Favorite ship design and why

TheDayman

TheDayman
Based purely on aesthetics and regardless of class, mass, tonnage or firepower, what ship design is your absolute favorite both in Elite and non-Elite?

For example, mine are:

Elite: Viper Mk III. I have a soft spot for this ship ever since it was introduced in the Beta. It sounds cool and looks fast and agile. The original bounty hunting video where Frontier first introduced mines was what made me purchase the Beta.

Non-Elite: Imperial Star Destroyer. It just looks so iconic and downright capable. The way the bridge is placed makes it look like a castle on top of a mountain of fire and steel. I've always loved this ship since the day I first laid eyes on it.
 

nosleepdemon

nosleepdemon
Have to agree with you about the Viper, it's a sweet ship and has the coolest paintjobs out of all of them. Outside of Elite, probably the Nostalgia for Infinity from Alastair Reyonold's Revelation Space series, or the Normandy from Mass Effect.
 

GluttonyFang

GluttonyFang
Imperial Courier

-Spacious in internal compartments
-Impressive shield value for the size of its ship
-Adequate speed for combat
-Adequate maneuverability for combat
-4 Utility HP availability
-3 Medium HP to take advantage of kinetic weaponry.
-Stylish design both interior and exterior
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
nosleepdemon said:
Have to agree with you about the Viper, it's a sweet ship and has the coolest paintjobs out of all of them. Outside of Elite, probably the Nostalgia for Infinity from Alastair Reyonold's Revelation Space series, or the Normandy from Mass Effect.
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Ahh the good ol'e Normandy. Who doesn't love that ship :D

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GluttonyFang said:
Imperial Courier

-Spacious in internal compartments
-Impressive shield value for the size of its ship
-Adequate speed for combat
-Adequate maneuverability for combat
-4 Utility HP availability
-3 Medium HP to take advantage of kinetic weaponry.
-Stylish design both interior and exterior
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Ay, she is quite a sexy ship that one. And the view! Who wouldn't love that cockpit?
 

TheDayman

TheDayman
dylman said:
USS Defiant. Tough little ship.
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I heard about that. It's a Star Trek ship right? I heard there's contention over it being so small yet so powerful because traditionally speaking, the larger the ship in Star Trek, the more powerful, so for one to be so small yet much more powerful is counter-intuitive for lore.
 

Captain Willard

Captain Willard
The most imposing looking ship was the Borg cube, freaked me out when it came rolling up to the enterprise. The coolest for me was the Shadow ship from Babylon 5
 

Lheim

Lheim
I'm not a big fan of the whole 'alien tentacles' sort of randomly completely unpragmatic design for alien ships in a lot of sci-fi.

For me, the Python works really well. Smooth, deadly, utilitarian.

If you're going to turn a spaceship into the metal equivalent of C'thulhu, you better give me a practical reason for all those vulnerable misshapen tentacles plastering the hull.
 

dylman

dylman
TheDayman said:
I heard about that. It's a Star Trek ship right? I heard there's contention over it being so small yet so powerful because traditionally speaking, the larger the ship in Star Trek, the more powerful, so for one to be so small yet much more powerful is counter-intuitive for lore.
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I'm fine with it, she was the first dedicated warship Starfleet had ever designed - they were all explorers/scientific vessels before they built the Defiant to fight the Borg. No need for decks and decks of laboratories and family quarters, just big guns, big warp core, big engines and lots of armour. Sexy.
 

Flash_Baggins

Flash_Baggins
Elite: Clipper, I fell in love with how it looked almost immediately

Star Trek: Either the Sovereign class Enterprise or the Prometheuse

Star Wars good movies: Y-wing

Star Wars prequels: Delta 7
 

GilliganTX

GilliganTX
Elite: Probably the Vulture. It just looks like an Angry beetle, or something. IDK. The iEagle is close, and the standard eagle in black looks awesome.

Corvette looks awesome. Viper 3 and 4 look pretty good as well.

And something about the t6 seems, "appropriate."



non-elte: Oh man, that's a good one. I was a big fan of the capital ship designs in the prequel star-wars trilogy. The Enterprise D (TNG) is pretty awesome. Obviously the Falcon gets a mention...


And though they haven't made it to the screen yet, I'm REALLY looking forward to see what sci-fi channel does with the Tree-Ships (Yggdrasil) when they air the Hyperion series they're working on. Those sounded just beautiful in the book...


TheDayman said:
I heard about that. It's a Star Trek ship right? I heard there's contention over it being so small yet so powerful because traditionally speaking, the larger the ship in Star Trek, the more powerful, so for one to be so small yet much more powerful is counter-intuitive for lore.
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It's one of the first/only Military/combat spec star ships in star fleet. It's an FAS or FDL to the Enterpris'es Anaconda, as the various Enterprises were always "multi-purpose" ships meant for exploration, science, some combat, and with a lot of "mission flexibility."
 

Derath

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Today i'm going for the Python in elite (of course) and the behemoth from wing commander 3 (or 4 I don't remember i'm sure somebody will remind me) just because i thought it was such a cool idea at the time!
 

Grus

G
It's a tough choice really, I like many of the designs, even though they're mostly wedges :eek::p But I think FdL takes my top spot, just for looking fast as a bullet with really sharp teeth. (Not the Super Mario kind of bullets, they're slow)

Non-Elite favourite is the Normandy, probably because I've spent more time with that ship than any other non-Elite ship.
 

Trafalgar Law

Trafalgar Law
TheDayman said:
I heard about that. It's a Star Trek ship right? I heard there's contention over it being so small yet so powerful because traditionally speaking, the larger the ship in Star Trek, the more powerful, so for one to be so small yet much more powerful is counter-intuitive for lore.
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The controversy is over what size it actually is. Some images suggest that it is as little as 50m long to 170m from DS9 technical manual: http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/defiant-problems.htm
 
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[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
For me
Elite probably the sidewinder but ask me again tomorrow and it may be the cobra or viper or eagle Basically for the most part the original elite ships FD did a fab job updating them looking coolmwhilst still being faithful.(Adder and FDL exceptions)

Outside of ED possibly the galactica Of course original starwars ships also up there . I like functional utilitarian ships where function comes before form** and they look like something which would live on a battlefield. If ever we get massive NPC transport ships I am also a fan of the nostromo

** if / when we get atmosphere I hope ship design has a huge impact on how our ships fly
 
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PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
In Elite: The Python - has a palpable feeling of heft, ability and 'rightness' about it, and I like the minimalist 'arrowhead' design.

Elsewhere... toughy this... The original Battlestar Galactica - a cross between a crocodile and a spaceship, and again it has that 'form-follows-function' kind of rightness about it.

Honorable mention: Eagle Transporter from Space 1999... are you spotting a trend yet... ;-)
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
Elite - Federal Corvette

Anything else - Venator Class Star Destroyer (aka Jedi Cruiser) as seen in Clone Wars Seasons 1 - 5 etc.

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