Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath
Killing Time is my all time favourite Culture warship. Especially because Peter Kenny gives it a pissed off London geiser accent.
xROU Killing Time: "Missed, fucker!"
Not sure in what context you're asking this question, but my answer is the International Space Station. I love how it's possible to see it at random sometimes at night, and the way it crosses the sky just looks different compared to a regular airplane flying at night.
The Swordfish from Cowboy Bebop. I recently bought a rather expensive model of it. Totally worth it though.
Definitely the Soyuz, it's hard to beat the safest and most reliable spacecraft
If we're talking fictional I'd say Serenity, I love what's essentially a tramp steamer in space with little nooks and crannies for less than legitimate cargo
When it comes to fiction, I'm quite fond of the Gunstar in The Last Starfighter both in appearance and in its surprisingly practical pilot/gunner and mobility systems.
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Plus it does that really cool spinny thing and blows away a hundred hostile ships who can't hit back for some reason.
On my Facebook feed there was a Transformer toy in the shape of Starbug called Smegatron.
The U.S.S. Enterprise, "NCC-1701, no bloody A, B, C or D!"
The TOS Enterprise is a 10/10, the TMP Enterprise is a 9.99/10, the SNW Enterprise is a 9/10 and the JJprise is, uh... big, I guess.
Lakon Diamondback Explorer
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Faulcon DeLacy Cobra Mk III (Specifically MY Cobra Mk III)
I was gonna say MY Fer-de-lance. That thing is so fun to fly around and wreck shit in.
I wanted a Fer-de-Lance but was never in a system that had one while I had the credits to buy one
They're cool. I put a PAC on the big mount which probably wasn't optimal for that ship but being able to oneshot the smaller ships with it (assuming I could actually hit them) was really fun.
I had a friend who had a Krait. Crewing up with myself in a deployed fighter and another friend of ours on the guns back in the Krait was lots of fun.
o7 Commander. Totally forgot about this hame, it was a joy to pilot the ships. I enjoyed the Diamondback Scout the most I think.
I never got the hang of bigger ships. I think the biggest one I had was a Type-7. I think I had a Federal Dropship at one point but I didn't get any use out of it.
Dropship was my biggest. I was aiming for Python I think but fell of then. I also enjoyed the smaller, more nimble ones. I think most of my time was spent in a Vulture.
I am mildly obsessed with the Saturn V. It's just such a feat of engineering and human cooperation.
BC-304. The Prometheus was so ugly in comparison.
Shout-out to the basic cable show that was giving us Hollywood-level visual effects effects as early as 2004.
Atlantis gets visual effects Emmy nomination
The Atlantis Effect: An Interview With Mark Breakspear
GW: Visually, which is your favorite episode of Atlantis so far?
MB: “The Eye.” The Rainmaker team created their own CG software to create the stormy water for the ocean. The level of detail and control has never been seen in TV effects before. Dan and Jose at Rainmaker pulled out all the stops and created mind-blowing shots. I think we went about 3.5 times over budget on that one — but you can’t get away with crap. You guys can spot that a mile away, and nothing kills a show quicker than cheap looking effects.
The Hail Mary currently. Just such a cool ship from a fun book. To think about what would go into building it and what that means to humanity is humbling.
Other notables:
- Enterprise E from First Contact because it looks cool.
- Cygnus from The Black Hole
- Sulaco from Aliens
- Trimaxion Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator
- The Abominator-class Offensive Unit Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints (my usual favourite lol)
My pick was already mentioned (Rocinante) so for second place I'm gonna mention the Galactica.
I have real soft spots for the Ghost from Star Wars Rebels and the Normandy from Mass Effect.
For the Ghost though, I really love its strange shape, the WW2 bomber tail gun, and the attached shuttle. It's both so typically Star Wars and yet still new.
dune's guild heighliner. there are many depictions of it, but the general idea is awesome (an enormous tube)
The Lynch one is great. The huge baroque hangar doors clearly inspired 40k's cathedral in space aesthetic
yeah the lynch one is great. im definitely partial to the new dune's depiction however, it's much larger and the smoothness is so imposing. it resembles the sandworms a lot more, which i think is an interesting detail.
