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Cool Ships (volume VI)

by storiesbywilliams on May 11, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Series and tagged Battlestar Galactica, boba fett, cloaking device, corellia, corellian freighter, cortana, Covenant, cylon raider, cylons, dominion war, event horizon, firefly, flood, forerunner installation 04, forerunners, gravity drive, halo, homeworld, homeworld war, jedi order, Kharak, klingon bird of prey, klingon empire, KOTOR, Kushan fleet, lewis and clarke rescue ship, lightsaber, millennium falcon, mothership, pillar of autumn, reaver ship, reavers, revan and malak, romulan empire, shinzon, sith wars, slave I, Star Trek, star trek ds9, star trek nemesis, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, star wars kotor, taris, the ebon hawk, the scimitar

Back yet again with a sixth installment in the Cool Ships series. Like last time, I took this opportunity to tackle some overlooked examples, and some new ones as well. In addition… You know what? Screw the introductions and final thoughts, let’s just get into this! Bird of Prey: There’s nothing like a classic, and […]

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Cool Ships!

by storiesbywilliams on April 29, 2012 in Cool Ships, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged Alien, aliens, b5 crusade, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, book, building better worlds, cache weapons, captain sheridan, cat, chewi, cheyenne dropship, cloaking device, colonial marines, commander adama, companion, conestoga-class, corellia, corellian ships, cylons, deep space nine, defiant-class, delenn, drakh, dropship, firefly, firefly-class, han solo, hegazi, hell-class weapons, hoben washburne, ilia volovya, inara serra, interstellar alliance, j michael straczynski, jabba the hutt, jayne cobb, kaylee, kessel, kessel run, lighthugger, lister, malcolm reynolds, melding plague, millennium falcon, mimbari, phasers, president roselyn, quantum torpedoes, red dwarf, religious caste, revelation space, rimmer, river tam, romulans, sajaki, secret compartments, serenity, shepherd book, simon tam, spice, star trek ds9, Star Trek TNG, the alliance, the borg, the defiant, the dominion, the empire, the excalibur, the galactica, the pegasus, the rangers, the sao paolo, the twelve colonies, the valiant, the victory, the white star, ultranauts, ultras, uss nostromo, uss sulaco, wash, Weyland Yutani, white star destroyers, white star fleet, xenomorphs, zoe, zoe washburne

God, what an obvious extension of the whole conceptual sci-fi thing, I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner! After all, what is a sci-fi franchise without some cool spacefaring vessels? Sometimes, these come in the form of exploratory ships that chart the unknown regions of the galaxy. Sometimes they are battleships which kick […]

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Worlds of Star Wars

by storiesbywilliams on April 9, 2012 in Sci-Fi, Series and tagged A New Hope, alderaan, battle of endor, centerpoint station, corellia, coruscant, dagobah, dark jedi, death star, drall, emperor palpatine, Empire Strikes Back, endor, ewoks, exar kun, galactic senate, hoth, imperial palace, infinite empire, jawas, jedi, jedi master, jedi order, jedi temple, kashyyyk, knights of the old republic, master minch, master yoda, nar shadaa, nerf, obi wan kenobi, old republic, palpatine, rakatan, rakatan empire, Return of the Jedi, sandpeople, selonia, sith, slig, Star Wars, star wars fanboys, star wars franchise, Star Wars prequels, Star Wars trilogy, star wars: force unleashed, star wars: knights of the old republic, star wars: the old republic, talus, tatooine, the hutts, the republic, the thrawn trilogy, timothy zhan, tralus, twilighters, ulic qel dromo, yavin 4, yoda

Back with more examples of cool sci-fi worlds. Last time, it was the Dune universe, today it’s Star Wars! Once again, I will looking at the original movies, with some added info from the expanded franchise, but not the prequels. Sorry, but like most Star Wars fanboys, I prefer to pretend that those installments didn’t […]

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