Standard Starship Scuffle: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Space battles are always [[This Is Reality|a lot more exciting on TV]] than they are in real life...''|'''Col. John Sheppard''', ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''}}

 

 

[[Space Fighter]]s have [[Old School Dogfighting]]. [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet|Capital ships]] get this trope instead, and you can think of it as "''[[History of Naval Warfare|Very]]'' [[History of Naval Warfare|Old School Sea Fighting]]." Founded on the idea that [[Space Is an Ocean]], it harks back to the age of [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]], when large warships, [[More Dakka|making up in fire-power]] [[Mighty Glacier|what they lacked in manoeuvrability]], pounded each other with cannon fire until one finally took enough damage to be forced to withdraw (or until a [[Attack Its Weak Point|lucky shot]] [[One-Hit Kill|hit a]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|powder magazine]]). The [[The Laws and Customs of War|honour and military tradition]] of those long-gone days will often be evoked as well.