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Old May 12th, 2003, 08:36 PM   #1
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Default A "What if" of ship designs

Hadn't seen anything from this universe before but thought it interesting in light of the "naval" underpinnings of much of what M/E has done with the not very naval Galactica. This just makes me very curious about what the "reimagined" Galactica, the ship, looks like.

http://www.shipschematics.net/yamato/

Um, submarine in space, anyone? It really would be "above and beyond" to have yet another rip-off source in a Japanese space story's universe.

This guy also has a large canon & non canon Galactica section. Oh, Steve, there are MORE ships, lol. And he has a schematic for that 6th millenium colonial fighter-- calls it the Scorpion.
http://www.shipschematics.net

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Space Battleship Yamato (Starblazers here in the states) is classic Anime and Sci Fi, up there with Trek and Star Wars.

If the design boys at zoic or enigma borrowed a page or 2 from Leiji Matsumoto-san's design book, then it would be difficult for them to go wrong...

My favorite Matsumoto design is Captain Harlock's Arcadia...
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I just thought it debunked the "this hasn't been done before in Scifi" if indeed the ship is naval battleship or sub-like in it's design base.

These are indeed, interesting ships.
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Lots of Japanese anime is fond of this - from the very naval like "Soyokaze" in "Irresponsible Captain Tylor" to the actual aircraft carriers that end up on the Macross' arms in the heavily "bastardised" Robotech.

The list is almost endless.
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Frak!

Only noticed this evening where this thread was. I apologise, I did not mean to break my word that I would not post in this part of the forum.

*Abases himself very Japanese fashion*

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I just thought it debunked the "this hasn't been done before in Scifi" if indeed the ship is naval battleship or sub-like in it's design base.

These are indeed, interesting ships.
Was that one of the claims that they made?
If so then it is way far from the truth.
Fantacy & Sci fi story tellers have been using nautical designs in space stories for a long time.

Treasure planet is one of the latest stories to use it.
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I've heard of Starship Yamato/aka Starblazers too!

Its a very popular anime though I never really got into it. Its for kids mostly, though there are characters that die if I recall, so not for the very young.



But I get your gist jewels, Moore does incorporate some real bad revisions.
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Space offers some interesting problems for ship designers, it's three dimentional not two. Even Naval designers have had to develope compomises in their designs in order to cover a 360 degree feild of fire.
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I've heard of Starship Yamato/aka Starblazers too!

Its a very popular anime though I never really got into it. Its for kids mostly, though there are characters that die if I recall, so not for the very young.



But I get your gist jewels, Moore does incorporate some real bad revisions.
He may have suggested some stuff, but it is the deign people who are gonna handle the actual execution.
I am hoping that when they finaly show us the actual ship designs that a lot of what has been going around will turn out to be rumor.
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