rolled 3, 1, 4 = 8

>>7723751
One AU is 92,955,887 miles.

Yep. But how big's a standard Emperor-class ship? I need to know the ratio so I can compute the rest.

>>7723790
Quick! Run to the back of the ship and get me a servitor arm!

>>7723803
More or less like a big city.
Their torpedos are the size of a skyscraper.

>>7723823

The start of the insanity. The inspection tours would take centuries.

They would need space ships to move in THE SHIP.

Use normal Emperor battleships to move in the huge one?

Fair bet OP doesn't actually grasp the scale he's considering.

>>7723867
So space tugboats?

>>7723751

300 trillion is a skeleton crew for a ship like that. Please tell me they haven't actually built that keel?

>>7723918
Oh, I do. It's totally impossible; it's only ever going to exist as data and in the minds of deranged tech-adepts.

But they don't know that...

>>7723918
You act like 40k has any understanding of scale in the first place.

>>7723978
>>7723955

You're talking about a craft that would be roughly..

1046.257 Jupiters long.

rolled 2, 2, 1 = 5

Sun's diameter: 864,938 miles.
Ship's length: 92,955,887 miles.

This ship would be roughly 107 times the length of Sol. My God.

>>7724001
No

>>7723949

The PCs are alerted when they start ordering the metal for it. All 1.2 quadrillion tons of it.

>>7724001
Right i think we all understand how fucking huge it is.
This is why it's being built by the mad.

>>7724002

Pretty much this.

The craft would be so large it would pull planets their orbits into it's own gravity well.

>>7724044

Going to make launching fighters fairly interesting.

"They're coming back around..."

rolled 4, 6, 6 = 16

>>7724060
If it was simply a scaled-up Emperor, the fighters would be larger than planets.

Emperors class battle ships take generations to build.
You won't finish this until the emperor wakes up and games workshop lowers its prices.

>>7724073
Or use normal fighters but scale up the number.

>>7724044
None of this matters since they have only just begun building said ship.
I figure the higher ups would notice somethings amiss when some one requisitions entire planet worths of metal.

rolled 6, 4, 1 = 11

>>7724096
Resulting in a swarm of fighters more numerous than Tyranids. All of them.

I've decided that this is actually an elaborate troll.

>>7724108

Because uh.. one planet? You could smelt / refine our entire solar system and still come up well short of the resources needed for this project.

Like.. exponentially...

>>7724145

And that's what gets celebrated as the tactical value of this ship, at least by the mad: finally, a concentration of force that can take out EVERYTHING it gets close to.

>>7724155
Because of course their gonna ask for all the raw material at once.
I meant it's not gonna take them centuries alone just to build this things engines.

Physics operates on scale, also. As long as the servants have forgotten this, and have their own insane ideas how to power, move, and simply keep this monster from collapsing in on itself, then you may have an interesting plot revolving around how they plan to move millions of solar systems' worth of mass to their construction yard.

>>1 AU

Are you fucking retarded?

>>7724155
OP here.
I'm only trolling my players, I assure you. I simply want the relevant stats of an Emperor-class battleship, and they get to deal with the insanity of a world trying to figure out how to produce it.

>>7724169

Why bother with weapons at all? Just park the thing on the outside of a system and let the tidal gravitational forces pull everything between it and the star apart.

>>7724155
Even if you made it out of all the solid materials of the planet you would run out.

>>7724192
Rogue trader gives stats for ships up to light-cruiser it think.
It's not emperor class but its the only thing that gives you things like crew numbers and such.

>>7724155
No shit? You'd need more resources than a single planet to build something 100 times as large as the sun?

The guy just want any available specs on an Emperor Battleship. I'd suggest downloading the Battlefleet Gothic rules for the Imperial Navy (you can get them for free from the GW site), since that would probably have the fluff and stuff that he's looking for.

He knows that this thing is on the scale of a Dyson Sphere, and completely impractical. Which is why it's being built by the forces of Chaos. It actually fits with Slaanesh; normal ships are big enough, so they need to make a really big one.

>>7724210

Many thanks.

>>7723751
1 AU is unbelievably large. I know that's what you're going for, but it's so large that it makes people snicker. Scale it down to the size of a few planets or something, which is still ridiculous, and caricatures the 40k style without demonstrating a wanton inability to perceive scale.

>>7724219
Since it's slaanesh we're talking about it'll also be shaped like a vagina-dick and be powered by cocaine.

>>7724219

Why not just say, "It'll take everyone working forever using everything available anywhere"?

It's a close enough estimation.

And for the record, a Dyson sphere is infinitely more practical / feasible.

This ship would collapse into a black hole under it's own mass. If it's even three times the mass of our sun it's heavy enough to be torn apart under it's own gravity well. If your PC's are dumb enough to by that this could happen, you should get another fucking group because your friends are fucking retarded. If you lied about understanding the scale of such a thing then you're just as stupid.

Traditionally:
Imperial Cruiser: Approx 3-3.5km
Grand Cruiser: Approx 5-6 km
Imperial Battleship: Approx 6-7 km

But in the new Rogue Trader they list cruisers as 5km, so that may change things.

>>7724268
If only that were enough.. if only...

If your players ever question the AdMech about the whole affair, they must respond with how entirely reasonable the undertaking is. It makes absolute sense on paper so any questions of time or resources should be met with a confused "So?"
Also, when it starts to become apparent that the cogboys are a bit screwy in the chaos kind of way, plant the rumor that some of the higher up techies have decided that it would be a good way to build the ship faster by taking the entire project into the warp, so that the passage of time will hopefully be slower compared to regular space.

>>7724244

The point is the snickering. It's totally and instantly recognizable as so far out there there's no possible way anyone sane could entertain the idea.

>>7724287
I don't think it would have enough mass to become a black hole.

>>7724287

LOLCHAOS it.

>>7724287
In the grimdark future of mankind, there is no high school physics.

>>7724308

Our sun has enough mass to eventually end it's main phase by becoming a Red Giant. After it's Red Giant phase it will collapse into a White Dwarf. It's about as one third massive enough to be a black hole. Something with three times it's mass WILL collapse in on itself and achieve the density to become a singularity.

Faggot.

>>7724287
You seem to be abnormally angry about this.
Are you by any chance a physics major?

>>7724356
Yes but 3 times somthings size does not make it 3 times the mass.

>>7724299
This. And there are no physics in the warp, so all you people bitching about it collapsing under its own weight can just go shut up now!

/tg/ is unhelpful as usual.

>the keel is to be 1 AU in length, with all the other features of an Emperor class battleship scaled up proportionally

Since this ship would have a mass equivalent to several thousand solar systems - stars and planets - it wouldn't actually require any weapons. Just fly by the general vicinity of an enemy system and watch its natural gravity pull the planets out of their orbits...

>>7724374
Something like a scaled up battleship would be many millions of times the mass of our star.

>>7724379

If I were a PC in this instance my response would be... "Ok.. anyone hungry? Let's get pizza."

Or something to that effect... because it's impossible. Like.. "I'm going to turn the moon to strawberries and make them rain tears of koala-dream down upon the children of tomorrow!" impossible..

You don't do anything about that, you just like... give the guy ranting some jello with a big plastic spoon and go about your other business.

>>7724179


When they realise this (and someone will, even among the looneys), one bright spark will say

"Hey! I know! E=MC2 correct? So we can create matter from energy. Let's use the energy of the warp to get materials!"

So the techpriests started making a staggeringly huge warpgate...

>>7724459
And then john was a zombie?

>>7724374

The idea that it would only be 3 times the mass of the sun is ludicrous. Just the keel alone might have that much mass. 1 AU is much, much, MUCH longer than the diameter of the sun. So if you made it even one foot wide it would still take more mass than all the matter in our solar system. To give it any kind of decks, guns, power-plants etc, you'd have to increase the mass exponentially. I was using three suns as minimal estimate of the upper limit of size. To ACTUALLY be one AU AND a functional ship, it would have much more mass than that.

>>7724374
I forgot to add,

You fucking faggot.

>>7724394
shouldnt a destroyer be bigger then frigate?

>>7724481
Yes, but that's the least of the problems here.

lolwat?

>>7724459
How do you think Chaos Marines get spikes and boobs on their armor? Of course it comes from the warp.

>>7724459
Yup. Crazy people don't have to make sense or use logic, especially in 40k, where it has been shown and proven multiple times that physics don't always work, and they never do in the warp.

>>7724511
Chaos marines are stated to put the spikes on there.

>>7724525
So is there a factory somewhere that makes spikes that are made in such a way that a CSM can attach it to his armor?

>>7724403
I don't think it would be millions that just seems wrong.
The sun weighs a fucking lot every square meter.

>>7724543
cubed meter.

>>7724471

It's worse than that. To quote an old comparison, if the Sun was the size of a basketball, the Earth would be the size of a pea, and they'd be about 100 feet apart.
Now imagine a 100 foot long keel next to a pea and a basketball...

>>7724543
Well we are talking about a ship ~100 times the size of the sun.

>>7723751

That is way, way too big to be practical. Like, orders of magnitude too big.

Pic related: The adventures of a maintainance technician, attempting to repair a minor subsystem while stationed aboard your ship.

So, wait. EVERYTHING scaled up proportionally, right? So the buttons on the control boards are going to be the size of cities, most likely, and a good way for the campaign to start would be blueprints for a chair the size of a continent turning up. People would, no doubt, get extremely excited about this, only for it to turn out that the chair is not, in fact, the Golden Throne, it's some deck rating's personal chair aboard the new 1 AU monstrosity.

>>7724576
>That is way, way too big to be practical. Like, orders of magnitude too big.

That's the entire point. Only the forces of Chaos would be stupid enough to try it. That should be what tips the players off to the fact that they've been compromised.

>>7724566
It's like people can't agree on the size I was arguing with someone saying it was 3 times the size of the sun. I wouldn't think the mass would be that great for it's size compared to a star that size.

At 25,000 crew for a 5km ship, you'd be looking at a crew of 750 billion assuming a flat crew-to-length relationship, which implies that the ship would be the same width and height, which is a pretty skinny ship, along with the assumption that the increase in scale wouldn't require additional crew for infrastructure or a decrease in efficiency.

>>7724612

Your right, it wouldn't be that much more. It would be several thousand times more.

rolled 3, 3, 1 = 7

>>7724612
The Sun's density is 1.4 times that of water.

>>7724542
Every once a year the spikes are only for half price, damn those guys are rich.

>>7724591
OP here.
Pardon my ambiguity, I meant that the numbers of components would be increased, not the size themselves, thus the ability of the mad cogboys to actually begin planning and sourcing the parts for it. Only those parts that actually need to be scaled to the size of the vessel are scaled in size, like the keel.

Thus you end up with impossible numbers of weapons and marines on top of all the other ludicrousness. Just hammering home the idea that NONE of this could EVER be built.

>>7724607

I think you severeky overestimate the efficiency and fact-checking skills of imperial bureaucracy!

>>7724612
The mass wouldn't be that much compared to a star that same size, but a star that is 1 AU wide is a pretty massive star, and when you're comparing your spaceship to that of a star rather than a moon or even planet, you know that the idea is really overboard.

My god, you stupid fucks. It's clearly stated that THIS WILL NEVER WORK and the only reason some people are trying to build it is because THEY HAVE GONE FUCKING INSANE. He wants the numbers so he can figure out exactly how and where these insane gentlemen will be trying to (and it will obviously be a futile endeavour) get the materials and men to build and crew it, so he can throw these numbers at the players. The threat here is not supposed to be that they manage to SUCCEED in constructing the battleship; they are obviously doomed to failure. The threat is that if they are not stopped they will consume a truly ludicrous amount of the Imperium's manpower and resources in a futile endeavour, greatly weakening it in other aspects.

Fuck.

>>7724673

A star that is 1 AU wide is not a star that is 1 AU wide for long. It very, very quickly becomes a supermassive black hole.

>>7724662
Damnit, you've ruined my dreams of MILES-HIGH RATINGS.

rolled 58 = 58

Dear planet 255-b-tg. We like how you think. Love, admecj

>>7724688
Thank you very much for putting my thoughts on this so far into words.

>>7724688
You seem to be under the impression that a planet can simply requisition as much material as it wants with neither economic concerns nor oversight.

>>7724628
Why?
I did some math to find that the sun is like 1400 kilograms every square meter. So in other words a normal sized ship should be that as well if it is to beat a star at the same size as itself.

>>7724721
It's the fucking Admech. They're pretty much answerable to themselves and sometimes the Inquisition. If they ask for a planet to be slagged for resources, that planet is going to get slagged.

And again, they're FUCKING LOONY.

related, but only just

i find it funny how incapable most people are at actually grasping scale, for most, a big number is just a lot of numbers on some paper put next to each other

asking someone to envision one million people is pretty easy, but them actually doing it, and have a true mental picture of one million people in the same place all at once? they just cant do it

so much less so distances on the scale of AU's

>>7724745
Ignore me I didn't read above people.

>>7724748
If that's the way your version of Imperium works, it would have collapsed due to inefficient use of resources long, long ago.

>>7724795
Yes! Now you're getting it!

>>7724721
So then, upon being told that they can't have all their precious resources, these insane Mechanicus start subverting the system in order to get what they want. They bribe officials or replace them with their own puppets, they outright smuggle things through, and before you know it they're completely messing up the Imperial bureaucracy and causing massive problems with incompetence and corruption as well consuming far too much material and manpower on their designs. On top of this, they don't even have to get all that they want in order to cause serious problems; even if they ask for amounts that appear reasonable, like they were constructing normal ships, a single normal Imperial ship is a huge investment of manpower and resources and they're throwing it away into this thing that will never work.

>>7724795
Clearly, though, a request of this magnitude is going to be questioned by precisely those sane Mechanicum members who have been asked for more metal than they've ever processed.

>>7724825

At which point they might try >>7724459

I would just point out that, yes, although this ship would be so ridiculously massive that under normal circumstances that amount of metal would just collapse in on itself in a horrible orgy of destruction and neutron star, 40K is a setting where gravity manipulation technology is available. Assuming the Imperium can still produce it - I do believe the tech is Dark Age (so it isn't UNDERSTOOD) but they can still construct stuff like grav-plating for the artificial gravity on ships and Land Speeders and etc. - a sufficiently powerful and correctly designed antigravity reinforcement system could prevent the ship from imploding.

Just throwin' it out there.

None of this plan is supposed to make sense or be possible in any way. The reason the players are probably involved at all is because the crazy admech guys just turned in a request for an amount of materials so large that the receiving astropathic array was thought to have been broken, but they were just waiting for all the zeroes to roll in before saying anything. The size of the numbers in their message probably caused such a disturbance in the warp that a new chaos god of ridiculously large numbers was birthed.
Anyone criticizing this plot point is obviously missing the point.

They don't really want to make this ship. They just know that the imperium always gives less then you need so they asked for more then they need.

>>7724867
Indeed. That's certainly a possibility. As previously stated, the threat is not that they might succeed in building this monstrosity, but the lengths that they might go to in order to try.

>>7724691

There's some pretty fucking large stars out there.

Just for chuckles, I scaled up the Saber they include in Rogue Trader linearly. It becomes about 25 million meters wide and 1 AU long with a crew of 2.1 trillion, weighing 498 trillion tons. It also has 166 million prow and dorsal weapons.

>>7724988
>linearly

Wrong, you need to do cubic scaling for weight, volume (number of crew), and surface area (number of weapons).

>>7724988

25 million meters wide would look like a needle if it was 1 AU long. Sure it wasn't kilometers?

>>7724988
FUND IT!

Oh wait, they already are.

>>7724155
If this is a trolling attempt, I'm subverting it by using this as a plot hook in my own campaign.

>>7725015
I wondered why it seemed so low. Thank you for catching the error of a tired mind.

New Mass: 3,444,380,305,386,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons.
New Crew Complement: 14,638,616,297,890,500,000,000,000,000

In short, twice the mass of the sun and 1900 quadrillion times the current population of Earth.

>>7725081

OP here. No trolling intended whatsoever, and by all means please use it. I'd love to hear how it goes.

>>7724591 So, wait. EVERYTHING scaled up proportionally, right?

Scale everything up roughly 22 million times. So that 1cm button just became 220km wide.

>>7725224

I wish to push the Big Red Button.

>>7725022
Checking the numbers in RT, it shouldn't even be 25 million km, try 250 million instead.

>>7725248 I want to push the red tectonic plate.

>>7725224
Perhaps they intend to push the buttons by ramming battleships into them?

"Men, the Emperor's glory shall shine on us this day! We shall not fail! We shall not falter! WE SHALL TURN ON THE BRIDGE LIGHTS!"

>>7725267

This is like the BEST IDEA EVER!

>>7725224
>>7725266
>>7725267
OP already said that the consoles and such will stay the same size, there will just be shitloads more of them than normal.

>>7725291

Screw that, I want buttons the size of continents.

I predict that factional war will break out between the crazed mechanicus. Each faction will think the others are bonkers, and that only their group has a sane plan to build the mega ship. Some intend to harvest material softly, others want to dabble in the warp, others want to convert the forge world into the core of the vessel...

They'd need an astropathic array inside the ship for intra-ship communication, because calling to launch the torpedoes would take six minutes, given that the signals travel at the speed of light. Obvious solution: Servitor astropaths slaved to the communication consoles providing internal communication.

Guys, seriously... have you never heard of a motherfucking ELDAR CRAFTWORLD?

Those things were supposed to be mega-gigantic. Biel-Tan was supposed to be 100 times the size of a typical inhabinted planet. Isn't the OP's idea simply a different take on this idea?

I mean, to be fair, I doubt a Craftworld would be 1 AU. But maybe the biggest ones were like 0.2 AU or something. Think about it...

>>7725369

Point taken.

>>7725369

100 times the size of a normal inhabited planet is not even close to the Sun, much less 0.2 AU.

>>7725369
This thing is over two hundred thousand times as long as an eldar craftworld.

This idea is hilarious.

This, all together, could work out. Sure this portion of the Mechanicum gets their asses kicked when found out, but by then they have furthered Chaos.
And when someone finally gets around to looking for the hulk out in the warp? Well guess who has been adding their own modifications..

Just for fun, have them call this ship the Naglfar. It could probably contain every single daemon in the Warp without too much trouble.

Copypasta time. Because if there was ever a time to post this...

Maiden Flight, SDSD Freudian Nightmare

Imperial Weapons Development Center, Coruscant

To Whom it May Concern:

Gentlemen, let me start by saying that I am greatly honored to be chosen for command of such a magnificent vessel. That said, our insystem shakedown cruise has turned up a few minor issues that I would like to see remedied as soon as possible.

1) We understand your desire to continue the classical stylized lines of the first star destroyer class vessels, and we appreciate your asthetic sense in that regard. However, strictly speaking, was it absolutely necessary to scale up the bridge tower directly? I must confess the foreward bridge window is a great distraction. Militarily, we feel that as is, the three kilometer tall window pane may provide too tempting a target for enemy forces we may engage. We've lost four helmsmen so far to vertigo as well, and we don't think this is in the best interests of the vessel's well-being.

2) The sheer size of our vessel, while a glorious symbol of the mighty Emperor, which we all appreciate completely, has become apparent to us all. My initial briefing tour of the vessel took six days to complete, and the travel tubes were based on the design in use aboard the slightly smaller Executor-class vessels. Travel time being prohibitive, we were forced to camp out in the corridors of the major sectors when we stopped for the night. Furthermore, since our crew quarters sections are located entirely within the aft dorsal sectors, both our Engineering crew and ground forces complements have built tent cities within their own sections, and are living there. Fire hazard has become nearly intolerable and the hydroponics department has sent me six hundred messages insisting that the smoke from the camp-fires is ruining their crop, and that we have enough food left aboard for only another three weeks.

2) Our vessel's own gravity is not being handled as well as could be done, with some minor problematical consequences. Our plumbers called my attention to the fact that the sewage from our 6 million-man crew backwashed through the air vents in Sections 42 to 78, decks 258 through 532. Malaria and dysentary broke out in those sections, and we were forced to cordon it off to prevent an epidemic. Our first Chief Medical Officer unfortunately was killed when he requested the paperwork on those affected, and upon receiving e-mailed reports from all 739 of his senior doctors, the computer screen in his quarters self-destructed, propelling shrapnel throughout his quarters. All droids who enter the area have failed to return, and a remote camera probe sent in, recorded images of the survivors in the affected area where they were flinging their own feces at each other, warring with sharpened pieces of metal, and attempting to eat the dismembered limbs of the aforementioned droids.

3) On a similar note, regarding the unfortunate loss of our last CMO, we have finally decided that the staff requirements of this vessel are creating further problems. For instance, our Chief Engineer has begun the habit of signing his reports, "Chief Marshal, Sovereign Nation of Ree'Ak'tor." He has since sealed off those decks, and started a war. The war in question is against his apparent rival, the commander of our ground forces near the main flightdeck, who has taken to calling himself "Bringer of the Apocalypse." Surveillance records indicate that they have since stopped wearing their armor, and have begun smearing their bodies with industrial cleaning fluid and lubricants before launching raids upon the Engineering department. We believe that they have begun ritualistically sacrificing one of our TIE-fighter pilots before each attack to bring them luck.

*Click*

M-m-master, here are the figures you requested.

Statistics for Emperor-class unavailable at this time.

Statistics for Lunar-class cruiser are as follows:

Dimensions: 5 km long, 0.8 km abeam at widest point.

Mass: 28 megatonnes (28 billion kilograms)

Crew: 95,000


Scaled up for a similarly-shaped vessel 1 AU

Length: 149,598,000 km

Mass: 1.29 * 10^31 kilograms

Crew: 2.5*10^27

Logic suggests construction in the warp to prevent immediate collapse into a singularity, as planned tonnage is over 6 times the mass of Sol. Also suggest research into mass cloning, as there are currently well fewer than 2.5 octillion humans in existance.

Aside from a minor note that some of our turbolaser turret gunners may have starved to death when their food shipments were cut off by the warzone, there is little else to remark on, save that in our first tactical drill, during the course of a two-hour right turn, we failed to halt our rotation with the result of the subsequent and very unfortunate destruction of the entire Coruscant 4th Defensive Fleet. I've made a note to send out letters of regret the moment we reacquire contact with our communications room at the bow of the vessel. That of course is the reason why this message had to be sent to your offices via pen, paper, and one of our probe droids. I beg forgivness for the clerical difficulties that may cause.

Signed,
Grand Admiral
SDSD Freudian Nightmare

>>7725501
As it happens, we have our own crews... *points to legions of demons in parodies of naval uniforms*

>>7725369
How long is one AU?

>>7725479
>>7725535
Well, looks like Naglfar's a good name for it after all.

>>7725543
Distance from the Earth to the Sun.

>>7725501
Waifu, get back in the kitchen!

>>7725481
>>7725496
>>7725519
I almost died reading this I was laughing so hard.

>>7725358
>convert the forge world into the core of the vessel

Actually cool idea

To put things into perspective, 1 AU is the distance from the sun to Earth, so to scale...

>>7725625

>>7725629

>>7725579

Ac-ac-acknowledged, Master.

First, shall I issue the order for 1,050,000 Terra-sized planets to be processed into starship components?

Fortuitous happenstance, Master. If the entire mass of every world in the Imperium of Man is used to create the great ship, there will be a small amount of chaff left over for the survivors to colonize. Glory to the Omnissiah.

>>7725369
That is still obscenely oversized.

>>7725642
And finally, Earth.

>>7725543
A hair short of 150 million km.

>>7725667
With all due haste. If possible, order that the Golden Throne of Terra be placed as the captain's chair.

this is my favorite thread of the year so far

Actually, it would make the Imperium far easier to defend... it's all in one place.

>>7725667

Ap-ap-apologies, Master. Mathematical error. 2,100,000 Terra-sized planets are needed. The settled worlds of the Imperium will only provide half the necessary mass.

As most suitable planets were terraformed during the Dark Age of Technology, there are few uninhabited worlds to make use of. Processing of Xanos worlds will be necessary. Do you wish to begin conquest planning at this time?

>>7725730
But a nightmare to maintain.

>>7725730
this could be the "logic" behind the proposal. Use ALL of the imperium's resources and citizens to create a super vessel with Terra parked in the center.Try and eat this Tyranids

>>7725760
Ideally, yes. Consider in strategic simulations the combat capabilities of the great ship, constructed to the extent allowed by the conversion of all existing Imperium and Mechanicum worlds.

>>7725776

The Imperium Class Galaxyship "The Imperium".

>Slaaneshi Cultists
>Building giant ship

I think those cultists are compensating for something.

>>7725779
the could use terra's molten core as one of the reactors

>>7725844
A phallic replacement for the Emperor?

>>7725369

er no... just no.

Craftworlds are like cities in space, think of London, placed on top of a ship and sailing around. That's still a big fucking ship but... to even place a Craftworld on the AU scale is fucking retarded.

>>7724691
or a nebula

Warhammer 50,000 - Mankind has taken to the stars in a ship of unimaginable proportions. Cannibalising the million worlds of the old Imperium, mankind seeks a refuge from the horrors of this galaxy. Home to untold trillions, the great black ship travels the void, whole decks lit by the light of artificial plasma suns, each room a continent, each rivet a mountain. Humanity lives and dies on a vessel of it's own making.

But all is not well on the great ship Imperius. Legions of Orks thrive in the vast wildernesses of the ships bowels, Tyranids infest it's corridors like cockroaches, Shadowy metal figures make whole sections of the ships unpassable, the miles of empty corridors as still as a tomb. In the crowded markets of the Cabinhives, strangely elegant travellers can be seen wrapped in rustcowls and speaking to no-one.

In this great ship mankind still faces war. Legions of soldiers fight to keep the great arterial corridors open. Millions of men die to defend a single coolant junction. These are the things mankind survival depends on and what it's enemies seek to destroy. But still it journeys on, it's destination only known to the navigator, the Emperor himself.

And if he knows, he is staying silent...

>>7725844

Slaanesh is also about excess in general, not just sex.

>>7725903

This needs to be canon.

>>7725909

Thus the construction of this ship is a single act so excessive as to tilt the balance of power firmly in Slaaneshi favor.

>>7725903
this would make one kickass game. I'm saving this

>>7725779
Tyranids: "BEST. SPACEHULK. EVAR."

>>7725789

Cal-cal-calculating...

At half-completion, the Imperium-class starship "The Imperium" will have the following armaments:

447 trillion Lance Batteries
894 trillion Laser Macrobatteries
894 trillion Macrocannon Macrobatteries

As this is many orders of magnitude greater than the combined arms of all starships ever constructed by mankind or known Xenos races, auguries and statis-engines are returning a 99.9999999999999999999% favorable report on proposed conquest endeavors.

...Provided the "collapsing into a singularity" issue can be resolved.

>>7725903
I love it.

>>7725903

That was fucking beautiful.

>>7725903 Cannibalising the million worlds of the old Imperium

The time of the Cleansing has arrived. The Gigashadow shall appear.

>>7725903

The mother of all Ork Space Hulks...Let the Looting Commence.

>>7725957

Use caged singularities to power the ship and make large Hull sections from forcefields?

>>7725903
Awesome beyond compare.

>>7725903
>untold trillions

Crew component is 2.5 octillion. That's 2,500,000,000,000,000 trillion, or 2,500 trillion-trillion.

>>7725996

This is the culture here, I think you'll find ships made from force fields is patent pending to us thank you.

>>7726020

Orkz wuz 'ere. We've been makin' shipz from force fieldz an' Rokz since we cud reach da starz.

>>7726017

Writefag here, untold fitted the 'dramatic' prose better than ZERO00000000000000000000s

>>7725957

And so it shall be. Physics simulation on the likelihood of the prevention of collapse by the installation of secondary engines at key structural points, directing thrust towards the center of mass.

>>7725903

I came

>>7726050

you could have said "untold septillions"

Necrons found on board after improper harvesting of their tombworlds.

>>7725903

And so begins Warhulk 50k.

This thread started out kinda trolly, but now it's beyond awesome.

I was about to archive it but some other anon beat me to the punch. Vote up on sup/tg/

>>7726057
And so the giant wreathed in fire came upon our world, and left only dust and memories.

>>7726071

Well I'm a historyfag so I don't know anything about those made up numbers maths people use.

>>7725957
But... Is this enuff dakka?

>>7726076
what are these weird statues?

Who cares weld it to that bulkhead over there and clean those ugly plants off the air duckts in deck 7984

>>7726099

Another historyfag here.

Brofist. Keep on writing shit.

I should probably take the moment to point out that, while a ship that is 1 astronomical unit in length is an impossible venture, there are more uninhabitable planets in the galaxy than there are habitable ones.
Those habitable, solid planets are just as likely to be filled with building materials, so why can't you just use them instead of, say, Scintilla?

>>7725903
But how would food be produced? And who would fix the exterior of the ship?

ITT: Tinyhammer meets Expansionhammer

Crews of tiny forces from all around the galaxy, from tiny Spess Mehreens to tiny Tyranids, take over a REGULAR Emperor Class Battleship and fight over it!

>>7725501
I like these maths. However, when I scaled up mass I received a value of ~7.5e32 tonnes, roughly 58 times more mass than you had figured. Consequently, I calculate roughly 125,529,449 terra masses will be needed for construction.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Additional point of interest: armaments. Assuming a similar weapon density on the hull, the new ship will have the fire power of approximately 350 trillion Emperor class battle ships by virtue of increased surface area alone.When one considers that entire stars could be fired from a single plasma cannon, this figure could be somewhat low.

One question still bugs me. If this ship could somehow transform into a form akin to a Space Marine...

>>7726137
1 answer to both questions

Necrons

>>7726137
Hydroponics? That's the RT method, at least. And it's not like they lack for space...

Combining this thread with Truly Immovable Rod makes for great fuCLANG

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

>>7726126

Where else besides a Hive World are you going to get crewmembers?

Keeping in mind that this ship will need a crew that is exponentially larger than the entire population of the Imperium of Man.

>>7726151

Change it so its construction is the province of the Collegio Titanica?

>>7726057

Err...err...error. Escape velocity of Imperium-class starship "The Imperium" exceeds speed of light. Mundane engines inadequate.

Integrity of vessel may only be maintained by massive application of techno-arcane antigrav technology. Maintenance of anti-grav field largest engineering challenge in endeavor.

Bonus: if sufficient control over gravitational field is exercised for vessel to exist at all, gravitational field becomes powerful weapon. May be directed at nearby planets or stars to create local event horizon, tearing astronomical bodies apart. Planets become widely-dispersed asteroid fields. Stars become slowly-cooling nebulae.

>>7726161
But.... Necrons can't grow food.

How can Imperial citizens haggle for lower prices at the farmer's market if the vendors are all UNSTOPPABLE KILLING MACHINES?

>>7726169

It will take thousands of years to build it. Start breeding.

>>7726126
Uninhabited planets do not contain our primary fuel source. COCAINE!

1 AU? Come on, that's nothing!

>>7726196

You don't haggle, obviously. You just accept their prices.

>>7726183

The entire workforce of the Collegia Titanica at the height of its power during the Great Crusade would maybe be enough to repair a single bathroom on the ISS Imperium.

Maybe.

>>No.7726188
The ship may be forced to spin along its major axis... nope, that wouldn't work either, although the relativistic effects on both ends would be hilarious.

>>7726188
Did someone say Event Horizon? 'Cus I think someone just said Event Horizon!

That said, I think we've found our captain.

This thing will have enough mass that it will close the eye of terror when it flies by.

Scratch that. The entire Warp will be sucked into its gravitational field, and will be pulled along in its wake.

Fire at will!

Special bonus intrigue for the DH game: The captain is to be the Fabricator General.

Thus we get the entire Imperium antsy about the Mechanicum eating their worlds to build a ship to protect their worlds.

>>7726214
"Mother, these sprouts taste like gauss!"
"Child, you know that the Necrons don't like it when you complain about their vegetables. Just eat them."

>>7726263
>>7726241

Heresy! THIS is the one true Captain of the Great Ship Imperium. Venerate His immortal name!

>>7726214
Bread, 2 loaves; HORRIBLE DEATH
Apples by the pound; AGONISING DEATH
Salt per kilogram; SPECIAL OFFER! ENDLESS TORMENT!

>>7726258
Is there already a Chaos god that epitomizes pride or greed? 'Cause I figure that this ship will not, in fact, seal the Eye of Terror, but that upon its completion a new Eye shall tear open and a new God born.

The downfall of the Eldar civilization is small time compared to the construction of this beast.

>>7726137

Writefag here again. Notice the reference to plasma suns. I'd imagine that there would be cavernous areas, perhaps even world sized spaces, that contained enormous fusion/plasma reactors perhaps always just on the edge of losing containment. These would basically be small suns hanging above continent sized rooms. They'd ape the effects of the sun allowing things to grow, generate micro(macro)climates. In some parts of the ship it's likely you'd be unable to tell you were 'inside'.

Other areas would be twisted rat warrens of bare metal, crumbling mazes of collapsed corridors, effectively like the underhives. But they'd be all sorts of 'terrain' inbetween.

>>7726312
There is.
It's called Slaanesh.

>>7726312
There is a god of excess. This thing will leave one giant rift in the universe in its wake.

>>7726151

Y...y...your calculations are correct, Master. This unit was in error. Mind rust has clearly set in, and this unit's service life is at an end.

Awaiting your approval for decommissioning.

It has been an honor to serve you, Ma...ma...

>>7726295
BULLSHIT, CAN HE FLY THE SHIP WITHOUT FUCKING EYES?

YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.

>>7726306
How much for amasec?

What are you on about now, Servitor? We need you to clean the decks on the great ship Imperium, if nothing else. When that task is completed, you may THEN consider your operational life at an end.

Okay, the Stig is flying the giant ship.

There, happy?

>>7726316
I imagine a section of the ship wherein the cavities appear as tightly packed marbles each the size of Earth, each hydroponic bay a miniature Dyson sphere.

>>7726316

I'm also picturing the ship as containing a fully developed ecosystem of its own-- in fact a far more diverse and populous ecosystem than even a natural planet could sustain. Huge rolling verandas, salty oceans teeming with marine life, endless forests prowled by entire ecosystems of mutated animal life, infinite ceilings as distant as the stratosphere, dotted with small lights like stars.

Soaring, glimmering cities and abysmal nests of rust and decay. Greenhouses as large as continents and observation decks that dwarf the largest Hives of the old imperium.

>>7726346

Bearing in mind that one deck, following the scaled-up calcs, would be 3,729,926,934,000,000,000,000 square meters, you have enviable job security.

>>7726347
MULTI-SPATIAL DRIFTING

>>7726342
HE DON'T NEED EYES

Good god-emprah, when did this thread turn so awesome?

>>7726371

In short, all the diversity, complexity, power, and near-infinite scale of the Imperium that was, unified within a single vessel of unimaginable proportions.

This is blowing my mind right now.

>>7726371
>largest Hives
This thing's point defense systems would fire Hive-sized flak shells.

>>7726323
>>7726327
So if this thing is being started by Slaanesh in the first place, would that mean, like, Slaanesh'll be creating a more powerful version of himself... like, he'll be giving birth to himself?

Dude...

>>7725903
This. This is the realm of 40k, /tg/ edition! Where every known being in the galaxy lives on one ship! Starship battles could be fought inside the ship, entire nations living in individual rooms.

And an Admiral (Or xenos equivalent) per every 3 cubic miles.

>>7726412
Fucking hardcore.

>>7726402

This is probably the thought process that led to the maniacs planning to build it in the first place.

"But Magos, look, it'd be awesome!"

>>7726412
Do we get a planet sized Doomrider?

Shit'd be -so- cash!

>>7726397
OP here. Around the time I shut up, if you must know. TG astounds me daily, but this...you have taken a request for a numbers list and turned it into pure refined awesome.

Thank you, TG. I bow before you, humbled.

>>7726433

I want to second this. You guys are awesome. Never change.

(Although we could definitely do without the chaos grey knights and half-eldar spess mehreens troll threads.)

>>7726433
thats what happens when you ask a question to a room filled with hundreds of nerds with add. And that's why I spend my time here more than any other board.

So what's the main weapon on this thing? The giant axial cannon mounted under the prow like all the ships have?

Does it fire stars?

Fuck it, I don't think I need come back on /tg/ for the rest of the year, 'cos nothing could possibly be this epic!

pic related: The engines turning on for the first time

Why am I just imagining the good old Valiance facing that fuckhueg ship, calculating the best course of action to defeat it and smashing right in, to slowly destroy that monstrous abomination from the inside?

>>7726492

Smash in he will; gravity is this thing's shield. Or, to add a horrible, horrible rhyme: Once you drop, you just can't stop!

I think the ISS Imperium would be constantly expanding and shifting, just like its previous counterpart. Whole decks would fall to ruin, colonized by Orks and infested by nids. Constant expansion work would be done-- new decks, new ports, new cities would always be in the works, either attached to the exterior of the ship or carved out of its cavernous abandoned spaces. Huge armadas of armed colonists would attempt to reclaim ancient sections of the ship from decay, disorder, and xenos invaders. A continual process of rot, abandonment, reclamation, and expansion would take place, and in time, the ship would swell to twice, three times, four times its original size.

>>7726501
It is the Valiance. It will fly right down a point defence barrel and detonate the hive-sized shell while it's reloaded.

>>7726473

The thing's main weapon is it's own gravitational field.

As per

>>7726188

simply selectively turning off the antigrav fuckery that allows the thing to not collapse into a black hole will cause whatever planet or star the gravity wave is directed at to be ripped apart as its component matter accelerates to near-lightspeed.

Shooting suns is smalltime.

>>7726427
Bigger.

Physicsfag here. Here's my math:

Assume the ship is roughly cylindrical.

Scaling linear dimension of length from 5 km to 1.5*10^8 km. Linear scaling factor is thus 1.5*10^8 / 5 = 3*10^7.

Applying the same scaling to the ship diameter of 0.8 km, the new diameter is 2.4 * 10^7 km. The scaled radius is 1.2*10^7 km.

Since the ship is approximated as a cylinder, the mass relation for a cylinder is used. Mass is proportional to volume, assuming that the scaled ship and the original have the same average density. The volume of a cylinder is pi*length*radius^2. The mass proportionality thus yields:

M = m * pi*L*R^2 / pi*l*r^2 = m * S^3,

where lower case letters refer to the smaller ship's values, and the capital letters refer to those of the larger ship. S is the scaling factor. Not surprisingly, mass is proportional to the cube of the linear scaling factor.

The mass of the new ship is thus 2.8*10^9 kg * (1.5*10^8)^3 = 9.5*10^33 kg.

Crew demand scales as volume. Thus, the new crew demand is 95,000 * (1.5*10^8)^3 = 3.2*10^29

Update calculations for planet requisition and cloning technology appropriately.

The ship weaponry scales as the surface area of the ship, which goes as S^2. Assuming that the values for the number of weapon placements originally scaled as the length of the ship, they should be increased again by another scaling factor. This will increase armament substantially.

Has anyone here read "Marrow" by Robert Reed? It's about an empty 'spaceship' the size of Jupiter that flys into the galaxy, and got colonised by humans and various other aliens. The book revolves around, centuries later, the imortal captain and crew finding a planet the size of Mars hidden in it, and the chaos this causes.

At the moment I just have an image of it splatted on The Imperius' windscreen...

>>7726549

And he now does literal mountains of cocaine.

>>7726518

Massive Astartes crusades would be carried out to liberate the world-sized Docking Bay 4,091,923,868-Gamma from the grip of the xenos invaders.

>>7726565

Hahahaha fucking awesome.

I pray to the God-Emperor that a GW employee is reading this right now.

>>7726151
ISS Imperium, transformed to humanoid mode.

>>7726587
It's archived. Send it to them.

>>7726565

"She's the biggest we've seen in a while, sir. More than five hundredths of a percent of our length!"

This is really /tg/ at its best. This is probably the only 40k thread I've seen in months that has just kept getting better, and has stayed free of all the usual HERESYLOL, BLAMHERESY, GRIMDARKLOL bullshit.

Thanks fatguys. I really needed this thread.

>>7726565
>>7726579
In the sequel "Well of Stars", they ecounter a planet-sized circular saw, with miniture black-holes for teeth, that tries to cut the ship into bits. I think we need a hundred on the front, for a ramming prow...

>>7726628

A hundred? Why not twenty-five thousand? It's not like we don't have room...

This is your flight commander.

>>7726614
DYSON SPHERES FOR DA EMPRAH

I'm going to sleep now /tg/.

From the bottom of my heart I thank you for the epic you have bestowed upon me.

Goodnight, sweet princes.

>>7726643
Ok, a couple of thousand. Just for the very tip of the prow. Like when you put a mononolecular edge on a sword...

>>7726555
Following up on this, a primary challenge in construction is acquisition of sufficient mass. The required mass for the ship alone is roughly 10^34 kg. The adherent super-giant star Eta Carinae has a mass of roughly 10^32 kg, and its unusual properties make it especially rich in heavy elements. Finding and completely consuming 100 such stars would supply the needed mass.

Recommended research: Star Vampire technology.

Junction 344-68B was my home. I mean it wasn't much of home, but still.

It was perched on the edge of corridor 65, built into the bulkhead, 3 miles of city climbing up the wall like a vine climbing a orchard wall. We lived at the bottom, in the shanty habs that bordered the corridor proper, scratching a living servicing the Smeltships when they came back from mining the Rust Dunes in the Flakesands.

I used to hear stories about other places, places where the Plasma lights didn't work and the environmental systems were so cold, people had to live over vents to the engine cores to stop themselves freezing. Places where you couldn't even see the ceiling and where it rained water instead of oil and forgeash. Some even said there was places where you could see outside the ship. Look out of the inky black and see things they called stars.

The preachers told us not to listen to those folks. Said they was crazy. There aint nothing outside the ship. How could there be.

Then Guard came calling and I learnt better.

This is your Captain.

>>7726680
Retire to your berth upon the ISS Imperium, friend.

>>7726694

...

More.

Now.

>>7726692

aberrant super-giant, sorry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Carinae

Anyway, another challenge is the biomass needed for the crew itself. By my calculations, the crew demand is 3.2*10^29. Assuming an average human mass of 50 kg, then the human biomass totals 1.6*10^31 kg. Ten solar masses of biomass will be required for the crew to exist at all. A substantially larger biomass will be required to sustain the crew.

>>7726694
The Ship is all there was!
The Ship is all there is!
The Ship is all there will ever be!
Do your duty well, that existence may be preserved!

Robert Reed reader, now with a name

>>7726761
I suggest the absorbtion of the Tyranid hive fleets, they've probably got enough by now.

>>7726825
>I suggest the absorption of the Tyranid hive fleets

So...Reclaiming the Biomass to create the crew for The Imperium? Taking the Tyranids' specialty and using it to better the Imperium...Sounds great!

>>7726761

Another challenge is communications, as noted previously. At 1 AU, the ship is 8.3 light minutes long. Thus, FTL communications will be required if orders from the bridge are to be swiftly relayed throughout the ship.

Furthermore, damage such as an impact or shock propagates through material, not at the speed of light, but at the speed of sound within the material. Steel alloy has a speed of sound of 6000 m/s, 50,000 times slower than the speed of light.

Suppose the entire stern of the ship is ripped off by improper navigation near a supermassive black hole. Suppose this is expected to create a cascade of damage which will destroy the ship. 8.3 minutes later, those on the prow begin to hear of their impending doom, barring FTL communication. 289 days later, the shock reaches the prow.

Of course, any real shock will attenuate vastly faster. Thus, the ship is essentially immune to any attack that does not completely destroy or affect it all at once.

>>7726694

The Guard they were looking for fighting men. Emperor Bless me I volunteered. People don't usually come back from a stint in the Guard, but I had a head on my shoulders that yearned for travel, and a brain too young and dumb to realise that was a bad idea, so I signed the sheet they gave me and got me a uniform in return.

I got travel as well. God-Emperor did I. They took us in airships across the Rust Dunes, gathering men all the way, from habs like Outlet-35, Irongate, Rifttown and a dozen I hadn't even of. They said we was mustering for a crusade in Sector-585. I didn't know where that was but was damn sure the newly formed 56th RustCrawler Rifles would kick ass when we got there even if it took us a year to get there.

Which it did.

I spent 5 months on a boat. Do you know what a boat is son? It travels on water if you can imagine such a thing. I travelled on boat the size of a city down a waterpipe the size of hive. I saw things from that boat I can barely describe. Whole hives built out over the water, full of folk with different colour skins. I saw things living in the water that still give the jeebies in my dreams. And sometimes the pipe opened up, flowing through rooms with ceilings so high you couldn't even see 'em. Just a blue you thought you'd float away into. Yeah, scared the shit out me the first time too.

>>7726900
> FTL communications will be required

Somebody call for an Astronomican?

I just had a thought. This behemoth, due to the concentrated humanity, would have a localized warp-storm constantly surrounding it, so much so that it might spill into reality. With every human soul concentrated into such a relatively tiny space, it would either make daemonic infestation much more likely or much more unlikely. Plus, if Big E is at the helm, daemons might not be able to manifest at all. So, this thing prevents any other ships from approaching in both real- and warp-space, and kills daemons by mere proximity.

>>7726906

God damn, man, that gave me the chills. If the Black Library published 40k authors like you, I'd read all their books.

/tg/ continues to be one of the most creative and brilliant boards I've found on the internet. Whole gaming franchises could be generated from the shit we post here.

Never, ever change.

>>7727025

Next thing we know the up[comming Dark Heresy book is going to mention a ship in the warp of this massive scale. We know you Fantasy Flight Gaming guys are out there.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=WH40k

Vote for it guys

>>7726906
F5F5F5F5F5

>>7727145

Done and done. Keep those votes coming. This thread deserves a lot of 'em.

>>7727078

We are not!

>>7726900
We were so close when the THING hit, only three shock-days away. So much was left behind. Jani's vistagram of Docking Bay 193829483, too big to easily carry down the corridors. Our hull fragment; the vendor had told my great-grandfather it had been kissed by the void at the edge of the universe. And now it had to stay, heavy as it was, to be shocked into dust. We left it in the center of our alcove, cushioned in our bedsheets; maybe the God-Captain will see fit to spare it.

And now we walk, and pray, and hope that one day we will see home again.

>>7726761

Another technology recommendation: dark matter manipulation. Dark matter does not interact with itself at these length scales, which is problematic, but it also does not form black holes. If dark matter manipulation technology proceeds faster than gravity manipulation and star harvesting, then this technology may be advantageous.

Have we determined yet if it carries any craft of its own?

>>7727422

Of course it would. All the remnants of the Imperial Navy and Space Marine Fleets, along with whatever can be manufactured on it as well.

>>7727442

Scramble the battleships?

>>7727422
Emporor Class battleships are strike craft/scout fighters.

Of course, you'd have to keep to your gravity vector absolutely; deviate and the mass of suns shall pull you to your doom.

It'd use Craftworlds as run-abouts, for ferrying people around

>>7727509

Craftworlds are too slow; the ISS Imperium would need something akin to fightercraft in turbolift tubes.

So where's it going? Next galaxy over?

>>7727692
The Battleship Imperium is hunting what the 'nids are running from.

Convert titans for EVA use. They can operate in 0 atm environments, right?

>>7727561
Not inside the ship, outside. For when you want to dock with a planet, or other lesser body, and don't want to destroy it and everything in a 5 light year radius.

Though I heartily support the use of turbo-lifts with ships in them. The main arteries would have Webway-like warptunnels, with people, armaments, and supplies in constant flow

>>7727692

Only I know our final destination, My child. Be still and strong in your faith, for the Great Ship does not sail idly through the stars.

>>7727748
But...my Emperor... you are blind, and the Astronomican is of no use to Your magnificent psychic power. How then can you be sure of the way?

Related: what happens when this thing tries to Warp-jump?

>>7727797

Is your heart so weak, O ye of little faith? Fear not. For wheresoever the God-Captain of the Great Ship Imperium willeth our engines, there shall we sail by His grace.

>>7727797
Does it matter? It's not like Captain McEmperor is going to crash this bad boy into anything worth noting.

The Astronomicon no longer lights the path home, but shines out as our beacon. The soul of humanity, lighting our way through the void, so that The Captain-Emperor may guide us to The Destination.

And telling those that see it We Are Coming.

just use an engorgio charm

>>7727880

I caution only that the Great Ship will take an aeon to change its course, should such a change be required. I cannot concieve of the energy required to stop it, let alone reverse its travel.

>>7727909
And then thrust it into the Eye of Terror! Good job Emps, you just skullfucked the galaxy.

So seriously, when the Emperor decides to flip on the warp engines...what happens?

>>7727908

Aye, brother. In the Dark Years long past, ere the Great Ship was built, we were as wayward moths gasping in the darkness of the stars. But now His Light is with us always, its glory brighter than a thousand suns, shining forth from the Holy Command Bridge and illuminating the path before us with its majesty. No longer must we heed the frail minds and weak hearts of navigators and petty captains; for the God-Captain guides our Ship, and His Sight never faileth.

>>7727978
Shit fucking gets real is what happens.

>>7727988

I hope so; we're never coming back here. There are rumours he wants us to reach speeds of 100 m/s...

>>7727954

see

>>7726258

So is this a new era for the Imperium?

The Age of Exodus?

>>7727978
>>7727857
The ship does not enter the Immaterium and move about before exiting.

The rest of the universe does.

Gentlemen, it was an honor to be a part of this with all of you. I am truly proud of what we have made.

>>7728223

Sincerely and deeply returned. It has truly been an honor.

The Ship is setting sail. The Exodus begins. We depart at last.

We shall meet again, my brothers.

>>7728274

So who breaks the bottle of amasec over the bow?

>>7728309
You rang?

>>7728309
I have the sudden vision of the current flagship of the Imperial Navy with a bottle affixed to its prow, falling into the Imperium's gravity well as the crew abandons it. The engines light as the ship crashes.

>>7723949
see below

>>7724287
lrn to astral body. our sun is fucking small. there are suns thousands of times larger than ours.

this whole thread is tldr, but being the math fag i am, i di a few calculations.

a.s. = at section
eyeballed as in i guessed proportions of pics i could find


40 long, at high section 20 high, at low section 8 high, 4 wide ( high section 1/4 length, low section 3/4 length) (proportions eyeballed)

.032575757575757... hieght of uss alabama in miles

.128787878787878... length of uss alabama in miles

.020492424242424... width of uss alabama in miles

.000085925167654... uss alabama in miles^3

compliment of 1,793 men and officers in the uss alabama

20,866,994.49013565.. crew per mile^3

721,775,044 how many uss alabamas in 1 au

92,955,887 length of supa ship in miles

69,716,915.25 length of 3/4 of ship

23,238,971.75 length of 1/4 of ship

46,477,943.5 average max height

18,591,177.4 average min height

9,295,588.7 average width

46,477,943.5 average max height x 23,238,971.75 (1/4 length of ship) = 1,080,099,615,994,596.125 = HxL(a.s.)

18,591,177.4 x 69,716,915.25 (length of 3/4 of ship) = 1,296,119,539,193,515.35 = HxL(a.s.)

1,080,099,615,994,596.125 x 9,295,588.7 = HxLxW = 10,040,161,785,313,707,000,613.7875 mi^3 for high short

1,296,119,539,193,515.35 x 9,295,588.7 = HxLxW = 12,048,194,142,376,448,400,736.545 mi^3 for low long

22,088,355,927,690,155,401,350.3325 mi^3 size of ship 1 AU in length

22,088,355,927,690,155,401,350.3325 x 20,866,994.49013565 = rough compliment to ship one au in length

= 460,917,601,439,265,602,979,176,541,188.67

in english thats four hundred and sixty octillion, nine hundred and seventeen septillion, six hundred and one sextillion,
four hundred and 39 quintillion, two hundred and 65 quadrillion, six hundred and two trillion,
nine hundred and seventy nine billion, one hundred and seventy six million, five hundred and forty one thousand,
one hundred and eighty eight point six seven people to man this monstrosity.

keep in mind, this is if the ship has a relative population density to mentioned ship. also, for math fags interested, its not to far of from seeing how many tons of metal are needed to creat it.

>>7728476
Finally, the Imperium has room to grow.

Th..th..this unit is honored to have assisted in the planning stages of the endeavor.

This unit is one with the Ship. Along the endless conduits, the machine spirits sing the song of Passage. From light-minutes away the knowing washes in; waves of signal, oceans of noise.

The hull, planets thick, is covered with mighty weapons like grass on a plain. It repels the Void, and the Alien, and we are safe.

The engines, a dozen captive suns, burn with eternal radiance, fed with interstellar hydrogen, never to expire, and we are warm.

In the hidden worlds within the hab-bays, on seas and in forests, on vast deserts and in endless tunnels, the Crew are born and die. Souls more numerous than the stars, we live.

The Ship is all.
The Ship moves.

>>7728552

That legitimately gave me goosebumps.

>>7726492
What is the Valiance, anyway... I know, I suck.
>>7726518
Sounds positively Nurglitch.