It's ages ago that i have seen Seaquest and i never have particulary followed the political background.
But maybe the Seaquest is a refitted military vessel, either replaced by more modern military subs or a goverment had comissioned a lot of military subs and the following goverment has canceled the program and done the best it could with thoose half finished crafts, to not have entirely wasted the investment. Or it could be that there is some treaty reducing the naval power of whoever owns the seaquest and such multi purpose cruisers are somehow the equivalent of Japanese whaling for research purposes. Multi purpose crafts also could make propably, if you face a lot of threats by oponents equiped much worse then you are. Like the equivalent of Somali pirates. They likely don't have the hardware to attack an armed multi purpose ship but if there are many of them, arming ordinary ships might be more efficient then sending escorts. Or there is some (real or percieved) threat and arming ordinary ships is a cheap way to show that you do something, while everything else would cost too much money. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
