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Bah! We haven't even begun to plum the depths of fanwank.Rogue 9 wrote:Wow. If I hadn't seen his earlier Imperium class, I'd say we'd found the limits of fanwank.
Damn, and I thought I was bad for creating the worst SI ever. I guess the term "Mary Sue" is no longer limited to the heroes/heroines of a story.Anomie wrote:Bah! We haven't even begun to plum the depths of fanwank.Rogue 9 wrote:Wow. If I hadn't seen his earlier Imperium class, I'd say we'd found the limits of fanwank.
In some of my more wankish fics that I never compleated, I've had fighters that could probably take that thing out.
Never underestimate the need for overcompensation.
It need not even be superlaser armed. Turbolasers are perfectly effective.Elheru Aran wrote:Depends on your definition of 'wank', though. For example, how do you propose to power said planet-buster, considering that it needs to have a certain aesthetic, meaning it's thinner in breadth than in length? If you're going with a DSII-size reactor, might as well cobble two of 'em onto the end of this wankship, and then it'd REALLY be a wanker there...
Sounding all hand to battlestations on that thing should be intresting. First the crew need to run a mile or so to the nearest turbolift stations(or similar), change car a few times before running the last few miles to reach thir posts. Not only the battle but the entire war would be over by then...Rogue 9 wrote:Except, of course, for the 3 km bridge windows and so forth. :P
Yes.Lord Revan wrote:there must be reason (IIRC) there's no non-spherical ships that are more massive the the Eclipse-class SSD, only space stations
NecronLord wrote:Yes.Lord Revan wrote:there must be reason (IIRC) there's no non-spherical ships that are more massive the the Eclipse-class SSD, only space stations
Geonosian naval architects have ball envy, instead of penis envy.
As far as the Imperium goes, it comes with a little bit of backstory:CDiehl wrote:Is there any information about what that ship is designed to accomplish? I can't imagine anything it could do that multiple fleets couldn't do at least as well. Also, I can't help but picture the front end of that ship snapping off like a breadstick as soon as the engines start. It looks like an afterthought by the designer, and a poorly planned one at that.
The embodiment of Palpatine's plans for extra-galactic conquest, the Imperium would have been as powerful as a Death Star, but much more mobile. Equipped with a small fleet of capital ships, thousands of fighters, and innumerable support craft, the Imperium would have had virtually unlimited range since it would also have carried several World Devastators to produce needed supplies. With this ship, the immortal Palpatine would have spread the Empire across the universe. Rumors suggest that the crew would also have been "immortal" as well, thanks to cloning equipment that would have been onboard. Thankfully, Palpatine was not as immortal as he had hoped, and the ship never progressed beyond initial planning before his final death. While some die-hard Imperials wanted to try and actually build it to use against the New Republic, saner heads prevailed and the Imperium remained only a terrible dream.
It's been recycled through a couple different threads about the Ultra Star Destroyer. I'll see if I can find the original credit; I got it off of Alyeska who got it off of someone else.Colonel Olrik wrote:It is costumary and sensible to give credits and provide the source of any original material you're posting, if it's not your own.Rogue 9 wrote:Yeah, well I can't take credit. The only thing I did with that was clean up spelling. (And reading over it again, it seems I missed a couple things.)
actually you would just build another Death Star (perhaps just in different shape), I'm cursed (or blessed depending on your POV) with reasonble good memory and IIRC the only meaningfull diffrence between Darksaber and Death Star is that the Darksaber lack the garrison and related support equipment that the Death Star has (this includes the defenses). So what your suggesting is not any cheaper then the DS1 (maybe cheaper then DS2, but that's another thing).Sidewinder wrote:Honestly, wouldn't a warship based on the Darksaber, from the EU novel of the same name, be a better choice? Just add shield generators, turbolaser and blaster batteries for medium and short range defense, and several hangers for shuttles, fighters, and bombers. You can probably build two to three Darksabers for the price of one Death Star-- more bang for the buck.
.our Chief Engineer has begun the habit of signing his reports, "Chief Marshal, Sovereign Nation of Ree'Ak'tor."
Precisely the idea i had.Sidewinder wrote:Honestly, wouldn't a warship based on the Darksaber, from the EU novel of the same name, be a better choice? Just add shield generators, turbolaser and blaster batteries for medium and short range defense, and several hangers for shuttles, fighters, and bombers. You can probably build two to three Darksabers for the price of one Death Star-- more bang for the buck.
Aside from the Eclipse super vessels, I don't think there are any SW ships that are equipped with superlasers that don't dominate their entire structure. Is there any mention of ISDs or even SSDs (or ships analogus in size) that simply have a superlaser stuck in them?LaserRifleofDoom wrote:What I don't get is how Death-Star Superlasers can get stuck in anything. If you look at the ICS, I seem to recall that the actual laser structures took up quite a large portion of the internal structure of the Death Star. You can't just slap a dish on the side of a sufficiently large ship and call it a planet-destroying superlaser.
Unfortunately I don't have my ICS with me right now, so I can't back this up. But I'm very sure about being right.
