Quick Fire Questions (A Place to Ask and Answer)

[HareBrain]

Funnily enough, I was thinking of Corvette, because in the Nausicaa manga, the main female baddie (who is kind of an empress) flies about in a small, fast ship referred to as an armoured Korvette.

Real-life navy corvettes are a bit crappy; but then there's the car ...

Sounds a good choice.

 

[Glitch]

The US have developed the Littoral combat ship, similar in size to a corvette.

The USS Independence looks funky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship

The name corvette does suggest a sports variant, so seems a good choice for your Empress.

 

[Venusian Broon]

On wikipedia I found a list of old historical ship types.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_ship_types

I quite like Barque, Mistic or Fleut - although the last two were definitely merchant ships, so maybe not them. But I like the words! The Royal Barque has a sort of pharoah going down the Nile thing for me.

Corvette has a nice sound, but it gives me the image to me of cheap escort ships that were tied to protecting merchant shipping (too much reading WW1 and 2 histories I'm afraid ) Corvette the car is a US thing isnt it - doesn't quite get the same sporty image for a Brit like me!

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Cutter. Has a nice, nasty sound.

 

[Vertigo]

Personally I would go with an armored yacht. All the other titles are specifically military ship types. Yacht is much more like the vessel you have described. After all think about our (Brit) late Royal Yacht Britannia; not exactly a dingy was she?

 

[HareBrain]

Battle-gin-palace?

Gun-palace?

 

[Ursa major]

Presumably a living ship of this type would be a Gene-palace.




(And for those who expect all such ships to be exported from China, here's the well-armed For-Big-Gun Palace....)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Which one, if written, would be the one you could most easily visualise as a spaceship;

a small, well-armed yacht
a small well-armed corvette


Or the Empress's personal flagship; Destroyer of planets (Mu-ha-ha-ha...)

 

[David Evil Overlord]

An Empress could always have a small, well-armed corvette, and call it her yacht if she wanted to.

You gonna argue with an Empress who has a Destroyer of Planets? That worked so well for Alderaan, now didn't it?

 

[Glitch]

Which one, if written, would be the one you could most easily visualise as a spaceship;

a small, well-armed yacht
a small well-armed corvette


Or the Empress's personal flagship; Destroyer of planets (Mu-ha-ha-ha...)

For me, I say the corvette.

 

[Venusian Broon]

Yacht seems far too nice for the destroyer of all worlds.

A small well-armed corvetter would have Jack Hawkins as captain, sorry skipper, and plenty of stiff upper lip officers and men . But i think is a bit better.

How about inventing a new type? That just desribes what it does. As it seems to be mainly just a state room.

A Throne Ship
or a State Craft (as in 'Head of ' State Craft)

 

[Warren_Paul]

Which one, if written, would be the one you could most easily visualise as a spaceship;

a small, well-armed yacht
a small well-armed corvette


Or the Empress's personal flagship; Destroyer of planets (Mu-ha-ha-ha...)

I'm with the corvette on this one, Springs, and sorry for being the cause of the this topic

Example of a corvette:

or here

 

[Jo Zebedee]

hee you weren't the first to mention it so ill forgive you

that looks like it right enough

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Needs more gratuitous spiky bits if it's the personal flagship of the Evil Empress (TM).

 

[Warren_Paul]

here you go, DEO, spikes.

<3 Babylon 5

 

[David Evil Overlord]

They do look a little more like tentacles than spikes. But tentacles are an acceptable accessory for today's Evil Empress(TM).

 

[Ursa major]

Was advice sought from YouTube on that design, WP...?

 

[subtletylost]

I am putting a play with in my novel, my main character is going to see it and I am not sure how to write it in. I am more used to preforming plays than seeing them. I am not very good at describing what I see people doing. should i make a thread and try to get help there?

 

[Warren_Paul]

Was advice sought from YouTube on that design, WP...?

Sorry, not sure if I understand your meaning? Where does YouTube come into it?

I am putting a play with in my novel, my main character is going to see it and I am not sure how to write it in. I am more used to preforming plays than seeing them. I am not very good at describing what I see people doing. should i make a thread and try to get help there?

Might take a lot of talking to answer that, but the short answer is, when I've read plays in books, they typically don't go over the whole story, just highlighting important bits. Usually there is some character interaction going on in the audience, their reaction to scenes, or perhaps one of them is talking through it.

 

[Ursa major]

Sorry, not sure if I understand your meaning? Where does YouTube come into it?

It was a reference to all those tubes used to personalise the ships.