Size Comparison of my ships

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:39 pm

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.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:09 pm

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.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:27 pm

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.

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:28 pm

GrahamKennedy wrote: Basically, they're built to break things and kill people.

That fills me with happy.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:49 pm

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...

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:54 pm

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..."

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:05 pm

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

DarkOmen · Post by **DarkOmen** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:13 pm

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

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:58 pm

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.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:20 pm

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...*

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:14 am

Could be worse. Could be the Birdie Song...

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:59 am

GrahamKennedy wrote: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

Thanks for mentioning that, Graham. I'd never heard of that before; the whole 'Planets' suite is awesome.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:08 pm

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

shran · Post by **shran** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:59 pm

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.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:23 am

shran wrote: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.

I always did like that intro. Reminds me a little of Terminator as well.