[Black Wolf]

The Rakshasa for me. Oozes menace, even if it doesn't back it up the way the Lillith does. Wish I could have picked more than one though - the Arcadia, the mentu and the Fenris/Leviathan would have been on there as well.

[Commander Zane]

By the way, why do so many people hate the current HTL Orion?

Cause it's just boxes for the sake of boxes.  Good hi-poly jobs follow the design and form of the original model, whereas the Orion just has extrusions and blobs tacked on to it.

That's why I use Trashman's Orion, it's random boxiness is at a much lesser severity.

[Hades]

Should be relatively self-explanatory, the GTD Hades.

[Marcov]

GTD Orion = enormous, supersized horizontal skyscraper 

Looking so complicated, the Orion is beautiful. Still can't take Colly from top 1, though. Looks pretty complicated, also strikes fear in your heart the first time you saw it in the FS2 Sixth Wonder. "WTF is that gigafortress nine clicks away from me?!"

As a representation of the coolest-looking ships ever in the FS universe, the Colly engaged the NTD Repulse. "Repulse" is tremendously a cool name, and I love the scene where they bombarded each other with Green Beams strong enough to knock out a cruiser in seconds. This was like watching a dramatic sci-fic battle between good and evil.

This eventually led to the vaporization of the Repulse, though 

[castor]

Aeolus, its stubborn looks fits its character so well.

[headdie]

Fenris/Lev

ever since my first foray into the FS universe in the FS Demo standing 3rd watch on the Orff the Fenris class has had a special hold on me, I mostly like the 20th century naval ship look.

[Sushi]

Canon, I've got to go with Hattie (can't wait for HTL), although it has a lot of pretty darn close competition from the Orion, Demon, Deimos, Rakshasa, and Moloch. Hecate, Lucifer, Aeolus, and Hades aren't bad either, but the Colossus has never particularly impressed me beyond it's size.

Fanon, I have to agree with Blue Planet's Titan and Raynor. Both of them exude so much awesome that I had to strap my jaw closed for the duration of the campaign. What was it the Sanctuary guy said? "Your ships are as beautiful as they are powerful?"

[SpardaSon21]

I voted for the Deimos.  It looks both sleek and boxy at the same time, and manages to convey a sense of speed and power.  In other words, to me it looks like the perfect corvette.

[Ziame]

I love the Mentu, it's just great.

[Goober5000]

IMO it's boxes are brilliantly placed to make it more interesting. It's true that it doesn't follow the original design all the time, but it's still the Orion.

No, the boxes on the original Orion were brilliantly placed.  The boxes on the HTL Orion were randomly placed; the modeller even said as much.

[Droid803]

Really?
The Original Orion doesn't have brilliantly-placed boxes. It doesn't HAVE any boxes. It's just a single box...not a very interesting one at that. It's low poly and uninspiring.

I like the greebling. It may be random but at least there's detail. The detail isn't totally out of place either. There's no way the retail one can look as good as the HTL one. The original lacks any defining details whatsoever. I'm not saying that there can't be a better high poly version, but there's no way the old one is better than the one we have now.

[Colonol Dekker]

I went Orion, i was never that keen on the shape before. But it grows on you.

[Madcat]

I voted for the Deimos.  It looks both sleek and boxy at the same time, and manages to convey a sense of speed and power.  In other words, to me it looks like the perfect corvette.

Voted Deimos too, for the reasons above, plus to me it is kind of the iconic FS2 design. The cover of the original FS2 box probably would have been enough of a reason for me to buy the game - if I hadn't already been a big FS1 fan and therefore determined on getting it anyways.

[NGTM-1R]

It doesn't HAVE any boxes. It's just a single box...

You gain wisdom.

It's a giant armored brick. It shouldn't have but a single box and a few things tacked on outside. This monolithic form conveys durablity, raw power, in a way that of the greebled version or the Hectate simply cannot.

[deathfun]

I'm going with the Medical Ship

[Commander Zane]

I'm not saying that there can't be a better high poly version, but there's no way the old one is better than the one we have now.

Well SPECTER87 had three different Orion models in the works...

[General Battuta]

Before he left for inexplicable reasons.

[Scotty]

That would be a Hecate.

[Droid803]

His inexplicable reasons would be a Hecate?
What?

[Scotty]

And cue fail on my part.

replying to the last post of the OTHER page, and did not check for another before answering.