You have to remember that the White star was designed strictly as a heavy fighter of the shadows. Ok lets start. The main bubble of the ship, the large part at the front from which the focused laser fires is nothing but that weapon. The Bridge is actually a small, seperate structure above this. Also, this bubble supports two pulse cannons on each side. 70% of the ship is hollow and open to space. The spaces not hollow are filled with a jump engine (an enormous structure, and this is the smallest ship ever to have one, outside of shadow or vorlon) Also, the ship has a gravimetric drive, which gives it omnidirectional movement. And that takes up a lot of space. But, in case of failure of the drive, the ship also has three redundant fusion drives, ie the ones under and to the sides of the ship, which require room for a fusion reactor. Somehow, in all that, you have to find room for the auto repair systems and the vorlon biomechanical systems. If you think about the 4 massive structures incorporated into the design of this ship, and taking into account that aestethics of a minbari desinged ship, it is very easy to see how after they bundled up all that, there is very little room for anything else. EA ships of similar size dont have any of these devices, and have plenty of room for people and other devices.
Hope this helps
David Williams, B5 universe integrator, Warner Brothers
Posted on Jul 26, 2002, 7:34 AM from IP address 64.53.89.175