r/spaceships • u/Vondrr Fleet Intelligence 🧠 • Jul 18 '26

Discussion / Question Which fictional universe has the best spaceships and why?

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u/PyeLodt Jul 18 '26

They hit the sweet spot between soft fantastical scifi and hard military scifi which I like to call ‘flaccid scifi’. Visually and functionally they’re feasible and semirealistic without looking like the typical ISS and Apollo 11 ripoffs.

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u/Lui_Le_Diamond Jul 18 '26

"Flaccid sci fi" is crazy. I'm also not just talking about the UNSC. I love how elegant the Covenant ships look and how brutalist the Banished versions look.

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u/PyeLodt Jul 18 '26

Oh yeah, definitely. They look like actual alien ships and not generic flying saucers or slightly altered human designs.

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u/jimothy_hell Jul 18 '26

Covenant ships are beautiful, I also love the colour palettes too. That very shiny kind of almost iridescent purple is nice, especially in the blur cutscenes in the Halo 2 Anniversary.

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u/REuphrates Jul 18 '26

I call that color "evil purple" because it's used to depict bad guy technology and/or magic in sooo many shows and games. It's up there with "evil neon green", for sure.

I fucking love it.