Beautiful ugly spaceships

[Ahriman238]

In a similar vein to Connor's ore hauler, Marvel comics had the acanti, a sort of space whale systematically hunted down, lobotmized, and turned into living city-ships by the Brood.

[Simon_Jester]

The Swordfish II from Cowboy Bebop. Originally a speed-racer, modified into a fighter carrying an elegant canon. The ship isn't much to look at - a bit like Formula One cars - but it's speed, agility and firepower make up for it.

I don't know, I kind of like the look of the thing. I think it could probably have been put in the "just plain beautiful ships" thread without drawing all that much negative comment.

[Connor MacLeod]

Void Whale. From 40K.

[Shroom Man 777]

[The Yosemite Bear]

I forgot which book it was from, but there was one where they left earth as it was dying with chilled baby colonists, but the ship it's self was a long tube, with a massive bucky ice formation on one end, and ram scoups around it, so as friction melts the geodasic ice formation it's turned into fuel for the ship's reactors, and shielding against what's out there.

[Parallax]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato yet.

It was ugly. It was incredibly impractical (bottom defences? we don't need no damn bottom defences). But damn, when you saw it take flight or fire the Wave Motion Cannon ... it was beautiful.

[Junghalli]

The Daedalus spacecraft is hardly conventionally pretty, but I kind of like the design and I think these are some nice pics:

Daedalus departure:



Daedalus at Jupiter:



Daedalus second stage seperation:



Daedalus approaches destination star:



Daedalus arrival:



Daedalus-type spacecraft departs alien solar system?



Daedalus under construction in lunar orbit?

[Ahriman238]

Oddly, somebody put this is beautiful ships, but Battlefleet Gothic, everything but the Eldar.



The Goa'uld mothership was pretty intimidating the first 2 or 3 times we saw it. Afterwards, not so much.

[wautd]

The TIE Interceptor. Even though it's a basic design, it shows you don't need racing stripes or decals to have the look of a deadly, nimble predator.

[Nephtys]

TCS Concordia certainly is one of my favorites.
I can't believe people remember Nexus. I had a thing about how cool and utilitarian the Longsword class looked.

How about the Kiith Somtaww Kuun-Lan?


Or perhaps the ship from Avatar? I admit a horrific nerd moment when I went 'hey! That's a reasonably plausable A/M Beamcore Valkyrie-type Beanstalk! Wait, are those laser push-sails?!

[Nephtys]

Oh. And Space Battleship Gargantua. It has headlights.

[Connor MacLeod]

Battle Beyond the Stars. Just put a top hat and monocle on it and Shroom can use it in a response.

[PhilosopherOfSorts]

Holy crap! Thank you Connor, I saw parts of that movie back when I was about twelve, but didn't know what it was called, and nobody else had any idea what I was talking about, I was begining to think I had dreamt or halucinated it.

Yay, I'm not insane!

[Connor MacLeod]

I always think of a hammerhead shark with implants.

Or an Ithorian with implants.

[Jedi Commisar]

The Nova dreadnought 22 plasma cannons of death that can be pointed at one target

USS Saratoga from Space: Above and Beyond

[the atom]

Fantastic! What comic is this from?

[Count Chocula]

I don't know what that's from, but it's gotta be some Star Blazers EU monstrosity.

[fusion]

I don't know what that's from, but it's gotta be some Star Blazers EU monstrosity.

Google is your friend: caste des méta barons

This:

[xthetenth]

Oddly, somebody put this is beautiful ships, but Battlefleet Gothic, everything but the Eldar.

I've got a glamor shot of a Lunar class as one of my desktops. It's gorgeous.

[Jedi Commisar]

The Swordfish II from Cowboy Bebop. Originally a speed-racer, modified into a fighter carrying an elegant canon. The ship isn't much to look at - a bit like Formula One cars - but it's speed, agility and firepower make up for it.

Since you mentioned it how about the Bebop herself

Also UNSC warships