Yeah, huge difference. Especially if we’re talking TMP era. I wonder what’s comparable in the Trek universe to a billion tons.
Biggest ships in fleets?
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Well, in Picard, they had to build a Fleet of Evacuation vessels, and they didn't seem to be much bigger than the Enterprise E. You would think they would make a ship a mile or 2 long with alot of bunks and life support equipment. Don't have to be luxurious, but a large ship like that can take maybe 50,000? Not much when you talk about Billions of people, but its beter than going 1-5000 at a time.
I'm sure there are "Cruise Ships" in the federation, going on trips to see Risa, nebula's, other pretty places. And also commuter services like the old time steamer ships, or plane service.
I'm sure there are "Cruise Ships" in the federation, going on trips to see Risa, nebula's, other pretty places. And also commuter services like the old time steamer ships, or plane service.
From ST-vs-SW.net we get:
Spacedock: somewhere between 6,174,886,000 tons to 23.9 billion tons.
Starbase 74-type spacedock: 75.2 billion to 291 billion tons.
EDIT: if spacedock is only 6 billion tons...”only”...lol...and there are 1 billion ton super spacers, I’m reminded of the huge Explorer Class ships in Babylon 5 that seemed to be as long as the station itself.
Spacedock: somewhere between 6,174,886,000 tons to 23.9 billion tons.
Starbase 74-type spacedock: 75.2 billion to 291 billion tons.
EDIT: if spacedock is only 6 billion tons...”only”...lol...and there are 1 billion ton super spacers, I’m reminded of the huge Explorer Class ships in Babylon 5 that seemed to be as long as the station itself.
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The evacuation fleet seemed to consist of tugs towing pods. A good model there: you don't have any warp engines idly waiting, but can keep on loading and offloading the pods which then get moved to a safe place when a warp engine becomes available.
Giant ships would make sense if it took a long time to move from the doomed system to a safe one. If it only takes days, though, there's no point in building something so huge that it takes days to load! Although of course ships of all sizes can be used in addition, as long as the big players introduce these optimal tugs for the bulk of the operation.
If "billion-ton ore carriers" already exist, it's probably a good idea to spend some resources in building life support (or stasis!) into those, for a single years-long exodus. But building new arks might be wasted effort.
Timo Saloniemi
Giant ships would make sense if it took a long time to move from the doomed system to a safe one. If it only takes days, though, there's no point in building something so huge that it takes days to load! Although of course ships of all sizes can be used in addition, as long as the big players introduce these optimal tugs for the bulk of the operation.
If "billion-ton ore carriers" already exist, it's probably a good idea to spend some resources in building life support (or stasis!) into those, for a single years-long exodus. But building new arks might be wasted effort.
Timo Saloniemi
I looked up the entry. A train of "Kilometer long containers". So the cargo is a billion tons, not any single ship.
ditl.org has a pretty good size chart database.
http://www.ditl.org/sizes-select-page.php?Ships=0&ListID=Size-charts
http://www.ditl.org/sizes-select-page.php?Ships=0&ListID=Size-charts