Thread:Faenor of the Silver Laurel/@comment-26535281-20170105005928/@comment-26444332-20170105013150

Even so, my largest vessels are only as large as the Executor, which I still consider wastefully large, considering that ship was brought down by an A-wing. A status-symbol might work, but it needs to be worth the cost: and if a ship of that size is mainly hollow, another (still giant) vessel could potentially get inside and destroy it. Ships don't tend to have guns on the inside, you see.

If the Rin have entire planets dedicated to outputting vessels, why haven't they taken over the universe already? By the way, they could not possibly output vessels in that quantity: if the entire planet is dedicated to processing starcraft, you still have the problem of gaining materials to build said ships. If the supply-lines for those worlds were cut off even temporarily (and you would have to have said lines set up to where they were never without an incoming ship), they would grind to a halt fairly quickly.

As I said, locusts.

Their bureaucratic system would have to be immense already to deal with the five galaxies under their control: but the outputting of vessels and the necessary supplies on that scale would triple the size of your government alone, while finding replacements for those who burned out (and that would have to be a fairly common occurence) would add another doubling of the administration's size.