Thread:TrueSoren/@comment-37327532-20190906173136/@comment-38422965-20190906191736

A ships power is pretty much entirely dependant of how much energy its reactor can produce, the bigger the reactor, the more powerful and/or numerous the weapons and other systems can be. For bigger reactors you need bigger hulls to contain those reactors, if a ship is 0.9km wide, 12km long and 0.2km tall, it means the reactor has 0.9km/0.2km to fit into, excluding the armor needed to cover it as well as the rest of the ship, unless the Mandator has a completely explosed reactor running the length of the ship, it simply won't be able to generate the sufficient power to compete with large ships.