- PLUT0NIUM 235
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the autumn isn't a marathon class, its halcyon class. second there is no way in hell (totally impossible) that the autumn' mass is only 100,000 tons, thats rediculous and whoever wrote that (nylund?...) needs a serious slap in the face with a kipper. put it this way a US aircraft carrier (nimitz for example) tips the scales at something like ~110,000 tons, and they are rather hollow in parts and 'only' 332 metres long, thats about ~140 metres shy of even a frigate which would probably tip the scales in the region of somewhere like ~200,000/250,000 tons.
now the autumn (halcyon class) is 1,170 metres long, almost as tall as a frigate is long and as wide (seriously) as a nimitz class supercarrier. not to mention that the whole ship is clad in two metres of armour plating and has insane amounts of internal reinforcements. reckon the mass of a halcyon is more in the region of several 'million' tons rather than 100,000 easily, rough guess from me would be around 2,400,000 tons, so that would put the marathons in at an impressive ~7,000,000 tons, think about it for a second though the autumn is not far short of three times the length of the biggest ship ever constructed (seawise giant, and other names) and that can tip the scales fully laden at ~600,000 tons.
man this is why i hate lazy writers and dodgy science fiction, for someone to come up with the number 100,000 for a ship as mind bogglingly enormous as the autumn stinks of pure stupidity. wish science fiction game developers would pull their heads out of their rears and actually do some serious thinking about things before putting pen to paper so to speak.
[Edited on 11.24.2010 2:11 PM PST]