[FUBAR-BDHR]

Gas miner.

[Oddgrim]

Gas miner.

Makes sense, Think off all the gas the shivans could harvest from the new capellian nebula? 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Or directly from the sun's corona.

[IceyJones]

Beyond that I can't see that any limits were ever set.

what about the size of knossos?! would look strange if a ship, bigger than a knossos would jump through it imho

[karajorma]

I did say a natural limit. The Knossos is obviously an artificial one.

[IceyJones]

agreed......then you are right 

[NGTM-1R]

The size of the Sathanas' "fighterbay" has always bothered me. It's overly large and not good sense to put on a warship; it creates an area of vunerablity. And you could launch corvettes out of it.

[IceyJones]

And you could launch corvettes out of it.

maybe they do?!? 

[FUBAR-BDHR]

One of the last missions in the multi campaign I was working on has a couple of wings of cains, a wing of liliths, and finally a Moloch launching from that docking bay.

[TrashMan]

Given that the Sathanas is over a km taller and wider than the jump node as well as 4km longer why is anyone assuming that there is a natural limit on the size of jump nodes?

As far as I can see the centre of the warpin or warpout hole must be somewhere within the node. Beyond that I can't see that any limits were ever set.

Some limit must exist...only makes sense.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

A limit may exist, it may be variable, and it may apply to the jump nodes.  What is to say the nodes are the only method of subspace travel?   They may only be the first step into subspace.  There could be other ways to travel into and through subspace.  Do the Shivans know one?  If they have a planet size ship they just might.

[Koth]

If they have planet sized ships they probably travel by opening their own temporary subspace nodes.

[Killer Whale]

How big can a knossess be? Violation has to make a limit, for it to be visible at least, it's already huge!! I think a knosses could be humoungousaurusburger if they wanted it to be, it could fit a gigantic jupiter sized warship if they wanted to, but it would take a few more mesons to destroy and be so huge it would be quite tricky to see.

Could thinking though, it is a good idea, there is no cannon i can think of that goes against this, and a node may need the main centre of the warship to travel through the node and the rest could be anywhere. Notice that the collosuss has a larger warp signature than a pegasus stealth fighter? The warp suits the ship! It could be any size!!

Thumbs up for the thought 

[karajorma]

Some limit must exist...only makes sense.

It could be way the hell up there though. So large that planet or even star sized ships are possible.

[IceyJones]

i like the idea, that a sath is something like a transport and in order to think this further:
i say the sath fleet is carrying  the whole civilization of the shivans.

arguments pro:
- the huge number of saths
- the huge size of the main hull (really a lot of space inside)
- the huge hangar

this would also fit perfectly with petrach´s guesses, that the shivans are nomads, searching a way back home. i bet capella is the only way back home for them (however for what reason) and as the knossos was re-opened they gathered the whole sath fleet together in order to give it a try....

only my 2 cents

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Exactly what I was thinking. I posted my (current  ) theory about it here.

[NGTM-1R]

Some limit must exist...only makes sense.

Thing is, subspace is an interdimensional weirdness, and so far as we know, the only requirement necessary to use a node is to match the necessary vibrations for that particular n-dimensional whatever.

[karajorma]

Well I'm fairly sure you can't suck the entire universe through a subspace node. Where would it come out? Maybe we can say that's the limit.

[TrashMan]

I always though the hud node indicator gave you the limit...

Maybe it's bigger for the shivies, given their more advanced subspace tech

[Koth]

The Colossus is bigger than than the hud indicator too.