Does Star Wars have some of the largest spaceships in sci-fi?
Does Star Wars have some of the largest spaceships(and some of the most powerful) in sci-fi?
Maybe I just haven't seen/read/played enough of sci-fi, but in the vast majority of fiction I've encountered, even the largest of capital ships are usually limited to a few kilometers in length and/or width.
Some of the ships in Star Wars, on the other hand, are pretty damn huge. Those Super Star Destroyers/Dreadnoughts can be up to around 20 kilometers in length! And then there's the really big stuff like the Death Stars and that Sun Crusher thing. On top of it all, all of them seem to have the firepower to match their impressive size.
So what are your thoughts? Maybe some of you more knowledgeable types know of fiction where starships are consistently bigger(and more powerful) than those in Star Wars.
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Well the Suncrusher wasn't a big ship it was a single seater, it was just invinceable, and could make stars go supernova. Oh and
"Small" Ships.
"Medium" Ships
"Large" Ships
"Huge" Ships.
Probably outdated.
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Last edited by mattatom on Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:02 AM
Now I'm not sure if this counts as "sci fi", but Galactus has a space ship the size of a solar system...
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If you check the site they came from one of the questions on the FAQ is "Why isn't the Death Star there" "Because we don't have a chart big enough, even scaled down." Oh and technically the Death Star is a battlestation, but it can move and it's equipped with a hyperdrive, so what does it have that a normal ship doesn't, Lucien?
__________________ Every time this fool be come along
He gots you noobs cryin' out fo' mom
Leave the scene lookin' like Vietnam
Might as well call him "Matt Atom Bomb"
Like his name suggests, he's quite atomic
And this fool - he likes DC Comics
Two energy swords make up his symbol
And trust me, dawg, this homie's nimble
Then you and the Death Star have something in common, a lack of style.
__________________ Every time this fool be come along
He gots you noobs cryin' out fo' mom
Leave the scene lookin' like Vietnam
Might as well call him "Matt Atom Bomb"
Like his name suggests, he's quite atomic
And this fool - he likes DC Comics
Two energy swords make up his symbol
And trust me, dawg, this homie's nimble
Heh. I never watched Star Trek or Babylon 5, but then again, they never aired here either.
EDIT: But does it have anything to rival the size of a Death Star?
__________________ Red lights flicker madly, a siren rings and jolts are shaking the bridge as I run desperately towards the nearest escape pod. The escape bay is already on fire. I see dead or injured or dying people everywhere. The other commanding officers and myself are abandoning the crew and passengers to certain death. As my pod glides slowly in the field of stars, I can see the Hive-Ship becoming smaller and smaller, ripped apart by the deadly laser beams of the Ancients' battlecruisers. The battle for the Arc is lost. I failed, and I'm watching the death of one billion of my own kind, when the Hive is finally destroyed in a blinding, silent explosion.
Last edited by ArtificialGlory on Oct 27th, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Let me borrow that for a second, ahh here we go, thats what he said.
__________________ Every time this fool be come along
He gots you noobs cryin' out fo' mom
Leave the scene lookin' like Vietnam
Might as well call him "Matt Atom Bomb"
Like his name suggests, he's quite atomic
And this fool - he likes DC Comics
Two energy swords make up his symbol
And trust me, dawg, this homie's nimble
Apparently bigger than anything in Star Trek, Stargate or Babylon 5, but I'm sure not the biggest in sci-fi.
__________________ Red lights flicker madly, a siren rings and jolts are shaking the bridge as I run desperately towards the nearest escape pod. The escape bay is already on fire. I see dead or injured or dying people everywhere. The other commanding officers and myself are abandoning the crew and passengers to certain death. As my pod glides slowly in the field of stars, I can see the Hive-Ship becoming smaller and smaller, ripped apart by the deadly laser beams of the Ancients' battlecruisers. The battle for the Arc is lost. I failed, and I'm watching the death of one billion of my own kind, when the Hive is finally destroyed in a blinding, silent explosion.
Again, not sure if this is "sci fi", but Galactus's ship is the size of a STAR SYSTEM, and is speculated to be the greatest source of energy in the Marvel Universe.
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As someone already mentioned. ST has utilised a type of Dyson's sphere. It's a structure that completely envelopes a star and so captures all it's energy. Civilisations would live on the inside surface of it.
The following Space entities are among the largest yet known:
1. Cetadel (Mass Effect)
2. Alien Mothership (Independence Day)
3. Death Star I (Star Wars)
4. Death Star II (Star Wars)
5. Star Forge (Star Wars)
6. Unicron - The Planet Eater (Transformers)
However, if the Galactus Ship is as huge as Hewhoknowsall asserts than it is perhaps the largest space entity yet introduced in the Sci-Fi genre.
Oct 26th, 2009 11:45 PM
