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Title: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Sarafan on March 20, 2012, 06:01:28 pm
We all know why we are here, because of the awesomeness of FS but its not the only sci fi/anime/movie/serie/whatver-thing-with-ships-robots-etc that we like, we all have our favorites and that got me wondering what is YOUR favorite ship?

Comment all you want but there's only one rule in the thread, your first post has to have a picture of your favorite ship and from where it is from. GO!

Mine is the standard Free Planets Alliance battleship from Legend of the Galactic Heroes, awesome series, give it a try if you like major space battles!

(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/2vjj2.jpg) (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/2vjj2)

(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/t/m49ff.jpg) (http://www.freeimagehosting.net/m49ff)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Spoon on March 20, 2012, 08:55:05 pm
(http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/9ered.jpg)
Boooo, democracy sucks!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 20, 2012, 09:24:00 pm
Boring Germans In Space is Go.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/Crow.png)

Pr-Trinity Crow, EVE Online. At least for looks.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Polpolion on March 20, 2012, 10:05:59 pm
(http://i42.tinypic.com/3588dhj.jpg)

I like the MGC more but you get the idea
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: pecenipicek on March 20, 2012, 10:41:32 pm
ah old hw1 artwork :D gotta love it

<dekker- No pic, = i choose for you!
(http://api.ning.com/files/HiqwxN3AaVCSQXPObFM4FSaWGtD-n-qqMi73ex7eS3HL11zgSwJocd-82scSxYFUMd*0SkOpRupaTAe2FXOAJePtODg8d7cE/SpaceChicken.jpg?width=721)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: watsisname on March 20, 2012, 10:55:49 pm
USS Cygnus, from Disney's The Black Hole.

(http://i.imgur.com/xb4LM.jpg)

BTW the movie is ****ing hilarible.  Lol.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Mongoose on March 20, 2012, 11:06:13 pm
Don't suppose I can be boring and go with the Falcon. :p


<dekker-If you forget your pic, I provide  ;7>
(http://www.loltimeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Falcon_Punch.jpg)


Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: watsisname on March 20, 2012, 11:11:08 pm
Don't suppose I can be boring and go with the Falcon. :p

NO PICTURE IN THIS POST

ADMINS, BAN HIM!


edit:  None shall beat me to the best ship everrrrrr
(http://i.imgur.com/MHsDM.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: WeatherOp on March 20, 2012, 11:54:26 pm
All hail the spudship.

(http://www.async.caltech.edu/~mika/potato/POTATO.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BlueFlames on March 21, 2012, 01:04:35 am
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120205065618/memoryalpha/en/images/9/9d/USS_Enterprise-D%2C_TNG_Season_1-2.jpg)

Next Gen ran from when I was three until I was ten, and I never missed an episode.  How could I not post the Enterprise-D?
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Angelus on March 21, 2012, 01:48:46 am
In this Order:

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/327/f/3/BSG_Viper_MKII_Side_by_Coldilian.jpg)

(http://www.thescifiworld.net/img/wallpapers/users/diston_bsg_02_1600x1200.jpg)

(http://www.isnnews.net/babylon5/gallery/ws/whitestar13.jpg)

(http://www.foundation3d.com/uploads/general/2009/10/456-25-494272.jpg)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_1kaThHvid9Y/TJZE3JZcrbI/AAAAAAAABEM/SG_9Lw4a36Q/ParallaxMap10.jpg)

(http://rpggamer.org/uploaded_images/pegasus-04.jpg)

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs46/i/2009/254/d/f/GalaxyRangersSpaceshipPhoenix_by_WinilixuS.jpg)

(http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c364/EgoTrippin/3D/jaeger3a-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Dark Hunter on March 21, 2012, 03:27:22 am
Best ship of all time?

Either this:
(http://images.wikia.com/masseffect/images/1/11/Mass_Effect_Normandy_SR2.png)


or this:
(http://images.wikia.com/gundam/images/b/be/CBS-74_Ptolemaios_2.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 21, 2012, 03:29:48 am
Zygons flagship *****es!

-Starchaser legend of Orin-
Best lightspeed EVER!

 Half Sathanas for the win.
(http://www.warkentin.com/artshow/images/Spaceship.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 21, 2012, 03:39:58 am
Next Gen ran from when I was three until I was ten, and I never missed an episode.  How could I not post the Enterprise-D?

Truth be told, the Galaxy-class actually looks pretty derpy without the show's careful hiding of this via camera angles. :/

Besides...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/USS_Defiant_firing_phaser_cannons.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: headdie on March 21, 2012, 04:02:24 am
if you are going ST then
(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s179/zsamard5/scimitar.jpg)

Dekkar i see what you mean with the sath reference
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 21, 2012, 04:23:08 am
All the smaller ships have Freespacey shapes to them. I see a Perseus and a Zeus :D
I'd wager :v: love the film too.

Backontopic-
YT2400!
(http://images.wikia.com/swg/images/f/f1/Dunehawk_Centurion.JPG)

EDIT- Can't believe I've never heard of this before....

IT'S LOOK AWESUM :3
 Just stumbled across it while looking for outrider piccies.

YT-1760 BABY!
(http://starwars.timba.biz/tervrajz/cec/yt-1760/YT_1760_3D.jpg)
I need to shower.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Ashrak on March 21, 2012, 04:33:48 am
(http://images.wikia.com/masseffect/images/e/e8/DestinyAscensionFlyby.png)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 21, 2012, 05:05:51 am
X302
(http://www.freeclyde.com/people/friends/mirko/05_F-302.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 21, 2012, 05:54:07 am
X

F.................
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Wobble73 on March 21, 2012, 07:39:28 am
My choice's are either Nell from Batttle Beyond the Stars....
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1RaJb2xGPh8/S3N7zj0LkLI/AAAAAAAACB0/ZwwKOFfU9Y4/s1600-h/BBTS+Nell.png)
Or Moya from Farscape..
(http://images.wikia.com/farscape/images/0/04/Moya1.jpg)

I don't know why, something about them being living ships, giving them personality.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 21, 2012, 08:35:38 am
im not gonna mine the interwebs for images, but im quite fond of the klingon d7, bird of prey. the romulan d'deridex class. thats it from trek. then i like the event horizon (i always thought it looked like a d7 from hell). anything vorlon. and probibly the victory class, i always thought it was sexy. any predator ship. the boneship from alien (probably predator ship), the dropship from aliens, and might as well throw in the sulaco as well. im also quite fond of the loki from sc2 and the carrier from sc1. and il toss my own ragnarok class in there just for teh nukage.



Dekker-

Maybe you should have :3
(http://www.thediceshoponline.com/images/productimages/1011_1_big.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 21, 2012, 08:39:25 am
lol, im really ****ing lazy.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 21, 2012, 08:40:28 am
I wuv leh Sulaco dude. You earn man points for agreeing :yes:
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 21, 2012, 08:43:22 am
i also forgot to mention all asgard ships from stargate.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BritishShivans on March 21, 2012, 09:20:21 am
The D7/K'tinga class is glorious.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: S-99 on March 21, 2012, 09:44:04 am
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120205065618/memoryalpha/en/images/9/9d/USS_Enterprise-D%2C_TNG_Season_1-2.jpg)
Always reminded me of a flying thanksgiving turkey.

(http://www.isnnews.net/babylon5/gallery/ws/whitestar13.jpg)
Always reminded me of a flying small chicken meal.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/USS_Enterprise-B_in_drydock.jpg)
Thought this one was just horrible.

I liked the enterprise C a lot in star trek.
(http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/5/5c/USS_Enterprise-C.jpg)
It's like enterprise in the original series. But, updated, sturdier looking, and a little more stylish than the hulking flying skinned turkey.

However that bring to mind this...
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Newoldenterprise.jpg)
How uninspired the new enterprise from the movie star trek actually is when compared huh? It's just the enterprise C, nothing more. I prefer the look of the tng enterprise C more though.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: StarSlayer on March 21, 2012, 09:45:37 am
Oorah!

(http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb16/LaughingFerretStudio/Spaceships/hammers.gif)

(http://rpggamer.org/uploaded_images/Saratoga.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Rodo on March 21, 2012, 09:47:51 am
Today I'll go with the progenitor Dreadnought:

(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs29/f/2008/172/d/0/Progenitor_dreadnought_by_LonleyStrategos.jpg)

But it's surely not the only ship I love.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BlueFlames on March 21, 2012, 12:42:37 pm
Next Gen ran from when I was three until I was ten, and I never missed an episode.  How could I not post the Enterprise-D?

Truth be told, the Galaxy-class actually looks pretty derpy without the show's careful hiding of this via camera angles. :/

Well, it's an aesthetic argument, so there's no proving it one way or the other, but I respectfully disagree.  Having had the benefit of several video games allowing free-looking around the exterior of the ship, I think the ship's lines look elegant from any angle.  As a car-affectionado, it always surprises me how many vehicles have such attention-to-detail paid to the front and sides, only for the back to look like an arbitrarily tacked-on chunk because the car couldn't get any longer.  A lot more thought was clearly put into the Galaxy class, so that every section serves its function and fits into the aesthetic design.  Now, some of the early concept art looked pretty derpy, but after numerous revisions, I think the final product looks good from any angle.

That does come with the caveat that the drive section looks pretty silly with the saucer separated.  I know the function was intended from an early stage of the design process, but with the top of the drive section's neck standing in for a mini-saucer, the rest looks completely out of proportion. 

Besides...

[Defiant]

I never really cared for the Defiant class.  It struck me as too much of a deviation from other Starfleet vessels and as a conceit within the context of DS9.  Specifically, when the Defiant first showed up, it felt like someone finally bowed to a committee that had decided that a show about space exploration didn't work with a fixed installation.

To me, if Starfleet was going to design a ship to fight the Borg, it would have come out a lot more like the Sovereign than the Defiant.  For starters, the Sovereign looks more like an evolution of Starfleet technology, while the Defiant looks like it started completely from scratch.  Beyond that, though, the Sovereign class could clearly push deep into unknown territory, looking for Borg targets to attack, fulfilling both the need to deal with the Borg and Starfleet's exploration mandate.  The Defiant class, while combat capable, pretty clearly isn't meant to be away from support facilities for extended periods.

Also, in it's one fight against the Borg, the very beings it was designed to combat, the Defiant was pretty soundly beaten.  By comparison, the Galaxy-class more than fulfilled its missions of diplomacy and scientific discovery and further stood in as a capable combat vessel in the initial confrontations with the Borg and later in the Dominion war.

Finally, ending on the aesthetic note on which we began, the Defiant isn't very visually appealing.  It's a disc with some dongly bits sticking out.  The note I made about cars' back ends is in full-effect with the Defiant, as what lines do flow from front to back just arbitrarily terminate.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BengalTiger on March 21, 2012, 12:43:41 pm
Progenitor ships from Homeworld and

(http://images.wikia.com/starships/images/4/48/GVD_Hatshepsut_New.jpg)


P.S. The (not so) honorable mention goes to: Austin Powers.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Mongoose on March 21, 2012, 12:45:50 pm
Well, if I do have to post pictures to avoid teh b&, and since the Falcon is a given for any self-respecting nerd, here's an alternate choice:

(http://images.wikia.com/cowboybebop/images/1/14/2_SwordfishBrake.png)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: KyadCK on March 21, 2012, 12:57:38 pm
Since we're going outside Freespace for ships...
(http://www.3drealms.com/tv/images/tvplanet.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on March 21, 2012, 01:01:28 pm
Just love the vintage look of these two... Remember when we were gonna have dependable space shuttle services (no pun intended) by 2001? Good times...

(http://sciencefictionwallpapers.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/2001-space-odyssey_1280x1048.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 21, 2012, 01:04:23 pm
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Vo5FylStAk/TklZ20qHNWI/AAAAAAAABTA/B-KTQbpQPa0/s640/source+1.jpg)
dO you SEE!!!

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/26/article-2091135-11742179000005DC-804_634x410.jpg)
(http://www.qurios.com/images/services/models/HMS_Camden_Lock.jpg) HMS Camden Lock
 Can't remember the others...
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: butter_pat_head on March 21, 2012, 02:09:07 pm
I couldn't find a decent image of the small rouge one (in about 60 seconds worth of googling) so I submit this:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FUOzIp0xXPc/TOvvbKaVX_I/AAAAAAAAAQw/TcY0sZ-VLh4/s400/Red_Dwarf___Rimmer_salute_by_squirminator2k.jpeg)

However I can't let this one slide:
To me, if Starfleet was going to design a ship to fight the Borg, it would have come out a lot more like the Sovereign than the Defiant.  For starters, the Sovereign looks more like an evolution of Starfleet technology, while the Defiant looks like it started completely from scratch.  Beyond that, though, the Sovereign class could clearly push deep into unknown territory, looking for Borg targets to attack, fulfilling both the need to deal with the Borg and Starfleet's exploration mandate.  The Defiant class, while combat capable, pretty clearly isn't meant to be away from support facilities for extended periods.

Also, in it's one fight against the Borg, the very beings it was designed to combat, the Defiant was pretty soundly beaten.
The Defiant was mothballed before it appeared on DS9, Starfleet just couldn't  get it to work right.  Soft cannon suggests that the Akira class was then designed to fill it's role.

As for that battle at the the beginning of ST:FC, after loosing weapons it still was capable of proper attitude control while making that aborted ramming attack while under fire and when the cube goes pop the Defiant survives.

Imagine the Defiant's designer (the fictional one, not the model designer for the show), I reckon that he would be thinking "Small and fast... hard to hit.  Powerful... hard hitting.  Make loads... swarm the pointy-edged buggers to death!"  :lol:

Anyhoow, moar ships!

(http://www.gunbuster.net/Visual/Episode6/gb603.jpg)
(http://traversa.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/13/soyokaze2.jpg)
(http://grayphantom.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/g_p-outlaw-star-remastered-24x26452f63298mkv-00000.jpg)
One of these, while capable of interstellar flight is not technically a ship...
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Luis Dias on March 21, 2012, 02:30:57 pm
(http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/zs/tesb/exechoth4.jpg)

What a ship!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Dark Hunter on March 21, 2012, 04:27:50 pm
(http://www.gunbuster.net/Visual/Episode6/gb603.jpg)

That thing counts as a ship? I thought it was a mobile bomb...

(For those who haven't seen Gunbuster, that thing's several times the size of Jupiter.)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Aardwolf on March 21, 2012, 05:13:14 pm
I like the transports from Starship Troopers.

(http://images.wikia.com/starshiptroopers/images/5/50/Vlcsnap-335836.png)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: TwentyPercentCooler on March 21, 2012, 05:18:07 pm
The Kol Battleship from Sins of a Solar Empire!

(http://www.youngmanblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/kol_battleship.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BritishShivans on March 21, 2012, 05:34:58 pm
Sajuuk will always be one of my favorite starships:

(http://images.wikia.com/homeworld/images/6/66/Sajuuk_Main_Cannon.jpg)   
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: watsisname on March 21, 2012, 05:54:22 pm
Just love the vintage look of these two... Remember when we were gonna have dependable space shuttle services (no pun intended) by 2001? Good times...

:yes:

Big obscure spaceship incoming:
(http://i.imgur.com/xTUVZ.jpg)

Emergency Medical Rescue Vessel Nightingale, from:
(http://i.imgur.com/PpLEx.jpg)

It's like a sci-fi mystery in space with some slasher and soft porn and threat of imminent apocalypse.  YUS!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BritishShivans on March 21, 2012, 06:03:01 pm
I remember that movie. I actually soughta liked when I first saw it. No I just like the spaceships in it.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 21, 2012, 06:37:50 pm
Since we're going outside Freespace for ships...

This is relevant! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8IL2vQ77cI)

To me, if Starfleet was going to design a ship to fight the Borg, it would have come out a lot more like the Sovereign than the Defiant.  For starters, the Sovereign looks more like an evolution of Starfleet technology, while the Defiant looks like it started completely from scratch.  Beyond that, though, the Sovereign class could clearly push deep into unknown territory, looking for Borg targets to attack, fulfilling both the need to deal with the Borg and Starfleet's exploration mandate.  The Defiant class, while combat capable, pretty clearly isn't meant to be away from support facilities for extended periods.

It might help if you remembered the conditions the Defiant was designed under. Wolf 359 had just occurred. The traditional cruiser-style Starfleet ship had failed completely and the Borg had smashed forty of them. It was a time for new solutions, and to consider defense over attack.

The Defiant is small, fast, overarmed, undercrewed, and cheap. They were designed to fight the Borg and to minimize the loss when they died, because at the time they were designed it was assumed that the vast majority of ships which engaged the Borg would become causalities. It had the weapons to do significant damage while it yet lived. Defiants are meant to come at their opponent in swarms, in much the way Starfleet has always ended up having to fight the Borg, and to live just long enough to complete one or two runs with their insanely overgunned battery.

By any standards they more than exceeded these design requirements, particularly in terms of survivability.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/The_Saint27s_Cradle.png)

Belkan Ship of The Line, Lyrical Nanoha. (No, not the Saint's Cradle in particular, just the line of ships it descends from.)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: redsniper on March 21, 2012, 07:47:27 pm
If it's good enough for Wedge, it's good enough for me.


(http://i40.tinypic.com/euhu6a.jpg)

I tried to find the spiel he gives about how it's not the newest or fanciest, but still a venerable fighter in one of the X-Wing novels, but alas, I couldn't find it.


Also,

(For those who haven't seen Gunbuster, that thing's several times the size of Jupiter.)

No no, it just contains the mass of Jupiter.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 21, 2012, 09:47:40 pm
X

F.................

I'm on season seven. It's still called the X302

Oh, forgot this one. A photo can't justify it, but a video can
In fact, it's the only way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZveoBfiww
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: newman on March 22, 2012, 03:29:51 am
You people are barbarians with no respect for the classics. Get off my lawn, kids!

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz196/newman1702/2001_discovery2.gif)

(http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz196/newman1702/Leonov.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 22, 2012, 03:31:34 am
give that man a cookie!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: headdie on March 22, 2012, 03:35:19 am
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Tintin_cover_-_Destination_Moon.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 22, 2012, 03:57:08 am
Somebody say classics?
(http://semantink.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IndependenceDay.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: newman on March 22, 2012, 04:28:53 am
That's not a classic. That's cringeworthy patriotic garbage.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2012, 05:05:15 am
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Tintin_cover_-_Destination_Moon.jpg

Thread's over, everybody go home, headdie wins.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: headdie on March 22, 2012, 05:24:31 am
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Tintin_cover_-_Destination_Moon.jpg

Thread's over, everybody go home, headdie wins.

:D
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Rodo on March 22, 2012, 09:47:05 am
The Kol Battleship from Sins of a Solar Empire!

yes.

Sajuuk will always be one of my favorite starships:

and yes.

oh and this one as well, ishimura from DS1:

(http://bensonscalicohut.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/1043363-usgishimura_super.jpg)

Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2012, 09:52:03 am
this is a good thread and i won't repeat the classics

here is a decent space ship

(http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/7/79/UNSC_Spirit_of_Fire_%28CFV-88%29.png)

Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 22, 2012, 10:49:04 am
anyone ever notice how similar the rotating section of the b5 omega is to one on the russian ship from 2010?
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 22, 2012, 11:39:49 am
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/Kruszer/DS12Toybox.jpg)

Yes.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Enzo03 on March 22, 2012, 11:57:07 am
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wnGlb4TTI-A/Sj1VNZ9inOI/AAAAAAAAAHU/fNh67ZV888M/s1600/sdf-1-macross.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 22, 2012, 12:03:31 pm
(http://spriters-resource.com/snes/cybernator/federationship.png)
(http://www.newbearhistory.com/enlaces/unaanodespues/imagenes/b-wing.jpg)
(http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/8/85/OF92EVA.png)
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll283/tkdcaptainhair/thai_fighter.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: newman on March 22, 2012, 12:32:14 pm
anyone ever notice how similar the rotating section of the b5 omega is to one on the russian ship from 2010?

The centrifuge is practically the same. Omega was heavily inspired by the Leonov, the centrifuge part being a homage to the 2010 ship. It's a well known fact, the author of the Omega pretty much said so publicly.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: StarSlayer on March 22, 2012, 12:44:41 pm
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/321/5/b/homeworld_2_hiigaran_Destroyer_by_JonasBR.jpg)

(http://i26.tinypic.com/dmuujb.jpg)

The humble destroyer, the ever dependable warhorse of my Higarrin fleets.  Nice clean simple lines and a thunderous broadside. Build four and tie them to a carrier and create a jump capable CVBG.  Strikecraft would forge ahead and clean the sub sytems of a Battlecruiser then tac jump behind and chew up the hulk.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2012, 12:49:02 pm
Starslayer I really hope you got a chance to play PDS during the days when it was good.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Aardwolf on March 22, 2012, 01:27:45 pm
@FireSpawn: oh yeah, Versis ftw
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: StarSlayer on March 22, 2012, 02:40:27 pm
Starslayer I really hope you got a chance to play PDS during the days when it was good.

Actually I played HW back when I really didn't play multi or have awareness of the whole wide modding world.  Course now I have a machine that runs like a warhorse and a good connection, but little time left to budget for the games.  I only get a couple nights a week where I'm not out and about so game progress is slow and the backlog long.  Right now its Shogun II and Wargame: EE


I must admit I think a Star Wars  FS2 mod based on the original R.McQuarrie original designs would be pretty slick:


(http://www.primaryignition.com/wp-content/uploads/8.jpg)

(http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/c7/MCQ-awing.jpg)

(http://miotd.com/images/20120304.jpg)

(http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/starwars/wallpapers/ralph-mcquarrie-return-of-the-jedi-b-wing.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Demitri on March 22, 2012, 02:42:39 pm
(http://www.isnnews.net/hyperspace/narn/narnstcr_lg1.jpg)

or


(http://www.isnnews.net/babylon5/gallery/sf/starfury5.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 22, 2012, 04:02:28 pm
That's not a classic. That's cringeworthy patriotic garbage.

It's the classic UFO design I was referring to. Independence Day's UFO just looked cool so I used that

(http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/star-fox-64-3d-cover-artwork-hd.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: newman on March 22, 2012, 05:08:48 pm
It's the classic UFO design I was referring to. Independence Day's UFO just looked cool so I used that

Classic UFO design? Don't look further than this..

(http://i39.tinypic.com/22c9b5.jpg)

Earth Cruiser C-57D, from Forbidden Planet. One of my favorite classic sci fi movies of all time.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Scourge of Ages on March 22, 2012, 05:10:52 pm
Ah, here we are:

(http://www.wcnews.com/newestshots/full/scoobydoo_concept01.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 22, 2012, 05:12:27 pm
(http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/iron-sky-haunebu1.jpg)

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HHxzJ2dtZVo/Tz44xJczm9I/AAAAAAAABSU/aJIE5u9gReA/s1600/IronSky2.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2012, 05:21:19 pm
In all this, there's still...something missing.
CYDONIA OR BUST
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/ngtm1r/UP001.gif)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Firstdragon34 on March 22, 2012, 05:43:21 pm
Rest your soul R. Mcquarrie.  :yes:
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: redsniper on March 22, 2012, 06:23:47 pm
Cydonia or bust

God speed.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: headdie on March 22, 2012, 06:27:42 pm
Cydonia or bust

God speed.

God help you if the bleeders fire off a couple blaster rounds early on the surface mission
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 22, 2012, 07:03:30 pm
God help you if the bleeders fire off a couple blaster rounds early on the surface mission

The first time I did that mission I hired like twenty newbies so I could hit the base with a full Avenger. Had enough spare armor to equip most of them, laser rifles all around, but I didn't have the chance to test most of them for psi.

I was surprised how little screwed-over I ended up, as the psi spam didn't really hit until the last elevator and my good troopers simply bulldozed through a wall of harmless laser bolts to fire a blaster bomb into the brain and win the mission.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nohiki on March 22, 2012, 11:49:18 pm
1)
(http://icons-ak.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/m/MikeTheiss/308.jpg)

2)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_19yyDmCvKg4/TObOFAE_a_I/AAAAAAAAA-A/Ai1GkPV20Js/s1600/crusade.gif)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Mefustae on March 23, 2012, 02:17:43 am
(http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/8995/sulacofa5.jpg)

U.S.S. Sulaco
2nd Batt., 9th Regt. United States Colonial Marines


A Conestoga-class starship, the Sulaco has a mass of 78,000 metric tons and length 385 meters. She's primarily a troop carrier, having been originally designed as a troop & logistics transport and subsequently converted into a rapid-response military transport. Sulaco carries two UD4L dropships and has sufficient life support capabilities for 90 crew and passengers. In an emergency, as many as 2,000 troops can be placed in hibernation in the main cargo hangars.

Armaments include:
    * Eight long-range ASAT missiles fired from the dorsal launch bay.
    * Two forward-firing 800 MeV Neutral Particle Beam weapons, which can disable the electronics systems of   
    enemy spacecraft out to a range of 100,000 km.
    * Four (two twin turrets, one dorsal, one ventral) Kinetic Energy Railguns.
    * Two 80 MW point-defence lasers for vaporizing incoming missiles and kinetic energy rounds.
    * Ventral mine dispenser, with a magazine of up to 60 orbital fragmentation mines.
    * Up to 80 guided re-entry vehicles including bunker buster, high-explosive, and nuclear warheads.
    * 20 decoy ballutes and two maneuverable decoy drones in after ventral bay.

She is powered by a 3.6 terawatt fusion reactor using high density lithium hydride for fuel. Sublight propulsion is provided by four GF-2400 rocket motors using industrial carbon-diamond as reaction mass. FTL propulsion is provided by a hyperdrive tachyon shunt, with a maximum speed of 0.74 light years per sidereal day. The Sulaco's hull panels are constructed from radar absorbing material, which reduces the ship's radar cross section to low levels.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Nuke on March 23, 2012, 02:37:18 am
perfect for nuking the site from orbit, because its the only way to be sure.

too bad them aliens had to bleed all over the ****ing reactor.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 23, 2012, 02:38:13 am
It's the classic UFO design I was referring to. Independence Day's UFO just looked cool so I used that

Classic UFO design? Don't look further than this..

It's funny since most of the fake UFO sighting photographs which used photoshop seem to have this uncanny resemblance to that particular design
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: newman on March 23, 2012, 03:08:33 am
It's funny since most of the fake UFO sighting photographs which used photoshop seem to have this uncanny resemblance to that particular design

It wasn't aliens, it was Leslie Nielsen taking his ride for a spin :P
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 23, 2012, 03:39:14 am
(http://spriters-resource.com/snes/cybernator/federationship.png)

You awesome little sod.
/me gives Firespawn a massive bro hug.


Tears of nostalgic joy.
Quote
THE SARATOGA'S BEEN BLOWN TO BITS!!!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 23, 2012, 09:23:52 am
*Snip*

You awesome little sod.
/me gives Firespawn a massive bro hug.

It's.......just what I do.  :arrr:
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: CooperHawkes on March 23, 2012, 10:05:05 pm
i cant believe how long it took the DISCOVERY, the HAMMERHEAD and the SULACO (both ships from ALIENS and SAAB) to show up in this thread. shame on you guys.

id like to add:

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rglOQ43dt7I/TQAkeVOwTLI/AAAAAAAAAf8/ANhI8eLaKsk/s1600/Firefly_-_Die_komplette_Serie_18156.jpg)
because of its mooning ability.

and:
(http://www.alfredsmind.ca/commissions/pics/evraidersc3.jpg)
because of its gigeresque head.

and:
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs10/i/2006/157/b/e/The_Nimbus_by_javoec.png)
its propably more about the guy in command than the design of the ship.

honorable mention: a certain pinewood derby car. mankinds first object to reach warp speed.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Hellstryker on March 23, 2012, 10:19:57 pm
Zygons flagship *****es!

-Starchaser legend of Orin-
Best lightspeed EVER!

 Half Sathanas for the win.
(http://www.warkentin.com/artshow/images/Spaceship.jpg)

Dekker, I must know where that Halthanas is from.

Edit: Serves me right for drooling at the shiny pic instead of reading.

Anyway.

(http://i.minus.com/iIBjYABYa6Laj.png)

This was unfortunately the most flattering angle I could get of the Quarian.. things, on the left. Anyone know what they're called?
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Dark Hunter on March 24, 2012, 01:54:16 am
The giant bowling ball is a quarian Liveship. The others are... I don't think they're ever actually given a name beyond "quarian frigate".

Anyway, in the name of posting classic ships, I feel I owe it to the Gundam series to post this one:
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100927072832/gundam/images/d/d5/Whitebase-okawara.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Wobble73 on March 26, 2012, 09:47:23 am
How could I forget this one...


(http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z78/stageillusion/Doctors/Doctor-Who--Tardis.jpg)

and who could forget Dr Alexis Zarkov's amazing invention :p





[attachment deleted by a ninja]
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Demitri on March 26, 2012, 01:16:08 pm
(http://www.darknerd.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TLS-Ship.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 26, 2012, 01:46:06 pm
[Marine]This is the Blue Typhoon. Observe it. Caress it. Whisper to it as if it were your lover![/Marine]

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1467893598_87d4393135.jpg?v=0)

May you all feel shame for not posting this...

MK-1
(http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/195/5/b/StarFox_Arwing_Mk_1_WP_Revamp_by_CalicoStonewolf.jpg)

MK-3
(http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs7/i/2005/157/c/d/Arwing_Wallpaper_by_CalicoStonewolf.jpg)

MK-90000
(http://www.instructables.com/image/FJX16MRGM0COVNT/The-Arwing-Bicycle.jpg)

Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Angelus on March 26, 2012, 02:12:00 pm
that ship, it has palms on the deck. Decoration or a weapon?
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 26, 2012, 02:30:49 pm
that ship, it has palms on the deck. Decoration or a weapon?

TBH I can't really remember that well. I think it is just decoration to remind them of mobius. That, or it's to show that building ships gives Tails wood.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 26, 2012, 03:17:03 pm
Firespawn, I already posted the Arwing...
Just not in blueprint form
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 26, 2012, 03:28:30 pm
Firespawn, I already posted the Arwing...
Just not in blueprint form

Then you shall be exempt from the shame and put forward as a favoured pilot to test the Ar-Wing MK-90000 prototype.

To the rest of you Dekker, shame on you for not even posting a pic of the Land Master or Wolfen.  :nono:
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Klaustrophobia on March 26, 2012, 04:43:54 pm
a spaceworthy city

(http://images.wikia.com/stargate/images/7/72/AsuranCity-ship.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Luis Dias on March 27, 2012, 11:56:15 am
What? No Valérian? Really? OMG

(http://fullbd.free.fr/dotclear/images/valerian_ship.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: FireSpawn on March 27, 2012, 12:17:30 pm
The first and greatest space ships most of us have flown...

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4ogetIPOvuQ/TxsN75_rVPI/AAAAAAAADqE/dxd7unTKXp0/s1600/vainvina.png)

and...

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_EatdTQZbEKI/SmfRCYjL1RI/AAAAAAAAAAk/gzG1ReRfAe8/S660/boxed.jpg)

*NOTE: Box must be of sufficient size to allow pilot access.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 27, 2012, 12:27:42 pm
(http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/3/3e/Autobot_shuttle_parked.jpg)
(http://www.jesterpictures.com/transformers/photoshops/astrotrain02.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: StarSlayer on March 27, 2012, 12:40:34 pm
(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs6/i/2005/036/1/7/EDF_Andromeda_by_xzarno.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: BlueFlames on March 27, 2012, 12:43:43 pm
(http://www.jesterpictures.com/transformers/photoshops/astrotrain02.jpg)

In the Soviet campaign in Yuri's Revenge, Yuri at one point flees to the moon.  I feel that should have been his getaway vehicle going there and/or back.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 27, 2012, 01:55:46 pm
And i feel that Tanya should let me motorboat her.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Mefustae on March 27, 2012, 03:01:17 pm
And i feel that Tanya should let me motorboat her.

Yeah, sure, Tanya's alright. Now, Lt. Eva on the other hand...

I'll be in my bunk.
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 27, 2012, 03:07:53 pm
(http://www.thedarklord.wz.cz/Downloads/Images/Andromeda%20Ascendant_ver2.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: mjn.mixael on March 27, 2012, 03:23:46 pm
(http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/4622/alliancecruiser1eq8.png)

Not really my favorite, but you know.. FLOATING CITY IS FLOATING!
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: deathfun on March 27, 2012, 05:29:30 pm
Reminds me of the Nostromo
(http://www.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/alien956.jpg)
Speaking of mining vessels
(http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/5/5f/Narada.jpg)
Title: Re: Get ALL the ships!
Post by: Enigmatic Entity on March 28, 2012, 02:12:55 am
http://emseed.com/destiny/image/m_arcangel.jpg
http://images.wikia.com/gundam/images/0/07/Minerva_%28Gundam%29.JPG

I like these ships from anime series "GUNDAM SEED" and "GUNDAM SEED Destiny"... they look better when they are moving though :)