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Terran Ingenuity (Starcraft x Mass Effect)

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Mizuki_Stone said:
...is it wrong that I really want to see that scene again, but from the citadel force's perspective?
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"So, is the Destiny Ascension running fine?"
"Aye Captain."
"Excellent, now everyone shall recognize the brilliance of the Asari! No one else has the power or wealth to build such a silly ship design and have people actually be afraid of it!"

-Cue Protoss-

"Its a ship ~MADE OF GOLD AND CRYSTALS~ and they AREN'T EVEN CONECTED TO THE SHIP!"

"How could there possibly be a ship more ridiculous than our own?"
 
ForeverShogo said:
If we're going to be talking about the Protoss going "Ours are bigger." where ships are concerned . . . Just how big are Protoss Carriers and the Destiny Ascension?

I can't for the life of me find any measurements for that ugly piece of shit. (I hate the way Asari ships look.)
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MetalKing1417 said:
This should provide an adequate comparison:
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Heh, no.

I've got a scale in my head, and that popped up in the snippet, if you look closely.

The Destiny Ascension is described as "Four times" the size of the largest human ship.
Mass Effect Wiki said:
The Ascension is four times the size of the largest human ship, and boasts a crew of nearly 10,000... A nearby volus can be heard talking excitedly about his recent tour of the Ascension: though he was aboard for six hours, he only saw 10% of the ship, for the vessel was simply far too large to tour completely.
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Now, given the unusual design of the ship (Seriously, who the fuck designed that thing?), my interpretation is that the ship is four times the mass/size of a canon SA Dread, but is only around 1.5 kilometers long.

The Antioch, on the other hand, is 2.5 kilometers long, and while it may not be the size of the Destiny Ascension do to the more conventional design, the Citadel Defense Fleet has never seen anything like it.




Protoss tech looks nothing like a 'conventional' Terran or Mass tech - there are no obvious engines, the materials are bizarre, and the ship is made of gold and blue crystal, which may or may not be randomly floating around, orbiting the carrier.




Basically, the Citadel Fleet saw the Hyperion, and went "Hey, a new ship. Oh well, it's still pretty similar to our ships."

Then they saw the Antioch, and went "Wait, what the fuck is that thing? Why is part of it spinning? ...the fuck?"
 
Xeno Major said:
Then they saw the Antioch, and went "Wait, what the fuck is that thing? Why is part of it spinning? ...the fuck?"
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The fun thing (read mind breaking for Citadel scientists) might be that when they talk with the Protoss and find out the crazy/fancy designs in their ships and architecture are not made that way for beauty/appearance primarily. That instead the ship/building/weapon/drone designers had sound scientific (and psionic tech) based reasoning for creating the designs they have.
 

Xeno Major said:
Also, the Dark Templar acrobatics? Consider that to be one of the different Nerazim fighting Styles.

Some of the styles are utilitarian (i.e. similar to gameplay), but others are... well, flashy.

The Khalai (Zealots, High Templar, etc), though, they don't do flashy. The Khalai use style.

Maybe they will, maybe they won't.
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Style you say?
After that video, I have a hilarious idea of Templars using a mix of Saturday night fever moves and that walk that Spiderman does in spiderman 3 whenever they enter a major close combat conflict.
 
Uxion said:
That is a pretty stupid and shitty reason to model their ships like that.
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The regular cruisers almost look reasonable. I could probably photoshop 'caps' to make them look less _absolutely_ stupid looking.

{EDIT} Super-fast cludgey work, ho!

 
I'll use your take on it then. I was really just being a sneaky bastard so I'd have a size to work off of with a crossover I talked about like a year ago but still haven't started yet. (Gundam.)

Council: Behold the center of galactic power!
UC!Humanity: . . . That's it? We've got like 50 of these things back home.

And then they tell the Council about how they totally converted a few into FUCKHUGE laser cannons, just because they could.

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And yeah, I've also seen people try to justify Asari ship design by pulling that All-Female card and saying that would make them build Vagina Ships instead of Dick Ships like the other races.

Doesn't make their ships any less retarded looking, even if you buy into that bullshit.
 
Doomsought said:
I have a better inspiration:

Remember, a Lethiathan isn't just a fuckoff huge biological space ship literally swarming with biological capitol ship missiles. It is a huge biological space ship literally swarming with biological capitol ship missiles and ready for ship-on-ship tentacle-rape. If Kerigan decide to face off citadel, one of her first actions will be grand theft Destiny Ascension. Just think of the blow to the moral, not just that the ship being stolen, but how it is taken.
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Asari: Oh... Oh GODDESS! Wha-What is that thing DOING to the Ascension?
Marine: *takes a quick peek* I'd say... Tentacle-rapeing it.
Asari: Goddess, WHY!?!
Marine: *Shrugs* It's the Zerg, no idea WHY they do it, they just do it... The best idea I've heard is that Kerigan's a-little... frustrated...
 
Xeno Major said:
Protoss tech looks nothing like a 'conventional' Terran or Mass tech - there are no obvious engines
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While I can't necessarily speak for the newer models of Carriers, the older ones certainly had fairly obvious engines.

I'm pretty sure the new ones should, too, though I can't say for certain.
 
It's amazing what I latch onto in my bouts of mania.

Still not the best, really, but at least it doesn't look incredibly jarring and no longer looks quite like a stupid tube in space.
 
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