JFerio Wrote:There's a second problem with the U.S. government not allowing the carrier to be waved in the boneyard... finding the lift capacity to get it to drydock. JMC might have moved block housing from Ireland... but those can't hold a candle to the size and mass of a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Anyone trying it would either have to commission with the Trekkies or a faction with similar lifting capacity.The only two groups I can think of who can do this are the Trekkies and Rockhounds. Not to say that there aren't others, but these two are the only ones who've demonstrated the ability to move something the size of Starbase 1 or an asteroid (respectively).
M Fnord Wrote:I wouldn't say "impossible," it's entirely possible but it's outside the boundaries of the usual bunch-of-yobs origin story. An established faction or Fenspace one-percenter could buy a Forrestal and have the cash necessary to tow it to a friendly port and refit the thing.Noah Scott has better things to spend money on (mostly connected with Artemis).
Padraig O'Neill might throw money at this sort of thing, since nobody else has and he'd finally be the first at something...
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