Skallagrim
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To some people, the New Class modernisation programme simply doesn't seem to exist. As with the previous "arguments" I dismantled, the accusations against the New Republic are just patently false.
I agree with @Lord Sovereign that the Venator was a great design, which actually disproves the pretension that "BIGGAH IS ALWAYS BETTAH!" (which was the misguided Imperial doctrine). However... the NR in fact designed and mass-constructed the optimised successor to the Venator, in the form of the excellent Nebula-class.
It's not the biggest ship, but it packed a serious punch. In short: you get way more bang for your buck, and you can field way, way more of them (at the same cost).
I agree to some extent that for narrative reasons, the NR fleet sometimes just didn't show up in a story, when having it appear would immediately solve the problem at hand. @ShadowArxxy is dramatically over-stating it, though. Typically, some in-universe reason was at least given (the fleet being busy elsewhere), with our intrepid heroes being forced to solve the situation at hand. Out-of-story, it was made exceedingly clear that the NR fleet was a powerhouse. This was just not typically shown on the page, because stories featuring our familiar heroes were (perceived to be) more popular.
For this reason, we are not shown (for instance) the NR victories at Columus, Champala, Taris, Ketaris, Tangrene and Anx Minor... even though those battles are described as having utterly broken the fleet of the Imperial Remnant, reducing Imperial control to a mere eight Outer Rim sectors.
I agree with @Lord Sovereign that the Venator was a great design, which actually disproves the pretension that "BIGGAH IS ALWAYS BETTAH!" (which was the misguided Imperial doctrine). However... the NR in fact designed and mass-constructed the optimised successor to the Venator, in the form of the excellent Nebula-class.
It's not the biggest ship, but it packed a serious punch. In short: you get way more bang for your buck, and you can field way, way more of them (at the same cost).
I agree to some extent that for narrative reasons, the NR fleet sometimes just didn't show up in a story, when having it appear would immediately solve the problem at hand. @ShadowArxxy is dramatically over-stating it, though. Typically, some in-universe reason was at least given (the fleet being busy elsewhere), with our intrepid heroes being forced to solve the situation at hand. Out-of-story, it was made exceedingly clear that the NR fleet was a powerhouse. This was just not typically shown on the page, because stories featuring our familiar heroes were (perceived to be) more popular.
For this reason, we are not shown (for instance) the NR victories at Columus, Champala, Taris, Ketaris, Tangrene and Anx Minor... even though those battles are described as having utterly broken the fleet of the Imperial Remnant, reducing Imperial control to a mere eight Outer Rim sectors.
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