Now, just put that into a KE calculator, and: It is a pretty bulky ship, though I suspect the lower-end mass is more accurate. I've seen two different statements for its overall weight: the statement from this panel (200 million tons), and another one (44.4. The Sharlin is stated to have a max speed of 0.2 c, or 20% the speed of light, and the Minbari utilize a specialized gravimetric engine, so no need for ion engines or the like.Īccelerating up to 0.2 c would give the Sharlin a considerable amount of kinetic energy as it is moving through space.
NOTE: This was from a season 1 screen-cap so the actual length of the Sharlin is much larger in reality (around 1,600 metres). In the Babylon 5 series, while no exact speeds are ever given for virtually all the vessels in the series, there is one cruiser in particular that is given a stated speed or max velocity: the Sharlin class Minbari War Cruiser Where I will probably find out why it is not exactly a good idea to try to scale a ship's power-output off of its mass relative to its speed i.e. Ship Propulsion Speed and Kinetic Energy - Babylon 5
