[Knight Templar]

Starcraft Also uses a few direct, yet not too important lines from StarWars ANH. I think its like Terran Mission Four in the installation. Enemy Marines "Let's Blast em'" and civilians' "You Rebel Scum".

Not to mention some of the protoss units responses

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by Stealth


no it's not... that round thing that got shot down with those missile batteries at the end of Episode 2 was a STARSHIP...

a droid control ship is like a three quarters of a circle with a ball in the middle.
looks like this:



they are Trade Federation Warships:

Yup, it was a starship. More specifically, a transport ship, not a warship

[Knight Templar]

whataya' talkin' bout'  stealthy? The Ball/Spheres/Cicles like starships were the Tradefederation Command Module thingies that would fly into space and connect with the other part of the ship, at least from my understanding. Someone head-over there and find out

[Knight Templar]

too late, did it myself

enjoy

edit: Just realized this doesn't really help us... hmmmmm

[Stealth]

Originally posted by AqueousShadow


Yup, it was a starship. More specifically, a transport ship, not a warship

are you talking about this?


That's definately a warship.  call it what you will:  warship, battleship, whatever... it's still not a transport!


EDIT:  if you're talking about those things that tried to get back into space but Yoda ordered them shot down (those big sphere looking things) then yes, they were transports

[ShadowWolf_IH]

ok the pic i posted is not a droid control ship.  It's not even from the star wars universe.  So, for the infantile egomaniac who likes to call people twits....that my friend, is a union class dropship....battletech, 1984.  The shot is indeed taken from mechwarrior 2 mercenaries.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
ok the pic i posted is not a droid control ship.  It's not even from the star wars universe.  So, for the infantile egomaniac who likes to call people twits....that my friend, is a union class dropship....battletech, 1984.  The shot is indeed taken from mechwarrior 2 mercenaries.

i already said it wasn't a droid control ship...

that picture you posted (http://www.denofwolves.org/aship.html) looks really similar to those starships that were taking off at the end battle in the movie.  remember when they attacked it with their missile batteries?

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by Stealth
EDIT:  if you're talking about those things that tried to get back into space but Yoda ordered them shot down (those big sphere looking things) then yes, they were transports

YES!!!

[Stealth]

Originally posted by AqueousShadow


YES!!!

don't roll your eyes at me punk! lol

yeah, i thought you were talking about those ships that were orbiting Naboo in the beginning of Episode 1

[Akrovah]

If you follow this link within the Starwars Data base.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/starship/tfed_droidcontrolship/index.html

It does indeed say that the center section of the droid control ship is detachable from the main section meaning that the ships at the end of Episode two could have been the central section, though it does not actually say.


And as far as them looking like dropships from Mechwarrior, a famous artist, i belive it was Leanardo DeVinchi but i'm not sure, once stated that good artist copy, great artists steal.

And i think Starcraft and Freespace were both released in 98 because i remeber talking about them with my buddy george in biology sophomore year, and i graduated in 2000 putting sophomre year around 97-98.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

While on the subject of battletech.
Has anyone played aquitaine.wav at double speed? It sounds a hell of a lot like mechwarrior!

[Knight Templar]

k the trade federation warships were converted Transports. The "Ball" in the middle, from what i understand is the "Command Bridge". This "Command Bridge" was added on by Lucas. The original design was a sacer with engines on one side.

The best comparision i can think of is The Saucer Section of the Enterprise - D from Star Trek The Next Generation

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Look, I have the cross sections book for EP1, the big ball in the middle is the reactor core, the droid control ships have many antennae, the war freighters are exactly the same but without antennae.

[Knight Templar]

k, but they are more than just a giant reactor, i mean they were basically full blown starships in EP. II and on Starwarsdotcom, Lucas also calls them a "Command section"

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
While on the subject of battletech.
Has anyone played aquitaine.wav at double speed? It sounds a hell of a lot like mechwarrior!

where is 'aquitaine.wav'?

[AqueousShadow]

Originally posted by Stealth



where is 'aquitaine.wav'?

It's uhh...sort of in the...uhhh freespace music VP file...

[StratComm]

Originally posted by Akrovah

It does indeed say that the center section of the droid control ship is detachable from the main section meaning that the ships at the end of Episode two could have been the central section, though it does not actually say.

Actually in the movie you can see the droid control ships and the "balls" joining back together as dark-lord-whatever's sail ship leaves orbit, so it is star wars canon.  And yes, there are a lot of similarities between differend sci-fi art.

[AqueousShadow]

Odd don't you think? We started with a thread about FS2 and StarCraft and we came out with Star Wars.  

[Petrarch of the VBB]

This is indeed a  situation, thus

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Bugger, damn this crappy host!