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** EVE just gets ridiculously jarring in this department at times. Especially with the asteroid belts. It's actually possible to sit in a belt between two asteroids that are big and dense enough to have their own gravity-wells in a ship with a density equal to something like Papier-Maché, ''and not be ripped apart by the two gravity-wells.
** Titans have a density equal to that of aluminium, while Rifters have a density equal to that of solid gold. Who made up these numbers again?
* ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'': Destroyers, the smallest FTL-capable starships, are around 30 meters in length... Seriously? For reference, the Space Shuttle is 56.1m and doesn't carry the supplies needed for years-long missions of war.
** The assault shuttles are even smaller, at about 10 meters in length. And these are actually supposed to enter and exit the atmosphere (and don't look aerodynamic enough for that).
** There is also the problem of a Zuul slave disk that is, maybe, 60 meters in diameter being able to hold 50 million people. Or a colonizer destroyer section that can hold 30-200 million people (depending on species, humans can fit 50) ''before'' researching [[Human Popsicle|suspended animation]].
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