From: adam.w.krajewski@gmail.com   
      
   "So all of this is left away from the expected battle zone, and it's armed   
   simply for self-defense so the actual battleship has something to come back   
   to, right?"   
   Ok, so, to start with, the cylindrical and octagonal parts are together with   
   the brick, nothing is left behind, I should make that clear at the beginning.   
   So, warship is: engine, reactor, weapon ring, crew and cargo, coilguns,   
   frontal antennae array with    
   spinal mount. They are all parts of one vehicle. The tugship is a completely   
   diferrent story.    
   As for particle beams, I honestly don't know why I put them here, maybe the   
   justification for them could be the ability to give some fast punch at long   
   end of engagements distances, at which normally the missiles are used? Their   
   "ammo" is quite light,    
   and their time to target is short... What do you think?    
   As for armor for ferry phase, the ship as a whole is attached behind the tug   
   with its own shield, so the need for warship to carry it fades away. Although,   
   I think I will put something like this on front.   
   For the crew: In interstellar trip they are in hibernation, when they arrive   
   to target they wake up and stay awake for time of mission, if the ship carries   
   payload of troops, the crew is awake as normally, but the troops are sleeping   
   until there is a    
   need to drop them into battle. The size of the ship makes me think, what would   
   be the size of crew, it's bigger than Nimitz class aircraft carriers, that   
   have a few thousand people on board IIRC.    
   For the steer and portside - I forgot that it should be "board" not "side",   
   and that in English it's "star" board, not "steer" like in my country.    
   Fighter launcher you say... Hm, for now the ships hangar bays have quite a lot   
   of places that can deploy the smaller crafts, but, that could be an option...   
   Especially when the spinal mount connects to the hangar, where the   
   compulsators, recoil systems    
   for coilgun would be mounted. Also, fighters in space?:p    
   The barrels are quite "fat" already, like 1 meter, for a 10 kg projectile that   
   will be 50mm wide that's quite a lot I think (I used that value today when   
   calculating lenght, magnetic field strenght etc using Mr Campbell's equations   
   found on Atomic    
   Rockets, I made some mistakes though and results are weird).   
   On power storage, technomagic supercapacitors you say... Made from silica   
   based shells of intelligent insectoids who are the only lifeform that has a   
   special silicen nano structure in it? Sounds nice :D The compulsators sound   
   good too, but they would    
   need some armor, violently rupturing wheel at thousands of rpm could do big   
   damage I think.    
   Fast googling did not get me power density, but gonna search for that later.    
   And again about something rotating, today I started thinking about a big   
   technological challenge, mounting 26 m wide turrets in a way that will keep   
   them from falling out of turret rings. The naval battleships had the turrets   
   just lying on rollers, if    
   the ship would turn sideways they would fall off... And we need them to not   
   fall off at a few Gs...    
   Anyway, big thank you for your effort here, without you and others help making   
   all these projects wouldn't be possible!   
      
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