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I will defend the Ghost to the death. It's such a perfect design for a "Hero Ship/Base Camp". It's aesthetics somehow tell you both that it's an old junker and a rough-and-tumble mess of lasers at the same time.
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I remember how jazzed I was playing Shadows of the Empire and getting to Gall Spaceport and the Outrider was there parked on the ground and you could jump around on top of it and go inside it, but when you tried to enter the cockpit Leebo would tell you to gently caress off.
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Speleothing posted:Lotta cargo ships itt that can’t even grasp a space-shipping container securely. There have been depictions of them having some kind of clamp or tractor beam underneath to grab onto cargo containers from the outside. X-Wing Alliance had you schlepping a good amount of them around. Technically these are light freighters for small shipments (it's a lot harder to smuggle something big after all). In more real-world terms, standardized cargo containers were still kinda new in the 70s, and weren't really a thing at all back in the 40s, the time period that Star Wars is copying. Those were the days when longshoremen would load and unload every docked ship by hand. Of course on the other hand Star Wars totally does have ships that can carry bigger containers.    Although I've never actually seen an unloaded Rebel transport, it's just my assumption that's what they are.
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Feb 17, 2020 05:30
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How about space cowboy from planet Earth? Flying a truck through the stars.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiqFUdUpkw
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galagazombie posted:I will defend the Ghost to the death. It's such a perfect design for a "Hero Ship/Base Camp". It's aesthetics somehow tell you both that it's an old junker and a rough-and-tumble mess of lasers at the same time. Yeah but the guns sound like *thwip* *thwip*
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Feb 17, 2020 08:30
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Space silencers y'all, for stealthy lasering
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Wild Horses posted:Yeah but the guns sound like *thwip* *thwip* tbf that seems to be a trend overall and not limited to Rebels still weird to me though and i don't like it
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i had the realization the other day that han solo and chewie, in the car culture parlance that informed star wars, basically tool around in one of those big 70s custom vans
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i had the realization the other day that han solo and chewie, in the car culture parlance that informed star wars, basically tool around in one of those big 70s custom vans This got me thinking. My dad thought drag racing semi's were pretty cool, and isn't that essentially what the Falcon is? A big rear end freight vehicle that's been hot rodded out to go stupid fast? Like one of these fuckers 
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oh poo poo i can't believe i forgot about this image when i made my post: 
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Feb 17, 2020 20:23
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PinheadSlim posted:This got me thinking. My dad thought drag racing semi's were pretty cool, and isn't that essentially what the Falcon is? A big rear end freight vehicle that's been hot rodded out to go stupid fast? Like one of these fuckers Eh, a semi can't realy do the main thing the Millennium Falcon is meant to do. Like if you're smuggling things in a semi, it'd be more of a job of following all traffic laws so nobody suspects something or getting somebody else to clear the way ahead. Not like you can sneak a semi truck through a blockade or a border. The Millennium Falcon is more like one of these things.    Although I don't think most real-world smugglers are willing to live out of their ships for long stretches of time, so it might be even more analogous to something from a century or two earlier. Wild Horses posted:Yeah but the guns sound like *thwip* *thwip* I went to look that up, and yeah, the Ghost is weirdly muted. But here's a clip of the Ghost actively stealing some cargo containers straight out of a Gozanti. That shows both how you would haul things that can't be loaded all the way onto the ship and why you might want to store important freight more internally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7D6wJYTVY Also it bugs me how much Rebels just used the John Williams asteroid music for everything.
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Feb 17, 2020 20:27
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pretty much all star wars media just copies the music from the movies and i hate it
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KOTOR 2 didn't, and it has a unique feel thanks to this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DtVBD6W5_A
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Mainly it stands out because Clone Wars had some pretty fantastic original music, so it's disappointing for them to throw that away in favor of repurposing music for situations where it doesn't fit.
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And a lot of the times in video games it doesn't even reuse the music well. I remember tons of games where a levels bgm would just be a track from the movies ost on repeat, complete with stopping at the end with like five seconds of silence before restarting. At least make the music loop around you hacks.
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Now here's a snug little ship.  This one is an alright hauler, but there's so much crew quarters that it could make a pretty good home base for a whole team of people, which considering that most of these ships with elaborate deckplans on grid systems are from RPG systems, is probably the idea.   I think there's a ship out there that has this same layout but double cargo bays for a more symmetric look.
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Feb 21, 2020 02:54
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I'm glad the galaxy finally embraced unisex toilets.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i had the realization the other day that han solo and chewie, in the car culture parlance that informed star wars, basically tool around in one of those big 70s custom vans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_yoRDg-j0
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SlothfulCobra posted:Now here's a snug little ship. I want to play on this Space Station 13 server
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Cage Kicker posted:I want to play on this Space Station 13 server This is the captain speaking. All catboys to room 12.
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Feb 21, 2020 17:38
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I love love love that there are 6 crew stations but 5 beds, one of which is big enough for two. The crew has to take turns sharing a bed with the captain every night.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Now here's a snug little ship. why did they steal a sex toilet from the university
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Feb 21, 2020 18:16
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Any room with a single toilet that is not a urinal is unisex. This is a fact.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm glad the galaxy finally embraced unisex toilets. all you really need is a vacuum hose
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THIS is a Corellian YT-1300 freighter. I don't know where this ship came from, but it is not within the set parameters for a civilian transport. It has been illegally modified with two quad guns, one mounted cannon, several escape pods, a completely new sub-light engine, several stealth and communication jamming additions and a large, secret cargo area. Not the prettiest ship, but an excellent choice - IF you're a smuggler. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:oh poo poo i can't believe i forgot about this image when i made my post: Bring back big-rear end van murals
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JethroMcB posted:Bring back big-rear end van murals Buy a van
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Space RVs, you say.   I really can't figure what this one's deal would be, but it sure looks neat. 
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The Planet Express ship from Futurama comes to mind. It's basically a space truck.
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SlothfulCobra posted:
this is a houseboat imo. belongs some space veteran who grew up idealistic, went off to be a troop during some war, came back burnt out. spent some time angry. has since made a kinda peace w the cosmos and lives in the ship, moves around sometimes. lands it at the edge of the water most of the time, sits in the long arm and fishes out a window. available to advise and/or transport player-characters. still keeps a pistol nearby but not in a holster or anything—maybe a tacklebox or desk drawer or something
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Imagine if you will that your apartment or house or wherever you're stuck right now could fly through space and you could possibly spread whatever disease you had through the stars if you stepped outside.  This thing was in the Knights of the Old Republic comic as the Last Resort. It spent a long time camouflaged into a junkyard before the protagonists used it to make a getaway.  They went through a few ships in that comic. The next ship Zayne Carrick and Marn Hierogyph stole followed the pattern of the Last Resort, because it was a mess. (mess hall, that is)   Gryph, a lifelong conman, was so excited by the profits of running a legitimate business selling food that he lingered too long on a planet that was about to be bombed and it turned out that the ship was almost out of fuel when they stole it anyway, so he caught a ride on an army transport instead while the Little Bivoli stayed behind and got blown to pieces. Later Gryph bought a new ship, the Hot Prospect, which was very literally a pile of junk.  I know, it looks like a stationary mining platform, but no, it flies. 
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Does the Great Fox count?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Does the Great Fox count? Iunno, post about what's so great about it and we'll see.
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Squizzle posted:
Tag your penis. Mines the G9 Rigger.
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dialhforhero posted:Tag your penis. rude
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dialhforhero posted:Tag your penis. VCX-820 here They call me "Catamaran"
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