Where âEveryâ means a very small, selective subset of.
And I guess he refers only to stuff that has been on screen.
Edit: Ah no, he mentions the Honorverse. In that case, itâs quite strange that a German artist wouldnât include some of the Perry Rhodan behemoths, beginning with Startdust II (800m), SOL (6,500 m), Basis (14,000) or Old Man (200,000 m).
i so wanted to give a semi-snarky reply, but then i looked at it. geez.
here is the list of sources: Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, EVE Online, Warhammer 40.000, Babylon 5, Robotech/Macross, Halo, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly/Serenity, Farscape, Titan A.E., Legend of Galactic Heroes, Starship Troopers (TV and Movie), Aliens vs. Predator universe, Lexx, Red Dwarf, Event Horizon, V, The Irresponsible Captain Tyler, Martial Successor Nadesico, Space Pirate Captain Haarlock, Silent Running, Independence Day.
Also, there was a Starship Troopers TV show?!
Yeah and it was way more awesome then it had any right to be:
Oh youâve got a big ship? Thatâs cute.
It includes primarily ships that have existing visualizations â this is a compilation, not a new visualization.
That is not to detract or complain â itâs a great visualization!
My disappointment was that there was nothing from Ian Banksâ Culture in there â but 1) GSVâs would throw the scale off (at 25-200km) and 2) no extant visualizations.
[ Nothing to do with scale, but itâs always fun to read the List of spacecraft names from the Culture series. ]
Now, what about Ringworld:
Yes, itâs a world but itâs a constructed object that is in motion, is it not?
Or maybe itâs not in motion. Canât remember.
Well, then â what about the Puppeteerâs Fleet-of-Worlds?
Again, yes, worlds â but they were deliberately positioned and put into motion. Thatâs got to be considered a scale-busting ship of some kind, nu?
this chart was mentioned in the sci-fi segment on the http://www.professionalleft.blogspot.com podcast last week and driftglass mentioned that it doesnât contain âeveryâ sci-fi spaceship.
A friend pointed out that it would have been even better if it had a handful of real craft: space shuttles, Apollos, etc. Also fun would have been some of the speculative but âpossibleâ craft, like those from Project Orion.
Very very cool.
After a few minutes fruitlessly looking for anything from the Culture, I realized it didnât include literature-only vessels. Thatâs probably fortunate - the whole collection could fit inside one of the casual art projects that occupy the unused corners of a bored GSV.
Well, itâs got only a fairly limited subset of the EVE ships. For instance it has the Iteron Mark 1 but not the Iteron Mark 5, and none of the mining barges, and only one of the Gallente cruisers. My Vexor is completely absent (though itâs not terribly impressive, being only a 80 metres or so long).
commenters on dA debating the death stars absence and if they were âshipsâ or not. iâm too lazy to log-in and comment over there. but the deathstars were manufactured, carried personnel and moved. not sure what else you need to be a âshipâ. itâs no moon
Add the TARDIS and Starbug and iâll be happy.
Itâs classified as a SpaceStation by the Galactic Empire.
toeing the company line i see? 
BTW, great post above: âOh youâve got a big ship? Thatâs cute.â
Not really, The Sun engineers calibrated - among others - six blue suns into identical cousins and formed a perfect hexagon with a diamater of roughly 9 light hours, to be used as a stationary transmitter capable to projecting ships from the MIlky Way right to its counterpart in Andromeda.
This is neat-o but the problem that keeps it from âmind-blowingâ status in my brain is that itâs got a key describing that 1 pixel is equal to 10 meters. If youâre going to do this, fine, but the artist uses images that have aliasing around them. So in real life these ships would have 10 meters of artifacting all over them. Sloppy.
Yes and it sucked.
Tardis is in, youâve just got to find it. Itâs not labelled - in the bottom left, and about a quarter of a pixel tall.
Also, I really wish they had some Star Control 2 / UQM ships. An Ur-quan dreadnaught would be a beautiful thing.
I feel cheated. The TARDIS is bigger than all of these ships put together. Admittedly thatâs only on the inside. And I suspect itâs not the only one that has a swimming pool.
