The scale of Serenity
POSTED BY: Hera
UPDATED: Monday, June 12, 2006 22:05
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Originally posted by Epeyon:
I meant a side view of the shuttle, without the fuel/booster pods.
I thought you might have, I can not help you there.
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I think I have a side view of the shuttle kicking around. I'll have a look and let you know.
I've tried to collect side views of ships, and have a big collection. No mecha or Japanese Anime, sorry, just Sci-fi T.V. and movies. Where I couldn't find the ship I wanted, I've tried to make it. Wing Commander movie ships are an example.
I'm working on three comparison charts, fighters; shuttles and freighters; and larger ships. I tend to gravitate to the smaller ships like the fighters and shuttles/freighters. they tend to have more character.
The extremely large ships, I find, are big just for the sake of being bigger than the other ships. Freud and Jung would have a field day with the Star Wars Super Duper Mega Really Big Galaxy Destroyers...
"Umm Lord Vader? We've managed to build a ship too big to fit in the Universe..."
"Excellent... now mine is the biggest. Take that, Obi-Wan. NEENER NEENER NEENER!"
Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny
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Yeah, quite a few of the EU ships are just crazy, which is why I don't acknowledge them as canon. Those ships, not the entire EU.
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Originally posted by SpaceAnJL:
Have you read the article in the 'Serenity' book about the STverse meeting Serenity?
SpaceAnJL
Yeah I have, and it made me feel good that I wasn't alone in finding that situation ... I don't have the right word, but yeah, I've read it.
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Originally posted by Epeyon:
Yeah, because the engine adds on a lot, and you don't see the inside of the actual engine, just the part that turns it. And I'm surprised it's bigger than the Millenium Falcon, I always thought they were closer in size. Length wise at least.
The Passenger Dorms (which don't actually FIT!) are in the engine "pod".
So all the workings of the ship (fuel and water storage, thing that makes the outide glow, and the Laundry room...) are fitted in between the Engine Room and the Dorms (not a lot of room...)
Shes a seriously cramped ship (but still better than the Falcon
)"Remember, always be yourself. Unless you suck."-Joss Whedon
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Hmm... yeah, the forward opening cargo bay really throws me off when thinking the ships lay out. But yeah, she is cramped. And the designers kept in mind that every piece of space would have to be used well. Like the little push in sink in the crew quarters'.
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Wow, somebody had a lot of time to work on that. It's pretty amazing.
"We need to keep our heads so we can ... keep our heads."
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Quote:Well, in the Sovereign and Eclipse's defense, they were intended to be outfitted with versions of the Death Star's superlaser. Between the power requirements and the firing assembly, that's a good chunk of mass right there.
Originally posted by Epeyon:
Yeah, quite a few of the EU ships are just crazy, which is why I don't acknowledge them as canon. Those ships, not the entire EU.
The World Devastators were entire spaceborn refineries and munitions factories, and the Galaxy Gun. . .
Well, okay, that was just excessive (the real weapons were the hyperspace-capable missiles themselves; the gun was just a ginormous railgun to give them an extra jolt of forward momentum when their hyperdrives engaged).
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Originally posted by Choo1701:
The Passenger Dorms (which don't actually FIT!)
I've heard people talk about it not fitting before, but I've never seen it. Has anyone ever created a 3-d model of the inside of the ship and overlaid it on a model of the outside of the ship so that those of us who are not skilled at visualizing this stuff could see where and how it doesn't fit?
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