Fictional Starship comparison

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The star furies are about the only ships I can readily think of that don't just operate as "fighter jets, but in space". Actually taking the physics into account was pretty damn cool.

The harvester from independence day 2 really makes me wish that movie had done better so we'd get a third. Something that size would pretty well fuck up the earth's entire balance of everything.

/Side topic, The ball deciding humans could finally take the fight back to the aliens could have been really cool to explore. Having humanity go from war of the worlds to XCOM to leading the rebel alliance would have had a ton of potential stories. Heck I'd probably watch a season of "the continuing adventures of warlord and accountant man" as some kind of sg1 like guerrilla unit.
 

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It's pretty standard YA fiction but I thought Karl Schroeder's "lockstep" was an interesting look at a civ without ftl. Cryosleep is used to even out the perceived distances between worlds. Like a giant interlocking set of gears everyone sleeps and wakes in a cycle to line up with the time lag between other worlds. So one planet might be awake for one day asleep for 300 years and another awake for a day asleep for 1000 years. In subjective time they are both operating on the same timeframe.
 
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