A client battleship still needs somewhere to dock

The Manchurian design judgment turns on competing interpretations of the brief. One judge favors Clarke's proposal because the recipient could reasonably receive and dock it. Drachinifel's deliberately unreliable ship raises the more basic objection that its size would leave nowhere suitable to put it. Another judge gives priority to making the battleship genuinely bad and favors the design expected to spend most of its time alongside. The prompt's author gives Fleet the deciding vote. Port compatibility and the requirement for poor performance produce different winners among the judges.