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Subject: Starships
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Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 09:16:18 EST
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>>	Secondly, hopefully the Federation is not in the practice of keeping
>>four heavy crusiers together all the time! There were only 12 or 13 (I keep
>>getting conflicting information) when they first came out and as the biggest
>>ships in the Federation they were very important. 
 
>How could "heavy cruisers" be the "biggest" catagory of ships?  Wouldn't
>the largest ships be called "battleships" or "dreadnoughts" or something?

Heavy Cruisers are the largest.  The dreadnought class never got of the ground.
Starfleet nixed them before construction began.

Steve