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I saw the Skylab/Saturn V combo on the pad at Cape Kennedy as it prepared for launch. Amazingly, it was even bigger than the Apollo/Saturn V. It was truly awe inspiring. Though it was a fraction of the size of say, the World Trade Center, and nowhere near the scale of a natural wonder like the Grand Canyon, the fact that this thing would explode in a giant ball of flame and rise into the air was more than ample reason for me to be very, very impressed.
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GTCv Chimera kinda resembles the Pillar of Autumn from the Halo series.
I do like your choice of naval architecture there! Gotta love those WWII-style gun turrets!
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: - The SDF-1... (DAH!)
- The Alexei Leonov from 2010. One of the best "real SF" designs from the past few decades, right down to the rotating section, aerobraking, and massive nuclear engine. This was unceremoniously ripped off by Babylon 5, whose Omega-class destroyers get a lot of false credit for "new and different design". Schmendricks.
But what IF they didn't know about it, during developtment? I mean that court argument worked for Battletech's Unseen or Disney's The Lying King, right?
quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: �The ORIGINAL Andromeda from Space Battleship Yamato. It's too bad Captain Gideon was such a prat. I also have a deep fondness for the Yamato herself.
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*ahem* Macross of course. The EDF ships, of course. Most of the TMP designed, if not all of them...
Imagine a ACE's style senerio with EDF ships, with PPB's and Destroids for Point defence...
Wow, the legal rights alone would constrict the peni of mecha otaku everywhere...
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Oooh... TIE Interceptor is still my favorite figher. Rakish, dangerous-looking. When I was but a wee bairn reading my first (and only, unfortunately) Star Wars novels, I always badly wanted to have a little Interceptor of my own. To crush my enemies and make them scream.
Also, I like the Protoss Corsairs from Starcraft Broodwar. And I have to repeat the Gunstar sentiment.
See the Corsair as in ST2 here; I couldn't find a good one for how it looks in-game in the first one. (Those Carriers aren't bad either - and a cool concept.)
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Regarding the Leonov/Omega connection. I think it has more to do with the fact that JPL were consulted on both projects (at least I think they were on 2010) and the simple fact is, given the technological restictions put in place for Earth tech, that is the most likely design for that type of craft. That is something reasonably large, slim profile and a gravity section. I'm sure they did look at the Leonov and at no point do I recall B5 claiming it was a particularly original concept (infact I'm pretty sure the Leonov was credited as inspiration) so to my mind it's not a rip off. Unless you think Star Trek ripped off Forbidden Planet for having a saucer shaped hull and circular bridge. Sometimes something is designed a certain way because it's the best solution to a given problem and there's not getting away from it.
No bloody A. No bloody B. No bloody C and no bloody D.
Yes, the TOS Enterprise. And here's why. From everything I've ever seen, the Enterprise broke the mold when it came to new designs for space ships.
Everywhere I look before Star Trek all of the space ships were rockets or saucers. The Enterprise was the first ship to break away from that entire way of thinking. It opened up a whole new approach to what a space ship, or star ship could look like.
Of course, there is still an element of the old style thinking in the Enterprise design. They couldn't completely get away from the flying saucer look. Still, I think Star Trek with the Enterprise, Romulan Warbird and Klingon D7 really opened the doors to style and creativity.
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1 Hiigaran Motership from Homeworld 2 with an escort of Battlecruisers and other ships 2Imperial Super Star Destroyer with a swarm of TIE Fighters and two or three ISD's
Aditionally those two fleets should be engaged in a battle.
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There's no question the most impressive entrance of an on-screen spaceship was the Imperial Star Destroyer, no question at all. It gives me chills even to this day. In the old X-Wing games the minute a Star Destroyer showed up it was always the cue for everyone to run like hell in the opposite direction.
In Trek it has to be the movie refit, still one of the best miniatures ever made and a nice update of one of the most original starship designs ever.
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...still, it didn't exactly roar onto the screen the way the Star Destroyer did.
Oh yeah and I think an honorable mentions should be given to The Great Harborship of Bentus and of course, this old chestnut. Yes, I know the music is silly. I like silly.
quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: Everywhere I look before Star Trek all of the space ships were rockets or saucers. The Enterprise was the first ship to break away from that entire way of thinking. It opened up a whole new approach to what a space ship, or star ship could look like.
Absolutely! The first thing I point out to anyone who bad-mouths Trek as being "cheesy"! I mean, using EM fields for propulsion rather than rockets shooting out the back was amazingly advanced thinking!
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Gunstar-1: it's be the ultimate weapon in a Star Wars setting...show those crappy X-Wings a thing or three...
I love the Breen ship- the first time on trek I had to say "What the hell was thst?1?"
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Now that I've watched B5, I have to say - not the Whitestar which wasn't as sexy in my mind as it was apparently supposed to be...but the Earthforce Destroyer-class vessels. Big, functional, lots of weapons. Military ships aren't ever going to be made sexy just for the sake of aesthetics. IMHO.
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I'm in love with the Republic Star destroyer- it's not really "awe inspiring" or anything, but it is very sexy and it can land.
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But what IF they didn't know about it, during developtment? I mean that court argument worked for Battletech's Unseen or Disney's The Lying King, right? ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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