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Descriptions of your ships' movement

mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

While flying a Na'khul raider I thought to myself: "This ship flies like a smashed bat glued to a throwing star." I can recall other impressions the maneuvering capabilities of various ships have given me. What other ship and flying experiences have you folks had?

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    dabelgravedabelgrave Member Posts: 979 Arc User
    My Tadaari Raider moves like a bat chasing a boomerang.​​
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    conkav22conkav22 Member Posts: 8,146 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    Pilot escort : Jet fighter on ice (In a good way)
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    antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Like an albatross playing at hummingbird, the Vastam-class warbird slid into orbit.
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    alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,412 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    [Post redacted] because I apparently missed the point of this thread.
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    misterlozmisterloz Member Posts: 133 Arc User
    I'm frankly amazed that you managed to write something twice and yet still missed the point.
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    lopequillopequil Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    "All hands on deck, swirly thing alert!"
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    plaztikman64plaztikman64 Member Posts: 725 Arc User
    The annorax - a spear filled with science magic and torpedo balls, yummiest ;)
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    tenderbitstenderbits Member Posts: 117 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    "Yeah! But a great looking ship though. Looks like a fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow." -Ford Prefect Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Describes my Fed T6 Carrier quite accurately.
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    e30erneste30ernest Member Posts: 1,794 Arc User
    I have a Scryer that flies like a toilet seat flung from parts unknown, a Dauntless that scoots by like a spooked squid and an Intrepid that flies like it had rubber bands attached to its nacelles.

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    snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    I always felt the Galaxy class ships I flew moved like Greg Oden on a fast break, and turned like a couch wedged in a door that neither me nor my friends could budge.
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    gathrngathrn Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    Unfortunately, my ship flies like it looks... A slug. At first I thought I could make it work as it was an angry slug... Now I think it was just indigestion.
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    captxpendablecaptxpendable Member Posts: 127 Arc User
    For Cruisers in general.

    "You move like a pregnant yak."
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    jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    The D'deridex, Voq'uv and Exploration Cruiser are horrendous on manouverabilty, you have to get the right build and slap in those turn rate consoles and theyare still like bricks.
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    alphahydrialphahydri Member Posts: 391 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    "Pilot Escorts are relatively large starships with the seemingly miraculous ability to fly about and maneuver like itty-bitty fighters."

    I'd imagine that on my Pilot Escorts everybody is walking around in sealed haz-mat suits or has barf bags tied to their faces. All those barrel rolls and abrupt flips on a ship with multiple decks must mean that vomit fills the corridors and Jefferies tubes!

    As much fun as they are to fly, I can't imagine it's practical for a ship like that to maneuver like a fighter. Just looking at the size of them compared to other ships, only the KDF Pilot Raptors are very small (i.e. smaller/equal to the size of a BoP). The Fed ones are bigger than the Defiant class, which just makes it even more comical.

    The inertial dampeners and gravity plating must be hella strong on those things to make sure the crew isn't so disoriented and motion-sick that they can't even function. Not to mention that anything not bolted down would fly everywhere. If Picard captained a Pilot Escort all his precious archaeological artifacts would be ruined, LOL.

    Maybe missed the point here, but I still chuckle whenever I think of my crew flailing all over the place whenever using those pilot maneuvers, a la BB-8 in Episode VII during the Millennium Falcon chase scene on Jakku.
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited April 2016
    "The Scryer turned like a donut in a café near the Police Station as if The Blues Brothers just drove by and caused a hasty deperature by the local police officers, except with more gravity wells."
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    theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 5,986 Arc User
    My Valiant just zips past saying Meep Meep
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      nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
      This thread made me laugh really hard. Usually I like the performance of my ships or I put turn rate bonuses on them until I do. I guess there are a few you just have to accept aren't ever going to be graceful.

      Paradox Class:
      "The ISS Abyss glides like the manta ray he's modeled after. It's still a mystery to me why those don't get eaten more often..."

      Eclipse Class (geared for turn rate and durability):
      "The USS Prophetess enters the fray like a thrown knife: straight in at flank speed. But once she's in the churn she rolls her hips like a Orion dancer."

      Llaihr Class (Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer)
      "Every time we enter slipstream, I'm certain its going to tear a seven light-year long bloody gash in the fabric of subspace."
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      dlmc85dlmc85 Member Posts: 145 Arc User
      Damn, i love this thread! :smiley:
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      jade1280jade1280 Member Posts: 868 Arc User
      Vo'Quv carrier = No coffee
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      mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
      "The Jupiter Carrier has a skin as tough of that of a Terran Jaguar, and stops just as fast. Only thing missing are the trunk and the ivory tusks" - Andorian Captain that failed the exobiology exam twice in his Academy years...

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      semalda226semalda226 Member Posts: 1,994 Arc User
      The Annorax turns like a Cigar Tube in space.
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      jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
      alphahydri wrote: »
      "Pilot Escorts are relatively large starships with the seemingly miraculous ability to fly about and maneuver like itty-bitty fighters."

      Thats more to do with poor scaleing I think, Tacitcal Escorts had a crew of 50, Pilot Escorts 45 although they erroniously seem to have about 8+ decks on the ship model.

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      talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
      My Jupiter looks like a squid, turns like an Iowa Class Battleship and stops slower than a mac truck on ice.
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      mneme0mneme0 Member Posts: 498 Arc User
      The Yamato travels faster than a speeding bullet, but even with an RCS console she turns like an old lady with her turn signal left on.
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      antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
      The Galaxy-class, readied its wings, pumping power to deflectors and engines, and politely told inertia to go somewhere else as it went to full impulse, racing across the system.
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      catsmeatcatsmeat Member Posts: 106 Arc User
      The Manasa.

      She doesn't just fly, she dances!
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      bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
      The Risian Corvette surfed the solar waves like a beach bunny on a 30 foot curl.​​
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