Favourite Science Fiction Spaceship

I beleive they were the World Devestators...

 

They were. The World Devastators appeared in the Star Wars: Dark Empire comic book miniseries. Luke took up studying the Dark Side of the Force under the tutelage of the reborn Emperor Palpatine, which definitely worried his friends, as well it should. 8)

 

And here is the info, as promised.

ECLIPSE SUPER STAR DESTROYER:

Eclipse-class Star Destroyer Schematics
NAME/TYPE: Eclipse-class Command Ship
DESIGNER/MANUFACTURER: Kuat Drive Yards
COMBAT DESIGNATION: Battleship
LENGTH: standard 16,000 meters, prototype 17,500 meters
CREW: 708,470 crew; 4,175 gunners
PASSENGERS: 150,000 troops
SPEED RATING: 40 MGLT
HYPERDRIVE: x2
HULL RATING: approximately 65000 RU
SHIELD RATING: approximately 120000 SBD
CONSUMABLES: 10 years
WEAPONS: 550 Taim & Bak Heavy Laser Cannons;
500 Taim & Bak Turbolaser Batteries;
75 Borstel Ion Cannon Batteries;
100 Phylon Tractor Beam Projectors;
10 Sienar Fleet Systems Gravity Well Projectors;
Axial Superlaser (Planet-Destroyer)*

STARFIGHTER SQUADRONS: 50 TIE Interceptor Squads, 8 TIE Bomber Squads

PLANETARY ASSAULT TROOPS: 100 AT-AT walkers; 150 AT-ST walkers;
5 Pre-fabricated Garrison Bases

OTHER ONBOARD CRAFT: 40 Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttles;
35 Assault Shuttles

* The Planet-Destroying Superlaser on the Sovereign and Eclipse Star Destroyers is not capable of completely destroying planets. The Death Star's superlaser consisted of eight large superlasers which, when focused into a single beam, was able to destroy planets. The Eclipse and Sovereign have only one of these eight lasers; though, thanks to recent breakthroughs in laser technology, this single laser has two-thirds the power of the Death Star's complete laser. The superlaser are capable of bringing down even the strongest planetary shields, and can level whole continents and sear the planet's surface, but cannot destroy the planet.

 

I thought all this took place a long long time ago.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Very funny, Roel. 8)

The text means, of course, "recent" in the context of the Stars Wars timeline.

 

You're welcome. ECLIPSE is one ship I would definitely not want to get into a fight with.

 

I like the discovery from 2001: a space odessy

 

A nice enough ship, but the computer definitely left something to be desired, from the crew's point of view!

 

Yeah!! Talk about "The enemy within".

Give me Eddie, any day of the week.

 

Who (or what) is "Eddie"?

 

come on, this movie was made in the 60' at that time it was the best the industry can makeBTw you need to read the book to fully understand Hall 9000

 

Corp.

Eddie is the ship board computer of the "Starship Heart of gold". The first starship to utilise the infinate improbability drive. This allows you to travel to any point in the known universe, at any time in history. Sadly the outcome is entirely random, but finately possible.
It is of course the creation of the genius brain of the sadly departed and sorely missed Douglas Adams, from his radio series "The Hitch-Hikers guide to the Universe". Accept no substitutes, books, T.V series etc. The original radio recordings are available on C.D.

Cheers Dave.

 

My dad likes the Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy also. I have listened to a few of the tapes and I found them very funny.

 

The insanely good natured computer running (I think ) the Heart of Gold in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

 

While there is a topic loosly related to this, were there any Tie-defenders on the Executor ever?

 

Not to the best of my knowledge. Standard TIE types only.

 

Thank you, David. I did read the "Hitchhiker's Guide" series, and Mr. Adams had a very funny and creative, if rather weird, mind.

 

If any one is interested, as an example of Douglas Adam's humour. Here follows my favourite Hitch-Hiker quote.

Ford Prefect: "The journey into Hyperspace is unpleasantly like being drunk."

Arthur Dent: "What's unpleasant about being drunk?"

Ford Prefect: "Ask a glass of water!"

 

What about the man who hated rain, and had organized rain into 612 different kinds, and hated every kind, while the rain loved him and followed him around wherever he went for he was the Rain God?

This is one fragment of the story my friends made me read.