What is the most awesome spaceship in games/film?
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I've always been partial to "Swordbreaker" from "Lost Universe" even if that anime didn't exactly get a huge reception in the US. It's your typical AI driven super-ship, but I really liked it for some reason. Like most Anime it's one of those vessels that can take out entire fleets easily, and only runs into trouble when it comes up against another super ship. However, it was kind of interesting because for a very (intentionally) goofy series it was also very consistant and there was some definate thought put into it's capabilities, which made some moments in the series when it ran into trouble rather cool in the ways they resolved the problems. One moment in paticular being the Leap Rail Gun (which is basically a rail gun that fires projectiles that explode into black holes/singularities) as an escape device when they were getting pounded (ie using the other rules governing the ship to head into it's own singularity to catapult themselves into space randomly away from another uber ship that surprised them).dazhat said:
It's also a case where
The story was fairly tragic as the ship's AI which was apparently a personality imprint of the hero's grandmother when she was younger, his grandmother being a big hero herself at one point, winds up getting wiped as a result of extreme battle damage in the last battle... where you pretty much had the major hero and the major villain fighting with swords, as their respective ships eventually wound up within like 20' of each other guided by their AIs and cut loose on each other. This kind of made the ship more interesting to me overall, and was why it stuck in my mind.
For more well known ships, I suppose Andromeda from the TV series of the same name probably deserves some points. Many ships out there, and while that show was ridiculously inconsistant with some awful writing at times, it's one of those cases where they did a really good job of handling the concept of a ship with an actually intelligence and personality. I also tended to like it because I get tired of all the "OMG, AIs are evil, if they ever come into existance they will rebel and kill us all" crap that seems to be a default today. They wound up taking a whizz on Asimov's writings with "I, Robot" by turning it into that kind of story. In "Andromeda" there are evil AIs, but also tons of good and heroic ones, and nobody starts freaking out just because "it's an AI". Given that some of these AIs can blow up planets (fully armed Andromeda itself carries 40 planet busters called "Nova Bombs" and can rapid fire the entire payload, though you only see this done once) I thought this was fairly thoughtful, with a far more reasoned response to human/AI relations overall.... and yes while there is programming maintaining AIs as subservient in some cases, it's not always in play and when it's not, it generally makes very litte differance given the personalities involved.