The proposed modern power network has an older capital-ship precedent. American designers considered electric propulsion for the Lexington-class battlecruisers and retained it in their later aircraft-carrier conversions. Separating power generation from the propeller shafts offered naval architects more freedom to distribute machinery and protect critical components. Modern converters, motors, and switchboards make rerouting more flexible, but the survivability logic remains the same: preserve enough separated components to reconstruct a working system after damage.
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The Lexington class supplies an electric-propulsion precedent
American turbo-electric propulsion in the Lexington design supplies a historical precedent for distributing power to survive damage.