Whats your favorite starship?
I honestly can't decide
>>343787091
None of those, they're all shit.
In space you need more than just a big thruster in the back; you need maneuvering thrusters on the top, bottom, left and right.
This leads to the front of the ship being a cube or a rod with those maneuvering thrusters on it.
The only reason to have any sort of fins, wings, or projections of any kind from your cube / rod / column shaped ship is to collect solar radiation.
Anything with windows is crap. Anything with a GIGANTIC docking room / shuttle bay is crap.
Decompression isn't actually that dangerous, real life astronauts have survived with holes in their suit (without even knowing it til they reboarded the ship).
The reason it's not that dangerous is that the amount of force is only equal to the volume of air escaping the space, so generally that's like a light breeze rather than intense vortex of death blasting people into the void.
That said, you still don't want giant windows or huge spaces of any kind, you have to carry or manufacture your own air. So while there will certainly be a few hand sized portcullis style windows, there won't be any man sized Star Trek TNG sized windows.
>this is autism!
I grew up in the 80s, people used to care about space and the future and the vast, almost inexhaustible wealth out there.
Now public opinion is that the space program is shit and we're better off spending the money here at home.
Sorry Christopher Columbus, the money is better spent here at home in Spain.
>>343787091
i'm a trekkie, so i'm gonna go with top-right.
>>343787091
Eclipse Super Star Destroyer
Stiletto from Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.
I fucking hate that they force me to switch over to Angelwing, which is just so goddamn ugly.
>>343789720
>I'm a Trekkie so I'm going to go with Star Wars
wat
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFV1G6Gso0
Based Uyudaro.
>>343788868
The autism is so strong he is aware of it!
>>343788868
whoa, cool down bro. you're right but, wooow
>>343787091
the bottom two, i can't define. left may be an advanced picard ship, isn't it?
>>343787091
The most over powered universe ever made. Shielded capital ships are useless, fighters can vaporize asteroids in a single blast and only one capital ship armed with fighter beams can level a planet in less than a day.
>>343791143
Bottom right is Hyperion from StarCraft.
>>343790882
>>343791231
>Shielded capital ships are useless
why
i thought they were just too big to cover in shields
>>343788868
>The only reason to have any sort of fins, wings, or projections of any kind from your cube / rod / column shaped ship is to collect solar radiation.
Actually you would need huge radiators unless you want to melt your ship.
One of the only things Halo does really well is ship design.
>>343791353
That ship doesn't exist in SW though.
Eclipse was the biggest and the only reason it existed was Palpatine's megalomania. Same with other SSDs all of which were deemed stupid in concept of anything more than psychological warfare.
>>343790873
Don't think too hard, don't care about things too much, don't try to hard, just let your overlords worry about everything for you, anything else would be autistic. :)
>>343791485
Surprisingly realistic design for a film like Avatar.
The Yamato. It's a fucking World War 2 battleship modified for space travel, with a huge laser cannon.
Sup
>>343791485
I actually really like that ship
Its very well designed and honestly looks like it belongs in a better movie
that said my favorite ships are pic related, just the right combination of insane, badass and plausible
Thrawns revenge super star destroyers
Were ridiculously overpowered . If you know what your doing you can easily solo an entire republic stack
And while vanilla EaW/Foc is an awful game made bretty good with mods , vanilla causes me nostalgia like no other
>>343791769
especially if you take into consideration room temperature superconductors exist in that universe
I really like the Dreadnaughts in the first Sword of the Stars. ALL of them, except the Zuul models, looked great.
>there will never be a sequel that does the game justice
But if I have to choose one individual starship and not mass-produced models, I'd say V'ger from the first Star Trek movie
>>343791886
Nothing compares to TR ICW's Eclipse, see >>343790168
That thing is sheer murder.
I love this and the Valstork.
Who /Excalibur/ here?
>>343791731
no, the autism lies in your incapability to compartmentalize your opinions on a subject. op obviously referred to fictional starships with focus on aesthetics. not their realism. it is possible to agree that these starships are impracticable and still look an function fucking amazingly within a fictional universe.
>>343791482
Plasma beams made shields useless, the shit just goes right through and does as it pleases. Also known as plasma core insertion, which is the equivalent of just making unstable as fuck plasma and then forcing it into a beam. Honestly why would you put on shields when the enemy ship can ignore it entirely? Sure you'd be protected from fighter craft, but then the enemy would three or four times the armament.
Tbh all this "realismfaggotry" fails to account that those fictional vessels are also often built with and support by fictional technology, that by all means our modern science could just as well straight up call magic.
>>343792492
thing is you can apply this to everything
why should we care someone who got shot in the head 5 times point blank with a 50cal survived, its games, nothing matters, everything is allowed
>>343792617
>>343792492
>it is possible to agree that these starships are impracticable and still look an function fucking amazingly within a fictional universe.
No, their impracticality is what makes them look like retarded garbage for children. That they "function amazingly within a fictional universe" is just further insult as the author(s) of these universes are retarded.
In short, NO FUN ALLOWED.
Best ship
Cutest captain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQPplAjw8lU
>>343792741
if it adds to the entertainment value of the game then, yes, it is fine.
>>343792787
You need to kill yourself.
>>343792721
This post is sensible
This beauty. So simple yet so elegant.
>>343792721
thing is if you go "science is magic and can do all sort of magical things"
then you're going to have to be consistent with it and apply this to every single part of the setting
a very good example are mechas
a common argument is "BUT SUPERSCIENCE MAKES IT POSSIBLE" while ignoring that the exact same superscience that makes a mecha possible, also makes it possible to create tanks or planes with exactly the same technology as used in the mechas
>>343788868
AHAHAHAH, wrong.
>>343790204
I disagree, I think the Angelwing is a great ship and I enjoyed Noah sections of the game using it despite it being a bit more 'generic'. However, I do agree that the Stiletto and the other Earth company ships are god tier, and I would have paid good money for the option to just use the Stiletto tricked out in advanced Noah gear
>>343790275
Not that anon, but the JJPrise is fucking disgusting.
>>343791886
Sheeet
I remember that, beating the ridiculous artificial difficulty was fan as shit
> was playing with mods, forgot which one
> defending with 2 destroyers and several smaller ships vs an entire fleet stack led by admiral snackbar
>itsagooddaytodie.jpg
> one by one my ships die and my last destroyer is giving them what for
> managed to kill snackbar but there still half a fleet and the destroyer is on its last leg
> suddenly a Zerg rush of y-wings appears from the fog to the port of the destroyer
> it's all ogre
FUCKING FIGHT ME
>>343788868
The reason why ships like the enterprise don't give a fuck is because their form of impulse and movement is beyond anything we currently have. So they don't need to be covered in basic thrusters.
>>343793092
What's a JJPrise.
I know literally nothing about Star Trek.
I was just baffled by the fact someone calling himself a Trekkie and then picking a non-Trekkie ship.
>>343792787
>2016 AD, Earth, Sol System
>still cannot grasp the concept of soft sci fi
Jesus Christ, atomize yourself, sperg
>>343793298
The two left ships are from jj abrams nu-trek retardation films.
Who /aurora/ here?
>>343793417
without explanations its no longer scifi, its fantasy
just because your magic is invoked by technobrabble instead of incantations doesn't make it in any way scifi
Best EVE ship right here.
>>343793437
Oh, fair enough. I guess you people hate JewJew Abraham as much as I hate him for Ep7.
>>343791231
Man, Freespace is the fucking best.
The Galaxy Class Starship has always been my favorite.
>>343793556
Gives me them Event Horizon feels
>>343792787
Why do you even like fictional universes enough to defend their authors then? None of it is real and all of it violates laws of practicality.
A main element for storytelling is an audience capable of the suspension of disbelief. You premise is even more retarded than you claim these "childish" concepts are.
>>343793298
>>343790275
i was just trying to inject some humor into the thread after that raging self-admitted autist above me stank up the place.
>>343793298
See top right of the OP, its a re-imaging of pic related as part of the reboot Star Trek movies, 2009 onward. It's also almost 3 times the size of the original for no good reason.
>>343793557
Yes. He's ruining both franchises as hard as he can.
>>343793035
Except armored infantry has been a thing since the dark ages. It's not going to dominate the battlefield, but it will add depth. For example, powered armored units will most likely get their shit pushed in hard by gunships. A lot of people say tanks or IFV, but once those PA units close the distance. It'll be like a bunch of ants taking down a spider, disabling the tread, forcing the hatch, etc.
Gunships however are in the air, carry heavy weapons suited for anti-vehicular combat and can see shit over the backdrop of the ground.
>>343793298
JJ is the modern bastardazation of Star Trek as produced JJ Abrams
The first movie was ok but the second went full retard and the third looks to be headed that way too.
>>343791804
>Laser cannon
Wave motion gun. It's an order of magnitude above a laser cannon.
>>343793693
>>343793717
>>343793556
>Event Horizon Mind.
>>343793549
Yes it does, that's what hardness scale is for.
>>343793741
*top left, I'm retarded
>>343793035
Do you want a plane to look like this? >>343793259
Hell, this viewpoint only works if you assume that a plane or a tank's form factor are unsurpassable in any universe with any number of possible tech advancements, which for technology that has been around for little more than a century, is a ridiculously shortsighted view. Might as well plant a inscription on the ground saying "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair"
>>343793557
You hate him for making the first good Star Wars movie since 1983?
>>343793626
I'm a Miranda/Oberth kinda guy myself.
Love science vessels.
>>343793549
Sci-fi IS magical technobabble, you imbecile.
Or else it wouldn't be fiction and we would be capable of such technology as of this moment.
stand aside you heretics
>>343793741
The original was huge already, 500 crewmen.
The UNSC Forward Unto DawnI like ships with cool names
>>343793741
>>343793746
>>343793762
>>343793762
At least in this time matter, both the Star Trek and Star Wars fanbases are united.
Fuck Jew Jew Abraham.
>>343793747
I'm not talking about power armor which is a plausible technology and the only thing preventing us from using it ye olde battery problem
I'm talking about piloted mechas, you know giant man shaped robots with humans inside them
Excelsior Class
>>343788868
>shitting on classic scifi designs like the enterprise because 'muh realism' while being completely ignorant of how these ships work in-universe
Man you are both autistic and dumb
>>343793626
The NCC-1701-D will always be the Enterprise to me.
>>343793897
Get cancer and die, literally.
Captcha: Edge Vale
>>343793979
>I like ships with cool names
Halo is full of those.
>>343793913
you...you are aware of what fiction and non-fiction are right
because this post makes it very unclear
>>343793762
>1st movie ok.
>superfluous lens flares added in post prod. Causing new ent to have 'splosions. As if it'd been hit by something.
Chris pine as kirk. Sylar as sylar. Uhura turned from badass bridge officer to brainless bridge bunny.
>>343790168
nice design
Who /excelsior/ here?
>>343793904
Used to play Star Trek online , even though it was a starter ship, I always went Miranda , I'd have level 50+ modules on a level 1 ship
>>343793556
That's not the Armageddon
>>343794080
>can't criticize a series simply because its old
face it: star trek is to scifi as call of duty is to shooters
>>343790168
Why are all the main cannons on just one face of the ship? What stops other ships from attacking from below?
>>343793549
cry about it nerd
>>343794186
There's t6 versions of all the iconics now.
>>343794256
STOP BRINGING YOUR REALISM INTO SCIENCE FICTION
STOP CRITICIZING THINGS ITS JUST A STORY BRO IT AINT REAL
>>343793904
Oh hey it's the Cannon Fodder Class
>>343794256
But there's gun placements all over the ship, below included. They just aren't modelled on this particular model since it's an ingame model that's supposed to represent a ship that's like ~20 kilometers long.
>>343793521
yes
>>343794256
They'll just spin so the side is facing down.
Skateboard-fu coming through
>>343793556
>best EVE ship
>not Navypoc
Sometimes I feel like resubbing, but then I remember how boring garbage the game was for solo.
>>343793259
My nigga.
>>343794256
The main cannon is a mini Death Star laser
The eclipse and sun crusher are the most powerful ships in SW canon (if you don't count that one posted earlier in the thread)
>>343791231
Mah fucking nigguh.
Hearing those beams go off mid-battle is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMa3LXe6oVc
>>343793891
I'm saying that not a single giant mecha series has ever properly justified using mechas instead of tanks, planes or helicopters
>>343793998
Jap-tier mecha will probably be space only, no fun allowed tier. Which is all possible and when you get technical are just pods with limbs.
Ground Mecha are probably just going to be sized up heavy PA units. If mechs get to that super robust point, they'll operate akin to MetalGear Rex. The legs will be to travel over large distances in a theater level of warfare. Most combat will be beyond line of sight and it will function akin to artillery and sams.
>>343793968
The original was about 250 meters, the new one is just that length short of a kilometer, which places it as the second longest behind the E
Space Cathedrals are pretty nice.
>>343794467
That Freudian Nightmare bullshit is not SW design, it's something /tg/ came up with for humor.
>>343794256
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Eclipse-class_dreadnought
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Eclipse_(Eclipse-class)
>>343793549
>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indestinguishable from magic
SIR Arthur C. Clarke. Bitch.
>>343794514
>>343794256
Not that unusual in Star Wars.
>>343794536
metalgear rex is also completely non functional
legs, at that scale, are just horrifyingly inefficient
it'd be like a human trying to walk around on ant legs
the legs of Rex would actually be significantly less efficient than tank threads for any application
>>343794451
I regret having spent 500+ hours in spreadsheet simulator 2016 edition
> bored of mining and no way in hell in going to even attempt PvP
> try to explore and fuck around in null sec
> get yelled at from a dozen different directions for not taking th game serious enough
>>343794656
>a story featuring sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from fantasy
>>343793723
mein negro
>>343794472
Human beams take longer, but the shots are stronger, fat and wide.
Vasudan beams charge faster, but are less strong.
Shivan beams are these tight efficient as fuck beams, incredibly refined.
>Played the first iteration of /v/lancer
>Autismed and exploited my way to a huge fortune
>Went on a solo voyage literally halfway across the fucking game to buy this
>Took 2 hours to navigate it back to the populated areas because it wouldn't fucking fit in trade lanes and I had to go around an asteroid field it literally wouldn't fit through
>Parked up at the noob planet
>Everyone in their starter ships couldn't even scratch my shields
>People with bigger ships didn't want to risk fucking with me
I miss those /v/lancer days.
>>343794293
Except the Miranda. Coming up: a T6 Connie!JJPrise version, of fucking course.Also that big dark evil ship of Admiral McWarmonger, whatever its name was, in a lockbox.
Who Arcadia here?
>realism
See >>343792721
Literally the most sensible post in the thread.
Alongside >>343794656 I guess.
>>343791231
Is that from 2 or from 1?
>>343787091
Enterprise D or the Normandy
>>343788868
People want to see what's around them. We don't put huge windows in spaceships currently because they are a liability lie you've described. But in TNG they have much stronger transparent materials to make windows from. So they aren't anymore of a risk than the other materials the ship is built from. So that's not really a consideration. Further, the nacelles aren't thrusters. The ships primary thrusters are on the rear of the dish or a little lower on the neck so that they push forward evenly against the craft's center of mass. the rest of the body of the ship is covered in small strategically placed maneuvering thrusters. The nacelles house the various components used to generate a warp field. If a warp field is a thing that can be used to move ships efficiently in real life we have not discovered this method yet. So there's no way of knowing whether Star Trek's interpretation of that technology is silly or not yet. Maybe you will need to house that machinery at a distance from the main body of the ship.
>>343794658
even that explanation doesn't work properly
there'd be plenty of people who'd think other shapes would look cool so a series based entirely on rule of cool would have giant battleships fighting giant mechs fighting giant space spiders
>>343794243
>>can't criticize a series simply because its old
that's not what he was doing.
>>343791716
Can't they at least be practical as a mobile base of operations and staging point?
The only real flaw is the exposed bridge.
>>343792721
>Fictional authors know more than scientists.
>>343787091
this
>>343793927
Great. Here come the 40Kiddies to shit the thread.
>>343795209
he uses "classic scifi design" as if it were a quality
>>343794120
he's right, if there was a full explanation for any techonological device in sci-fi, we would be making it right now
>>343795134
2, only shivans had plasma beams during the great war.
I prefer simplistic designs, mainly saucer-like ships
>>343791804
Is it supposed to look like a screaming shark?
>>343795324
They asked favorite ship designs, he answered. Stop being a faggot.
>>343795225
Modern science still literally doesn't know how the fuck greek fire was made, or how the fuck were pyramids built with laser-cutter precision, among many other things.
Sorry but science has always been flawed and even susceptible to technology being LOST.
>>343794114
I know, it's just a shame most of them are covenant.
They stuck out big time with the Infinity.
Their fleet names are even cooler- Fleet of Particular Jusice, Fleet of Furious Redemption, Fleet of Profound Solitude, Second Fleet of Homogenous Clarity, etc.
Having a religious slant always makes things better imo
>>343795373
you are aware its entirely possible to set a fictional story in today's world with today's technology right?
you are aware that because something is possible or even plausible it doesn't stop being fiction right?
and honestly scifi should have some form of speculation to it, its what sets it apart from fantasy
>>343795371
he also said you are ignorant to how they work in universe. and he's right.
>>343794514
Expand your horizons, faggot.
>>343795324
40k fans can be annoying but you'd have to be retarded or prejudiced to say 40k ships don't look aesthetically impressive.
>>343794774
There is a great deal of science we do not posses to make such a walking vehicle. However my point still stands, big mecha would be walking artillery fighting well beyond the visual range.
>>343787091
I think the battlecruiser looks coolest by far.
>>343795517
>you are aware its entirely possible to set a fictional story in today's world with today's technology right?
yes, but then it wouldn't be sci-fi...
>>343795112
I thought the idea behind this one was trash. A pencil thin ship designed for ramming, yeah sure.
>>343794114
no the ship names are fucking cancer.
>>343795198
What's the point of windows when all you are going to see is infinite blackness most of the time?
>>343795501
Struck, justice, christ i can't type
>>343795468
the pyramids and greek fire are not matters of having lost the technology, its about not knowing exactly which technology they used to achieve their accomplishments
major difference
we can replicate all those things, we can actually do them significantly better even, we just want to know what they were doing
>>343795694
idk i get it on science and living crafts. People don't want to just look at their gray ship walls and if you pull into orbit they can look at the planet they are near.
>>343795501
>>343791537
I know something you might like.
>>343795324
atleast he contributed you putrid breadleaf
>>343795624
he didn't say it'd stop being scifi, he said it'd stop being fiction
don't try to move them goalposts buddy
>>343795778
Why not a computer screen? Just like the bridge.
>>343794787
TCW gave me a new appreciation for all the technology design of the Clone Wars era stuff.
Love the NCC 1701-E. I hated the redesigned nacelles on the 1701-A in the preboot
>>343795589
thing is to make a walking vehicle like that possible you'd need some form of anti-gravity technology to prevent the heavy object from sinking into most terrain types
and said anti-gravity technology would also be applicable to tanks
its not like a videogame, technology isn't unique to a single application, even within the universe there's no reason not to put the only relevant part of the Rex (the nuke launcher) onto a submarine instead of a walking mech
>>343794787
I never liked that one.
>>343795208
Isn't that Warhammer 40k?
>>343795876
he said "he's right, if there was a full explanation for any techonological device in sci-fi, we would be making it right now"
note the "in sci-fi", then think about it some more, and try to understand what you did wrong
OUT OF THE WAY CIS FUCKING SHITS
>>343795782
I really prefer the UNSC ships.
Mac cannons are too fucking awesome. The ships are basically a giant cannon with a spaceship built around them. In the Infinity's case it has 4 of them.
A friendly reminder that Space Fighters don't make any sense.
>>343792379
I prefer Wing Commander IV's 'Dragon' Stealth-Prototype fighter to the Excalibur to be quite honest. Excalibur's turn ratio is pretty shit.
>>343795964
because people don't want to live their life through screens, especially if they are stuck on a ship for weeks/months.
It's not about combat pragmatism and it makes sense to me when not on combat crafts. It's like being on ships without being able to go on deck or look out the window, its just a nice feature that a living/merchant/science ship's crew would benefit from.
>>343795964
Actually that is a solution used in some series. It isn't the only one though. We actually try to put pretty big windows in our spacecraft these days because being closed up in a box stresses people out. Even if it's just seeing the empty void around you, it seems to be calming.
FUKKEN NARN HEAVY CRUISER BITCHES YEEEEAAAAHH
Check my Navy ScorpionSuperb Mission Runner
>>343796268
forgot pic
>>343796219
Does it come with a qt orange padawan?
>>343796271
I always liked the Mass Effect explanation. They're basically designed to overwhelm the CIWS systems of ships through sheer numbers and soften them up for larger vessels.
>>343796206
there's a major difference between something which may be possible and technobrabble
there's no logic behind the latter, no science, nothing other than fancy words
It devalues the genre heavily, makes it so there is no difference between fantasy and scifi
>>343787091
Star destroyer types are always fun, but I also like odd ones, like a cube with many rows and columns that spin to reveal different functions, like lasers, thrusters and so on.
>>343796753
God I really hate the fun police.
>>343796753
false dichotomy bruh
you can introduce more or less fantasy elements, which is why there's a scale of hard to soft sci-fi. But at the end of the day, if the tech doesn't exist yet, then you DID introduce a fantasy element somewhere.
>>343796753
That's why use "soft" and "hard" sci-fi. Everyone knows soft sci-fi is just space fantasy.
>>343796525
>Caldari
As a Gallente Faggot, good for you. And fuck you.
>>343796184
game?
>>343795694
for that one time, where your radar isn't working or the enemy has radar jamming or something or is cloaked from enemy scanners, you don't want to be the commander who got hit without a clue, because he only focused on the instruments and didn't see the fucking huge ass spaceship coming his way
That's what makes the other commanders laugh at you.
>>343796268
I haven't followed much halo canon after halo 3, but i found it interesting that after the dissolution of the covenant , humans got ahold of their technology and were already reverse engineering it before halo 4. By the time of halo 4, the unsc has the infinity and is wrecking the leftover covenant. Ships like pic relalted that used to take the full might of the unsc to destroy are now getting plowed over
>>343796971
if they'd actually act like it was space fantasy it'd be okay but plenty of people act like its not, act like there's somehow a difference between star wars and lotr (other than the latter's vastly increased quality)
>>343797072
If you can see a spaceship coming it's probably too late to do anything.
>>343797173
Forgot pic
>>343797072
Real space combat would be almost entirely BVR. That's why the cutting edge stealth ship in Mass Effect is painted white and red.
Say, why did the Alliance's colour change from red to blue between games?
>>343794451
Navy Issue Apoc and Omen are both so fucking sexy.
People, just accept that there are different flavours of science fictions. All of them with their silly things. Some are softer and other harder. Some are smaller other bigger. Some follow the tropes of subgenre be space operas, about pilots of mecha/fighters, social commentary, military fiction or wathever. Even the silly ones have a charm to them.
Out of the 4 shown, the Star Destroyer.
>>343797173
It was always present in lore that the Covenant was doing an awful job of leveraging all the forerunner tech they used. They considered it sacrilegious to do so.
>>343797292
its a shame the mass effect cutscenes are all set in super close range
codex does a good deal of mentioning how long range is important to space combat
>>343791716
>>343787091
Qwaar-Jet.
>>343792787
You missed your ritalin today.
>>343797476
I don't blame them since the combat described in the codex would probably be hard to make visually interesting, but they should've committed one way or the other long before release.
>we don't even really know how modern air to air combat would go in the even of a war between major powers
>nerds think they can theorize what space combat would be like
laughing all my lmao
>>343797018
Helios Tenant
>>343797398
I WANT A SETTING WHERE YOU PILOT A STAR LIKE A SPACESHIP!
>>343797398
hate scifi that pretends to be anything more than space fantasy while not actually paying attention to anything
dyson spheres are a good example of this, it takes only a slight bit of thought and calculations to realize just how insane such a construction would be, yet authors still continue to have earth sized populations live on them and crap like that
The lying bastard.
Fuck i really want a game where I control a capital ship flying around glassing enemy worlds and laying waste to their pitiful fleets.
>>343795221
In SW they have shields, so as long as the shields are up, the bridge is practical. It's when the shields are gone when the bridge becomes impractical. The shields generators are in all cases mounted on the bridge itself as well.
>>343797674
From a actual technology standpoint , a Dyson sphere is very possible. It's just a massive solar panel array built around a star
Realistically is could never happen, it would take more resources then could be mined from the entire solar system and likley hundreds of thousands of years to complete
>>343797876
Born just in time to watch Mr. Trump lose to Crooked Hillary
>>343797876
You still have the oceans
But we all know you're too much of a bitch to ever go down there
>>343797820
thing is we've seen it takes as little as a single kamikaze fighter to take down a capital ship shields
at this point it may be time to consider building your ship like a military vehicle
>>343791804
>World of warships had during one april fools day a fucking space battleship day
>tfw we will never get anything like it ever again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BhhYMwWWw
>>343797943
What about a Matrioshka brain around a Black Hole?
>>343798083
>shields
Nope, the shields on the Executor were already down at that point apparently + plot explanation is that Palpatine was controlling the entire fleet himself with Battle Meditation and the moment he died everything fell into chaos.
>>343795221
It was stated in SW canon that it was almost solely empire ships that had tall exposed bridges and generators spurred by an empires arrogance. The Rebels used this many times to defeat them
>>343792994
Best Enterprise
>>343794163
More like Sexelsior.
>>343798014
>implying both aren't equally shit
>>343797208
it's never too late to do THAT
The Spear of Adun in sc2 was cool as fuck. I especially liked how they had a small star powering it.
So, follow me if you can fellas
I figure if things are to the point where Ship Designers can actually express their AESTHETIC preferences when designing a ship.
We'll subsequently be at the point where we don't have to worry about the majority of Mitigating aspects of why you wouldn't design a space vessel the way Sci-Fi Epics tend to. Or in ways practicality would love to swat down.
And as such, I subsequently love just about every fucking type of space ship.
>>343797876
>Your species Evolved too lateYou will never visit the galaxies beyond your local group.>The galaxies in the universe get farther and farther away with every second after the Big Bang.>One day, they will be so far away that their light will never reach us and all evidence of other galaxies will be a distant memory.
>>343793260
He's an idiot though, all starships in ST including the enterprise are covered in maneuvering thrusters, they're just flush with the surface of the ship and only seen in closeup shots. Also due to shields, inertial dampeners, structural integrity fields, navigational deflector, warp travel and transparent materials as strong and durable as metals, they don't need to give a fuck about windows being a structural weakness because they aren't. The whole ship could probably be made of a transparent material if they wanted, but it would be obnoxious.
>>343794129
Uhura x Spock is actually THE worst part of the NuTrek trilogy (please just let it be a trilogy).
>All of these faulty mechanical constructions
>Not perfectly evolved Leviathan
Why?
always love the chunky UNSC designs
>>343794163
IMO the best star trek ship ever. Mix between constitution and ambassador classes.
>>343798374
Im kinda in between the original series enterprise and the WoK enterprise.
But without a doubt WoK had the sexiest uniforms for starfleet ever.
It is a shame they scrapped them in later trek shows.
>>343797943
no its not for a wide variety of reasons
pe a 1m thick dyson sphere at 1AU distance of the sun would have a volume a billion times larger than that of the sun
>Ctrl+f
>No Daedalus
>>343798804
Ain't gonna get far if it's leaking that bad.
>>343798112
There is that new game, dreadnought or something, that has various classes of flying ships shooting each other
Haven't tried it though
>>343794514
Except that in most universes mechas are evolution from tanks becoming more versatile then growing more bipedal and quick with better tech. What have you only watched or played 1 mech game ever?
>>343788868
The reason for wings and large rear engines is almost always FTL/warp/etc. travel. It's the case with every ship in OPs image.
>>343798804
Imagine the cost to feed that thing.
>>343787091
Not just my favourite but probably one of the most powerful
>>343793723
It's just criminal how these fellers only got so little screen time.
>>343799137
>1m
the fuck would you need it to be that thick for
of course with retarded asumptions you're gonna get retarded calculations
>>343799137
I'm going to guess that the idea is to use the energy of the sun to produce extra matter thanks to energy-matter conversors. Just make a smaller dyson spehere.
Or build it on a red dwarf. They are smaller and live so long that the universe is not Old enough to have seen the first die. They will be likely the last refuge of organic species before the last star in the universe is extinguished.
Single seat sized, probably this.
Capital ship? I'll have to go with 40k Battleships.
>>343799639
Emperor class battleship for reference.
>>343793723
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoqwHPJddro&list=PL626C399EB20C94C8
>>343793979
The Dawn really was the coolest USMC ship.
>>343797398
Why not just a lot of satellites?
>>343799639
>Freelancer
>single seat
FATlancer is more like it, chubby
You probably haven't heard of it.
>>343791485
>>343794163
>>343798408
came here to post that, but you beat me to it
>>343799928
Yeah, that was poorly worded, I meant "operable by a single pilot".
>>343799137
wrong: its actually only 195 times larger
>>343799619
despite his flawed calculations he has a point, 1m is not an unreasonable assumption but even a 1mm thick sphere would have 0.2 times the volume of the sun, and given the sun is largely hydrogen while a dyson sphere would naturally be made out of a significantly more massive material, its total mass would still be larger than that of the sun
and I hope you can realize just how impossible it is to make something orbit another object with less mass
