Leading or primary ship in a naval fleet.
1 But its defenses were designed to fend off large-scale, capital ship assaults.
2 It was highly unusual for such a low-ranking officer to pilot a capital ship .
3 No countermissile could stop a capital ship graser or laser.
4 Whole squadron of craft: one capital ship , fourteen others plus ancillary units and slaved weapon platforms.
5 More to the point, whoever they are, they now have the corvette, as well as a capital ship .
6 Gray caught one huge capital ship with his eyes and held it as he triggered a weapons lock.
7 Confederation losses had been astonishingly light, with only fighters engaged, and no losses among the defending capital ship fleet.
8 This is a capital ship , and lucky for us it is so, for we have had a regular gale.
9 The lightest unit considered a " capital ship . "
10 At one time, the heaviest capital ship but now considered too small to "lie in the wall."
11 A separate holotable projected a blurry, blue-tinted image of a fantailed capital ship with a spherical control module located amidships.
12 Mind you, I believe our force mix was badly skewed in favor of the older, less effective capital ship types.
13 The laser heads detonated at less than 13,000 kilometers, and they were capital ship missiles.
14 Of course, the fleet was much smaller then, but it was usually a capital ship to show due respect for Home.
15 You think they want a nice transponder signal to lock on to when they're makin' runs on an enemy capital ship ?
16 Unless they had had the extreme bad luck to get here when a capital ship had been docked at the factory.
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