This may be something that was adressed in the show or novels, but why are they using the catapult system? In atmosphere, it's used to get the plane up to airspeed in the short distance available on the carrier deck. Out in space there is no air and no airspeed. Not only could the planes take off without the catapult but they could just take a form with legs and jump off the edge or the side or lift straight "up". I would think any advantage in getting an initial velocity boost towards the enemy would be more than cancled by the delay in getting the next set of planes into action as you reset the catapult and set the planes into it.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.