The 'Sidonia' from Knights of Sidonia.
Posted on 05/18/2015 10:38:36 PM PDT by Utilizer
Yup, spaceships again. Between Star Citizen, the new Halo, the new Star Wars, a couple of key mods for Sins of a Solar Empire that I keep up with and have done some voice work on, and Destiny, my mind has been buzzing with them. I’m a huge nerd who thinks of things in my free time like “if I were a shinigami what kind of Zanpakutō would I have?” and “I wonder if I’d rather be a ranger or a mage” and “ff I were a Jedi in the New Jedi Order, what kind of ship would I have?” And alongside that sort of inane theorycrafting and imagination comes obvious questions, like “would I want to captain a cruiser or a carrier?” But then, what exactly is the difference?
There are lots of different ship classes in science fiction, and I’m not talking about the designated name for a particular frame (like Victory-class or Firefly-class). I’m talking about classification of ship roles. You have your cruisers, your destroyers, your frigates and corvettes, your dreadnoughts, and all sorts of other roles. But something that always confused me is exactly what the differences are between them. If you had shown me two ships and claimed one was a destroyer and one was a cruiser I wouldn’t have really understood what that actually means and what roles they employ in a battle. How is a battleship different from a battlecruiser? Is there any difference between a star cruiser and an assault cruiser, and if so what is it?
So like any good geek I did research and actually enjoyed doing it!
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I guess this does not necessarily apply to the modern maritime navies of the world. I should also have added “real” in there somewhere.
By the way if Star Citizen comes close to what was promised, it is going to be awesome.
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The 'Sidonia' from Knights of Sidonia.
You have got to be kidding. It looks like a bloody laser-printer cartridge spraypainted silver (or grey) and shot from an angle where the manufacturer’s logo can not be seen!
Ed Wood SFX
It’s from a manga with a very gray-scale color pallet. The anime is no different, with a lot of the colors in the ship being variations of off-white.
The animation is all 3D and seems to be moving at about 20 frames per second, but if you get used to it the story is incredible.
The Deucalion from Aldnoah.Zero.
Get into the Honorverse with David Weber’s Honor Harrington series and you will have a good understanding of ship class responsibilities. Plus a great read.
Ping.
No thanks. I’ve looked at the descriptors for that series and am not interested for the same reasons I do not care to read about the adventures of a female priest or female firefighter.
I will stick to reading about interesting characters, not any books that mrs bill, pelosi, or any of the other feminist harpies would approve of.
Cheers.
The Honorverse is a retelling of the Napoleonic Wars while his Safehold series is a retelling of the 30 years war.
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