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by carapace 2209 days ago
Ages ago my dad pointed out to me that spaceships will be spherical. ;-)
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RalfWausE 2209 days ago
Only if its found on the moon by some guy called Perry ;-)
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chadcmulligan 2209 days ago
Depends on the drive system?

Warp drive needs nacelles in Star Trek

best results were tear drop shaped in the lensman for the inertialess drive

powered low G bits of things stuck together will do - ISS

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rozab 2209 days ago
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Core_ship/Legends

Wish wikia hadn't gone evilmode

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TeMPOraL 2209 days ago
Oh, the giant watermelon they cut up with ground-based lasers in Clone Wars! For some reason, it's one of the two scenes I most remember from there (the other one was this weird spinny droido-tank I can't find a screenshot of now).
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kps 2209 days ago
General Products No. 4 hull
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usrusr 2209 days ago
Union Dropship, it's a quite well published design actually but never made it into television.

IIRC this was also quite clearly stated in the Traveller rules, and then universally broken in all the lore.

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