Japanese deterrent firepower against industrial inferiority

The design aims to awe an opponent that could win a prolonged production contest. Japan could never match American industrial output, just as the fictional remnant on Exegol could never outbuild the rest of the galaxy. It therefore sought individual ships whose size, armor, and firepower might make an attack appear prohibitively costly. Yamato fits a longer Japanese interest in large warships as instruments of fleet deterrence. This passage separates the psychological role of overwhelming appearance from the later operational sequence of attrition and decisive battle.