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** ...it's a cargo freighter, designed to haul monumental loads of resources from one star system to another- it doesn't care about being too ungainly because it was never meant to fight, and it's crew mostly resides in a more reasonably-sized engineering section and only rarely has to go anywhere else in the vast hold.

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* '''Justified''': The USS ''Really Big'' is that large because ...
** ... it's a GenerationShip and needs to carry enough supplies to last for several hundred years of flight time.
** ... its main weapon is a railgun and can fire its slugs with greater force the longer the barrel is.
** ... it's meant to look imposing and frighten the enemy.
** ... the ship's height and beam[[note]][[SpaceIsAnOcean nautical term]] for ships' width[[/note]] are limited by the diameter of the {{Cool Gate}}s in the PortalNetwork, so the only way to get a bigger ship is to lengthen it.
** ... the technology available does not allow to build a smaller vessel for whatever reasons (for example, power due to physical/engineering reasons ships of that size fulfill better certain roles than smaller ones
** ... it is made to have smaller spaceships inside, similarly to aircraft carriers.
** ... it's a ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought Dreadnought]]''-class warship, designed to carry lots of big guns and thousands of SpaceMarines.
* '''Inverted''': The USS ''Really Small'' is, although known in-series as a [[{{Lightning Bruiser}} fleet battleship]], was barely larger than the size of a heavy [[{{Space Fighter}} starfighter]], with most other roles, including [[{{Jack Of All Trades}} cruisers]] and [[{{Fragile Speedster}} destroyers]], fulfilled by ships of sizes that belongs to star fighters.

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* '''Justified''': The USS ''Really Big'' is that large because ...
because...
** ... it's a GenerationShip and needs to carry enough supplies to last for several hundred years of flight time.
** ... its main weapon is a railgun and can fire its slugs with greater force the longer the barrel is.
** ... it's meant to look imposing and frighten the enemy.
** ... the ship's height and beam[[note]][[SpaceIsAnOcean nautical term]] for ships' width[[/note]] are limited by the diameter of the {{Cool Gate}}s in the PortalNetwork, so the only way to get a bigger ship is to lengthen it.
** ... the technology available does not allow to build a smaller vessel for whatever reasons (for example, power due to physical/engineering reasons ships of that size fulfill better certain roles than smaller ones
** ... it is made to have smaller spaceships inside, similarly to aircraft carriers.
** ... it's a ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought Dreadnought]]''-class warship, designed to carry lots of big guns and thousands of SpaceMarines.
* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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The USS ''Really Small'' is, although known in-series as a [[{{Lightning Bruiser}} fleet battleship]], was barely larger than the size of a heavy [[{{Space Fighter}} starfighter]], with most other roles, including [[{{Jack Of All Trades}} cruisers]] and [[{{Fragile Speedster}} destroyers]], fulfilled by ships of sizes that belongs to star fighters.
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** ... it's a ''[[TheDreadedDreadnought Dreadnought]]''-class warship, designed to carry lots of big guns and thousands of SpaceMarines.

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