Talk:Capital ship

I think we should perhaps add the Halcyon class to this page. But I suppose we should come up with good definition of what a capital ship is, exactly. By my logic, at least, if the Marathon class is a capital ship then its predecessor must be as well. ElFroCampeador ^TALK 18:38, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Cruisers

Do we have in-universe sources for cruisers being considered capital ships in UNSC conventions? My own research indicated that battlecruisers are the smallest ships that are usually considered capital ships, and armoured, light and heavy cruisers are not. For that matter, the term Light capital warship appears to have been a term somebody came up with - anything smaller than a battlecruiser is not considered a capital ship, in modern naval parlance (at least as far as I know). -- Qura 'Morhek ^{The Autocrat of Morheka} 01:24, 17 May 2014 (EDT)

Already deleted the other article. It was started in 2007, and nobody ever checked to make sure it was a term that actually existed. It's amazing how a mistake can persist for so long. -- Qura 'Morhek ^{The Autocrat of Morheka} 20:52, 17 May 2014 (EDT)

In hindsight, I was wrong to exclude heavy cruisers as capital ships given how they are used by the UNSC. They seem to be the heaviest frontline combatant ship class that existed before the war ended, not including carriers, and we've seen them take on capital ship duties - fleet command and control, ship-to-ship combat, etc. I've restored the Valiant, Marathon and Autumn-classes, though the Halcyon, as a light cruiser that saw little service, should remain off it. -- Qura 'Morhek ^{The Autocrat of Morheka} 17:41, 26 December 2015 (EST)