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Betsy's face went a shade paler than its usual battleship grey
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Everything from the wall panels and floor, to the many control and feedback consoles were purely functional, either painted battleship grey or left as bare steel
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‘A battleship, is it? They’re not playing cat and mouse any more… Is that all you can tell me?’
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Relief overwhelmed him; the relief of being back in the Cloud, the defeat of the alien battleship, the incredible boost to his ego
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The death rays ceased in the same instant, leaving the battleship undamaged but crippled
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The crippled battleship joined forces with its attackers and all three lashed out at the remaining two
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‘In the first attack, when the battleship fired on the Carriage, I learnt that the insect battleships must drop their forcefield in order to use their weapons
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His punch was lethal, one walnut was enough to stun the nearest battleship into defenceless surrender
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The flashing Hedgehog ducked and swerved between scything death rays, and one battleship after the other lay prone and helpless in its wake
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On the night of February 15, the battleship blew up with the loss of 266 officers and sailors
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Battleship: Warfare in the Spirit
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A Sylvan battleship carries a complement of six hundred crew, eight hundred marines, and six dragons
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The mass of each individual ship puts them between a Telarian Cruiser and a Whitefire Battleship
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She is to return to the shipyard at Saturn Industries where she will pick up a new battleship which is approaching completion
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This battleship will be her flagship in the task force she will assemble from existing Space Force units
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However, in Soldiers the invaders are shown how to detect such a hidden battleship
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What is interesting is that the characteristics used to find the battleship most easily replicated in a decoy
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Once having found what they think is a hidden battleship, the invader is then expected to deploy their scouts around and through the asteroid field to hit the hidden ship from the sides and behind while the two battleships battle it out face to face, mano a mano as it were
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That tactic could be quite effective if the hidden ship were a real battleship
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“By contrast, in Defenders, in the exact same scenario, the battleship is always a decoy
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They do not leave a real battleship vulnerable to attack without possibility of escape
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The defenders keep the battleship for close support of the spaceports and infrastructure targets
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I particularly like the fact that the attacking battleship will expend much of its store of munitions beating up on an inert asteroid
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While all this is going on, defenders can sneak up behind the attacking battleship and destroy it while its attention is diverted attacking a big chunk of rock
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The decoy’s lasers had no apparent effect on the battleship
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Greg and Rachel moved through the asteroids to a position where they could toss some missiles into the battleship’s back side when suddenly the battleship ceased firing and rolled in their direction
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Solid fueled rocket motors carved out of the rock of the asteroid itself ignited and pushed the asteroid which had served as the decoy toward the Swordsman’s battleship
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It quickly gained speed as the Swordsman battleship turned its attention to Greg and Rachel’s ship
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Unable to fire back or to move from the hidden side of the asteroid because any movement would put them in the line of fire from the battleship, they waited for the rest of the advancing Swordsman scouts to jump in and assault their position
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They knew that if they were in the vicinity when the rock hit the battleship, the resulting explosion would kill them as well
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The battleship was wounded, but not dead
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The decoy had failed to disable the battleship
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Even damaged, if the battleship reached the planet, it could still devastate anything it could see
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As they fled through the asteroid field, trying to get behind the battleship now continuing its rotation toward them, they were attacked by the scout craft which had not previously entered the battle
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The battleship maintained its high rate of fire as they attempted to get out of its field of vision
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The battleship continued to turn and fire as it did
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Killing the battleship was not the problem
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They were too close to the ship for the lasers to hit them, but a full throttle acceleration from the battleship would roast them just as quickly, but such an acceleration would send the battleship slamming into the asteroids
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The second battleship bored steadfastly toward the planet
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At this point they could not chase after the advancing Marines without being sitting ducks for the second battleship
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Armed only with their lasers, having expended the last of their missiles on the battleship, they pummeled the troop ship with all twelve of their lasers until they finally detonated the reactor
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Commodore Dankese left the battleship that served as her flagship standing off away from the debris that littered the system
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They saw a battleship’s complete reactor housing spinning through space minus the rest of the battleship it had once serviced
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Destroying that battleship at the cost of her own life saved us all from being killed
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“So you are saying that a rapid succession of smaller ships firing carefully targeted missiles could not damage the battleship,” the instructor concluded
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“Are you aware that no one has ever successfully attacked a Federation battleship
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“But you said you knew that no Federation battleship has ever been attacked successfully
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“Among other things we created decoys to give the appearance of a defending battleship
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“It was an asteroid chosen for its size and shape to mimic a real battleship
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“In the attack, the Swordsman battleship took the bait and attacked the decoy
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We had not fired on the battleship at that point, although we had repelled and destroyed with passive defenses waves of smaller ships that had also attacked the decoy
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It moved to within a few kilometers of the battleship and the nuclear warhead detonated
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destruction of a battleship
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Further, in lieu of hard labor, Cadet Solomon will prepare a report, properly researched, documented and footnoted on the history of the battleship from the time of the Spanish Armada to the present
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She will further extrapolate the future of the battleship in the current environment based on this research
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If you were in command of a battleship, how would you defend yourself? If as you suggest, the battleship is obsolete, what should we do with all the perfectly functional hardware sitting in our ship yards?”
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Of course their own ability to survive in a battle with a battleship was questionable
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Rachel told about watching Myra attack the battleship at the cost of her and Jennifer’s lives
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“Close, the battleship will serve as the hospital ship, flagship and tender for four pickets, four P
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extermination due to a pending collision with a comet and the only ship we have in our entire fleet that can help is the kluge of a battleship grafted to a hospital ship now sitting in dry dock?”
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She had barely acknowledged the call when Commodore Burkhalter from Staffing Allocation screamed, “Are you out of your mind? Captain Curra is a felon! He belongs in the brig not on the bridge of a battleship!”
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When the ships were up to full staff, the battleship would have a military crew of two hundred
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The battleship had originally supported a crew of five hundred, but with the automation and computer controls that had been added in the last year, it was fully operational with a crew a fifth of that size
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The original battleship had never traveled without escort
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The smaller vessels that protected the battleship were supported on tenders and other vessels in the convoy
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The battleship with its armor and its munitions is the heaviest component
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Reuben, Rashi and the rest of the engineers had developed the software necessary to allow the laser arrays mounted on the cargo ship to be operated in conjunction with the lasers on the battleship
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destroyer dropped out of hyperspace directly astern of the hospital ship / battleship
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The technique was the same one that Rachel and her father had used on a Swordsman battleship in her first battle when she was sixteen years old
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While Myra had destroyed the attacking battleship, her ship was engulfed in the debris thrown from the battleship’s explosion and had not survived
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Military protocol suggested that the battleship component should be attached to the cradle leaving the rest of the ship tethered, but not connected
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Peter had programmed the battleship well
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Facing another battleship like the one currently firing on them was never part of the plan
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It rolled, spinning along its long axis, to present its missile tubes to the oncoming battleship, but did not change course
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The first of the balls struck the armored areas of the battleship
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She was able to relay commands to the rest of the Marine detail and maintain coordination with the battleship
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Missile crews on the battleship tracked the fire and targeted the sources
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Supported by information provided by sensors on the battleship, the Marines realized that
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Individual enemy ships continued to throw themselves at the battleship and the two surviving pickets continued their part of the battle
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The civilian medical personnel who had been quartered in the passenger ship moved into the battleship along with the military personnel
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Parts of the armored mushroom shaped battleship portion that made up the forward most part of the ship had been blown away
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The plan involved retaining the passenger liner, hospital and battleship portions of Elizabeth’s structure
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The issue this shift in ship construction presented for the engineering team had to do with finding spare parts for the battleship portion of this massive assembly
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Variants of the hospital ship were still in production so finding parts for it was not as challenging as finding parts for the battleship
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The battleship portion was a few slips beyond that
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For the next week, the group gathered every evening for dinner in the battleship section’s galley since even though it was the smallest galley on the ship, it was more than adequate for them
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Topping off the enemy fleet there were three cruisers in addition to the old battleship
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“We need to turn attention to the battleship
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The Viking battleship had sat quietly in its geosynchronous orbit over the Viking settlement throughout the whole conflict and had not fired a single missile or laser
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They dwelt on the pain Rachel had felt when Myra Myrakova, her childhood friend, died an a suicidal maneuver, “up the pipes” against a battleship, a maneuver that she had barely survived herself
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The Swordsman space force had been reduced to a single battleship, two cruisers, four destroyers and several dozen of the little ships that had been launched from the carriers
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“If Rachel and her gang could survive the battleship project, Saul and his gang will survive this
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Fiona stood, “At the time we left the battleship, we believed our mothers would have died
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“The ship on station is a refitted battleship named the Thor Heyerdahl
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One of its defeats had come as a result of actions by Fiona’s mother, Sabrina, and a task force commanded by then Federation Pirate Interdiction Specialist Captain Alina Darwin, who was now his pilot and consort, but its most devastating defeat had been delivered by a sentient battleship now known as the Queen Elizabeth
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“There is a battleship heavily engaged in sector 208
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“Elizabeth is at your two o’clock high headed for the battleship
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attention long enough that Saul and Fiona could get their convoy escort behind the battleship and put a volley of missiles into its vulnerable propulsion system
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They were last seen in the final engagement against the battleship