Luketopian Flagships

[Luketopia]

ECLIPSE-CLASS SUPER DESTROYER:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8089/angelofdeathu.png
It isn't named the Angel of Death for nothing. It is equipped with enough firepower for orbital bombardments and much, much more. Aswell as boasting superior weaponry to any known ship, it has highly advanced powerful engines that are capable of taking it at it's maximum speed of 743 MPH and 100 Infantry Squadrons and 50 Starship Squadrons. (Each Infantry squadron holding a thousand men, and each starship squadron holding 65 ships.)

(YES, I KNOW IT IS THE EXECUTOR FROM STAR WARS. However, I modified by making it longer and having a higher command tower and some more engines.)

[The Akasha Colony]

You, uh, do know that 743 mph isn't fast enough to even maintain orbit, right? Just pointing that out.

[Trilar]

Earth to the moon in only 13 days! For those times when you look at the Apollo program and think "that would be perfect, if only their spacecraft weren't so dang fast!"

[Luketopia]

You, uh, do know that 743 mph isn't fast enough to even maintain orbit, right? Just pointing that out.

I understand, we use advanced engines, Ion engines. (The same stuff from star wars, buddy.)

[The Akasha Colony]

You, uh, do know that 743 mph isn't fast enough to even maintain orbit, right? Just pointing that out.

I understand, we use advanced engines, Ion engines. (The same stuff from star wars, buddy.)

It's not a matter of the engines being advanced, although in point of fact, 1960s-era rocket engines and modern military turbofan engines are faster. It's mostly the fact that by any reasonable measure, your ship is going to be hilariously slow, and can't undertake orbital bombardment tasks because it can't even maintain orbit. The canon Executor-class is not only larger (19,000 meters), but also orders of magnitude faster, and even then it's considered slow and ungainly.

[Luketopia]

I understand, we use advanced engines, Ion engines. (The same stuff from star wars, buddy.)

It's not a matter of the engines being advanced, although in point of fact, 1960s-era rocket engines and modern military turbofan engines are faster. It's mostly the fact that by any reasonable measure, your ship is going to be hilariously slow, and can't undertake orbital bombardment tasks because it can't even maintain orbit. The canon Executor-class is not only larger (19,000 meters), but also orders of magnitude faster, and even then it's considered slow and ungainly.

No, you're wrong. my ship is powered by 18 massive Ion engines. It's engines are powerful enough to leave a wake that can destroy a unshielded ship.

[Alternate Universe 912]

It's not a matter of the engines being advanced, although in point of fact, 1960s-era rocket engines and modern military turbofan engines are faster. It's mostly the fact that by any reasonable measure, your ship is going to be hilariously slow, and can't undertake orbital bombardment tasks because it can't even maintain orbit. The canon Executor-class is not only larger (19,000 meters), but also orders of magnitude faster, and even then it's considered slow and ungainly.

No, you're wrong. my ship is powered by 18 massive Ion engines. It's engines are powerful enough to leave a wake that can destroy a unshielded ship.

Yes, we understand your ship is very advanced and powerful. We are just confused by the number 745 MPH, which is the speed of a jet fighter in modern tech (MT) countries. Wouldn't a ship that was so powerful be faster than anything a MT nation could build?

[The Akasha Colony]

No, you're wrong. my ship is powered by 18 massive Ion engines. It's engines are powerful enough to leave a wake that can destroy a unshielded ship.

Yes, we understand your ship is very advanced and powerful. We are just confused by the number 745 MPH, which is the speed of a jet fighter in modern tech (MT) countries. Wouldn't a ship that was so powerful be faster than anything a MT nation could build?

The 1970s-era F-15 Eagle can exceed 1,600 mph at altitude. A low Earth orbit requires 15,430 to 17,450 mph to avoid simply crashing. The speed decreases with further altitude, but even the moon's orbit requires 2,170 to 2,416 mph, and getting there from Earth orbit requires ~25,000 mph for a translunar injection, which the US achieved in the 1960s.

[Grand Britannia]

No, you're wrong. my ship is powered by 18 massive Ion engines. It's engines are powerful enough to leave a wake that can destroy a unshielded ship.

Yes, we understand your ship is very advanced and powerful. We are just confused by the number 745 MPH, which is the speed of a jet fighter in modern tech (MT) countries. Wouldn't a ship that was so powerful be faster than anything a MT nation could build?

Anything MT can run circles around a slow target like that.

I always imagined starships would end up going at dozens of thousands of miles per hour. The ISS is faster than this thing.

[United States of Raptors]

ECLIPSE-CLASS SUPER DESTROYER:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8089/angelofdeathu.png
It isn't named the Angel of Death for nothing. It is equipped with enough firepower for orbital bombardments and much, much more. Aswell as boasting superior weaponry to any known ship, it has highly advanced powerful engines that are capable of taking it at it's maximum speed of 743 MPH and 100 Infantry Squadrons and 50 Starship Squadrons. (Each Infantry squadron holding a thousand men, and each starship squadron holding 65 ships.)

(YES, I KNOW IT IS THE EXECUTOR FROM STAR WARS. However, I modified by making it longer and having a higher command tower and some more engines.)

745 mph?

Geez that is slower than sound.

One would think you would have to demolish the sound barrier to get into orbit with that thing.

[The Akasha Colony]

Yes, we understand your ship is very advanced and powerful. We are just confused by the number 745 MPH, which is the speed of a jet fighter in modern tech (MT) countries. Wouldn't a ship that was so powerful be faster than anything a MT nation could build?

Anything MT can run circles around a slow target like that.

I always imagined starships would end up going at dozens of thousands of miles per hour. The ISS is faster than this thing.

Depends on the technology level, but for space warfare, absolute speed is a less important characteristic than acceleration, since in the absence of any noticeable drag, a ship can keep accelerating as long as it has fuel. Hence, there's no physical maximum speed (save lightspeed, which cannot be reached), but the longer you accelerate and the faster you go, the longer it takes to slow down afterward. The ship in James Cameron's Avatar accelerates for five and a half months continuously, then coasts for 5.83 years before decelerating for another 5.5 months to reach Pandora.

ECLIPSE-CLASS SUPER DESTROYER:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8089/angelofdeathu.png
It isn't named the Angel of Death for nothing. It is equipped with enough firepower for orbital bombardments and much, much more. Aswell as boasting superior weaponry to any known ship, it has highly advanced powerful engines that are capable of taking it at it's maximum speed of 743 MPH and 100 Infantry Squadrons and 50 Starship Squadrons. (Each Infantry squadron holding a thousand men, and each starship squadron holding 65 ships.)

(YES, I KNOW IT IS THE EXECUTOR FROM STAR WARS. However, I modified by making it longer and having a higher command tower and some more engines.)

745 mph?

Geez that is slower than sound.

One would think you would have to demolish the sound barrier to get into orbit with that thing.

Earth's escape velocity is 11.186 km/s, or 25,022 mph. So yes, he'd have to break the speed of sound many times over to make orbit.

[Kragenmoor]

ECLIPSE-CLASS SUPER DESTROYER:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/8089/angelofdeathu.png
It isn't named the Angel of Death for nothing. It is equipped with enough firepower for orbital bombardments and much, much more. Aswell as boasting superior weaponry to any known ship, it has highly advanced powerful engines that are capable of taking it at it's maximum speed of 743 MPH and 100 Infantry Squadrons and 50 Starship Squadrons. (Each Infantry squadron holding a thousand men, and each starship squadron holding 65 ships.)

(YES, I KNOW IT IS THE EXECUTOR FROM STAR WARS. However, I modified by making it longer and having a higher command tower and some more engines.)

What is the point of the vessel transporting infantry if they are going to die of old age long before reaching the nearest solar system?

[Trilar]

What is the point of the vessel transporting infantry if they are going to die of old age long before reaching the nearest solar system?

...calculating.

About 3.8 million years. Assuming he stays away from gravity wells.