Introduce Yourself in 4 Starships

[Raleel]

There is an updated version put out by Morrigan Press for use alongside their Terran Trade Authority RPG(still just an art/story book no game stats). However the art is updated to computer art. It's ok but loses some of the original appeal

Someone must have done a traveler home brew or something for this. It seems too obvious to have not.

 

[Bunch]

Someone must have done a traveler home brew or something for this. It seems too obvious to have not.

TTA? It got an RPG using the same system as Talislanta by the same publisher. Omni system. Game is Terran Trade Authority. I have a copy.

 

[Raleel]

TTA? It got an RPG using the same system as Talislanta by the same publisher. Omni system. Game is Terran Trade Authority. I have a copy.

I will have to look for it!

 

[chuckdee]

TTA? It got an RPG using the same system as Talislanta by the same publisher. Omni system. Game is Terran Trade Authority. I have a copy.

Is it the same Omni as Talislanta? It said d20 based, so I figured d20.

 

[Bunch]

Is it the same Omni as Talislanta? It said d20 based, so I figured d20.

Omni. When I get a chance I'll verify and post the standard Omni resolution table in it.

 

[Bunch]

 

[Fenris-77]

I had a lot of trouble leaving the Rocinante off my collage, but I decided to stick to just one more current ship. If we were doing 5 ships that would have been the other one.

 

[Necrozius]

Someone must have done a traveler home brew or something for this. It seems too obvious to have not.

Especially if you get a chance to look at TTA''s "Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space". I picked it up for .25 cents and love looking through it from time to time. So much potential.

 

[Kardinal Tabbe]

My formative years in four pictures:

 

[Telok]

Ha! I still have an old Apple][ knockoff sitting in the spare room with Elite and a joystick. Good times. You try the sequels Frontier & FFE?

 

[Kardinal Tabbe]

I played Elite on the C64, but my Amiga 1000 didn't have enough memory for Frontier. I've played some Elite Dangerous a few years ago. Fun in a weird, almost meditative way (Only exploration and trading. Combat is too pricy)

 

[Bunch]

 

[thebigh]

I've always liked gunship-sized boats - ones that can hit hard, hit precisely, and get out of there.

I completely agree. They're just the right size for an RPG party as well. It's a slight peeve of mine, and a difficulty in devising scenarios for the setting as a GM, that Star Trek doesn't have any ships in that size. I just want a nice versatile scout ship/gunboat with more heft than a runabout transport but not quite Defiant-size that can be crewed by a party of 4-6 without requiring additional NPC crewmwmbers.

 

[Kardinal Tabbe]

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What ship is the second one? It feels familiar somehow, but I just can't place it.

 

[Bunch]

What ship is the second one? It feels familiar somehow, but I just can't place it.

Starflight the video game. So awesome for it's time.

 

[Bunch]

I feel like it would be easier if I got a ship a decade.

 

[Silverlion]

I feel like it would be easier if I got a ship a decade.

How about every half decade?

 

[Sharrow]

I was going to put these in, but didn't think I had pictures. Turned out I'd scanned them a while back:

 

[soltakss]

 

[chuckdee]

Do I even want to know?

 

[soltakss]

Do I even want to know?

Yes, of course you do.

That is Dr Flexi Jerkoff's Spaceship from Flesh Gordon, a really funny spoof of the old Flash Gordon TV Series.

Spoiler: Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned

Here is an Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned!

 

[chuckdee]

Yes, of course you do.

That is Dr Flexi Jerkoff's Spaceship from Flesh Gordon, a really funny spoof of the old Flash Gordon TV Series.

Spoiler: Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned

Here is an Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned!

Will... not look...

 

[The Convenient Skill]

These are the ones I narrowed it down to right now. I'd probably pick others tomorrow.

Also thought this would be a good channel to say hello again.

 

[soltakss]

Will... not look...

Look into my eyes ...

Open the spoiler ...

It's only a link, click it, nothing will happen ...

Click the link ...

 

[Bunch]

Will... not look...

You might want to. It's pretty funny. But yeah it also has boobs so maybe not from work.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Yes, of course you do.

That is Dr Flexi Jerkoff's Spaceship from Flesh Gordon, a really funny spoof of the old Flash Gordon TV Series.

Spoiler: Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned

Here is an Uncensored Trailer - You have been warned!

I had forgotten how Harryhausen-esque the special effects in that movie was.

Because I knew it was a given that someone would eventually post a phallic-shaped starship, I was sorely tempted to include a pic of Nell from Battle Beyond The Stars.

 

[chuckdee]

I had forgotten how Harryhausen-esque the special effects in that movie was.

Because I knew it was a given that someone would eventually post a phallic-shaped starship, I was sorely tempted to include a pic of Nell from Battle Beyond The Stars.

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Ummm... Battle Beyond the Stars wasn't a porno, right? Because... I don't know about that design and if it was intentional.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Ummm... Battle Beyond the Stars wasn't a porno, right? Because... I don't know about that design and if it was intentional.

Oh, it was very intentional.

"My nacelles are up here, pal."

 

[TristramEvans]

However the art is updated to computer art. It's ok but loses some of the original appeal

um, yeah. Just a little bit

 

[Bunch]

um, yeah. Just a little bit

You can say a lot. It won't hurt me. But there a few in there I do enjoy.

 

[bleys21]

Will... not look...

 

[Rich H]

Brilliant idea for a thread! Some great spaceships so far and ones I'd pick so I'm going to go with videogame ones for a different slant on things...









All games I played to death. Maybe not the best spaceships out there, although I do love the Cobra Mk III from Elite!

 

[Skarg]

(above is a scale illustration)

(above is the game I've been developing)

(art for the game I've been developing)

 

[Godfather Punk]

 

[Voros]

Chris Foss' spaceships from the 70s and 80s paperback covers. Huge, elaborate and unusually designed.



We know Foss was an influence on Dune and I'd suspect on Alien's Nostromo as well. This ship sticks in my mind more than any other. The ship as city.



Next of course is Lynch's Dune itself, obviously a great influence on the visual look of Villeneuve's film (there is very little visual description in Herbert's novel). The Space Navigator's and their method of travel fascinated me and is still a lot cooler than hyperdrives and wormholes to me.



Battle Beyond the Stars was another favourite of mine as a kid. Hard to find good screenshots online but this poster featuring one of the main ships should do. There is also a memorable organic AI ship that looks like a cross between fallopian tubes and testicles. Not the most visually striking and previously mentioned by Tulpa Girl but as voiced by Lynn Carlin she is a very memorable character.




Looking over these I think the common link is that these ships feel really alien/futuristic to me, not just jets or battleships in space.

 

[Kilted Rob]

 

[spittingimage]

Chris Foss' spaceships from the 70s and 80s paperback covers. Huge, elaborate and unusually designed.

I read a lot of 1970s sci-fi paperbacks and it's surprising how many of them have naked women on the cover. Well, not really surprising given the target audience at the time. But it's common enough that when I hit the second hand book shops I gravitate to naked women covers because I know they'll be the kind of sci-fi I like.

 

[Kilted Rob]

I read a lot of 1970s sci-fi paperbacks and it's surprising how many of them have naked women on the cover. Well, not really surprising given the target audience at the time. But it's common enough that when I hit the second hand book shops I gravitate to naked women covers because I know they'll be the kind of sci-fi I like.

More than a few had men in various shades of nakedness as well.

 

[thebigh]

The science fiction I grew up reading, from the 80s and early 90s, very frequently featured complicated and gaudy covers (often by Steve Crisp) that in no way related to what the book was about.

 

[EmperorNorton]