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Ship Comparisons Across Genre

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Don't know if this violates the posting rules, but I found this while trolling the 'net...

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what do you think about these comparisons?
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This has been one of my favorite images since I first saw it. I LOVE the Executor and it's grand scale: You just don't think of it as that massive. I won't get into "This will beat that", but damn what a great chart.
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wow they even have V.
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Really cool being able to see all the ships at once.
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Wow... how cool is that? :mrT:
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Post by Varthikes »

I wish there were cross-universe comparison charts like those here at DITL where I could compare two or three specific ships.

I also wish they had an Asgard mothership in these charts.
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Post by RK_Striker_JK_5 »

An awesome picture, there. I had to laugh when I saw the ISS Executor's bigger than Babylon Five.
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No Serenity? Oh wait, it's the bottom 2 pixels in the right corner.
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Varthikes wrote:I wish there were cross-universe comparison charts like those here at DITL where I could compare two or three specific ships.
I agree. I was typing up some ships from other genres into the ship strength calculator and got some funny results. Be interesting to see some ships from those other universes. I'd be happy to lend a hand.
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Post by Sionnach Glic »

Very cool, someone finally got the Executers length right.
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First off, I don't mind this being here - simply putting the ships next to one another doesn't count as a crossover / versus type thing to me at least.

Very cool pic! :) I love to see all the different stuff next to one another... I am sorely tempted to steal it and stick all my own ship designs on! (The biggest ship I ever designed is three miles long, roughly.)

As for our size charts, adding ships is simplicity itself; you just upload the picture, put a title in the DB, add the length and two or three other bits of info, and that's that. The site does everything else automatically on the fly. I could cut all those ships out of that pic and add them in an hour or so.

Unfortunately, I can't really see any way to justify the "real" DITL having a bunch of ancient Earth sci-fi ships in their database! We have a strict rule that it must at least be mentioned somewhere in Star Trek to appear on our size charts - though we happily include stuff like 20th century aircraft, cars, etc. We even put the RMS Titanic in when Tom mentioned it in one episode of Voyager!
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Post by Captain Seafort »

This is another good site for size comparisons - with the updated 19km length for the Executor rather than the rough estimate on the one Foxbat posted.
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Captain Seafort wrote:This is another good site for size comparisons - with the updated 19km length for the Executor rather than the rough estimate on the one Foxbat posted.
That site's even got humanoid-sized characters there. So cool!
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Post by Sionnach Glic »

Thats a pretty good one too. :)
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Post by Bryan Moore »

I like the "BIG" scale. What a crazy concept, a Dyson Sphere.
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