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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:39 pm
by Graham Kennedy
It is a mean looking SOB, innit?
They get bigger...
After Vanguard, there's one more major advance and a bunch of evolutionary stuff that improves effectiveness. But most
of the progression from there to the "present" is in scale. Bigger, nastier, more powerful versions of the tech.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:09 pm
by Blackstar the Chakat
That thing is actually affecting me physically. I have a knawing in the pit of my stomach, like when you know something horrible has happened. That's the first time a 2-d picture has ever done that to me.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:27 pm
by Graham Kennedy
ChakatBlackstar wrote:That thing is actually affecting me physically. I have a knawing in the pit of my stomach, like when you know something horrible has happened. That's the first time a 2-d picture has ever done that to me.
Wow, seriously? That's a pretty amazing complement, thanks.
These things are not vessels of exploration, they are not vessels of research, they are not vessels of diplomacy. They are designed with but one purpose - the dealing of death and destruction on a gigantic scale. Basically, they're built to break things and kill people.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:28 pm
by DarkOmen
GrahamKennedy wrote: Basically, they're built to break things and kill people.
That fills me with happy.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:49 pm
by Graham Kennedy
DarkOmen wrote:GrahamKennedy wrote: Basically, they're built to break things and kill people.
That fills me with happy.
Me too.
There's something just immensely satisfying about looking at a ship design and trying to work out just how many guns you can squeeze onto the thing...
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:54 pm
by Mikey
Just the style itself of the Vanguard screams battleship. You can't look at it and think that it has any other purpose than to make war.
If it had its own theme music, I could almost hear it pumping out the strains of Gene Simmons singing, "You'd better watch out/'Cause I'm a war machine..."
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:05 pm
by Graham Kennedy
Lol.
Actually if it had a theme tube it would be "Mars, Bringer of War" from the planets suite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw0jvqx1mNU
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:13 pm
by DarkOmen
GrahamKennedy wrote:DarkOmen wrote:GrahamKennedy wrote: Basically, they're built to break things and kill people.
That fills me with happy.
Me too.
There's something just immensely satisfying about looking at a ship design and trying to work out just how many guns you can squeeze onto the thing...
i like doing that too, unfortunately, the star trek ships are a little limited in that area
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:58 pm
by Mikey
Actually if it had a theme tube it would be "Mars, Bringer of War" from the planets suite.
I can't use Holst as an example - when I was a kid, the televised National Geographic specials used to use Jupiter from Holst's
The Planets as a theme, and the whole suite is now inexorably connected in my head with scenes of gnus and meerkats.
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:20 pm
by Teaos
If you really want to confuse your enemy pipe some Avril Lavigne out throught the inter com.
"Sir we have a transmition coming through from the Vanguard"
"Lets hear it"
"Hey hey you you I don't like your girlfriend
No way no way I think you need a need a new one
hey hey you you I could be your girlfriend..."
*silence decends apon the bridge as they wonder what type of monsters are aboard that ship...*
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:14 am
by Graham Kennedy
Could be worse. Could be the Birdie Song...
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:59 am
by Tsukiyumi
Thanks for mentioning that, Graham. I'd never heard of that before; the whole 'Planets' suite is awesome.
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:08 pm
by Mikey
As much as I like Holst, the whole suite is ruined for me. Even without the National Geographic connection. My wife marched, taught, and judges marching band, and it seems like every year, at least five schools choose a few movements from
The Planets for their field show.
How about something a little more subtly evil, from my favorite composer Modest Mussorgsky:
http://www.musicstore.jp/~tohru/mp3/bal ... .hi-fi.mp3
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:59 pm
by shran
How about this: the intor of V: The final battle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccknBnFfTk
still sounds spooky to me, and I have listend to that theme way too much.
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:23 am
by Jim
I always did like that intro. Reminds me a little of Terminator as well.