starfury88
Mongoose
I first noticed this when I got a look at the Vehicle Sizes table on p. 68 of the B5 RPG and Factbook and compared it to ships in this book and Signs and Portents. Almost all of the ship size estimates are dead wrong.
According to b5tech.com (which gets its information from JMS and the B5 production staff), the Omega class Destroyer is 1,717 meters long, much larger than the Colossal IV category (512-1,024 ft.) listed in Signs and Portents. The correct info given would make the Omega a Colossal VI vessel. Listed below are B5 starships with the ship's size as provided to b5tech.com, the wrong size category given by the publishers, and the correct size category:
Ship Size (meters) Wrong Category Correct Category
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Hyperion Cruiser 1025 Colossal II Colossal VI
Nova Class 1502 Colossal III Colossal VI
Sharlin Warcruiser 1600 (height) Colossal III Colossal VI
Primus Cruiser 1586 Colossal IV Colossal VI
Vorchan Cruiser 608 Colossal III Colossal V
G'Quan Cruiser 1400 Colossal III Colossal VI
T'Loth Cruiser 1050 Colossal III Colossal VI
Vorlon Transport 131 Gargantuan Colossal III
Drazi Sunhawk 350 Colossal II Colossal V
Vree War Saucer 350 Colossal II Colossal V
Raider Wagon 250 Colossal V Colossal IV
Minbari Fighter 22 Large Colossal
Sentri Fighter 22.25 Huge Colossal
Narn Frazi 15.8 Huge Gargantuan
Delta-V Raider 16 Large Gargantuan
They even got the size of Babylon 5 itself wrong. In the book it's listed as 7962 meters, when it was clearly given as 8.0645 km in the episode "And Now for a Word." What is up with all this :?:
According to b5tech.com (which gets its information from JMS and the B5 production staff), the Omega class Destroyer is 1,717 meters long, much larger than the Colossal IV category (512-1,024 ft.) listed in Signs and Portents. The correct info given would make the Omega a Colossal VI vessel. Listed below are B5 starships with the ship's size as provided to b5tech.com, the wrong size category given by the publishers, and the correct size category:
Ship Size (meters) Wrong Category Correct Category
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Hyperion Cruiser 1025 Colossal II Colossal VI
Nova Class 1502 Colossal III Colossal VI
Sharlin Warcruiser 1600 (height) Colossal III Colossal VI
Primus Cruiser 1586 Colossal IV Colossal VI
Vorchan Cruiser 608 Colossal III Colossal V
G'Quan Cruiser 1400 Colossal III Colossal VI
T'Loth Cruiser 1050 Colossal III Colossal VI
Vorlon Transport 131 Gargantuan Colossal III
Drazi Sunhawk 350 Colossal II Colossal V
Vree War Saucer 350 Colossal II Colossal V
Raider Wagon 250 Colossal V Colossal IV
Minbari Fighter 22 Large Colossal
Sentri Fighter 22.25 Huge Colossal
Narn Frazi 15.8 Huge Gargantuan
Delta-V Raider 16 Large Gargantuan
They even got the size of Babylon 5 itself wrong. In the book it's listed as 7962 meters, when it was clearly given as 8.0645 km in the episode "And Now for a Word." What is up with all this :?: