Poll: What's Your favorite ship type?

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Favorite ship type

Brick
5
14%
Delta
13
35%
Hammerhead
3
8%
Sphere
0
No votes
Cylinder
2
5%
Cube
0
No votes
Other
14
38%
 
Total votes: 37

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Re: Poll: What's Your favorite ship type?

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Whatever category the Defiant, Millennium Falcon and the Nostromo fall into.
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Re: Poll: What's Your favorite ship type?

Post by Ahriman238 »

For verisimilitude? A stick with separate modules, and huge radiators.

Basic design? A sphere has the highest volume/surface area ratio, and has the added benefit that any external weapon or sensor should have a 180 degree view.

As a sci-fi fan? I like spaceships to be new. Novel. Visually distinctive. I like the Falcon, I like the goa'uld pyramid ships, 40K ships of all factions save Chaos (not super fond of the 'Nids, but that's mostly because I read of the Vong ears before) Andromeda Ascendant, I even like those stupid skyscraper Alliance ships from Firefly.
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Re: Poll: What's Your favorite ship type?

Post by edaw1982 »

I'm partial to the 'Capsule' shape from 'Albedo', even better because of their tech level allows constant thrust to generate gravity.
Although the mushroom-capped design is nice as well. With big honking reaction mass cap to cover the living area behind.
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