The images below are all exactly to scale, each pixel equals two kilometers to a side! Internet Explorer users may Click and Drag the starships to compare them as you like. In the background is the Earth's Moon also to exact scale for comparison. Have fun!
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | HALO |
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| DIAMETER (Main Body): | 10000 km. |
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| BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Built
by the mysterious 'Forerunners'. The back side looks a little
bigger than the front in this image because of the isometric projection
that I prefer to use, but this baby
should be to scale. Big? Yes, but I wonder if Niven ever played Halo.... |
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| SOURCE: | Halo
and Halo2, amazing games from Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios. The custom land and cloud maps used in this image were created by IRML, whose excellent Halo Mesh can be seen and downloaded here |
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Unicron |
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| DIAMETER (Main Body): | 1000 km. |
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| BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Unicron's builder is not described in the film. The size quoted above is based on pure extrapolation from the film, and is probably generous. I have seen sizes quoted anywhere from 3000km to "the size of a large planet", however the cartoon is extremely liberal with respect to scale and consistency. The Transformers seem to inhabit large asteroids rather than planets, which would mean that a large planet from their point of view may in fact be a large asteroid (Ceres is one of the largest known asteroids in our solar system and measures approximately 1000km in
diameter, which is why I chose that size). |
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| SOURCE: | Transformers: The Movie (1987) |
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Zentraedi Fulbtzs Berrentzs class Home Base |
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| HEIGHT: | 1400 km. This height is significant in that it reflects the length of
the Japanese Isles. |
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| BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Built by Zentraedi, under Supreme Commander Dolza. This is the version of the Zentraedi Mobile Command Base that appears in the television series. |
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| SOURCE: | Robotech/Macross animated television series, image drawn by JR |
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | ID4 Mothership |
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| LENGTH: | Approximately 800 km long. Please see notes |
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| BUILDER/COMMENTS: | ID4 Aliens. Please see notes |
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| SOURCE: | Independance Day (Film), image drawn by JR |
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Bodolza/ Zentraedi Mobile Command Base |
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| WIDTH: | 600 km, Verified by Egan Loo, Macross Compendium. |
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| BUILDER/COMMENTS: | Built by the Zentraedi, the mobile command bases are among the most powerful ships in the known universe. They are each commanded by one ancient and
gigantic supreme commander, who is integrally fused to the vessel. See Notes for further details. |
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| SOURCE: | Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Animated Film), image drawn by JR |
| 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) |
| SHIP NAME/TYPE: | Death Star/ Mobile Command Base |
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| DIAMETER: | 120km (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 IV (Film) |
| 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), image drawn by JR |
| 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), image drawn by JR |
| 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, image drawn by JR |
| 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, |