Talk:Magnus-class universe destroyer/@comment-38422965-20191216010706

Would there ever really be a need for a ship as ridiculously massive as this though? That I can think of, there is no conceivable reason for ANY faction to create such a massive ship, it's just a massive resource dump that will just never really be used for anything. Not to mention the inherent structural impossibilities that having a ship bigger than some stars.

For starters creating a reactor big enough to power this ship would be impractical, or fitting the ship with billions of smaller reactors is also impractical, as stated earlier it'll only eat up resources and never give anything in return. Then we move on to the sheer mass of a ship the large, just accelerating forward at 0.000001 G's would make the entire hull crumble into itself. Now lets move on to vulnerabilities. The bigger and more complex the build, the more opportunities it has to develop a crippling weakness, we saw it on the Death Star, the DS-2, and Star Killer. This ship far outsize these so its are guaranteed to have a exploitable weakness somewhere... As stated in previous comments, this ship is simply impossible.

As a general rule of thumb, I don't allow any ship I make to exceed the size of the Second Death Star. That is the absolute limit of warship practicality.