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If we were being realistic, then the battles would look like something out of the Alliance-Union universe.

For those of you unfamiliar with Alliance-Union (So all of you), battles take place across seemingly insane distances at relativistic speeds. Battleships calculate where their enemy could be once their shot reaches them, and fires a volley in that area. You don't know if they've been hit until almost an hour after the fact, because of the time lag caused by the distance you're fighting at.

And that's why we're not being realistic. Instead, our ships stop when our engines are damaged and we fire broadsides without protecting the bottom half of our ship which is painted red. Our weapons look like giant WW2 battleship turrets even though they fire blue beams that really shouldn't work at all like they do, and our fighters bank because it looks cool.

Enemy ships firing red beams and wearing nazi uniforms is optional.