Massive chart compares over 200 sci-fi spaceships
How does the Serenity stack up against a Bothan assault cruiser, or a Turian corvette against a D'Kora-class marauder?
(Credit: Dirk Loechel)
How does the Serenity stack up against a Bothan assault cruiser, or a Turian corvette against a D'Kora-class marauder?
These questions — and more! — can be answered by spending some quality time with a piece created by sci-fi fan and DeviantArtist Dirk Loechel. His science-fiction spaceships comparison chart, a work in progress, contains over 200 spacecraft, from those in Alien to those in Warhammer.
Loechel has been painstakingly scouring the internet for specs, and we'd be hard pressed to point out a universe that he hasn't covered (although a few individual vessels are absent, here and there). He's used the "official" specifications wherever possible, making for the most accurate and comprehensive comparison chart of sci-fi spacecraft ever made.
Of course, as Luke Skywalker's epic trench run so spectacularly proved, size isn't necessarily a good indicator of what would win in a dogfight, but the chart does help provide a sense of context and scale.
Universes included are those from:
2001
2010
Aliens vs. Predator
Avatar
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (both series)
BattleTech
Close Encounter
Dead Space
District 9
EVE Online
Event Horizon
Farscape
Firefly/Serenity
Galaxy Quest
Halo
Homeworld
Honorverse
Independence Day
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Lexx — The Dark Zone
Martian Successor Nadesico
Mass Effect
Red Dwarf
Robotech/Macross
Silent Running
Space: Above and Beyond
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Spaceballs
Star Citizen
Star Trek
Star Wars
StarCraft
Stargate
Starship Troopers
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Titan A.E.
V
Wall-E
Warhammer 40,000
Wing Commander
In the next update, he hopes to add Dune, and is taking suggestions for whatever else he may be missing. He did, however, add, "By popular demand: the TARDIS is already on the image. Whether it's on the Red Dwarf and .25 pixels large or all of the image is your choice; it's probably both, anyway."
Visit Loechel's DeviantArt page to view (or download) the image in its entire, full-sized glory.