Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-24891101-20141003185344

What? I do not believe it. Most of that technology is either nonexistent or impractical. Besides, no yard in the world can produce a vessel of that complexity that quickly. This is clearly a scam, with the shell of a vessel to attract the attention of the navy, causing us to be drawn into a decades-long quagmire, with a vessel without advertised capabilities. Though admittedly, if this is the case, it's the worst example I've ever seen; no one could possibly believe the existence of this vessel. Currently, suborbital combat aircraft are in the very early stages of testing, and will not be able to be deployed on active duty for several decades. And what the hell is a "proton torpedo"? No such technology exists, as far as REMFLTFORCOM is aware. Sub-carriers have been tried before, but have always proven impractical; the empty volume required to house a hangar provides too much buoyancy for it to effectively dive, and requirements of the elevators severely restrict maximum depth. Plus, Amalgam is currently listed as a corvette, and it is outside naval practice for another vessel to enter service bearing the iterated name of another existing vessel; for this and the above reasons, we cannot accept delivery of this hypothetical, nonexistent vessel, even if it were to be built. Moreover, international arms control treaties restrict civilian access to naval-grade hardware, and now that you've brought it to our attention, we must insist that such parts of the vessel that exist be immediately scrapped.

Translation: That is far, far, far, far too wanky. Were it a person, I'd call it a Sue. You cannot unilaterally declare the existence of a vessel larger than the current carriers, and larger than more probable vessels. Because let's face it, Amalgam is fairly low on the probability scale. Besides, we don't built ships ourselves. Ships are built, and things happen, relative to what happens in the show.

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In other news, I support drawing up a spec dictating Ironwitch be outfitted as a missile cruiser with a dense CIWS fit.