Not many think of that. Great detail and very 'realistic' in design. Tom

Nice design, your Statement might not be true though, if a fleet needs tankers or not depends on the type of fuel they use.The tanks indicate that your fleet uses some kind of gas or a fluid chemical propulsion. Considering the distances involved in deepspace flight, a drive like that would get you nowhere. More likely would be a drive using some kind of matter/energy conversion to produce the huge amount of energy needed to propell a ship of that sice with reasonable velocity through deepspace. This means though, that using very little matter would produce a huge amount of energy. The ship could possibly even fly, collecting interstellar matter (Space is not really a vacuum)if the collectors where large enough. lol enough of it Cool work anyway Hope to see more see ya

Very nice model and textures

Your fleet is growing again Steve. :) Impressive modeling as always. I can't wait to see them put to use. ;)

Excellent modelling and image!!

Another woderfully detailed model. Shades of B5 here. I like the hazard striping and grunged up storage tanks. A lot of work must have gone into this.

Django's analysis is interesting, but is based on the inference that this is a fuel tanker. For all the reasons he stated, a fuel tanker would likely not be very useful to most interstellar fleets. However, while energy might not be a problem, food, water, and even air could be. Certainly recycling could take care of some of the demand for consumable, but for extended deep space tours, replenishment would be needed. As such, a tanker able to carry large amounts of air and water would be invaluable. Anyway, great picture!