Terran Trade Confederation

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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:06 am

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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Archduke Daynel, PhD » Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:11 am

You gotta admit, they got a vaguely similar shape and both got side engines. Also the plating texture is vaguely similar. Also my brain might work in odd ways.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Tue Jan 27, 2015 10:16 am

Pods on the sides are hangars; the shape is only very vaguely similar. You puzzle me.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Saravanth » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:34 am

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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by  ҉  » Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:42 pm

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I can see it.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Iv121 » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:21 am

Well don't feel too bad about it, its a shape that makes sense so there are countless similar ones out there (3 tube scheme - 2 small 1 big in the middle). Besides apart from the top view they have NOTHING else in common.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:05 am

And yesterday I had someone tell me that my Noctis (https://sgtbenton.files.wordpress.com/2 ... rimae1.png) looks like Serenity. That I can kinda get, but... well... the 'two pods and a larger central hull' argument covers most sci-fi vessels known to humanity at tthis point.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Ivan2006 » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:09 am

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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Archduke Daynel, PhD » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:33 am

But Who's Counting? wrote:And yesterday I had someone tell me that my Noctis (https://sgtbenton.files.wordpress.com/2 ... rimae1.png) looks like Serenity. That I can kinda get, but... well... the 'two pods and a larger central hull' argument covers most sci-fi vessels known to humanity at tthis point.
That one looks even less like Serenity.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Wed Jan 28, 2015 8:45 am

Says the guy who compared it to a battlestar.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by  ҉  » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:17 am

But Who's Counting? wrote:the 'two pods and a larger central hull' argument covers most sci-fi vessels known to humanity at tthis point.
I'm having trouble thinking of one from Star Wars. There are enough ships that probably one exists, but I can't name it off the top of my head.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Archduke Daynel, PhD » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:55 am

But Who's Counting? wrote:Says the guy who compared it to a battlestar.
I don't even know what a battlestar is.
Is that what they call spaceships in Battlestar Galactica or something?
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:56 am

Yes. "Battlestar" is the catchall term for BSG-'Verse hybrid carrier/battleships.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by  ҉  » Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:44 am

Daynel wrote:
But Who's Counting? wrote:Says the guy who compared it to a battlestar.
I don't even know what a battlestar is.
Is that what they call spaceships in Battlestar Galactica or something?
Roughly equivalent to large warships in Star Wars being called Star Destroyers. Battlestars tend to focus more on starfighter ops than direct combat.
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Re: Terran Trade Confederation

Post by Error » Wed Jan 28, 2015 10:49 am

In the original BSG, anyhow.

In the new BSG, battlestars are consistently tougher (and arguably, have more firepower) than Cylon basestars. Certainly direct-combat capable. That said, their strike wings are their main arm; mainly because fighters can reach out and touch someone where your guns can't.
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