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SHIP NAME/TYPE: | V'Ger (Voyager VI) |
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LENGTH: | Approximately 98 km. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Originally built by humans
and launched near the end of the 20th century for peacful reconnaisance purposes, the
Voyager VI probe was intercepted by an evidently technologically advanced race who
augmented the probe and sent it back to Earth under a new internal conciousness, resulting
in a near cataclysm. |
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SOURCE: | Star Trek, the Motion
Picture (Film, 1982 Paramount Pictures), Drawn by Jeff Russell |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Whale Probe |
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LENGTH: | Approximately 74 km. There
are numerous conflicting sources for the length of the Whale Probe, but extrapolation from
the film has led me to accept this length as being the most likely. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Unknown, although the
device was able to communicate with humpback whales. |
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SOURCE: | Star Trek IV, (Film,
Paramount Pictures) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Marduk Mothership |
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DIAMETER: | Approximately 50 km. This
is the stated length of the RPG version, although the movie version seems to be much
larger. Further investigation is needed. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Marduk, the creators of the
Zentraedi. |
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SOURCE: | Macross II, (Animated Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell
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SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Island Three space colony |
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LENGTH: | Main habitat cylinder approximately 32km, diameter 6.4km |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | A. Twu: "Island Three is a scaled up version of Island Two. It has the same proportions, but has a diameter of 6.4 km and a population of 10 million. The larger
diameter means the atmosphere inside is thick enough to create a blue sky effect. It is also known as the O'Neill Cylinder or the 'sunflower'. Island Three type colonies are depicted in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam series." |
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SOURCE: | Image created by A. Twu |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Rama |
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LENGTH: | 50 km long, 20 km in
diameter. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Large habitat ship |
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SOURCE: | Rendezvous with Rama,
Arthur C. Clark, Drawn by Jeff Russell |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Vorlon Planet Killer |
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LENGTH: | Approximately 45 km. There
are numerous conflicting sources for the length of the Vorlon Planet Killer, but
extrapolation from the show has led me to accept this length as being the most likely. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | The Vorlon |
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SOURCE: | Babylon 5, (Television
Series) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Phobos |
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DIAMETER: | 27 km x 23 km x 20 km |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Moon of Mars |
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SOURCE: | Discovered in 1877, August
12 by Asaph Hall; photographed by 'Mariner 9' in 1971, 'Viking 1' in 1977, and the Russian
'Phobos' probe in 1988. |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | ID4 City Destroyer |
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DIAMETER: | 24 km across, stated in the
film. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | ID4 Aliens. Please
see notes |
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SOURCE: | Independence Day (Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Cloud City |
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LENGTH: | 16 km. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Bespin Mining Colony |
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SOURCE: | Star Wars Episode V, the
Empire Strikes Back (Film), Drawn by Jeff Russell |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Executor/ Super Star
Destroyer |
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LENGTH: | 19km (Official), Please see http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ssd.html for an alternate length and discussion. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | The Empire under Darth
Sidious (human). Darth Vader's command ship. |
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SOURCE: | Star Wars Episode V and VI,
the Empire Strikes Back, and the Return of the Jedi, (Film), originally drawn by Chad Wilson |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | LEXX |
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LENGTH: | 10 km. From original
Blueprints used in the design of the ship. |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | The Empire under His Devine
Shadow (human). This vessel is a wepon capable of destroying an entire Earth Size
planet. |
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SOURCE: | LEXX (TV series) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | BABYLON 5/ Deep Space
Station |
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LENGTH: | 8,454.1 m, from
http://www.b5tech.com/babylonproject/babylon5station/babylon5station.html |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Human. "Babylon
5 is a 8,454.1* meter (five-mile) long, 840 meter diameter, 9.1 billion ton O'Neil class
space station, located at a pivotal main jump gate in the Epsilon system." |
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SOURCE: | Babylon 5 (TV series) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | MACROSS Starships |
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LENGTH: | Various |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Various |
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SOURCE: | Macross (Animated film) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Alien Ship from 'Crysis' video Game |
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LENGTH: | 3475m |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | http://www.ea.com/crysis/index.jsp |
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SOURCE: | 'Crysis' video Game |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | BABYLON 5 Starships |
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LENGTH: | Various |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Various |
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SOURCE: | Babylon 5 (TV series) |
SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Death Star II/ Mobile Command Base |
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DIAMETER: | 160km (official size, see http://www.theforce.net/swtc/ds/ for an alternate size theory and discussion.) |
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BUILDER/COMMENTS: | The Empire under Darth Sidious (human). Incorporated into the base is a laser-type weapon capable of destroying an entire Earth sized planet. |
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SOURCE: | Star Wars, Episode VI (Film) |