Worst ship design in sci-fi?

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:26 pm

Captain Seafort wrote:
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Yeah... I'll pass. Thanks, anyway. The current direction in SW sounds somewhat like that... and I'm boycotting those novels.
The current direction of Star Wars is simply rehashing the prequels which, since I've already seen the films, I have no desire to do. Plus it would involve buying books written by Karen Traviss, which I have never done and now refuse to do on principle thanks to her evident mental instability and persecution complex.

Hence, me not touching the NJO/DNT/LOTF trilogy of suck with a ten-parsec pole.

YJK rules, NJO drools!

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:02 am

Jordanis wrote:*scratches his head*

I don't see what's so worshipable about some guy who turned himself into a giant worm and lived a couple thousand years. I mean, sure, he made Arrakis green again, but really.

Umm... wrong god-emperor.

Ah, but think of the glory... ordering a barrage of cyclonic torpedoes, watching as they destroy a world by forcing the planet's mantle to consume its own crust from within - all to annihilate a world too far gone with servants of the Emperor's Enemy, and to save mankind from falling into its own folly...

Or, slaughtering innumerable hordes of greenskins, in order to preserve the worlds of the Emperor's subjects...

Praeothmin · Post by **Praeothmin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:34 pm

I vote for the "Cityscape" ship in Firefly.
That thing doesn't look too strudy.
One shot and the ship would crack in two...

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:57 pm

I don't see what's so worshipable about some guy who turned himself into a giant worm and lived a couple thousand years. I mean, sure, he made Arrakis green again, but really.

Pfft. Him? He ain't the Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind.
This

is the Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind. See? He's got a halo, and a flaming sword. That's how bad-ass he is.

As for the SW EU; I stopped reading after the first few books with the Vong.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:01 pm

If i understand correctly the God-emperor is also permanently hooked into a Life support machine.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:02 pm

potentially a ploy, whilst the various twelve lords of terra and their successors,consolidate their power

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:05 pm

Well, technically the Golden Throne is a death-support machine, but he will be reborn into the Galaxy once the Illuminati gather and sacrifice the Sensei....

And when that happens, I don't want to be an ork, eldar, tyrranid, Necron, or Tau... or cultist, or...

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:06 pm

Anything????

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:07 pm

If i understand correctly the God-emperor is also permanently hooked into a Life support machine.

Pfft. Details, details.

And he's only like that because his own son, who was possesed by four daemon gods, led a rebellion against him. The Emperor was fataly wounded by his son in combat with him, and then destroyed his son's mind with a psychic blast with the power of a supernova.
Yup. That's just how cool he is. 8)

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:07 pm

it could be supressing his holyness' regeneration, thus allowing the terran high lords to remain in power, or the emperor may be dead, the myth of his survival as a figurehead, and the astronomicon powered by other means

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:10 pm

Nah. Other people tired to empower the Astronomicon while the Emperor was engaged with Horus - it destoyed them after a short time, both psychically and physically. He's the only cat who could pull it off. He's a bad... Shut your mouth!

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:10 pm

Actualy, I'm pretty sure there's canon evidence that the Emperor is still alive. For example, the 'angles' that seem quite fond of the Tanith First, and Commisar Cain seems to have some sort of bullet-proof shield permanently around him.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:12 pm

sheeesh does noone here ever get skeptical of what we're told?
i was told that tyranids could be killed with evian like in ''signs''.........

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:12 pm

Well, Cain also has a tendency to run away a lot, which can go a long way toward preserving one's health.

Reliant121 · Post by **Reliant121** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:13 pm

Personally i don't like the Mindless fanatic devotion to the God-emperor. I dont agree with most religions because of the unnecessary bloodshed caused by them. ESPECIALLY God-Emperorism.