What Starship would you buy?

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-19 09:14pm

I'd go with an ISD. I wouldn't know what to do with the space in the Executor or Home One, and there's a nice hangar that can accomodate my luxury Blockade Runner. If I had one, there would still be a lot of space. I would remove all but 2 HTLs and replace them with a luxury hotel for honorary guests, such as myself, and my cat.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-10-19 09:28pm

IG-88E wrote:
I believe that's his pet Ravager-class Star Destroyer.

Ooh, recognition

Mine doesn't have any interdiction capability though.
http://server45.hypermart.net/howedar/isdray6.jpg

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2002-10-19 10:10pm

I choose THE SUN CRUSHER!!! Seriously, though, my vote goes to the SSD. Klicks upon klicks of destruction!!!!

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-10-19 10:51pm

RayCav of ASVS wrote:
Enlightenment wrote:I'll take this:

so what the hell is that?

Enlightenment class MRSU (original universe; not Wars). Think Culture GSV except without the Mind.

Howedar: are you sure you wanted to link to that ugly, untextured, image of your ISD variant?

IIRC you've got at least one much better shot of it

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-10-20 12:44am

Enlightenment wrote:I'll take this:

I'd perfer if you only used official ship for this. This is only so that everyone knows what you are talking about

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2002-10-20 02:23am

Soontir C'boath wrote:
IG-88E wrote:

I can't believe the other ships are even trying to compete.
It's not the competition..it's about how much money we have in our pockets

Cyaround,
Jason

You have all of the Financing that you would need to buy your choice

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-20 05:14am

From the list

[1]Executer
[2]Home One with 92 turbolaser batteries. I refuse to accept 29!

Staying within War's and Trek

[1] Imperial Sovereign class battleship. A pure capital vessel without space wasted on command facilities. Like I really need a fleet with this thing?
[2] Anonymous star cruiser #5 from SWTC. Looks cool and its five klicks long.
[3] Admiral Giel's Star battleship. Once again looks cool and has a shit load of point defenses..
[4] Mon Cal Viscount/Defender class battleship
[5] The Federation Agamemnon from Fist of the Empire. It may be fan fiction but I don't care.

Moving outside of these universes

[1] A Planetoid built by the Culture..

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-20 09:29am

I chose the Mon Cal Cruiser, simply because Star Destroyers are very hard to maintain on your own. Just look at the trouble Booster had with his Errant Venture. A Mon Cal will run with half the systems down, kinda like the Falcon, And the Mon Cal is still powerful enough to conquer a planet

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2002-10-20 09:32am

You do know that you'll never be able to run a capship, not even a moncal, on your own do you?

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-10-20 09:32am

I'd have an executor and then go conquer the entire galaxy and become the new Palpatine

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2002-10-20 09:41am

Isolder74 wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:
IG-88E wrote:

I can't believe the other ships are even trying to compete.
It's not the competition..it's about how much money we have in our pockets

Cyaround,
Jason
You have all of the Financing that you would need to buy your choice

ROFL I don't believe it LMAO Ok ok ok........

Hmmmmm..........yea I would go with a Mon Cal since I "got" the money. Nice oh redundant systems.

Cyaround,
Jason

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-10-20 10:28am

Hotfoot wrote:The Capital D. It could easily make just about any other ship mentioned here, and kick its ass.

? Capital D ?

Never heard of it.

willburns84 · Post by **willburns84** » 2002-10-20 11:30am

Cyril wrote:I'd take a Tausennigan O'benn Thunderhead-class superfortress.

A what?

willburns84 · Post by **willburns84** » 2002-10-20 11:32am

Damn it! Cursed lack of edit feature.

You're all wrong. World Devastator, baby. I EAT your world! ::crunch - gnash - chew - burp:: Whoop, here come a thousand automated TIE fighters! Seriously, it's its own supply train.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2002-10-20 12:19pm

I'd buy myself a Mon Cal cruiser, unless I feel like going on a killing spree in which case only an Eclipse class SSD will do. I like the look of the Mon Cal ships more than the Star Destroyers, but that's just me. In any case I'd also have my Millenium Falcon parked in the hanger so I can go on quick little cruises around whatever planet I've stopped at.

Ender · Post by **Ender** » 2002-10-20 12:50pm

willburns84 wrote:
Cyril wrote:I'd take a Tausennigan O'benn Thunderhead-class superfortress.

A what?

Read Schlock Mercenary.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-20 12:59pm

Yep. It's a massive carrier/battlecruiser constructed by a race of xenophobic, bloodthirsty marsupials.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2002-10-20 01:01pm

NecronLord wrote:
Hotfoot wrote:The Capital D. It could easily make just about any other ship mentioned here, and kick its ass.
? Capital D ?

Never heard of it.

Ahhh, fresh meat.

The Capital D was the personal ship of Marc C. DuQuesne from E.E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark Series towards the end. I've got a detailed analysis which I'll probably post in the "Other Sci-Fi" boards eventually, but basically the end result was that, one-for-one, it could smack around most anything from the Culture pretty nicely. Plus, all you had to do was think, and anything you wanted could be made, something akin to ST replicators, only not as limited or stupidly designed.

Plus, with the projectors on that baby, I could be sitting all the way over in Andromeda and send a real-time holographic image to the surface of the Earth that Voyager's Doctor would have killed for.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-20 03:34pm

willburns84 wrote:Damn it! Cursed lack of edit feature.

You're all wrong. World Devastator, baby. I EAT your world! ::crunch - gnash - chew - burp:: Whoop, here come a thousand automated TIE fighters! Seriously, it's its own supply train.

That’s just a giant driod that can fly really well, not a star ship.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-20 03:38pm

Cosidering that it has a CREW, I'd say it's a starship with a droid brain.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-10-20 04:05pm

Hotfoot wrote:
NecronLord wrote:
Hotfoot wrote:The Capital D. It could easily make just about any other ship mentioned here, and kick its ass.
? Capital D ?

Never heard of it.
Ahhh, fresh meat.

The Capital D was the personal ship of Marc C. DuQuesne from E.E. "Doc" Smith's Skylark Series towards the end. I've got a detailed analysis which I'll probably post in the "Other Sci-Fi" boards eventually, but basically the end result was that, one-for-one, it could smack around most anything from the Culture pretty nicely. Plus, all you had to do was think, and anything you wanted could be made, something akin to ST replicators, only not as limited or stupidly designed.

Plus, with the projectors on that baby, I could be sitting all the way over in Andromeda and send a real-time holographic image to the surface of the Earth that Voyager's Doctor would have killed for.

Can it produce tech that is more advanced than it. (P.s my ship scares the Time Lords, who are considered more advanced than the culture

)

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-10-20 04:25pm

SPOOFE wrote:
I can't believe the other ships are even trying to compete.
Not everyone wants an SUV. Some people would prefer a sedan or a nice economy car.

You mean not everyone wants a fucking tank.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-10-20 04:26pm

And off the list, a Sovereign Class Super Star Destroyer. Even thought there's only one picture, I love it.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2002-10-20 04:36pm

NecronLord wrote: Can it produce tech that is more advanced than it. (P.s my ship scares the Time Lords, who are considered more advanced than the culture )

Time Travel was one of the few things Skylark never really touched on. It did cover the Fourth Dimension, which resulted in some simply nasty little weapons.

As for it being able to produce tech that is more advanced than it, actually, yes. Using fourth-order projectors and a planet for raw material, DuQuesne and Seaton created the Capital D and the Skylark of Valeron, respectively. Both of which are over 1,000 km in diameter, and are fitted with multiple fifth and sixth-order projectors, as well as plenty of other nasty little surprises. So long as the mind behind the ships knew how to build it and had the raw materials, it could probably be done pretty easily. Just to give you an idea of the power of the projectors:

Fifth Order projectors used a Neutronium Lens to focus the beam. One early Fifth Order projector, used as a weapon, was capable of accurately laying down 7.8 petatons at over 200,000 light-years against an evading target.

For the record, the Capital D at one point destroyed over 15,000 planets in the space of a few minutes. This was while it was doing a "fly-by" of a Hostile Galaxy. Enjoy.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-20 04:47pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:And off the list, a Sovereign Class Super Star Destroyer. Even thought there's only one picture, I love it.

The fan created 3D meshes, such as Cpt_Frank's avatar look very good, and may up for a lack of official pictures nicely.