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Ahriman238 wrote:Before Shroomy gets to it, how about the refit Des Moines and inevitable follow-up ships from Eye of the Storm? You know, the one shaped like a golden, naked woman with wings and a fighter bay between her legs? Tasteful, it probably isn't, but a thousand generations of men could probably agree that it has very pleasing lines.
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As opposed to a bigass warship that turns into a giant housemaid with a vacuum cleaner? I know which one I like better :D
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Ahriman238 wrote:Before Shroomy gets to it, how about the refit Des Moines and inevitable follow-up ships from Eye of the Storm? You know, the one shaped like a golden, naked woman with wings and a fighter bay between her legs? Tasteful, it probably isn't, but a thousand generations of men could probably agree that it has very pleasing lines.
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In the book, they justify it by coming up with a new weapon 'the Quantum Tangler' that happens to be shaped just like a breast. It also necessitated more power, thus a thick round bulge around the midpoint (like hips) and from there the designers just decided to run with it. No pictures of the ship, but that's probaby a good thing.

On the one hand, it is sort of awesome. Nothing says humanity is reaching the stars quite like a human-shaped starship. On the other hand... It really seems like something Shroomy would have come up with.

But this reminds me, for combining aesthetically pleasing with sheer awesomeness, it'd be hard to compete with the Pemalites. Behold!

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the moment you said Posleen it all made sense to me. After all, after blatant racism and Nazi worship misogyny seems just the next logical step.
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Thanas wrote:the moment you said Posleen it all made sense to me. After all, after blatant racism and Nazi worship misogyny seems just the next logical step.
Sadly true, though I don't think it was something conjured from pure misogyny. That said, there is such a thing as a tasteful nude, and that's how the ship will always be in my imagination. Excusing the placement of the fighter bay. I figure, unless you're on deviantart, if you give your nude angel wings it had better damn well be tasteful.

Oh, and the reason I put the Snoopy-ship up there is because it was built by an extinct race of bipedal dogs in-universe. Hence it occured to me when I thought of ships resembling their creators.
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Whoa, Shroom, that's beautiful. What's it from?
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Just some concept art blog.
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The Reaction Engines Ltd. Skylon spaceplane concept.

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Looks even more like the SR-71 than the Naboo Royal Starship does.
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I love the Skylon! To me it looks like a Revelation Space lighthugger with extra control surfaces. And a couple of orders of magnitude smaller.
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Havok wrote:This thread, predictably, turned into "my favorite ship".

Half of the crap posted is not only not beautiful, but they are down right ugly. Some of them are basically two shapes connected together.
As if beauty cannot be rugged :roll:
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I have a wide sense of beauty, however, so while I love this ship, I also love the Y-Wing.

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The A-10 Warthog of the spacelanes. Absolutely beautiful.
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The Narn G'Quan-class Heavy Cruiser:

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A fine piece of intimidation, but technologically inferior to the command ships of the other major powers in the B5 universe. As aesthetically well-designed as the Narn race itself, and did much to bring the B5 universe to life.
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The Posleen-verse superheavy battle cruisers aren't designed to look like women, they're actually designed to look like ANGELS, to the point of having wings and a halo. Naked, large-breasted angels.
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How does that make it any better? (Angels are typically not female).
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The audience (fat nerds) is titillated by it. The end.

I'm glad to see some people are posting stuff that is a) new and b) not dreadnoughts in space. Nobody needs to be reminded how branding makes people feel fondly about xyz trademarked spaceship.

Actually, shit, that reminds me.

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Imagine how much less boring 40k starships would be if this ship was never made. :lol:
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"Gunstar???"

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Stark wrote:The audience (fat nerds) is titillated by it. The end.

I'm glad to see some people are posting stuff that is a) new and b) not dreadnoughts in space. Nobody needs to be reminded how branding makes people feel fondly about xyz trademarked spaceship.
god these people

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When I was a kid I had a hugeass book full of spaceships in that style.

I wish I still had it :(
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And FROD knows the score. Thank you, mang. Thank you.

Anyway, I was also searching for high resolution images of the ship from Vandread, because it's a damn good example of a good looking ship, but goddamn it's elusive.
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Yes, let us continue my brothers.


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Of course, this, and then this:

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