[Ryuseiken]

I'd of thought most of that room would be crew quaters since ships the size of a Karuna are supposed to house 3,000 people.

[rscaper1070]

They aren't luxury liners, they're military vessels. If you're not an officer you're packed in like sardines.

[LordPomposity]

I'd of thought most of that room would be crew quaters since ships the size of a Karuna are supposed to house 3,000 people.

They're also over a kilometer long. For comparison, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is 330m long (about the size of a Karuna's rotator) and has a complement of just over 6,000.

[Klaustrophobia]

along with an airwing of 75 or so and all the ordinance and fuel to go along with it.

[Mars]

An Orion has 10,000 people on board, and they could all fit inside a couple turrets IIRC.

[-Sara-]

And Even then they still have..  plenty of FreeSpace! 

Or maybe people in that time don't sleep in beds but in small, claustrophobic capsules which induce REM sleep a dozen times more efficient than any Swedish mattrass on a king-sized bed could ever achieve. Can even stack those in a cargo bay once you sleep and in case of emergency shoot them through tubes so you wake up right at your station. But that's far-fetched even for me!

[Jellyfish]

No, seriously. How do all those people inside a Nimitz fit? Has the US Navy been secretly making TARDIS ships?

[-Sara-]

Uhm, half of them are on shift when the other half sleeps I imagine.

[crizza]

Yeah, they're hotbunking.

[Klaustrophobia]

no, everyone has their own bunk and locker.  the officers even have staterooms.  carriers are just ****ing BIG.  which means FS ships are obscenely huge.

[NGTM-1R]

Yeah, they're hotbunking.

Only the submariners have to hotbunk in the USN these days, and even then it's not the full crew. (IIRC something like 30 or 40 percent of the crew on a Los Angeles has to, I'd have to look it up to be sure.)

[crizza]

Oh, you're right, my bad^^
And considering the size comparison pictures...30.000 people aboard the Colossus seems a little bit...undercrewed^^

[-Norbert-]

Not, if you consider how much of the ship is made up of nothing but girders

[Drogoth]

Not, if you consider how much of the ship is made up of nothing but girders

The true weapon behind the colossus was the flying debris of Girders upon destruction!

[-Norbert-]

And there I thought she was so big, to make the "baseball-bat manouver" more devastating.

[CT27]

2- Let's be honest : although the Tevs should of course try to avoid unnecessarily losses, they are not, contrary to the UEF, on the verge of logistical collapse, and, like Simms or I don't remember who said, they "can bleed corvettes left and right". Steele has shown with Darkest Hour that he is ready and willing to sacrifice a few ships to achieve important goals. If he gets an opening to wipe a Solaris out, he'll take it.

You kind of already said this, but I was saying that the Solarises aren't the only important military target for the GTVA and that taking out smaller ships can be important too.

[qwadtep]

Yeah, as far as warship assets are concerned, if I were a Tev commander, I'd probably prioritize a Narayana over a Solaris.

[Mars]

Solaris's might just be easier to catch, at this point.

[CT27]

The ultimate goal of the GTVA is defending themselves against the next Shivan incursion. Had the UEF been committed to this objective in a comparable manner to the GTVA, a pacific solution might have been considered.

What do you mean by "a pacific solution"?

[MatthTheGeek]

If the UEF have had a militaristic policy similar to the GTVA, and had the Ubuntu ideology not been deemed a threat to the survival of humanity, the GTVA most likely would have started negotiations on a pacific reintegration of Sol into the GTVA, integration of the UEF's fleet into the GTVA navy, a share of Sol's industrial power, and negotiations on a solution to the economical crisis the GTVA is facing.

The Elders are negotiators. They'd have come to an arrangement.

As a bonus, civilians can go back and forth to their home system, families are reunited, the GTVA can go back to prepare for their unavoidable doom, and all is well.