Confederation Navy: Ships of the Solomani Front
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1. Diverge; parallel evolution.
2. Seems a deliberate policy by vested interests, including the Confederation Navy; probably a combination of Bloombergesque private information corporations, and Confederation Navy fleet courier routes rerouted along operational lines of communications, centered on Home. Patrol, strike and fleet do not need to be mutually exclusive, more a question of platform mission and/or role at any particular time, but could be based on available resources.
3. Very dependent on actual stellar density, which Rimward is not.
4. Battleships - in context of the last two books which mentions the Confederation Navy, contradictory to the previous edition, in the implied sense of predominance.
5. Examination of pre Great War Royal Navy building programmes, indicate an ideal of two armoured first class, followed by one battlecruiser, per two first class battleships, or escalation three super dreadnoughts; in theory, fast dreadnoughts make them redundant.
6. Fleet Carriers - if there is a choice, and previous edition indicated there was, duocentikilotonne variants for maximum utility and capacity.
7. Heavy Cruisers - is that a mount in your spine, or are you just happy to see me? If they upscaled their primary, neither pocket battleships nor battlecruisers will be.
8. Light Cruisers - Didos.
9. Light Carriers - I'd skip this, use a hydrid cruiser or escort carrier.