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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] After all these years, my favorite B5-design is still the Vorlon Dreadnought (without the lollipop hull pattern and yellow color), and Babylon 4. I also like the fact that they kept the ship designs coming all the way up to the end, with that smaller (underutilized) Whitestar variant. The ships of that Gary Cole-spinoff were nice too, although I thought the Excalibur was a bit much, in every sense. About Honor Harrington, I managed to plow through the first four books without seeing any "official" schematics, and merrily imagined the ships only by the scant descriptions and my own noggin. For a long time I saw Harrington's battlecruiser as a blue and ivory USS Sulaco. Long, tall and thin, lots of side surface. Then I finally saw an "official" line drawing of a Honorverse ship, and [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48]this played in my head.[/URL] The Honorverse ship is the only design I know that looks better in ASCII. The saddest part is that Honerverse ships have more plot-critical and narratively-used ship components than almost any sci-fi universe I know: shield generators, lasers, grasers (sic), point-defense clusters, deployment bays and missile tubes, to name the major ones. Every one of these components could've been used visibly and evocatively, as on a Trek ship (visual impact of the chin-placed quantum torp launcher on the Sovereign class). Instead, the Honorverse artist reduced all those components to individual black dots and pressed them together at the middle of the ship. The only unique detail that distinguishes Honorverse ships from rolled-up newspapers was supposed to be the "hammerhead" bow, mentioned again and again in the novels. They messed that up too, putting [URL=http://www.star-ranger.com/images/SITSminsMasters.jpg]tapered blocks or cubes in both ends instead[/URL]. Maybe they'd never seen a Corellian Corvette, or a hammerhead shark. [QUOTE]Recognition is one thing but it's annoying after a while when each species has their own color-coded fleet.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I like ship artists with the ability to have fleet variety with the slightest of unifying traits, not with shoehorned gratuitous design elements for identification purposes. While I like the Vorlons, their Planet Killer hamburger ship was the worst "rushed-out-the-door" job I'd seen up until then. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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