What is your favorite science fiction ship?
- Thread starter Randoman01
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Most of the ships in The Culture universe, because they're so different to any other sort of ship in other sci-fi universes. They're absolutely massive, are far more intelligent than humans, and they don't remotely resemble a traditional ship e.g. the Sleeper Service is several kilometres long, and contains a whole ecosystem using fields
Another favourite is probably Robert Reed's idea of humans turning a whole planet into a cruise ship that goes through interstellar space, and inviting everyone along who feels like coming.
Another favourite is probably Robert Reed's idea of humans turning a whole planet into a cruise ship that goes through interstellar space, and inviting everyone along who feels like coming.
Does a Halo Ring count?
If not then I always loved the light zippy spaceships, like the A-Wing from Star Wars, and there was an old PC game called "Incoming" that had some really sweet fighter designs, like this:
If not then I always loved the light zippy spaceships, like the A-Wing from Star Wars, and there was an old PC game called "Incoming" that had some really sweet fighter designs, like this:
They also have some fucking wonderful ship names.Esotera said:Most of the ships in The Culture universe, because they're so different to any other sort of ship in other sci-fi universes. They're absolutely massive, are far more intelligent than humans, and they don't remotely resemble a traditional ship e.g. the Sleeper Service is several kilometres long, and contains a whole ecosystem using fields
Two whole ecosystems, the rocky earth like world and the gas giant environment. Also who ever drew that picture need to go back and read them again.Esotera said:Most of the ships in The Culture universe, because they're so different to any other sort of ship in other sci-fi universes. They're absolutely massive, are far more intelligent than humans, and they don't remotely resemble a traditional ship e.g. the Sleeper Service is several kilometres long, and contains a whole ecosystem using fields
"They were above and aft of the craft?s stern. The ship was twenty-five kilometers long and ten wide. The top surface was parkland; wooded hills and ridges separated by and studded with rivers and lakes. Bracketed by colossal ribbed and buttressed outriggers chevroned in red and blue, the GSV?s sheer sides were a golden, tawny color, scattered with a motley confusion of foliage-covered platforms and balconies and punctured by a bewildering variety of brightly lit openings, like a glowing vertical city set into sandstone cliffs three kilometers high."
That's from Quinlan's arrival inside the Sanctioned Parts List's field envelope. It's the shear sides part that makes me thing more of a massive but fairly regular cuboid shape.
I might be a little to invested in this... but they are my favorite.
I'd always imagined them as being more ellipsoid, some GSVs are continent class, the size of a continent, contained within the fields. Mountain ranges on top, engines below, all held within the field envelope, equal depth top and bottom. Nice image though, respect to the artist.
Best Ship Names Ever
Best Ship Names Ever
Definitely Serenity from [i/]Firefly[/i]. It's a hunk of scrap metal, but it's a [i/]reliable[/i] hunk of scrap metal.
The physical structure of a Culture ship is basically a cuboid a few kilometres long and one or two wide.Lovecrafts Sunny Day said:I'd always imagined them as being more ellipsoid, some GSVs are continent class, the size of a continent, contained within the fields. Mountain ranges on top, engines below, all held within the field envelope, equal depth top and bottom. Nice image though, respect to the artist.
Best Ship Names Ever
The entire rest of the ship is constructed as desired or maintained by fields.
Growing up, I had a weird thing for Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire. So the Outrider.
All grown up? Give me an Emperor Class Battleship! For the God-Emperor!
All grown up? Give me an Emperor Class Battleship! For the God-Emperor!
Hurricane-class battlecruiser from EVE Online. You do not, and never will, fuck with a 'Cane fleet.
"The force with which this ship hits is more than sufficient to leave a trail of shattered enemies, floating around like so much lifeless debris. An adaptable vessel, it has enough turret hardpoints for a full-scale assault while remaining versatile enough to allow for plenty of missile fire, and has both sufficient speed to outrun its enemies and sufficient capacitor charge to outlast them."
I don't use a Hurricane anymore because I'm into a Legion now, but you can change Tech 3 ships to work differently so they don't count in quite the same way.
Runner-up is the DA-SR 12 from FTL. It's a nasty, vicious little ship with basically an instant death laser. Once you get some new weapons (missiles or ion bombs to kill shields) you can easily kill anything with no risk because of the 25 second cloak, especially with leveled gunnery operator.
"The force with which this ship hits is more than sufficient to leave a trail of shattered enemies, floating around like so much lifeless debris. An adaptable vessel, it has enough turret hardpoints for a full-scale assault while remaining versatile enough to allow for plenty of missile fire, and has both sufficient speed to outrun its enemies and sufficient capacitor charge to outlast them."
I don't use a Hurricane anymore because I'm into a Legion now, but you can change Tech 3 ships to work differently so they don't count in quite the same way.
Runner-up is the DA-SR 12 from FTL. It's a nasty, vicious little ship with basically an instant death laser. Once you get some new weapons (missiles or ion bombs to kill shields) you can easily kill anything with no risk because of the 25 second cloak, especially with leveled gunnery operator.
USS Defiant NX-74205.
Picard faced the Borg, and after it was done ruining his life, he stood in his office and drank Earl Grey. Benjamin Sisko faced the Borg and after it was done ruining his life, he fumed in an escape-pod; then went off to design a ship whose only purpose is to kill Borg. It's a set of guns strapped to an engine. Then he called it Defiant, a name that practically shakes its fist at the Borg. That was his second choice, Starfleet felt that the "USS Ben Sisko's Muthafuckin Pimp Hand" was too long.
Long like his Sisko's dick.
The field envelope is, and usually much larger and the really hull of course.Lovecrafts Sunny Day said:I'd always imagined them as being more ellipsoid, some GSVs are continent class, the size of a continent, contained within the fields. Mountain ranges on top, engines below, all held within the field envelope, equal depth top and bottom. Nice image though, respect to the artist.
Best Ship Names Ever
That's about right, but narrower across the beam i would say.Asclepion said:I had envisioned the GSVs as massive, relatively flat and rectangular craft covered with oceans and parks, surrounded by ovoid fields.
Something kind of like this:
I quite like the Battle Star Galactica. Particularly in the scenes where they show some of its armaments and the way they get loaded up. It has quite a bit of a no frills feel to it which I found interesting.