Best ship design?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-17 06:22pm

Counter to the "Worst ship design" thread.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-17 06:23pm

Imperial Star Destroyer.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-17 06:30pm

Completed Death Star II, with fixed vulnerability of course.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2002-11-17 06:31pm

Culture GSV

Have a very nice day
-fgalkin

Mike_6002 · Post by **Mike_6002** » 2002-11-17 06:47pm

Star Trek: Miranda Class (Movie Era)
Star Wars: ISD
Babylon 5: Omega-X (Shadow tech Omega)

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-17 06:48pm

neoolong wrote:Completed Death Star II, with fixed vulnerability of course.

Being DS2 automatically means that it has fixed the vulnerability.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-17 06:49pm

ISD (and Star Destroyers in general)

Honor-verse ships

TOS Federation ships.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2002-11-17 07:03pm

IG-88E wrote:
neoolong wrote:Completed Death Star II, with fixed vulnerability of course.
Being DS2 automatically means that it has fixed the vulnerability.

I know. But I wanted to mention why it was better.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-17 07:06pm

neoolong wrote:
I know. But I wanted to mention why it was better.

Ah. OK.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-17 09:57pm

[rabid Trekkie mode] The Galaxy-class, of course. It's got <technobabble> shields, and multi-<technobabble>-ton torpedoes, and oh, the <technobabble> device.[/rabid Trekkie mode]

Actually, a Tortoise-class Gateship is pretty powerful. The main gun can only fire once per 12 hours at full power, but will annihilate a ship with under 90,000 mm perfect steel armor equivalent. It also carries 12 laser cannon, 8 light railguns, 8 heavy railguns, and 24 gatling laser cannon for point defense. It carries 40 CF-78 space fighters and up to 1600 combat drones, along with an unknown number of Combat Frames (small humanoid mecha 4.6 meters tall). It's not very fast or maneuverable, but it's designed to be the centerpiece of a fleet, and more as a transport than a warship.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2002-11-17 09:59pm

Fools, every ship you posted here is toast by the culture!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-11-17 10:00pm

Heart of Gold

Mike_6002 · Post by **Mike_6002** » 2002-11-17 10:00pm

My favourite ST ship Miranda (Movies)

Why?

Tough as nails (STII:WOK)

Good weapons arc for her size (STII Again)

Reliabale (STIV:TVH)

Compact (STII again)

And it just look's damn cool

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2002-11-17 10:21pm

an ISD II

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2002-11-17 10:43pm

Romulan D'deridex, as stated in Stravo's Star Crossed, it is well nigh invincible, destroys Star Destroyers on sigh...ack...ack...ack

I kid, I kid. ISD and ISDII get my vote, having no experience with WH40K or Culture etc.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-11-17 10:44pm

Best designed ship? Hmmm. I'm having to go with the ISDII. Simple and effective. And what a awe/terror inspiring shape...

Coolest designed ship? White Star. I just like it. Or the Virago from Shadows of the Empire.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-11-17 10:58pm

My own personal design:

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-17 11:19pm

I know I'll probably be stomped, lawnmowed, and incinerated to hell for saying this but I don't think the ISD is a good design.

Its triangular shape is cool but its bridge tower is so exposed it screams, "Look! Bridge here! Shoot please!"

Hence why a single A-wing was able to take out the Executor once its shields were down.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-11-17 11:41pm

Shinova wrote:I know I'll probably be stomped, lawnmowed, and incinerated to hell for saying this but I don't think the ISD is a good design.

Its triangular shape is cool but its bridge tower is so exposed it screams, "Look! Bridge here! Shoot please!"

Hence why a single A-wing was able to take out the Executor once its shields were down.

The Executor would have survived in open space, the problem was she plowed into the death star before the crew could regain control. The A-wing didn't destroy her.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-11-18 12:06am

Slartibartfast wrote:My own personal design:

*Transcript of black box recording...*

[BB recovered from wreckage of Green Squadron. Flight of 3 X-wings.]

Voice1 (identified as Green Leader): "We've got TIEs inbound, combat spread. S-Foils locked in attack position.
Voice2 (identified as Green 3): "Got visual... Wait a minute! Those aren't standard TIEs!"
Voice1: "Dear GOD! They're playing Britney Spears and Avril Langam at high volume!"
Voice3 (identified as Green 2): "I - I can't take! My ships hit resonance frequency! OOOOH GOD MY EARS! *static*"
Voice1: "We've lost 2!"
Voice2: "Coming around! Damnit! They've got rear firing subwoofers! I can't hold it! *static*"
Voice1: "Cmon... Cmon... Missiles away!... NO! NO! NO! A wall of bad language from an EMINEM song just took out my missiles... Another one is coming in! Its playing Celine Dion! I'm ejecting!"

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2002-11-18 12:12am

Slartibartfast wrote:My own personal design:

Play a Lynn Minmei song on that rig, and the enemy will be trying to pull their own heads off.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-18 12:35am

Stormbringer wrote:
Shinova wrote:I know I'll probably be stomped, lawnmowed, and incinerated to hell for saying this but I don't think the ISD is a good design.

Its triangular shape is cool but its bridge tower is so exposed it screams, "Look! Bridge here! Shoot please!"

Hence why a single A-wing was able to take out the Executor once its shields were down.
The Executor would have survived in open space, the problem was she plowed into the death star before the crew could regain control. The A-wing didn't destroy her.

The commmanders still did get blown away.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-18 12:53am

Psst...Ando...It's Lavigne, not Langam. My roomie's obsessed with her, which I use to make jokes incessantly (usually about how she looks 14).

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-11-18 01:04am

Patrick Degan wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:My own personal design:

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Play a Lynn Minmei song on that rig, and the enemy will be trying to pull their own heads off.

Yes, specially the translated versions... you know, all three songs that always somehow happened to be her "latest" song.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2002-11-18 02:24am

I'd say a Xeelee nightfighter is quite a nice ship.
Powerful, durable, yet elegant...