What space franchise has the coolest spaceships? Any medium is allowed.
>>97962235Dr Who.
The Culture series.>ships are long, modular vessels held together by numerous redundant fields>each ship has one (or more) AI 'mind' controlling it from within a compact hyperspace bubble inside the greater structure>Culture minds keep sentient species as pets, allowing them to live hedonist lifestyles in perpetuity while they're off combating intergalactic threats>sometimes the minds will enlist sentient species to go on James Bond style adventures using advanced technology
>>97962280Wow that sounds gayer than a pride parade
>>97962235Star Wars, but the Prequels. The OT and sequels have dogshit, boring, angular craft while the prequels have stuff like the Episode 3 jedi starfighters and the vulture droids.
Outlaw Star and it’s not even close.
>>97962313Grabler ships are a stupid concept.
>>97962348>GrablerHoly esl
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>>97962235Traditional games?
>>97962386Traditional Games!
>>97962235I've always been fond of Eldar ships.
>>97962441Eldar vehicle design in general is sexy, and I am surprised that the new viper actually improved the silhouette.
Avatar ships are both beautiful and shockingly realistic.
>>97962235The Expanse.
>>97962235I really do like the general ship design of imperial vessels in Warhammer. Flying cathedrals are just super cool and the setting is elevated by that alone. That being said: For some more obscure design I have to say that the bio ships in the video game genesis rising is pretty cool. The ships range from strange whale like creatures to flesh blobs and just seemingly massive dudes bio-engineered into capital ships of horror.
>>97962512And on the more traditional side I have to say that the ships in legend of galactic heroes are an absolute beauty. Usually in any type of medium you have a few stand-out ships and designs that are real bangers and the rest is fucking ass but in Logh every side has it's solid base of proper ships and capital ships that are individual and different while not straying too far from the baseline.
Escape Velocity Nova, because it's soulful in ways that are only relevant to myself and nobody else (i seem to be the only person in this slice of the internet who has played it)
>>97962538also, Ulysses 31 but i don't think the show had any significant ships other than Odysseus, so it's a single ship entry
>>97962500Yeah, the Eldar in general have the best looking models in 40k.
>>97962538Based EV enjoyer, I was going to post the Manticore but I couldn't find a good non webp image of it. I'm particularly partial to the Rebel Cruiser from the original Escape Velocity, and EV Override's Krait and Crescent Warship.
>>97962538>EVNBased. Probably the closest thing to a B5 RPG we'll ever get.
>>97962564>Manticore
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>>97962572there are some spiritual successors to EVN on steam, such as Endless Sky. one of them is even open source and free (Naev). they just don't quite capture the FEEL of EVN though. there's always something missing or not quite pixelated the right way.
>>97962574vghI really loved the ship graphics and the Bryce3D looking landscape pictures shown in every planetary landings. the latter were borderline surreal and abstract.
>>97962574>hey, what if we took a cargo segment off a big freighter, slapped some rockets on, and stuck huge fucking ion beams all around it?>and we'll call the ion beam configuration the CROWN OF FUCKING THORNSAnd so was born the scourge of deep space. What an utterly intimidating flying testicle. Giving the pirates their own custom ships was one of Nova's masterstrokes.
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>>97962555I remember the Trident ships.
>>97962235Star wars for me
>>97962235space ships are a lot like mechs in that it's hard to make a bad design
>>97962235Best ships? Star trek. Coolest ships? 40k.Coolest space fighters? Star Wars.
>>97962235Star Wars has the best balance of softess (sci-fi setting wise) and coolness.Most settings either need to make ugly ships for the sake of plausibility (while still failing to be plausible) or make ridiculous shit for the sake of coolness.
>>97962412>>97962386Traditional Games !?
>>97963284Traditional Games !!and thanks for the bump!
>>97962235Partially because it got me when I was a kid but Babylon 5 has always had a good mix of tech levels, different alien designs for different cultures and overall great looking ships.
>>97963378derp
>>97962507A man of culture. I love me some flying skyscrapers loaded with nuclear bombs.
The Terran Trade AuthorityAliensThe Last StarfighterElite 1984Space 1999Blakes 7Ulysses 31Star Tek TOS and movie era.Dan Dare
>>97962235Descent Freespace
>>97962560Everyone else's ships all look the exact same. I refuse to believe even a dedicated Battlefleet Gothic fan can tell the difference between each class of Imperial or Ork ship except by size.
>>97962506yeah theyre nice
I love triangles.
>>97964278For me, it's the Krait Phantom. At least it was when it was a viable exploration ship. But now with these fancy new FSDs we got, I've gotta give it to the Mandalay.
>>97962235Those late series stargate human ships were pretty kino
>>97964165Leijiverse ships are always good.
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>>97964439Thinking about this dude's take on it
>>97962235Dune had some interesting concepts, let's see how DUNC 3 handles them.
>>97962526I never thought I'd care for warships without turrets but I'll admit all the vessels in LotGH are charming. Besides, not much use for turrets when you can orient perfectly in place and your enemy is thousands of kilometers away.
>>97962235I like the shape of star destroyers but I want larger, centerline gun batteries
Star Trek and Babylon 5.
>>97962313I want to hate em' but I can't.It such a stupid fun concept.
>>97962235Macross. Capital ships built around massive canons that destroy space in a line ahead of it, acts of supercarriers capable of storing entire civilian cities with a population of 50,000 in unused portions of the ship, are capable of transforming and reconfiguring themselves with modular components, utilize their space-bending FTL system as a form of defense by creating regions of scrambled-up space that give no straight path through them to stop incoming attacks, and (most importantly) are the only setting capable of pulling off the Daedalus Attack. Whats a Daedalus Attack? Just the part where your space ship puts it defensive barrier at the front of itself, punches the OTHER space ship using your shield to cut through their hull like butter, and then open your gun ports and launch a dozen nukes into the internals of the enemy ship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slqa30DSSKEFucking radical.
>>97965091Forgot my picture.
>>97964524Shobo is great, I went though and harvested hundreds of his redesigns and concept work.
>>97964524Syd Mead did a Yamato project
This might be a hot take, but I adore the ship designs from Gundam's Universal Century timeline. Pic very related Ra Cailum my beloved.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axv20-3bRiw
>>97965287Honorable mention to the Nahel Argamahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-inWiDMyfr4
>>97964912Its not that stupid. Deep space is so lethal you'd need a heavily armored miniship with arms to spacewalk and do routine maintenance. Cutting out the middle man by putting arms on your ship would make sense for weight efficiency. It would then only be a matter of time before someone got the idea to make improvised weapons for the manipulator arms to use. Though I imagine this hypothetical evolution would probably end up looking more like a bug with 4-6 modular arms on rail tracks that encircle the ship instead of outlaw star grapplers.
>>97964078Necron craft are pretty distinct.>>97964439This thing has always been a little too "just a IRL battleship with greebles" for me.>>97965276This take works better for me, the fact that it evokes a classic sci fi novel cover is probably helping.>>97964912This is stupid.
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>>97962538I typed "kestrel escape velocity" to post a pic, and found this blog: https://blog.eamonnmr.com/2018/02/estes-rockets-and-escape-velocitys-rocket-design/ where I learned that various ships in the original Escape Velocity were inspired from Estes rockets. The designs in Nova are less rough thoughApparently there's still a community that ported EV Nova to recent computers, maybe I will launch a game in a fit of nostalgia
>>97965371It's still pretty far fetched. It would be a nightmare to maintain your alignment/balance while slapping someone with 20 ton axe with a relative velocity from your target exceeding 1000km/h. These things would probably spin out of control the moment they collide with another. The whiplash is gonna wipe your crew out. Though, I guess you might be able to use them to hold guns. It would fuck with your center of mass but you could conceivably compensate for it.
>>97965287I personally like the Musais
>>97964745I wonder if there is even a point in having sloped armor in three-dimensional space?
>>97965840>It would fuck with your center of mass but you could conceivably compensate for it.all spaceships will need to compensate for uneven mass distribution one way or anothercargo, fuel, ammunition, even crew, all of these will shift and change during operationsreal-life jets already have systems that balance fuel distribution as it's being spentnow, these systems may or may not be powerful enough to handle waving around a space katana, but it's within justification range at least
>>97963396The Narn ships always give the impression they were LARPing as a more advance species with their painted hulls and ship forms.
>>97965422>This thing has always been a little too "just a IRL battleship with greebles" for me.Thats because that is literally what it is. Space Battleship Yamato is about post-apocalyptic civilization taking the *actual* wreckage of the WW2 battleship of the same name and strapping some alien tech to it and refurbishing it into a space ship.
>>97964078Ork, Tyranids and even imperial ship are usually put in a class for their size, loadouts and role in a fleet.Orks because they build random shit and nothing standardTyranids just grow shitImperial ships, there are so many standards that you just group them into things.
Starship Operators was a neat little show but I can't find very many pictures of the ships.
I hope you guys like solar sails
>>97962507>epstein driveUh…
>>97966492Roses are read violets are, space is explored by puerto rican jews
>>97966492the book was written way before the name became notorious if you're wondering
>>97966468>>97966480Anons of good fucking taste
>>97965683>using memories of his childhood hobby as game inspiration incredibly soulful, but i do agree that ship designs matured for the better in EVN. I wish there was an art asset extraction of all the station, planet, and ship art that were used in the game. They were tacky and dated even when they were released but they were so full of charm to the point that more realistic renderings would've detracted from the overall feel of the game. It's very hard to put in words how they made you feel immersed in an alternate reality where every object is SUPPOSED to look like they were rendered in Bryce3D like it's the most natural and realistic thing imaginable.
>>97966985>Port Kane... home... i would unironically use some of these for a sci fi campaign
For me, it's Homeworld ships.
>>97962287I don't like the prequels as movies, but the ship designs were great. OT designs fit the setting.
>>97962506I've never watched those films so I don't know what magic they use, I've heard it tried to be funny using unobtanium as a real in-universe name, but please tell me that ship is made using the avatar equivalent of Marvel adamantium or Star Trek structural integrity fields. That's a 1.5 km long ship with two huge masses at each end of 200 m long 8 m diameter truss work. There will be huge bending moments under even low longitudinal accelerations. Transverse loads will be basically unresistable so there must be manoeuvre thrusters most of the way along all around the vehicle so it doesn't buckle when it tries to steer and if even one control nozzle fails it risks bending then tearing itself apart. Being two masses on a spring it will excite and amplify large low frequency oscillations also wanting to rip it apart. Part of the ship being in light and part in shadow near any star bright enough to make a planet have an Earth-like climate is going to lead to substantial thermal gradients inviting fatigue. That movie doesn't try to justify anything by science right? Because that's the single stupidest spacecraft design I ever remember seeing and it has to be space fantasy not scifi. I also think it's ugly but that's beside the point.
>>97967532anon, that thing is supposedly capable of accelerating to 0.7c from orbit just off of the fuel it carries internally and slowly rotate its ass around over few years, then light up the engines for deceleration, again using the remainder of internal fuel. it's SUPPOSED to be a sci-fantasy. (not to mention the blue anthro women)
>>97967120So fucking say we all. BSG spacefights were awesome. Like watching two armoured bears tear into each other.
Gundam
All modern Western starship design begins with Star Wars. It's either inspired by it or reacting against it.
>>97967908Still some of the best space battle scenes ever put to film. The CG may be outdated but it doesn't look cheap even this many years later.
>>97967532Why is most of the ship behind the engine exhaust? Because this reduces the mass of the ship. And when you are delta-Ving a ship up to and down from 70% c, every single gram counts. Conventional spacecraft have the engines on the bottom and the rest of the ship build on top like a sky scraper. This design has the engines on the top and the rest of the ship is dragged behind on a long tether (the "tensile truss" on the diagram). The result is a massive reduction in structural mass.The engines are topped by monumental heat radiators used to get rid of waste heat from the matter-antimatter reaction. According to the description, after the burn is finished, the radiators will glow dull red for a full two weeks.
>>97966034That's pretty funny.>>97967174I always enjoy a good vertical thruster configuration. Don't know why, it just LOOKS fast.
>>97967908i remember watching this on sci-fi channel right when it aired and being really angry that i didn't have tivo hooked up. it was an absolute hype in both writing and plot, but it always bothered me that Galactica is going into melee range alongside Pegasus even with most of its armor plates supposedly removed. maybe Pegasus jumped in first? perhaps i don't remember this arc all too well.
>>97962235Star Citizen. I would say pre-Disney Star Wars. However, the reason I give it to Star Citizen over any other IP is most IP have A ship or two showing the inside. SC shows all of the interiors of the ships compare to most shit only being three sets if it's not just a cockpit. So where I like the X-Wing, Arwing, Normandy, Serenity, Enterprise, etc. An IP needs more than the outer designs of the ships as I want to see the interior of the ship and it be more than two or three set locations, like in Star Trek/Star Wars. Plus I want more than one or two ships given that treatment. Plus, you have many ships inspired by said IPs in SC without it being too much of a knock off.
>>97966530Kind of. Epstein's first imprisonment in 2008 also got a fair bit of attention and Leviathan Wakes came out in 2011. Obviously it wasn't as big as the later developments, but it's not implausible to say the Epstein drive might be named after Jeffrey Epstein.
>>97965683i don't remember if Valks existed before Nova but it's also a quintessential tube-with-engines ship. Now that i think about it, a lot of the ships in Nova are either food-shaped or food-adjacent shaped at the least. Ice cream Manticore, Pocky box Fed Carrier, Pegasus pie... >sausage or pizza? call it
>>97962286>written by a scotAnd?
>>97968623How many IRL dollars have you spent on SC space ships
I always fucked with Halo Covenant cruisers.
>>97967532>unobtaniumthe name they picked is stupid, but unobtainium is "just" a room-temperature superconductorone of science's holy grails, but with very specific propertiesand throughout the movie you can see it exhibit those properties as it's used for various purposes, most notably easy levitationmagic space smurfs notwithstanding, avatar is in fact true sf that has put a lot of thought in its technology
>>97968645>it's not implausible to say the Epstein drive might be named after Jeffrey Epsteinwhy thoughI had always assumed they just needed a name that sounded like a physicist and the rest was a coincidence>Epstein's first imprisonment in 2008 also got a fair bit of attention and Leviathan Wakes came out in 2011.Expanse is based on the universe the authors had created for their ttrpg sessionsI don't know if they already called the tech "epstein drive" back then, but it is possible the term is older than 2008
>>97968719Wrong, and the drives in expanse all run on adrenochrome-catalyzed fusion.
>>97968719It's more likely to be a Welcome Back Kotter reference.
>>97968731which part is wrong
>>97968683Don't own it. (Don't have a PC that can run it at the moment.) However I doubt I would pay more than a starter ship. Maybe a good solo daily like an Asgard.
>>97968593We never really see. From what I remember we cut to the fight after its already started. But Battlestars were always giant tanks. There's a reason the Cylons decided to use infiltration and a sneak attack to win.During the escape from New Caprica Pegasus held off....3 or 4 Basestars solo before it pulled a kamikaze? And Galactica managed to survive them off for a while even with half its systems fucked after that in atmo jump. Battlestars are big, lumbering brutes that seem to excel at knife fighting distances, even though they're a fucking carrier. It was always the Cylons that played rear-range missile boat and because of that they were real fragile. The Battlestars set flak fire to maximum and fucking charged to steal the advantage.
>>97962235Halo.Both Human and Covenant ships look really good.
>>97962526I came here to say LOGH but I'm glad you beat me to it.I always preferred the Alliance ships as I like the colour green and I also like their more "utilitarian" look to them.There's an Iserholn fleet game based on LOGH but I'd prefer a more miniature agnostic game so most kinds of space ships can be played.
>>97968844Found a better image
>>97964912It is stupid, yet it is also peak.
>>97965988There are a few species that are like that in Babylon 5. Brakiri being an example of making their ships look more advanced than they actually are by trying to mimic the Minbari when they are less advanced than Earth.
>>97962506>Painfully thin midsectionThat's not a ship. It's a tomb.
>>97967532>>97968892>Painfully thin midsection they're not warships that are going to pirouette in space dodging railgun shotsthey're just civilian long distance haulers, and like anon mentioned, it's a tugging designit's not such a ridiculous concept
>>97962235BC-304 Daedalus, Odyssey. Kino ships, with the feel of being proper human, Earth built winners.
>>97968923That doesn't mean it should be vulnerable to accidents/unforeseen circumstances. It's like an invitation for for disaster, and it triggers my autism.
INFINITE SPACE DS has the best ships actually.
>>97968859While Brunhild is a thing of beauty, something about Hyperion in DNT captured me, sweeping up across the TV during the intro to the tune of Binary Star.
>>97967607On the Earth side it is de/accelerated by giant solar arrays pushing on the collapsible solar sail
>>97968039>Gundam>posts Legend of the Galactic Heroes
>>97965287Long live the Earth Federation. God bless Bask Om and the Titans. The Spacenoids got what they deserved,
How we feeling about this, space ship enthusiasts?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53WTdvr-lOc
>>97968071>>97967908The shakey cam kills it for me every time. Just hold fucking still and let us watch the space battle, diegetic camera is annoying as fuck.
>>97969783Fuck the amnesia plot. Ruined the entire second half of that season.
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>>97970699God, everyone must hate the dude who named this.
>>97970727Goddamn space elves
>>97962235Space Battleship Yamato.The entirety of the early Cosmo Navy is golden.
>>97970832Garmillas too
>>97962235/tg/ answer is 40k, general answer Kefahuchi tract trilogy by M. John Harrison. Special mention to the Incû-Holoinas.
>>97968890I was wondering who's those were. I watched shadow dancing the other day and seeing them in with the mimbari cruisers, I didn't know if they were really weird looking older mimbari ships or somebody else's. My favorites though are the earth cruisers and the flying saucers
>>97962286Fuck you faggot, the Culture is awesome. I love modular ships that can unfold themselves to meet the fleet requirements of a military action.
>>97962280Limitation is the peak invention. Modularity is not limitation. I have always seen The Culture as powerwank nonsense. A lot like KDM.
>>97970930>Kefahuchi tract trilogy by M. John HarrisonExcellent taste anon
>>97962235Instrumentality of Man is pretty peak.When alien chicken made aggressive gestures towards humanity, humanity dispatched a anatomically correct giant sexy dad bod robot, a goth baddie ship and a Ara Ara lady ship to tell the aliens what.
I've grown fond of the near-future vessels of The Lunar War shorts.
Hehe little space man go
>>97969783https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6g5PLxA04
>>97964078I always thought part of the point there - quite apart from the obvious "easier and cheaper to make one hull with modular add-ons" - was to give an air of something like Jane's, where it actually does matter about turret placement and configuration etc. Ship recognition guide on the bridge, basically.
>>97970704A winnebago...?
>>97968067Y wing, my beloved
>>97964078Ork, no. Imperial, yes
>>97970699That ship's name is almost on par with the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHxO0UdpoxM>>97968039>>97962526>>97968859>>97969227Love me some LOGH ships.I think DNT gets more flak than it deserves.Admittedly my favorite "fix" they did was giving the Imperial soldiers pickelhaubes. Why they were not in the OVA is anyone's guess. I guess maybe it was animation budget? Anyways for me it is the Triglav from the LOGH OVA.Does anybody know of some ship autist who covered ALL of the OVA LOGH ships? There's one I know of but they're a bit pricey on Cults and I didn't see a Triglav.
>>97968667The true choice is a Star Liner with extra turret retrofits and just an unreasonable amount of railguns.
>>97965091>Whats a Daedalus Attack? Just the part where your space ship puts it defensive barrier at the front of itself, punches the OTHER space ship using your shield to cut through their hull like butter, and then open your gun ports and launch a dozen nukes into the internals of the enemy ship.This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard
>>97972007The Space Guy show ships are okay, but too discount store brand to really be in the running in my option. I don't hate how they do the design and admit it works pretty well, but as I mention before. >>97968623 You need more than just a exterior of ship or two and a set for the bridge and crew quarters. Again, this is the whole IP. Not just a ship or two
>>97971731with state of the art jamming technology
>>97974228>This is the stupidest thing I've ever heardIt's efficient and effective
>>97965866impact diffusion? or maybe trying to same as much in construction space and mass as possible
>>97964310Even I fly a Mandalay out into the black these days, but I'll still always have a deep fondness of the jury-rigged Diamondback Explorer that earned me my first Elite rank.
