Was the era of space battleships over before it even began? So in the great trade off between drone carriers, missile boats, and battleships: The concept of "over the horizon" is totally non-existent. A simple slug or contact explosive shell has "unlimited" range, where a fighter still has a strictly limited flight time. "Range" has an entirely different meaning. However in space, there's no stealth, so no submarines. On Earth battleships became big white elephants with high cost and minimal use, vulnerable to every submarine, aircraft carrier, and missile boat in the sea. We all know and presumably love enormous space battles with vast battleships doing minimal damage to each other for hours before being blown up by a single fighter.
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