Until the latest times battleships were the embodiment of space power. Since then the Empire stopped to build battleships and these days only major corporations and factions - greatly altering and improving on the Dominion class - commission them the navies are focusing on the more capable dreadnought class. The Dominion gave its name to the class and the Colonies started to copy the design. Indeed the first ever built space faring battleship Dominion resembled the two said ships in major design and construction technique.
Using the results the engineers concluded that only a little modification was needed for a successful design.
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The Empire - in full possession of every blueprint and research study ever made on naval warfare - was able to analyse and compare of the two most successful WWII battleships the Yamato and the USS Missouri. The other factor ending the battleship arms race was the appearance of the dreadnoughts. The race eventually ended when both sides recognized the relatively low value of the battleships: in spite of the immense resources spent on building battleships, even with their enormous firepower and protection, battleships were increasingly vulnerable to much smaller, cheaper weapons like torpedo gunships and corvettes, stealth space mines and later on to carriers groups. The implications of this projection reached far and created public wide worry and hysteria, which prompted the opposing governments to counter the rising unrest and so both sides, the Empire and the Colonies started to build battleships in large number. This paper speculated on the impact of a large battleship fleet on interstellar diplomacy if two power are present in opposition and how the situation would evolve if one side got an arms race advantage over the other. The space arms race in battleship construction began at Terra, when a long forgotten, nearly 150 years old military research paper got leaked out to the wide public.
The term battleship was coined at the beginning of the nineteenth century and it is a combination of the phrase line-of-battle ship, the then dominant wooden build warship.īattleships were and are a symbol of naval dominance and national might, and for centuries the battleship was a major factor in both diplomacy and military strategy. A battleship on present terms and indeed since the age of sail is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting mainly of heavy caliber guns.
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