Babylon 5 Omega-class destroyer intro

[baalisgod666]

I don't think B5 made the best use of the planet @ Epsilon. The machine eith the Membari & later, a human, I think. Nor did they make any good use of "disappeared" Babylons, although one was shown being destroyed, the others could have been taken.

Overall, an excellent sci fi series.

[sparrowlt]

@baalisgod666 In the series is clearly told that Babylon 1 , 2 and 3 were destroy while still in construction... Babylon 4 dissapear just after ir became operational and B5 was the last of the Babylon project stations... incidentally it was the smaller of them too

[BattlestarDamocles]

Babylon 5 rules!!

[alfredbesterp12]

B5 was totally awesome!

[TheRealityJack]

I never watched the series, but the spinning part is there, because it creates an artificial gravitation, right?

[AnvilMAn603]

@TheRealityJack correct, IIRC only the minbari had artificial grav, on the good guys side at least. (3rd times the charm when it comes to typos apparently)

[rafaletiger]

i have all of babylon 5, i dream of remaking of new serie like galactica. the bigest error was to do ultim cruisade (star trek clone) and not go with ranger force on first war with sinclair vs shadows 100000 year a go. and i regret for not see the end of war between Baster and Garibaldi.

[tacoma171]

I miss the 1990s :(

[ScreamingTc]

I fell in love with the ship designs in B5 in a way that I hadn't done before, or since. They're not beautiful in the classic sense, but they certainly look the part.

[thatguywiththeegg]

Babylon 5 really did have the best designed ships. It's funny because they consulted scientists to understand real world applications of technology and physics, this is what a real human space based warship would look like.

[notablegoat]

@thatguywiththeegg Weeeeelllll maybe. Probably not. We have now idea what space weapons will look like, which will play a large factor in what space warships will look like. If I had to guess, though, I'd say space warships will be small, unmanned craft with very powerful missiles (or whatever). That's just a guess, tho.

[Helge129]

@notablegoat Huge ships with lasers and railguns most likely.

[formsdn]

@Helge129

In the beginning of the tank era alot of people thought that future tanks will be large heavily armed fortres with alot of guns and armor. But with WW2 attemps to build such machines failed and modern tanks being quite small even compared to WW2 units one can say the idea of large tanks prooved to be unsuccessfull. Another thing against huge ships is that our modern weapon could easily penetrate any of known protection.

[Helge129]

@formsdn They will still be huge with lasers and railguns. Because fusion reactors are huge.

[KNS1996DFS]

@formsdn Modern tanks are considerably larger than those of WWII.

[formsdn]

@KNS1996DFS

Nope, i've just compared modern T-80, Abrams M1 and Leopard 2 with WWII tanks T-43, Panther, IS-3, Tiger 1/2. Modern tanks are larger then WWII medium tanks (T-43, Panther), but smaller then WWII heavy tanks (Tiger 1/2, IS).

[SantomPh]

@thatguywiththeegg it depends on which physics model one uses; take Battlestar Galactica for instance, which apart from its faster than light capability is quite realistically built with kinetic weapons and hard construction. The B5 human ships seem to be made of paperm though they do resemble the ships from the Colony Wars; Vengance series,

[GangsterHutterite]

@thatguywiththeegg Actually, wouldn't a rotating section like that need some kind of counter-mass to counter the torque? Like a helicopter kinda?

But ya, Omega-class is a cool design. Finally somebody thinks to use cameras and not fraking windows.

[oldfrend]

@GangsterHutterite if it's powered and connected to the rest of the ship then yeah, there would be some newtonian action-reaction counterrotation going on. on the other hand, if it were somehow free-floating and rotated on its own then no, there wouldn't be any opposite force to counter.

[Baseshocks]

@thatguywiththeegg true that, even a mission to mars would need a rotating ship or area to create gravity for such long durations in space.

[vovanpop]

@thatguywiththeegg The most optimum form of the spaceship from the point of view of a science is a disk which becomes more thin to edge - the given form is close to perfection as allows to sit down on a surface of planets with atmosphere as a flying wing, further if in flight to a disk to give rotation that at its edges without any generators of a magnetic field there will be an artificial gravitation, besides as the cannon platform a disk is more effective than these dragonflies without wings

[busterbrown17]

u know the omega destroyer is just the star destroyer because they r the same sise and they both lounch fiters

[Raguleader]

@busterbrown17 Ahh, but the Star Destroyer tragically lacks a cool spinny part. That's why the Empire lost, you know.

[RaPositivist]

@busterbrown17 ???

[RuralTowner]

that ship is my namesake on many a game and forum