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twistedmentat posted:This reminds me how cool Sark's Command Carrier is In a 3d operating space a tower on the top is similarly restricted, it's just that we're used to designs with no ventral field of view because surface ocean-going warships don't need it.
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Mazerunner posted:tbh windows on a spaceship are for decoration- it'd be all sensors and cameras. Sensors and cameras can always fail or go buggy or get blocked, so it's important to have simple fallbacks. If the ship is a carrier, that also means that you need to do air traffic control as well.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Sensors and cameras can always fail or go buggy or get blocked, so it's important to have simple fallbacks. Space battles would be fought at inhuman distances and speeds, looking out the window isn't going to help.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Space battles would be fought at inhuman distances and speeds, looking out the window isn't going to help. *peeks out window* Uhhh captain, flechettes approaching at 0.95c
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Brawnfire posted:*peeks out window* Uhhh captain, flechettes approaching at 0.95c Liutenant, you worry to much about the little things in life, you need to like vibe way waaaaay more? Besides, they'll get stuck on the deus ex machina shields anyway. You're totally anti-science dude
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The bridge has to be on the side so you can roll the window down at the drive thru
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Space battles would be fought at inhuman distances and speeds, looking out the window isn't going to help. Now you're just arguing about what made-up science you want to apply.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Now you're just arguing about what made-up science you want to apply. Not really. All your guns are going to be computer targeted anyway, what are you going to to, aim them by eye by squinting out the window? If your sensors are blind you're pretty hosed, windows or not. EDIT: Luke, you've switched off your targeting computer, what's wrong? Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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Until we figure out how we'll actually fight in space most answers will either be hypothetical or fall under the broad canopy of "very clumsily"
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Sark’s command carrier looks almost exactly like a prototype of the ship from Aliens because of course Syd Mead did both and he’s the fukken best.
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Uhh, clearly you're all referring to The Hastings? Man, what a weird game.
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I'm pretty sure space ships will have giant robot arms to do fist fights with each other. Anyone got any spaceships with fistfight arms?
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Deformed Church posted:I'm pretty sure space ships will have giant robot arms to do fist fights with each other. Besides Outlaw Star's Grappler Ships you've also got the SDF Macross (shut up it counts as a space ship) throwing punches. 
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Deformed Church posted:I'm pretty sure space ships will have giant robot arms to do fist fights with each other. Exactly what it says on the tin: "SDF-1 fists a Zentradi battleship" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIqT_NsPomk
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Deformed Church posted:I'm pretty sure space ships will have giant robot arms to do fist fights with each other. What about spaceships that are fistfight arms? 
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Three novelty dildos orbiting one another.
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CaptainCrunch posted:What about spaceships that are fistfight arms? which of course lead to a scene where the nightmarish kaiju monster incubating at the core of the planet manifested a hand that punched up through the crust and attempted to take down the hand-spaceship  Bonus scene: a giant voltron except the two arms are fighting the body in fisticuffs 
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MikeJF posted:Bonus scene: a giant voltron except the two arms are fighting the body in fisticuffs A Giant Woman! (Cue shiny eyes of wonder)
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SageNytell posted:Uhh, clearly you're all referring to The Hastings? Holy poo poo, someone else who played that game!
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Thank you all for the very cool punching spaceships.
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CaptainCrunch posted:A Giant Woman! Giant women piloting even gianter women! Giantwomenception!
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MikeJF posted:Giant women piloting even gianter women! Giantwomenception! Somewhere, a sci-fi writer and/or artist is masturbating over this.
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A normal-sized woman who serves as a sort of homonculus within a giant woman who pilots a gianter woman mecha as part of a team of other giant women who are also all lovers BUT their respective homonculi hate each other
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I think all discussions of spaceships with arms should include Bob Layzell's mining ship:
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Madurai posted:I think all discussions of spaceships with arms should include Bob Layzell's mining ship: If only there was sound in space so we could hear the nomnomnoms E: on second thoughts im not sure it's eating that
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Exactly what it says on the tin: "SDF-1 fists a Zentradi battleship" Goddamn those sounds are all wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfd5lcdNza8&t=1257s
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sebmojo posted:If only there was sound in space so we could hear the nomnomnoms What *is* happening? Are there two ships or one in that picture? It looks almost like a ship that has a four-legged body and a little neck with a green head that pivots around.
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Brawnfire posted:What *is* happening? Are there two ships or one in that picture? It looks almost like a ship that has a four-legged body and a little neck with a green head that pivots around. I have zero background knowledge to support this, but I'm pretty sure that spaceship is bending that asteroid over and gently caress-mining it from behind. In other words... sebmojo posted:If only there was sound in space so we could hear the nomnomnoms
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Brawnfire posted:A normal-sized woman who serves as a sort of homonculus within a giant woman who pilots a gianter woman mecha as part of a team of other giant women who are also all lovers BUT their respective homonculi hate each other Are you talking about Fight! Iczer 1?
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Brawnfire posted:What *is* happening? Are there two ships or one in that picture? It looks almost like a ship that has a four-legged body and a little neck with a green head that pivots around. My uncle owned a book (mentioned upthread) that had all these spaceship images with some text added to create a kind of spotter's guide to spacecraft. It was peak 70's and included an absurdly optimistic timeline with entries like "1981, first base built on Mars" and "1995, faster than light drive perfected." Anyway, since there was nothing to do at my relatives' place besides read that spaceship book cover to cover, I can confirm that yes, this is an asteroid-mining ship designed to grip into stuff with those "legs" while the green-coloured highly mobile fusion furnace blaster whatever melts the rocks down.
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Interesting. The UEDF ship also makes use of its disconnected floaty bits to rotate parts around when you use the console.
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Picard S3 looks to be bringing in the Elachi from Star Trek Online, using one of my favorite looking ships in the Elachi roster: To compare, the Qulash class as seen in the game: 
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Tree Bucket posted:My uncle owned a book (mentioned upthread) that had all these spaceship images with some text added to create a kind of spotter's guide to spacecraft. It was peak 70's and included an absurdly optimistic timeline with entries like "1981, first base built on Mars" and "1995, faster than light drive perfected." Yeah I have that it fuckin owns It is loving that asteroid to death
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Humanity went from the first jets and rockets in the mid-40s to landing on the moon in 1969. It seemed like Kubrick’s vision of what 2001 would seem like was easily attainable… but then Nixon and Republicans got involved.
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Brakiri ships from Babylon 5.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Brakiri ships from Babylon 5. Minbari but Soviet. 
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Dr_Strangelove posted:Minbari but Soviet. Minbari but capitalist 
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Minbari but Thunderird 2
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Minbari but Thunderird 2 
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