I den sista striden säger boken:
As for his own fleet, it consisted of twenty starships, each with only four fighters. He knew the four-fighter starships they were old-fashioned, sluggish, and the range of their Little Doctors was half that of the newer ones. Eighty fighters, against at least five thousand, perhaps ten thousand enemy ships.
Var är de andra, nyare skeppen, vilka användes i den tidigare striden? Varför gör I.F. Använd gammaldags, tröga fartyg i ett så viktigt slagsmål?
Hemmaplanet var den längsta borta (eller en av dem ändå). De tog längst ut för att nå planeten.
Nyare fartyg skickades till närmare planeter, så de hade bättre teknik, fler kämpar, etc.
"And the ships have been traveling for seventy years--"
"Some of them. and some for thirty years, and some for twenty. We make better ships now. We're learning how to play with space a little better... The first ships we sent to the most distance objectives, the more recent ships to the closer ones. Our timing was pretty good. They'll all be arriving in combat range within a few months of each other. Ender's Game - Ch. 13
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