Somebody made a starship size comparison chart.

[JulesMaximus]

I have no idea what Warhammer is but they have some of the dumbest looking spacecraft ever conceived.

 

[sdifox]

I have no idea what Warhammer is but they have some of the dumbest looking spacecraft ever conceived.

from paper based RPG so...

 

[Gunbuster]

At 869 kilometers long Buster Machine III must have been too big.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I have no idea what Warhammer is but they have some of the dumbest looking spacecraft ever conceived.

And that's why you'll never understand why they're shaped that way.

Its a universe filled with war. Humanity is in a dark age in the 41st millennium after 10,000 years of constant war. Technology is stagnant, battleships are relics of a forgotten age, relics of an era where manufacturing methods were understood, but now, all they can merely do is figure out the bare minimum of how the ship operates.

In order to travel FTL, the ships must enter the warp, a parallel dimension where madness, daemons, and terrors lurk. They do this by the method of navigators, blind and mute psychically gifted people who can see the light of the astronomicon, a massive virtual lighthouse situated on earth, powered by the corpse of the God-Emperor and the lives of 1000 psychically gifted people every day.

The ship is protected from the warp by a geller field. If it fails, the warp would have its way with the ship, tear it apart, send it back a million years in time, slowly liquify every inhabitant. The Ship itself is a projection of the God-emperors will, and its form as a massive flying cathedral a way to spread the imperial creed throughout the galaxy.

It doesn't look like that because of form necessarily, it looks like that because it HAS to, or it could suffer a terrible fate when traveling FTL.

 

[torpid]

Seems like some universes got the scale wrong.

 

[Rakehellion]

Also .... http://www.merzo.net/

Best.

 

[lupi]

^^MechWarrior is the same universe.

I am well versed in the universe, and a key point is the lack of space vessels.

 

[zinfamous]

wth--battlestars are that small? :hmm:

do want: Eclipse class Super Star Destroyer. was that from the Dark Empire stuff by Veith?

 

[Gooberlx2]

looks like he took the one that's been around for quite some time and made a mess of it cramming all types of crap on it.

Seriously, the labeling is terrible.

 

[JulesMaximus]

And that's why you'll never understand why they're shaped that way.

Its a universe filled with war. Humanity is in a dark age in the 41st millennium after 10,000 years of constant war. Technology is stagnant, battleships are relics of a forgotten age, relics of an era where manufacturing methods were understood, but now, all they can merely do is figure out the bare minimum of how the ship operates.

In order to travel FTL, the ships must enter the warp, a parallel dimension where madness, daemons, and terrors lurk. They do this by the method of navigators, blind and mute psychically gifted people who can see the light of the astronomicon, a massive virtual lighthouse situated on earth, powered by the corpse of the God-Emperor and the lives of 1000 psychically gifted people every day.

The ship is protected from the warp by a geller field. If it fails, the warp would have its way with the ship, tear it apart, send it back a million years in time, slowly liquify every inhabitant. The Ship itself is a projection of the God-emperors will, and its form as a massive flying cathedral a way to spread the imperial creed throughout the galaxy.

It doesn't look like that because of form necessarily, it looks like that because it HAS to, or it could suffer a terrible fate when traveling FTL.

You don't get out much do you? :sneaky:

 

[AdamK47]

I don't see the GTVA Colossus.

For shame!

 

[IGemini]

Total and utter dogpoop.

Not a SINGLE Wingcommander ship that I was able to find.

Poop I tell you. Poop.

Fail's on your end. Check the bottom-right corner of the one I posted.

I am well versed in the universe, and a key point is the lack of space vessels.

I'm still not sure what point you're making.

 

[dbk]

for some reason that pic really grosses me out.. i guess zoomed out, they look like a bunch of bugs

 

[adlep]

Tagged, thanks for the info OP

 

[Blitzvogel]

http://xenosaga.wikia.com/wiki/Eldridge

This is the biggest I've encountered.

270,000 meter long colony ship.

Carrying Deus, the most sinister weapon system ever devised by man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc59wy4aT4

I forgot about the Eldridge lol. Xenogears has the best story in any game EVER by the way.