• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Modern aircraft carriers have thousands of people on them and their volume is comparable to the E-A.

    they also don’t need to run completely self-contained life support systems that must generate and maintain water and breathable air rather than pulling it from conveniently free (or near-free) sources right outside the ship

    The energy requirements for warp travel are also many orders of magnitude higher than pushing a carrier through water so the space dedicated to warp cores and other energy management/propulsion systems must also be greater