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What it says on the tin. Is there any way to do functional torpedo protection that matches up with IRL TP protection, or do we just need to have more HP and tough it out?

Other than the Dreadnaught and Hammerhead (because those last forever), what sort of ships would we have seen in 1032~ BBY, the year that the Sith were finally "destroyed"?

I remember hearing that the ISDs and Venators' dagger shape and all-forwards (or like 90% able to face forwards at least) armament was based on ancient Sith warships, and I know that most stuff being used is probably recognizable if less refined and weaker than their successors due to less advanced tech.

I'm only sorta familiar with modern SW ships, so this era of them is even less recognizable for me, and I've been curious at what they were like. What did the last ships of the Sith Empire look like? What were they armed with? What did the ships on the Republic side look like? Fleet doctrine for either side? The fighters, what would they look like?

If a man got frozen in carbonite in 1032 BBY and thawed out in 32 BBY, would he be filled with wonder at all the new ships and layouts and technologies, or horror that shipbuilding has seemingly not advanced in even the slightest (beyond incremental tech advances)?

EDIT: I have been informed that the Republic Dark Age is one hell of a drug that made shipbuilding mostly "if it gets into space, it's good enough". So I amend my question: In the era immediately before the Republic Dark Age, whereupon the galactic economy became too clapped out to function properly, what did the ships look like? Let's say... 1200 BBY to 1100 BBY, the beginning of the RDA? And if things weren't much better then, how far back do you have to go to start seeing proper navies again... and what did they look like?

The idea is that a nation (approx 1945-50 techlevel) wants to replace their old, semi-automatic AA Artillery (of 3-4"/76.2-101.6mm) with a new, automatic one of smaller size but much faster ROF. The idea is that, this will give their escort ships (frigates/DEs) greatly enhanced anti-aircraft capability for a similar weight, as well as more ability to threaten thin-skinned enemy light cruisers and destroyers.

However, they also want to do it fast, and have a relative lack of design expertise in the field of rapid-fire large caliber guns. Thus, their plan is just scaling up their existing, very serviceable 40mm autocannon (Bofors expy) into an 80mm gun; or if that doesn't work, a 60mm gun. They (read, I) hope that the the square cube law will be in their favor here, and that any modifications beyond "make it 2x bigger" will be relatively simple so they can just skip 90% of the design work that normally goes into making such a weapon.

TLDR: Seems like the best subreddit to ask this; Is it reasonable (IE, even semi-feasible) to create a new naval gun by just scaling up a smaller gun? In this case, scaling up an autocannon (40mm) into a full-sized rapid-firing DP gun (60-80mm). If so, how much work would it take? If not, why?

Edit: Thank you all for your takes on this question! The consensus seems to be "yes, but there would be reliability issues and design inefficiencies from just scaling it up by 1.5x-2x" or "it's possible, but would you want to?". In this case, yes, they would want to. They're trading out guns that, while functional, are dated by about 30 years (not counting new mks of the same gun with marginal improvements) and simply don't have enough RoF to handle even propeller aircraft particularly well without a large battery of them. Seeing as this gun is being developed for use on frigates of roughly 1.5kt, a large battery isn't an option, nor is a particularly large gun.

Thus, the 60 & 80mm. I've decided that the 80mm is definitely going to show up (as I've determined that it's basically a cannon that double-taps, which is so cool that I can't let that hang), and that the 60mm is probably going to show up as the group's equivalent to the 57mm guns we see kicking around IRL.

This is because a fairly large portion of the brain that would normally be used for, y'know, thinking (memory retention, logical and emotional reasoning, etc) has been recruited for the function of their emitter or transformation type quirk; where the brain often needs a LOT of resources to prevent things from going... badly.

This hasn't been noticed because the Dawn of Quirks made such studies fairly biased (or lost) and the fact that even the quirkless have evolved (how else did you think Midoriya was hauling a truck up a 45 degree incline?) quite a few adaptations. Among those adaptations are denser neurons. This somewhat offsets the issues that those with complex quirks would face, although on occasion you get someone with a quirk that requires a lot of brainpower to use that gets screwed over by it.

For a few examples, Momo in this idea would likely have a below-average logical reasoning skills but an ironclad memory and ability to recognize compounds and molecular structure; in some cases, probably without even having to study it like she does in canon. Do it by 'feel', y'know? Denki isn't a dumbass because he fries his brain, he's a dumbass because his brain has moved a solid chunk of its memory-retention ability over to wrangling his quirk. Bakugo, having a fairly simple quirk despite appearances otherwise, is only lightly affected. Mirio's even more of a himbo because his quirk needs him to be a savant, or he dies. Midnight's quirk is extremely simple, so she's pretty much unaffected as well. Eri's quirk never properly recruited more real-estate for its function, so using it is like breathing manually for her.

Mutants and the quirkless in general are able to use that chunk of brain for actual thought. Like, 90% for mutants and 100% for quirkless. This can be especially prevalent with mutants that are larger than normal, and thus have a physically larger brain; like that fox lady everyone thirsts over. She was a straight-A student in school because of that big brain and probably has a high-paying job in an intellectual field now. Gang Orca and Mirko are probably the smartest heroes in the top 10.

As an unfortunate side-effect, Midoriya goes from an unsung genius (naturally high intelligence plus the increased neuron density of modern humans stacking up) to merely 'pretty smart' when he gets One For All (because awakened One For All is a monster of a quirk that needs a ton of processing power) and attributes trouble in school to stress. He only starts getting concerned when he has a hard time making sense of some of his notes from middle school. As a happy side-effect, All Might suddenly becomes about 1.5x smarter after the battle of Kamino, and catches on to this.