SWST wrote:Oh, yes. So Federation production in peacetime just happens to be less than their wartime production by nine orders of magnitude.
I don't believe I stated it was nine orders of magnitude. I stated BOBW occured during a time of relative peace, which it did, and then mentioned the Dominion war where the final push on Cardassia prime was expected to cost "thousands" of ships for the victors or where a single battle in the "Tyra system":
A time to stand season six DS9 wrote:BASHIR: Only fourteen ships made it back to our lines.
MARTOK: Fourteen out of a hundred and twelve.
Suffice it to say the Dominion war made the battle of wolf 359 look like child's play and is a better benchmark for what the Federation can sustain on a war economy.
Show me evidence that even a fully mobilized, war prepared Alpha Quadrant ever produced even half of the first Death Star in a decade.
I have not made any argument for or against that, I leave such matters to those who have a better grasp of volumetrics than I, you were arguing over the Federation industry pointing to the BOBW quote as the end all be all. I corrected you.
Further more considering this:
Imperial Source Book wrote:The Death Star Project is an example of a priority sector into which the Empire poured resources enough to have formed perhaps a score of Sector Groups
does lend credence to the theroy the Death stars were an oddball quirk whose mass can't be translated into individual ships. Now perhaps, as I stated last time I posted this, this has been countermanded by a later source and it does raise the concern the Death Star could be mass produced, the well mentioned thousands of sectors, through how easily would still remain to be seen but as the quote stands its a wooden stake through the heart for the death star=humongous fleet argument.