (standard) Length: 312 m Beam: 24 m Draft: 14 m Propulsion: * 2 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC “Fluoride Chowder” high-temperature circulating
Laurë Isilvieré-class battlecarrier Builders: * Ethring Iron and Steam Works * Sukórya Graving & Drydocks * Telírvess Naval Yards Displacement: 61,620 long tons (standard) Length: 268m (waterline); 276m (overall) Beam: 36m Draft: 12.2m Propulsion: * 4 x Empire Nucleonics, ICC “Neutron Storm” nucleonic boilers (PWR), driving * 4 x 2 Blackstone Industries, ICC
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“Honestly, I think the primary motivation to develop warships that can descend into the atmosphere and hover in a menacing, fight-in-the-shade manner has nothing to do with any of the technical rationales you hear bandied about. “It’s so that when someone says to you, ‘You and what army?’, you