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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] Oh wonderful, so I'm not even being called "stupendously retarded" based on my own merits? :) Tough day! To me the simplest method would be to construct the ship and allow it to raise itself up off the ground. A combination of antigrav, impulse engines and warp fields would be enough to get the ship lifted and on its way. As for ships launching from ground to space, the only ones that spring to mind are from Transformers (god help me!): the [i]Ark[/i] and the [i]Nemesis[/i] launched to space from Cybertron's surface in "More than meets the eye" (G1) and the [i]Axalon[/i] and the [i]Nemesis[/i] (again) launched from the surface of Earth during [i]Beast Wars[/i]. Admittedly the [i]Axalon[/i] crashed shortly after takeoff, but the [i]Nemesis[/i] not only took off, but did so from underwater. Oh no, hang on, what about the [i]Valen[/i] class cruiser in B5: LotR? That landed on Minbar, as I recall, and took off from there with no problems. And that ship, at 1,300 metres long (at least [URL=http://www.b5tech.com/isa/valenn/valenn.html]according to this site[/URL]) is pretty big, and probably pretty heavy. That said (ooh, brainstorm!), would the ships built by the Master during Doctor Who's "year that never was" count? They looked more like rockets, but then again we never really got a good sense of scale - they could have been huge for all we know. Granted they never got to take off, but they were built planetside. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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