Yeah, though I can see why they excluded them. Imagine how large the image would have to be. For example the Ark from the Halo franchise is 127,530 kilometers, or 79,244 miles, across. To put in perspective, it is wider than Uranus and Neptune sitting side by side each other are.
Are you kidding?
Nope. That is the canon size of The Ark in Halo 3. The crazy thing is it was the smaller of the two Arks, about only a third the size of the Greater Ark.
Who was this list made for? The font is so tiny I can barely read anything.
Nope. That is the canon size of The Ark in Halo 3. The crazy thing is it was the smaller of the two Arks, about only a third the size of the Greater Ark.
To be fair, a type-2 civilization especially if they are close to becoming type-3, could probably manage something like this.
I don't know why they would do something like this, it soes not seem very efficient to me... But they probably can.
To be fair, a type-2 civilization especially if they are close to becoming type-3, could probably manage something like this.
I don't know why they would do something like this, it soes not seem very efficient to me... But they probably can.
I agree they could do it, and even had good reasons for building such places. The Arks were made to be a safe haven for their people outside the galaxy as well as an installation to create and fire the Halo rings against the Flood.
Plus hey when you're practically immortal you need a hobby. May as well build a gas giant-sized installation. 
I'm glad they included farscape. I see no Vexx though. Vexx is a living hsip like moya, that can destroy planetsunlike moya. Vexx can one shot kill planets. Vexx is like a living death star. much more compact also.
I'm glad they included farscape. I see no Vexx though. Vexx is a living hsip like moya, that can destroy planetsunlike moya. Vexx can one shot kill planets. Vexx is like a living death star. much more compact also.
Where are the Farscape ships I can't see them?
bottom right corner. they're tiny.
Where's Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?
The one that's 52.8 billion light years tall.
bottom right corner. they're tiny.
Thanks, the dreadnought and Command carrier aren't too small but Moya is so small I thought she was huge!
I'm not a fan of the franchises using really large ships. To me, it smacks of "Look how great my franchise is because I have the biggest and strongest ship!"
I thought the Reaper ships were an adequate compromise. Quite huge compared to a human, but altogether practical and not blindingly enormous. The Crucible was an unwieldy space station, so it being so large made sense.
Just playing devil's advocate here but when you say "I thought the Reaper ships were an adequate compromise", aren't you really just using the ships chart above to make that statement? I mean really in the ME games, the sheer size of a Reaper like Sovereign is epic and made so that it can only leave the player in awe of what the odds against you are. The first time I saw Sovereign on Eden Prime in ME1, I certainly didn't think: "well that's a nice compromise... I should be able to defeat that fairly easily..."
I'd be curious to know how the person who made that chart was able to figure out scale... take the biggest ship on that chart for example... how do you fit that on a TV screen (for gaming) compared to the protagonist you're playing? 
Also, remember the T-47 Airspeeders from the Empire Strikes Back? Ships that size probably wouldn't even register on that chart.
Forget the T-47 and find the SR2. Then compare it to the Geth Cruiser, Geth Dreadnought, and a Reaper.
I'm thinking the scale is slightly off here...
Hey! Where's the SR1?
Wow this is fun!
I haven't seen a single ship from any of the series in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, so that's one.
There are some on there, near the middle. Looks like primarily UC stuff (Federation, Zeon, Zanscare, Crossbone Vanguard etc.).
Whoah - didn't realise how massive the Lexx was!
I don't believe the lexx is as big as the chart says. it seems like 1/3 at best in the first episodes I've seen.
I think this chart best demonstrates which franchises like to go with "asspull numbers."
This is better but it's still hard to some of it, I wish the creator had made it a bit easier to read maybe have a numbered key system.
http://dirkloechel.d...ships-398790051
Zoom on this for an actual readable version 
Just playing devil's advocate here but when you say "I thought the Reaper ships were an adequate compromise", aren't you really just using the ships chart above to make that statement? I mean really in the ME games, the sheer size of a Reaper like Sovereign is epic and made so that it can only leave the player in awe of what the odds against you are. The first time I saw Sovereign on Eden Prime in ME1, I certainly didn't think: "well that's a nice compromise... I should be able to defeat that fairly easily..."
There's a lot of things bigger than a Reaper ship. They're huge compared to anything that the Citadel races can field, but they are individually smaller than the Citadel itself (and the mass relays, I think). Of course, they are also dwarfed by even relatively small celestial bodies.
Why is it that all I can think of is the bloated size of the military industrial complexes of these "empires" and the huge numbers of poor on their worlds? The budget deficit caused by building one of those ships alone must be staggering. Not to mention the environmental costs to build a fleet of them. But who cares? It's war and conquest! Heroism! There are sacrifices.
I have an idea! Why don't we build a ship thats... as big as a star! Wouldn't that be awesome?
Sci-fi writers have no sense of scale.
There are some on there, near the middle. Looks like primarily UC stuff (Federation, Zeon, Zanscare, Crossbone Vanguard etc.).
Oh, so there is. Thank you for pointing it out. But yeah it seems they are using just the ships from the UC timeline, and excluded the ships from the FC, AC, CE, AG, and AD timelines.
Why is it that all I can think of is the bloated size of the military industrial complexes of these "empires" and the huge numbers of poor on their worlds? The budget deficit caused by building one of those ships alone must be staggering. Not to mention the environmental costs to build a fleet of them. But who cares? It's war and conquest! Heroism! There are sacrifices.
I have an idea! Why don't we build a ship thats... as big as a star! Wouldn't that be awesome?
Sci-fi writers have no sense of scale.
Well, for some of them I imagine that's actually the point.
I mean, most of the largest ships represented are from Warhammer 40k, Star Wars, and Indepedence day. WH is built on the idea of being this horrific future where trillions are kept in poverty that makes the middle ages seem nice in comparison and whole planets are stripmined. The larger SW ships are the result of the explicitly evil Galactic Empire. And the Independence Day ship is built by a horde of alien locusts.
The thing that would really solidify everyone's understanding of this is if that image included actual man made real life space shuttles and space crafts.
The thing that would really solidify everyone's understanding of this is if that image included actual man made real life space shuttles and space crafts.
It does.
Up top, towards the left hand corner.
It does.
Up top, towards the left hand corner.
the international space station. well i guess every thing else was to puny to bother.
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