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Lore, Fan Media & Fiction / The Fleets of the Persean Sector
« on: April 21, 2022, 09:54:33 PM »
There's something I've always been wondering about since I first started playing this game, but I haven't been able to find a definitely answer to it as of yet.
Just how many ships are there in each of the Sector Power's navies, lore-wise? In particular, how common are capital ships compared to cruisers and smaller vessels? Are we talking about no more than a handful for the whole sector, a couple dozen per power, something in between? What would be the typical size and ship-mix for a Domain Battlegroup at full muster?

Similarly, while the powers that be do have heavy industry, do they actually have the ability to construct new capital ship hulls, or is it more that they're able to keep already-built ones running? Is there a possibility that the sector could see capitals go extinct entirely?

My doubt on high numbers of capitals mainly comes from the menu missions; a fleet engagement like The Last Hurrah involves only two capital ships total, while Sinking the Bismar and Nothing Personal demonstrate that the Hegemony either was desperate enough or found it convenient enough to recover the 3-year old drifting hulk of an Onslaught and decide to repair and refit it to service. Would the numbers represented in the missions be fully accurate to what "truly happened", or would this be more an abstraction for an even larger engagement? 

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