quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Put everything to shame... add the Dyson's sphere! V'ger would be the only thing that'd come close I guess!
Heh... yeah, the Dyson Sphere certainly would be the biggest... although that Magog worldship from "Andromeda" might be larger yet.
quote:Can you put a tag as to which series/movie it is from?
Actually, I was thinking about doing that myself. It started out easy enough when the only series were Trek, Wars, and B5, but with so many others, it's definitely a good idea now.
quote:What about the Taelon mothership from Earth: Final Conflict?
The Negh'var/Voodieh/Regent's ship
Those will definitely go in, provided I can find the proper images. For a lot of the ships that I've been looking for, I can get decent screenshots and general images, but orthographic views are pretty rare. Obviously I'll get the Negh'var from Bernd's site, though...
Ships I've managed to add: The Roger Young from "Starship Troopers" and the NSEA Protector from "Galaxy Quest"!
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I know it's not a TV series but how about the Honor Harrington ships? Size chart
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The only question is, just how big the Death Stars really were... which is a whole different argument. Some sites claim that they were 120 km diameter, and others say it was 900+ km.
Well, they WERE different sizes...
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The SW vehicle guide lists them as, I think, 120km in diameter and 16km in diameter for the original and Jedi versions respectively. But then I've seen the SW arguments for the SSD, so I know that a lot of fans ignore that.
Regarding Red Dwarf, we would have to assume that both models are 5 miles long, if we stick to Cat's line. After all, DNA has been shown with both the original model and the newer thinner one, so his statement would have to be true for both ships.
I would be hesitant to put ships any bigger than the SSD on though. A lot of the ships are already tiny. If you had to change the scale, it would render the small ships so small as to be faily pointless.
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Unless, of course, you left the scale the same and simply gave yourself more area to work with...
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I'm not seriously considering the uber-large ships like the Death Stars. The SSD is probably as large as I'll get, and I don't intend to change the scale at all.
As for the actual image size, I don't want the file to get too out of hand, because scrolling around to view different parts of an image can get annoying. If I collect many more images, I might end up splitting the chart into two parts (maybe even separate scales) in order to make it easier to view.
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The cloud and the Dyson Sphere are going to be roughly the same size, assuming that the star within the sphere was roughly sunlike and the environment they were looking to build was roughly class M. Of course, the behavior of the star in the episode suggests it wasn't your average G2 star, so I don't know.
How big is this Andromeda ship? I mean, if it is the size of the Earth, well, that is big, and good for them. But the Dyson Sphere (or the V'Ger cloud) had enough volume to hold 13,008,290,663,594 Earths. More or less. If my numbers are right. Which is usually unlikely.
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Well, the Magog Worldship was comprised of twenty hollowed planets in... whatchacallit, an icosahedron? There was a standard-size yellow star in the center, around which the structure was built.
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As far as scrolling goes, I'd recommend you just pick a nice average width (like, say 1024 which most people tend to have their desktops set to) as I find it a lot easier to scroll up and down than side to side (and up and down like the current image requires).
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: As far as scrolling goes, I'd recommend you just pick a nice average width (like, say 1024 which most people tend to have their desktops set to) as I find it a lot easier to scroll up and down than side to side (and up and down like the current image requires).
Good idea... I may do that.
Only problem: The SSD image is longer than that -- 1700 pixels. But that's only one ship, so I may find a way to work around that. Like orienting that ship vertically. (It's the only ship that's longer than 10 kilometers so far -- aside from the extreme examples like the Death Stars and the Magog "systemship" [I guess "worldship" doesn't quite fit, does it?].)
As for the size of that Magog-death-thing, it's kind of hard to tell the scale. It's definitely got a star (artificial or natural) at the center, and I assumed that those were real planet-sized masses, but the scale to link all the spheres is pretty distorted. Especially when you look at the rings that link the whole thing together. Either it's something that's even more complex in construction than the Dyson Sphere, or it's a bit smaller than we were lead to believe.
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