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BDM Alliance Ships

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UPDATED: Friday, January 18, 2008 21:55
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Friday, January 18, 2008 11:56 AM

Okay, so, we've seen what Alliance capital ships look like in the series, and we've seen what other Alliance capital ships look like in the BDM. And, obviously, there's a glaring difference. The Alliance cruisers seen in the show are huge and vertically aligned (and rather ponderous-looking IMO), while the Alliance capital ships seen in the BDM are a bit more ship-like - more horizontal, sleeker, clearly designed for combat.

I looked through the Serenity RPG guidebook, but the only Alliance capital ship referenced therein (and, apparently, in most other sources) is the Dortmunder type we saw in the show. But why didn't we see any of those in the BDM? The Operative said to 'call in every ship in the quadrant', doesn't it seem likely there would be at least one or two Dortmunder-class cruisers in the area? One thing that crossed my mind was that the Alliance might have retired them all by that point, whether it's due to age or being somewhat ineffectual as warships.

And, what of the Alliance fleet in the BDM? We only saw a couple of ships described in any detail in the Visual Companion. Size? Armament? Speed? Cruising range? Anything definitive on their capabilities? Even if there isn't, what do the rest of you ship aficionados think of their characteristics, and their role in the 'verse?

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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:29 PM

FLETCH2

The Operative works for the Parliament not for the Alliance Military. While I'm sure he could use his authority to call up whatever resources he wanted if he did that lots of people would get to hear about it and that would kind of blow the super secret mission.

My take on it is that the Parliament has it's own small military force -- kind of an internal security department which is seperate from the military. Those where the folks the operative was using. When he calls for other ships he means other ships from that elite group rather than all the ships there are.

Dortmunder class are litterally cities in space that can take administration, engineering and medical resources to any planet in the verse. While they obviously have to defend themselves they look too awkward to make good warships. You park one or 2 of them in orbit around an unarmed rebel planet to intimidate them while you work on winning hearts and minds using the Dortmunder's technical resources. The ships the Operative had were obviously built more for ship to ship combat than planetary pacification.

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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:18 PM

RIVERFLAN

A private fleet makes a little sense, but the small problem is that why would they keep a private navy after the war?

And maybe the ship-types you think are missing are really there, and they were just at the back.

I don't really have mich more to say 'cause I'm not exactly a ship aficionados, to use your wording Steamer

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Friday, January 18, 2008 9:55 PM

BLINDOUTLAW

my theory for the ship difference is the different ships are used for different missions

the Dortmunder type cruiser are more like floating garrisons used to enfore the rule of the alliance. Basically they are mobile bases used to keep order on the outter colonies

the ships in the BDM are warships, used to fight other ships in open combat, so they are built to be more "spaceship like".

and thats my theory

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