Your personal uber ship. Big or small?

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-03-02 07:43pm

I've been using Lannie in STGOD's for years now, I'm thinking of Uprating her to a Sentinel Class, but other than that she's perfect for my needs.

Here's my STGOD Character page on the FUQ, which runs through Lannie and my character in some detail.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-02 07:46pm

The 23km long, chrome Andromeda class GSV Questionable Ethics.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-02 08:03pm

Advantages of tiny to the point of nearly nonexistant:

Unlikely to get stolen
Get literally go between atoms and go through walls, being invisibly small... great potential for eavesdropping, spying and...

Any lasers would have a hard time targeting something the size of a subatomic particle, so it would be invulnerable, even against 1000000000 GSVs

. Besides, even if it could, the photons would not be able to hit it anyways.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-03-02 08:24pm

Pu-239 wrote:Advantages of tiny to the point of nearly nonexistant:

Unlikely to get stolen
Get literally go between atoms and go through walls, being invisibly small... great potential for eavesdropping, spying and...

Any lasers would have a hard time targeting something the size of a subatomic particle, so it would be invulnerable, even against 1000000000 GSVs . Besides, even if it could, the photons would not be able to hit it anyways.

Disadvantages - you can't see anything as even if a photon goes across you, it can only relay one item of light info so either you see nothing, or you get blinded.

It may be difficult to steal, but it's easy to lose (you can hardly keep it in your pocket if it can slip through molecules.

You can't hear what anyone outside is saying as you would be forced to follow along th length of soundwave to hear anything except white noise vibrations and it would take subjective years to do that.

It may be invunerable, but then it's also Impotent as it cannot create a beam weapon as the weapons port would have to be many times the ships own size.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-02 08:27pm

I'll put in some input to.

I would like my ship to be around 70 meters long, a and slightly dagger-shaped.

Unlike some of the people here who want quark-sized ships, I'd personally like to be able to see and touch my own ship, thank you.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-03-02 08:28pm

Monsterous. Light guns that can fire shots that dwarf galaxies. So big inside it can build itself in contruction bays that take up a tiny amount of space.

Who cares if some asshole says it's overcompensation? He, and a sizable portion of the universe around him will be gone. Poof. The remains used to expand my ship so it can kill other assholes.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-03-02 08:30pm

Somewhere between 5km and 50km long. Large enough to intimidate, but not so large as to be unwieldy.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-03-02 08:31pm

Quark sized invulnerable ships are just compensating on a whole new level

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-03-02 08:41pm

The whole "unlimited interior" is brilliant. In the normal space of an atom you could have billions of universes each with billions of galaxies each with billions of planets each with billions of chicks! They'll be hot tropical worlds so the women don't need to wear clothes.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-03-02 08:43pm

While the small ship would be better for stealth operations, who needs stealth when you have the strongest fucking ship in the galaxy. Plus thewhole intimidation factor.

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2003-03-02 08:47pm

If you're going for quark-sized ships, why not simply say that you have a pocket dimension that can open portals arbiturially into this universe? Sounds much less silly that way.

Post by **Rob Wilson** » 2003-03-02 08:49pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:The whole "unlimited interior" is brilliant. In the normal space of an atom you could have billions of universes each with billions of galaxies each with billions of planets each with billions of chicks! They'll be hot tropical worlds so the women don't need to wear clothes.

"Monstrous, this is Lannie; Whiskey November Fiver requesting landing permission and a berth on a Fuck Planet. Over."

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-03-02 09:06pm

Cyborg Stan wrote:If you're going for quark-sized ships, why not simply say that you have a pocket dimension that can open portals arbiturially into this universe? Sounds much less silly that way.

Not to mention that you'll never know where it is and how much gas you have at the same time.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-02 10:15pm

Rob Wilson wrote:I've been using Lannie in STGOD's for years now, I'm thinking of Uprating her to a Sentinel Class, but other than that she's perfect for my needs.

Here's my STGOD Character page on the FUQ, which runs through Lannie and my character in some detail.

Mine probably would be a heavily modified Sentinal landing shuttle; probably with a double-height main module and twice the engine power.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-03-02 10:20pm

Its an intresting question, but Iid go with a nice happy little fighter armed with a few Excession-level gridfire units, and a Galactic Doom cannon mounted under the fuseluage. No, it wouldn't look like the Swordfish II

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-03-02 10:23pm

Sorry to bring up something totally off topic, but my sense of the universe and all reality has been upended by the fact that MK Sheppard now sports and avator of Bill Clinton and Einhander Sn0man now has Adolph Hitler.

Did you guys plan this?

Kazuaki Shimazaki · Post by **Kazuaki Shimazaki** » 2003-03-02 10:23pm

Can we have a VARIABLE-SIZE ship, seeing that Q is giving us a miracle?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-02 10:27pm

Rob Wilson wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Advantages of tiny to the point of nearly nonexistant:

Unlikely to get stolen
Get literally go between atoms and go through walls, being invisibly small... great potential for eavesdropping, spying and...

Any lasers would have a hard time targeting something the size of a subatomic particle, so it would be invulnerable, even against 1000000000 GSVs . Besides, even if it could, the photons would not be able to hit it anyways.
Disadvantages - you can't see anything as even if a photon goes across you, it can only relay one item of light info so either you see nothing, or you get blinded.
It may be difficult to steal, but it's easy to lose (you can hardly keep it in your pocket if it can slip through molecules.
You can't hear what anyone outside is saying as you would be forced to follow along th length of soundwave to hear anything except white noise vibrations and it would take subjective years to do that.
It may be invunerable, but then it's also Impotent as it cannot create a beam weapon as the weapons port would have to be many times the ships own size.

But that's what technobabble is for!

. Or you can use several modules floating in space about the size of a fist(for space) and another the size of a paperclip (for ground ops), with sensors and a pen-sized uber deathray. Energy and sensor data will be sent through subspace

If they destroy it I'll just use my uber-replicator to make another one and beam it out. And there's no reason to keep track of the ship, since you just send a signal to the modules to beam you in, and if they are all destroyed, then it beams you in automatically. To calculate position, just ping the modules.

Oops, I forgot the ship is invincible, so no need for that.

Ok, lets make it pen-sized. More managable, without need for too much technobabble. And you can write with it!. And you can replicate these ad infinitum with the uber replicators.

Level a whole galaxy with a huge fleet of pen-sized Death Stars.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-02 10:29pm

Pu-239 wrote:
Rob Wilson wrote:
Pu-239 wrote:Advantages of tiny to the point of nearly nonexistant:

Unlikely to get stolen
Get literally go between atoms and go through walls, being invisibly small... great potential for eavesdropping, spying and...

Any lasers would have a hard time targeting something the size of a subatomic particle, so it would be invulnerable, even against 1000000000 GSVs . Besides, even if it could, the photons would not be able to hit it anyways.
Disadvantages - you can't see anything as even if a photon goes across you, it can only relay one item of light info so either you see nothing, or you get blinded.
It may be difficult to steal, but it's easy to lose (you can hardly keep it in your pocket if it can slip through molecules.
You can't hear what anyone outside is saying as you would be forced to follow along th length of soundwave to hear anything except white noise vibrations and it would take subjective years to do that.
It may be invunerable, but then it's also Impotent as it cannot create a beam weapon as the weapons port would have to be many times the ships own size.
But that's what technobabble is for! . Or you can use several modules floating in space about the size of a fist(for space) and another the size of a paperclip (for ground ops), with sensors and a pen-sized uber deathray. Energy and sensor data will be sent through subspace If they destroy it I'll just use my uber-replicator to make another one and beam it out. And there's no reason to keep track of the ship, since you just send a signal to the modules to beam you in, and if they are all destroyed, then it beams you in automatically. To calculate position, just ping the modules.

Oops, I forgot the ship is invincible, so no need for that.

Ok, lets make it pen-sized. More managable, without need for too much technobabble. And you can write with it!. And you can replicate these ad infinitum with the uber replicators. Level a whole galaxy with a huge fleet of pen-sized Death Stars.

After all, you can always use a phase cloak.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-02 10:35pm

Coyote wrote:Sorry to bring up something totally off topic, but my sense of the universe and all reality has been upended by the fact that MK Sheppard now sports and avator of Bill Clinton and Einhander Sn0man now has Adolph Hitler.

Did you guys plan this?

I dont think they did, Einhander's showed up later. But a hole did open up in one of my storage tanks, unleashing the unearthly power of chaos and hell upon the helpless earth. That might have done it.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-02 10:40pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Coyote wrote:Sorry to bring up something totally off topic, but my sense of the universe and all reality has been upended by the fact that MK Sheppard now sports and avator of Bill Clinton and Einhander Sn0man now has Adolph Hitler.

Did you guys plan this?
I dont think they did, Einhander's showed up later. But a hole did open up in one of my storage tanks, unleashing the unearthly power of chaos and hell upon the helpless earth. That might have done it.

All we need now is Marina changing her avatar to Lenin...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-03 03:18am

Mine would be small, no need for compensation.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-03-03 03:27am

phongn wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
Coyote wrote:Sorry to bring up something totally off topic, but my sense of the universe and all reality has been upended by the fact that MK Sheppard now sports and avator of Bill Clinton and Einhander Sn0man now has Adolph Hitler.

Did you guys plan this?
I dont think they did, Einhander's showed up later. But a hole did open up in one of my storage tanks, unleashing the unearthly power of chaos and hell upon the helpless earth. That might have done it.
All we need now is Marina changing her avatar to Lenin...

And me to Bill Gates, Wong to Falwell, Alyrium to Phelps, Bean to Daschle...

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-03-03 03:31am

Large. I'm talking Eclipse-Class stardestroyer plated by quantum armor with built in world-devastator for processing capabilities, dark trooper production facilities, and completely crewed by Guri-type models of all sizes and measurements!!

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-03-03 03:33am

Lol, this is a giant phallic symbol thread.

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