Bellator-class Star Dreadnoughts are described as fast capital ships, but their scale creates problems for a historical fleet comparison. Yamato is instead compared with a Praetor battlecruiser within the fictional setting. The panel then questions whether a nineteen-kilometer Executor with high acceleration and extensive capabilities has a useful naval equivalent at all. Calling such a ship a fast battleship can conceal how differently its size and performance relate to the rest of its fictional fleet. The discussion treats these classifications as analogies with limits.
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Where Star Dreadnoughts outgrow naval analogies
Bellator, Praetor, and Executor examples test the limits of classifying fictional capital ships through battleship comparisons.