"Spaceship that you would want as a player?" Topic

…for a crew (player characters)…

It could be a non-warp/hyperdrive type that hops within the solar system or it could be a star drive type…your game dictates…I am looking for which ship design catches your eye first and foremost just because of the design.

So these are smaller crew types…corvettes, escorts, cargo, etc…so crews/passengers of 50 or less…could be more/less but I was hoping to avoid the huge ships.

Could be from any source and if there is a miniature for it then even better!

Please provide a link/pic if available so we can all share in the glory of your choice.

Certainly the easy picks will be the millennium falcon and serenity

And these are great ships with tons of character and potential…but hopefully we can accept that these are great and bring some others to the table :)

For me the ship I always end up going back to is the CR90 Corvette

I am not sure why but the shape, design, the greebles, all of it just speaks to me…it even has a nod towards real space which is nice.

I am seriously considering building one for 15mm…I may not have it hollow for miniatures but most likely will.

I have already collected the right sized pieces for the entire drive section and several other character parts of the ship.

Corellian Corvette and the Gunship link are both excellent designs. Small enough to be reasonably in the hands of (successful) PCs, large enough to carry stuff and flunkies, and hold their own for a little bit against a battlewagon.

Then again, I've always had a soft spot for anything Traveller:

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Corellian Gunship

Lots of the Traveller ones are great, most of the traders are on my close favorite list.

This:

Starbug?

The Scooty-Puff Sr. for me:

Dan

The Defiant – The Federations first dedicated ass-kicker

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For me it's the Space Battleship Yamato.

Sorry I don't have a pic.

Captain Gideon

Battletech Union Class Dropship. It's an ugly giant golf ball plastered with guns and filled with battlemechs. I love it.

I'm rather fond of the other iconic Dropship designs as well.

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I like the Discovery, but sometimes the Pod Bay doors don't open.

Good Old Type S.
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Well the ship's design started off well, with such good intentions, then… it got a little out of hand…

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Scott

I'm partial to the Jovian Chronicles Alexander-class 'destroyer'. Almost as big as the Valiant-class strike carrier, and has about as much firepower as the Valiant plus her entire smallcraft complement. Centrifuge section for long-term habitability, too.

These pictures show the older, unarmored drive section.

Long ago I suspended belief with regard to what a starship should look like.

The Traveller design presented by 28mmman, the Battlemech Union dropship, the Death Star and the Borg Cube strike my practical/realistic side. Esthetically I would go with the B5 Minbari Sharlyn.

All good stuff guys!

Lion that is a sweet and different ship…nice.

Allen I was looking for a pic of your Minbari ship

And found this oddness which is fun city…Minbari meet the Klingons

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My other favorite:

I like the converted 'nukesub' look:

Traveller Scout ship and variants…..

+1 for the Defiant.

Event Horizon…

But make sure I get that 'goes to hell thing' on there!

Or the Palomino…

I will always be partial to the Klingon D-7 class Battlecruisers.

All good stuff…the Defiant and the classic D-7 are straight up fine choices.

For the nostalgia factor, it is hard not to appreciate the ol' D-7

"LupDujHomwIj Lubuy'moH gharghmey!"

liberator from blakes 7
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flew with a crew of 3, only one of which new anything abought space . ( yay Jenna. Blake and Avon also being there)
or a Type s from Trav. for the more "petiet" style.

There's a distressing lack of Star Bug in this thread…

Heart of Gold, from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy…

I second the Space Bug!

OK, youse mugs asked for it:

Seems like a good starting point…

Leland R. Erickson

"what is the answer to 'we are going to need a bigger boat'?"

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I completely forgot about all of the other Anime Spaceships that I have a choice for (I can't believe I forgot the Bebop, for instance):

Wish that I could find a better image (if I had a frame grabber, I'd just suck one off the DVDs, since I own the entire set)

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And I really like all of these (and I need to find out where they came from, maybe Tytania – I need to go buy those DVDs too)

Oops!

Almost forgot one of my most Favorite Anime Starships: Lailalo from Birdy, the Mighty: Decode:

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It's hard to get a good idea of what Lailalo looks like from this Photo, but just think if you crossed a gigantic Killer Whale with a spaceship. Here's another drawing of it (from some different angles):

And to get an idea of scale, here is it opening up its "mouth" (hatch) to let Birdy out:

I like these…

No school like the Old School:

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Old School as in Nuclear Pellet Cannons…

Leland R. Erickson

Looks like the X-37B.

"Klaatu barada nikto"

(I'm Old School)

Alex, good stuff. The whale one is interesting…I know most folks are all pooey for living ships but I like.

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BWP that is a beautiful ship!

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Info…that guys illustrative style is a favorite of mine…the consideration of alien form…just great stuff.

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I was looking at the Klingon Bird of Prey

and the issue has an interesting conundrum attached to it, that of scale/size. Yes it is a made up craft and such, but even under its own weight it has issues. With the various appearances in the Trek media empire we find several dramatically different sizes.

Easy enough to me…a popular design is incorporated into a variety of functional forms.

But it is still fun to consider.

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Here are 75 favored ships, many noted above, but others with varieties of goodness.

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PK, my comment seems to have slipped into the wrong order.

That Yellow one up there looks like the X-37B.

Alex…indeed, they are close shape cousins :)

28mm, I don't think that Lailalo is actually organic… It just looks organic, and probably has a cetacean-analogue mind. That setting is flat-out Clarketech, with everything that statement entails (like ships that are 'living' but not biological).

Alex, I think that fleet shot is from Tytania, and the single ship looks like it is from Glass Fleet.

What amuses me is how the shape of X37 follows the common smallcraft shapes of Traveller….

Lailalo IS biological, as was Tuto, and it IS made from a whale (The Manga talks about that). It has significant biotech modifications (stuff I am actually hoping to pull off eventually – IF I move to Singapore or China where I can actually do human augmentation), as well as interfaces with non-biological technology (it has a lot of Nano-tech and electronics replacing its natural nervous system, but those are still grown using a synthetic form of biology (Like Craig Venter's Diesel fuel producing bacteria, or metallic stem-cells that grow metal bones)

The Technology isn't as Clarke Tech as you would imagine (probably 50 to 100 years for most of the stuff. Anti-Gravity being the most advanced thing they show, really… Maybe the Tractor Beam too).

The Single ship is from Tytania. Glass Fleet's ships had gun turrets all over everything. Their level of technology was still guns firing shells.

Tytania had monstrous fleets, like in Glass Fleet, but they only had two different types of ships in Glass Fleet.

Ah, I haven't read through all the Tetsuan Birdy manga yet… my kanji isn't up to it. Only seen the Anime, so I thought that most of their technology was hardtech and/or nanotech that simply ended up looking like biological elements for ease of interaction.

And I would love to have the level of augmentations that Birdy does… invulnerable to small arms, impossible strength, insane reaction speed (and running speed!), …

"Anti-Gravity being the most advanced thing they show"

…yikes…with anti-grav the door is opened for so many technological advances and into the realm of fantasy science.

I do like those whale ships…I have not seen those anime so I suspect I should.

'Upgraded' NX-01

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The Clear Air Turbulence
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Well I would wouldn't I?