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Which science-fiction setting has the best fleet mix?

Honor Harrington earns support for deliberate fleet design, while the Star Wars comparison varies by author and some participants limit their judgement to settings they know.

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Question

Which has the best fleet mix: Babylon 5, Star Wars, or Honor Harrington?

Short answer

Honor Harrington receives the strongest overall vote for intentionally balanced fleets, while Babylon 5 is defended as optimized for its setting and Star Wars varies greatly by writer.

Notes

Honor Harrington receives the strongest support because David Weber deliberately built complementary ship types and balanced fleets. Participants qualify their comparisons when they have not read or watched one of the settings. Star Wars' expanded universe contains ships and some fleet depictions that support a balanced force, but the assessment varies between writers and screen productions. One contributor suggests that CGI budgets could have limited the classes shown in Babylon 5 while explicitly declining to condemn a setting they know less well. The answers disagree about Babylon 5, leading into a closer examination of its fleet and the Omega class.