Favorite SciFi Ship

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-05 11:47am

I know I may get ribbed for this, but for StarWars I have always liked the old Action IV Transport. Pimped out it can make a really nice personal Cruz-Mobil. Plenty of room for extra shields, weapons, passengers, and still carry thousands of tons of cargo.

For a Capital ships, no contest, I would go with a modified Victory-SD.

I know it’s not as big, not as power, not as strong as an ISD, but sometimes it’s nice not have something so insanely huge. Once you get rid of the ridiculous ‘observation tower’ it’s a fairly nice looking ship. And if you have the money, you can fairly heavy upgrade it’s systems. Besides, there’s just something WAY cool about a ship that big being able to land on a planet. Oh yea… and an Action IV Transport JUST fits in its hanger

For outside StarWars…

SG1: Gotta go with Prometheus I know it may be ‘primitive’ compared to other ships, but again, sometimes it’s nice to have something fast and small. It’s not some ÜberWank fest like Anubis ship.

For BAB5, of course, gotta go with a Vorlon Heavy Cruiser, maybe flanked by two Minbari Tinashi class cruisers.

As for StarTrek, you guys can have your Romulan ships, I’m going with Jem'Hadar battlecruiser.

That NOS Guy · Post by **That NOS Guy** » 2005-04-05 12:01pm

So many to choose from, but here's the short list:

-The New Galactica
-U.S.S. Saratoga, from S:ABAB
-SDF-01 Macross
-Apocalypse-class battleship from 40K

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2005-04-05 12:18pm

The Belsknir and the O'Neill.

Lancer · Post by **Lancer** » 2005-04-05 02:34pm

SG: O'Neill.

"Oh, you've got better firepower than me? Let me stasis your sorry ass fleet, then turn your star into a supermassive black hole."

Trek: Valdore
The Valdore may seem skimpy, but it's got a body length of 600 m and a wingspan of 900 m to the Sovereign's 680 x 240. While it's not a monster ship by Romulan standards, it's still pretty large for Trek.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-04-05 02:48pm

Hmm. Lessee.

For the Wall o' Guns effect, you just can't beat the ISD II. A Wedge o' Doom. Marvellous

For sheer 'Dude!' factor, the GSV has to win. A 80-km silver ellipse (Although they're more interesting on the inside)

For the I like it and dunno why factor, the Avatar heavy Cruiser from Homeworld. It might just work, too.

Looks wise: The Lysithea class ships from Voices of a Distant Star. Also win the award for 'Niftiest weapon'

Junghalli · Post by **Junghalli** » 2005-04-05 03:33pm

I like the alien ships from B5. When you look at them you can really tell they were designed by aliens; no human engineer would ever build something that looked like a Sharlin or a Vorlon cruiser.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2005-04-05 03:42pm

Vanas wrote:Hmm. Lessee.

For the Wall o' Guns effect, you just can't beat the ISD II. A Wedge o' Doom. Marvellous

For sheer 'Dude!' factor, the GSV has to win. A 80-km silver ellipse (Although they're more interesting on the inside)

For the I like it and dunno why factor, the Avatar heavy Cruiser from Homeworld. It might just work, too.

Looks wise: The Lysithea class ships from Voices of a Distant Star. Also win the award for 'Niftiest weapon'

*points at vanas sig*

No Lancers on your list?

Civil War Man · Post by **Civil War Man** » 2005-04-05 03:54pm

B5: The Vree. Even their fucking fighters are discs! Mmm...tasty tasty antimatter shredders.

Honorable mention for B5 goes to the race (can't remember which one) that has three shipyards. The government tells two of the shipyards what kind of ship they want, and the shipyards build half a ship. They then send their half-ships to the third shipyard and basically weld them together. I just think that's a hilarious idea.

SW: ISD. The old workhorse of the Imperial fleet. During later EU it's like the B-52. Old, but still more than capable of scaring the shit out of its enemies.

ST: Chang's BoP from TUC. Just need to fix the exhaust problem and it's a great sniper ship.

Ra · Post by Ra » 2005-04-05 03:57pm

These are some of my favorites, in no particular order:

TOS Constitution-class - it's the original Star Trek ship, and still the best in my opinion. I know the old models look like shit, but imagine a modern CGI of this baby. The simplicity and lack of the "form over function" look the 24th century Starfleet adores so much makes this ship a winner in my book.

Hiigaran Marine Frigate - I never played Homeworld 2 much, but this just struck me as the most innovative concept in that game. Besides, having a ship loaded with Marines is just bad-ass.

Ancient "Puddle Jumper" - a small but infinitely versatile spacecraft that's part transport, part fighter, and even part timeship in some cases, and it can fit through a Stargate. Oh, it also has a cloaking device, making it ideal for scouting missions and trying to evade enemy pursuit.

Mk VII Viper - although these fighters got their asses whooped by the Cylon hacking virus, I thought these starfighters are just elegant and very well-designed. Cpt Adama still has one, BTW. The Mk VII reminded me a lot of the F-22 and concept F-35.

Liberty - although it got blown up in the Battle of Endor, the Liberty type of MonCal cruiser was one of the more attractive designs. I always liked the organic appearance (but still synthetic construction) of the Mon Calamari starships.

Styphon · Post by **Styphon** » 2005-04-05 03:59pm

gotta go with the SDF-1 Macross... not just a cool ship built around an awesome uber-gun, it transforms into a giant robot with smaller ships for arms!

other than that... I don't know... maybe the new Galactica...

JediMaster415 · Post by **JediMaster415** » 2005-04-05 04:11pm

As I went through my most favorite ships, I found I tended to like the small, cozy ships that forced its inhabitants to interact. Maybe because I'm a writer.

The Starbug (Red Dwarf)
Serenity (Firefly)
Millenium Falcon (Star Wars)
Barloz-class freighters (Star Wars)
Ghtroc 720-class freighters (Star Wars)
The Ebon Hawk (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
Defiant-class starships (Star Trek)

Black Admiral · Post by **Black Admiral** » 2005-04-05 04:19pm

The Blood Angels battlebarges Europae and Bellus are up there, if onyl because I prefer the "fleet" battlebarges to the more traditional planetary assault type.

That and both have lots of cool stuff built in, like actuality spheres (which I love).

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-04-05 04:28pm

Whoo, musta missed them.

I'll alao add the Macross to the list, while I'm here under the 'Because it's a MILE HIGH FREAKIN' ROBOT' category

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2005-04-05 04:32pm

I like the Honor Harrington ships also, just because the concept is interesting.

The Thundebolt Cruiser and Valiant Strike Carrier from Jovian Chronicles. The T-Bolt because of its overall aesthetics, the Vally because of its SLoD (Spinal Laser of Doom).

The Broadsword and [/i]Explorer[/i] from CORE Command. When a frigate can blast through a moon, just what do your superbattleships do?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-04-05 05:46pm

Star Wars: The Star Destroyer Mon Mothma, all the power of a Nebula SD with the added bonus of a Grav Well

Star Trek: Defiant class, designed to seek out new life and new civilisations and then blow their shit up. A close runner up was the Negh'Var Class.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2005-04-05 06:19pm

Nova-class Dreadnaughts from B5. Nothing says bad-ass like a mile-long flying armored brick with 22 oversized plasma cannons

Grandmaster Jogurt · Post by **Grandmaster Jogurt** » 2005-04-05 06:30pm

Star Wars
Executor-class. I've always been in love with this ship. Sleek, but broken up by the cortex, and pretty much as big as they come before scale begins to lose meaning, in my mind.

Correlian Corvette: Small, light, and fast. I really like the look of the guns and sensor array of this ship.

ISD Mk I: The armoured main guns look better than the octal barrels of the Mk II, and I prefer the three medium turrets on the axial spine compared to the Mk II's mess of random jumbles.

Star Trek
D'deridex: It may be mostly hollow, but it sure looks mean. And it's one of the few large ships in Trek that has a nice-looking design, in my opinion.

Excelsior: Best execution of the saucer/hull/nacelle design, by far.

Neo BSG
Base Star: The overall shape of this ship is kinda exotic, and I don't really mind the organic interior.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-04-05 06:37pm

Balrog wrote:Nova-class Dreadnaughts from B5. Nothing says bad-ass like a mile-long flying armored brick with 22 oversized plasma cannons

It's a pity we rarely saw those awesome vessels engage in battles they WON, as opposed to being the Minbari punching bags of the universe. Instead we get those shitty Omega class destroyers, with their shitty rotating hull. What bullshit.

XANATOS · Post by **XANATOS** » 2005-04-05 06:41pm

THE MIGHTY BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

AND IAM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SO CALLED NEW GALACTICA

XANATOS

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2005-04-05 06:46pm

The Shadow battlecrab will probably always be my favorite ship of all. I will never forget the feeling of awe I had when I first saw them in The Coming of Shadows.

Many of the B5 ships are in my set of favorites: the Vorlon cruisers, Minbari Sharlins and Nials, the First One ships, The Centauri ships (oh hell yeah), the Streib.... Starfuries are nice, too. The sheer range of designs is impressive.

My favorite Star Wars-type ship is the old Battlestar Galactica. Somehow it's more Star Wars than any prequel ship, and it looks much cooler than the vanilla ISD.

Star Trek Klingon ships are nice, too. And the Nebula class. I want one of those.

Oh and high up in my favorites are several 40k ships. The SM Battlebarge was the first model I saw and the whole reason I got into BFG--that ships looks badass. The Necron and Tyranid ships are exotic and dangerous looking and the Chaos ships (at least the bigger ones) look mighty hungry.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2005-04-05 06:51pm

Black Admiral wrote:The Blood Angels battlebarges Europae and Bellus are up there, if onyl because I prefer the "fleet" battlebarges to the more traditional planetary assault type.

What books are those from?

Black Admiral · Post by **Black Admiral** » 2005-04-05 06:54pm

Bob the Gunslinger wrote:
Black Admiral wrote:The Blood Angels battlebarges Europae and Bellus are up there, if onyl because I prefer the "fleet" battlebarges to the more traditional planetary assault type.

What books are those from?

Blood Angels: Deus Encarmine ad Blood Angels: Deus Sanguinius.

The Bellus shows up in both, and the Europae in DS.

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-04-05 07:05pm

In no order...

Star Wars:
The Invisible Hand
The Eclipse
The Executor
A VSD
a Maurader Corvette
Hapes Nove Battle Cruiser
Yuuzhan Vong World Ship
DS II
Nebulon-B Frigate

Star Trek:
Galaxy Class
Borg Cube
Borg Diamond
BOP
Vorta
D-7
Romulan Warbird

Stargate:
Goa'uld Mothership (love them)
O'Neill (on or two "l's"?) Class Asgard vessel
Anubis' Flagship/Aphophis' Flagship

BSG (new):
Colonial One
BSG
Cylon Raider
Basestar

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-05 07:37pm

Aside from favorite ships, If I could put together a 'modest' fleet of ships, I think a lovely Task force would be:

1 Victory-SD
2 Old Republic Dreadnaughts
2 Lancers
4 Carracks
8 Marauder Corvetts

Of course I could go Wanking and say 100 ISD-II's but like I said, this is good for just a modest force.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2005-04-05 07:40pm

Black Admiral wrote:
Blood Angels: Deus Encarmine ad Blood Angels: Deus Sanguinius.

The Bellus shows up in both, and the Europae in DS.

*sighs* Looks like I might not be able to wait until they hit the used bookstores... I'm a sucker for a decent spacebattle.