The New Akira Battlestar: The Alita Class

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The New Akira Battlestar: The Alita Class

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The Alita class slipped into canon in the background of Star Trek Picard's third season and its a mighty vessel. An evolution of the Akira Class design, the Alita strenuously tests the notion that Starfleet does not develop battleships. Then why does it have 14 photon Torpedo launchers and 4 pulse phaser cannons?
Chapters
00:00 Intro and Name
00:50 Real Origins
01:17 A New Akira
03:07 Alita Origins
04:28 Stats
06:50 Summary
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@longWriter 6 ай бұрын

A canon ship with 14 torpedo launchers? I won't be ashamed of my fan-designed ship with 10 launchers now!

@Daginni1 6 ай бұрын

I swear, it was the TNG Era where Star Fleet was 'pretending' it wasn't a military organization after experiencing a golden age of relative peace. It got arrogant (and Q showed them/Picard otherwise). The TOS Era Star Fleet knew damn well it was a military organization. Star Fleet needs to be able to face the threats of the frontier, because the frontier doesn't care if you are "peaceful explorers".

@rubaiyat300 6 ай бұрын

Shrug, Galaxy could fire off 20 torpedoes at once in salvo form. With the largest phaser arrays even to the “present” day. If you think the stock Ent-D wouldnt have been pasting waves of Jem H’adar fighters as easily as the Defiant as another hero ship IDK what to tell ya.

@rathondraconin 6 ай бұрын

this episode showed how outclassed the U.S.S. Odessey (Galaxy Class), it was battered to hell with no effective shielding then rammed and destroyed as a lesson@@rubaiyat300

@mechanomics2649 6 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. I had a fan design that was armed similarly. The biggest difference, armament wise, is that my ship deployed drones instead of fighters.

@thelordofcringe 6 ай бұрын

@rubaiyat300 the galaxy literally got pasted by like 6 fighters lol

@stevenclark2188 6 ай бұрын

Most starships: "3 Torpedo launchers; 2 forward one aft" Alita: "14 torpedo launchers; 6 forward, 4 aft dorsally; 2 forward, 2 aft ventrally." ... Alita: "Plus 11 phaser strips, 4 pulse cannons, and 2 shield-disprupters/jammers"

@Daginni1 6 ай бұрын

When you "escort" (really a Battleship), nothing gonna touch what you protecting.

@barrybend7189 6 ай бұрын

Truly a ship capable of Panzer Kunst.

@BagoPorkRinds 6 ай бұрын

The Akira class has 15 torpedo launchers according to it's designer, Alex Jaeger.

@berthulf 6 ай бұрын

@@BagoPorkRinds there are 16 on the model, and some point sideways.

@kylereese4822 6 ай бұрын

Imagine using SpaceX Star Ship 8 meter wide ring sections to build the above Ship....

@kristofbe1 6 ай бұрын

"Harrassing hangars of heated hail of hellfire", that was beautiful, pure poetry. Well done, sir.

@casbot71 6 ай бұрын

A BattleStar... In that case, fit it with a Coaxial Warp drive so that the captain can yell _"Jump"_ in an emergency. Just imagine this thing suddenly appearing behind/above/below an enemy ship(s) with its own front firing arc facing them.

@davidb4715 6 ай бұрын

In my head canon, it does.

@Larynx_the_Changeling 6 ай бұрын

#sosayweall

@berthulf 6 ай бұрын

cough*picard manoeuvre*cough

@davidb4715 6 ай бұрын

Need something for that cough, lol.

@Lifelite 6 ай бұрын

I may have missed it being mentioned, but just like Alita and Akira, the Armitage was also named after a classic Cyberpunk anime, named Armitage III

@3Rayfire 6 ай бұрын

Pronounced Armitage the Third.

@willcaputo1 6 ай бұрын

The ship in the video is also called the Edgerunner.

@rickw8642 6 ай бұрын

Great animes.

@Endar0 5 ай бұрын

I was about to point that out.

@patrikhjorth3291 6 ай бұрын

"...you are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

@idoticHydra5671 6 ай бұрын

"Ensign, do you see these 3 enemy vessels in front of us?" - "Yes sir." - "Please make them dissapear." - "Yes sir!"

@Stingmon21 6 ай бұрын

I understood that reference.

@nsr-ints 6 ай бұрын

@@idoticHydra5671weapons, bridge, shooting point sequence, tube one through six, target designate Sierra one through three, shoot at bearing.

@Oniphire 6 ай бұрын

Delenn was more terrifying than any of the First Ones when she wanted to be.

@jamesmcglew9806 6 ай бұрын

GNU Mira Furlann- gone beyond the rim too soon

@boxtears 6 ай бұрын

It honestly looks like it has more than a little Klingon DNA in it.

@rickw8642 6 ай бұрын

Blood wine in the Captians quarters behind the desk.

@BigEpinstriping 6 ай бұрын

The Armitage class is another anime reference, Referring to Armitage the Third (or Armitage III) Which is also referenced on it's corresponding patch with the roman numeral 3 on it. Armitage the Third was released by Pioneer in the wake of the success of Ghost in the Shell, both in it's original series format, as well as a film: Amitage III: Polymatrix.

@maybetoby 6 ай бұрын

Really appreciate you doing more STO ships that appeared in Picard.

@Daginni1 6 ай бұрын

The fact Picard; a mainline Star Trek show, is accepting a MMORPG's ship designs is honestly just great on its own.

@t.800XR 6 ай бұрын

@@Daginni1 Well they tried not to in the first season and came up with the horrible Romulan and Federation fleets with tons of USS and RRW Copy&Pastes

@maybetoby 6 ай бұрын

@t.800XR they didn't "try" to do anything. The Inquiry class was a very last minute addition, which led to the disappointing fleet.

@t.800XR 6 ай бұрын

@@maybetoby exactly

@kaitlyn__L 6 ай бұрын

@@maybetobyand it was itself originally an STO design! It just didn’t make the cut (and for good reason tbh). But the sketches all existed years ago, the rush work was in turning them into CG models

@stars9084 6 ай бұрын

Honestly I’m not surprised we don’t see point defense more in Star Trek. Torpedoes are usually portrayed, at least before the last seasons of DS9 and Voyager as being too fast to shoot down. And non-torpedo projectiles do get shot down by the ships Phasers more than once

@Daginni1 6 ай бұрын

But at the same time, I would expect those Engineers to Treknobabble a way to create "phaser flak" to stop a torpedo, or something. Then we got just Star Trek: Galactica.

@dungeonmasteromega 6 ай бұрын

The radiation emitted by various types of torpedos might interfere with sensor calculations, resulting in such a drop in targeting accuracy that it becomes a roll of the dice to attempt point defense.

@SuperGamefreak18 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I feel like point defense was more common during the tos and pre TNG era but once ships started being able to Gatling gun torpedos it became a better idea to just strengthen shields and hulk plating

@aikrichter5403 6 ай бұрын

maybe that's the point of the whole system? phaser-turrets made to work as Point Defense,but not as attack Phasers anymore? especially phaserstrips,without any mechanically moving parts,should be fast enough (except long range torpedos in warptransit). directly bound to a computer-gunner and near area "where's that damn torpedo?" scanners. if you slow down the torpedo-impact rate to your shields,they might hold much longer.

@SuperGamefreak18 6 ай бұрын

@@aikrichter5403 that is a good point point

@SabertoothSeal 6 ай бұрын

That front profile makes me think more than a few Klingons were on the design team for this beast.

@thanqualthehighseer 6 ай бұрын

This ship looks more like a old school Pirate ship, got to love that rounded aft section, it almost looks like the stern gallery found on 16th century sailing ships.

@ashleycross7593 6 ай бұрын

I loved the Akira class ever since I listened too Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds, and then watched star trek first contact.

@wesleykim6523 6 ай бұрын

I’m not going to lie, I do hope to see the Thunderchild Class or the Armitage Class become canon, cause I’m not fully onboard with the Alita Class being the only evolution of the Akira. Its profile honestly looks more like a precursor to the Akira rather than a successor with all the rougher, more utilitarian shapes making it stand out in an odd way compared to the rest of the rather smooth and clean-looking 25th century fleet. Maybe with the Alita basically being a carrier like the original idea for the Akira Class, maybe the Thunderchild or the Armitage Classes are more akin to support “escort” vessels that could work really well in formation (not that formation) with the Alita Class.

@3Rayfire 6 ай бұрын

Especially that navigational deflector. The Akira having it so smoothly integrated into the hull just looks more advanced flat out.

@IamSkyeOrion 6 ай бұрын

Well in addition to it looking a little like it has some Klingon, there's a certain flair of Romulan in it as well. It's a Battle Angel...

@jhenes82 6 ай бұрын

In STO I have all the Akira variants, (because I am a massive fanboy of the OG ship -_-) but the Armitage has always been my favorite, appearance-wise. These days I'll fly the Alita but use the Armitage skin, and I have her specced out to be a single target burst-down-anything monster. She's a bit of an outdated ship, as far as the meta goes in STO, but she's still fun as hell to fly.

@Sephiroth144 6 ай бұрын

Would definitely welcome a Thunderchild video (heck, two of them; one for the Akira-Class vessel and one for the Thunderchild-Class)

@t-bomb24fit61 5 ай бұрын

I’m still can’t get over why isn’t there complete squadrons of defiant class ships, Take a shuttle bay with doors at each end scale it to fit 2 to 4 defiants now build a Akira around that. During peacetime and normal theaters of war, they keep the fighter craft compliment. But also can load up for defiant class and become capital ship/Starbase killers Drop out of warp hot as one ship, turn on all sensor pings to make it as loud as possible to enemy sensors, deploy defiants from rear door in “dark” mode. The Akira sets course to target fires the full, complement a forward, facing weapons at a point in the shield grid veers off and uses all of those torpedo tubes to cover the four defiants that had powered up and followed that Akira and totaled five full frontal weapon barrages from five Borg killing ships, and then just to warp nine in five different directions. Awesome channel thank you for posting things that make my imagination question my fandom

@madams3110 5 ай бұрын

Why not have huge replicators manufacturing drones instead? Use the remains of destroyed enemy ships or stations as raw materials?

@Drave_Jr. 4 ай бұрын

I think the reason the Alita doesn't have Defiants is because they already have all the anti Capital Weapons on them, they need to be able to deal with massive swarms of ships, which fighters would be better for

@avsbes98 2 ай бұрын

So what you are trying to build is basically a Starfleet version of the Donnager?

@barrybend7189 6 ай бұрын

I fly this hull from time to time. Just wish the Matsumoto class was renamed Arcadia to keep the A name convention and to properly respect Leji Matsumoto.

@derek420358 6 ай бұрын

Whoa. I came here just for the name. The two classics of Anime in my collection that inspired my love of Sci Fi into adulthood, spawned by a childhood spent with a father who is a Trekie. I had a hunch it was actually what it looked like on the surface. Thanks for confirming it within the first few minutes.

@marshalt 6 ай бұрын

Rosa Salazar, who played Alita in the 2019 movie was also in one of the short trek episodes.

@michaelmacleod6517 6 ай бұрын

My favourite Akira variations are the Kusanagi and Matsumoto classes.

@ffnbbq 6 ай бұрын

This ship's appearance was a surprise and possibly a last-minute addition. Most of the STO ships in Picard were recently made; remastered in more detail, or (in the case of the Odyssey class) a brand new, high detail model was made for the show. The Alita was an older model that wasn't updated at all.

@Restilia_ch 6 ай бұрын

It's nice to see Battle Angel Alita get some recognition outside of its relatively niche fandom.

@the7observer 6 ай бұрын

Akira is the perfect representation of federation PTSD after wolf 359 cause there are never enough torpedoes

@davidb4715 6 ай бұрын

How many more torpedo's do we need sir? Admiral: All of them.

@johnsteiner3417 6 ай бұрын

Finally, a Star Trek ship that _almost_ caught up with 1970s naval surface warfare tactics.

@adenansu 6 ай бұрын

Akira, Alita and Armitage class ships... Need an A-Ko class, next.

@VulpisFoxfire 6 ай бұрын

Along with the experimental gadgeteer B-ko, and the small but equipped with a powerful subspace wave 'scream' weapon C-ko? :-)

@orkloven 6 ай бұрын

It's a tough ship! A couple squadrons of these things could make even the Dominion rethink its plans for the Alpha Quadrant!! Nice! So say we all!

@nataschajordan6053 6 ай бұрын

i really like the aft section that looks like a sailors-ships back cabin thing

@Daginni1 6 ай бұрын

If I were to put my med bay somewhere, that is where I would put it. Its rather protected, but you still get a med bed with a view. And one deck for a lounge.

@RegBeta 6 ай бұрын

Rick been watching you for almost 2 years now and noticed i haven't subscribed to you... that changes today!

@Rubix003 6 ай бұрын

Armitage is also an anime about a Combat Droid on a Cyberpunk Mars... (the anime is "Armitage the Third"). As a Trekkie and Anime Nerd, I approve of this convention.

@kylebrooks3683 6 ай бұрын

In STO one of my main characters flies the Legendary Akira, kit ashed with some elements of the Alita. Using the Terran and Discovery Reputation weapon sets, plus the point defense system and the multi-directional artillery system from the Terran Lexington, it is constantly firing off torpedoes in all directions at all times. Good times.

@lanchester101 6 ай бұрын

I assume that with tour build, you have Torpedo Spread as well for even more torpedoes

@nsr-ints 6 ай бұрын

Hmm yes, lore accurate Alita class combat tactics.

@kylebrooks3683 6 ай бұрын

@@lanchester101 oh yes. And Entwined Tactical Matrices, so whenever I use my cannon scatter volley, I get -more- torpedo spreads!

@kylebrooks3683 6 ай бұрын

And I forgot the Warhead Module from the Defiant refit, which fires a burst of six torpedoes that hit the same target, Robotech swarm missile style. Soooo much fun. And with Kemocite Laced Weaponry, every torpedo detonation causes a 2km radiation burst! Mwahahahah! I love my little torp monster...

@lanchester101 6 ай бұрын

@@kylebrooks3683 one other console you missed out is Opening Salvo from thr Titan Science Destroyer. The console from that also allows you to fire even more torpedoes as well

@aciarduce 6 ай бұрын

U.S.S. EDGERUNNER Cause I really wanna stay at your house.... Gods, why do I have to hear her everywhere?!

@Cdr2002 6 ай бұрын

I find that tiered mini-starbase looking back section really interesting visually

@malachiReformed 6 ай бұрын

Was this Sisko's wishlist, but Starfleet said "You gotta make it smaller"? Is that why we ended up with the Defiant?

@Robert-yn7qo 6 ай бұрын

Love all the Akira variants. My fav thou is the Armitage I run on my main. Has both the phaser and torp point defense systems. Great against Hur'q.

@markmarano913 6 ай бұрын

Given the Inquiry-class was being named after explorers and cartographers, I think it's possible they were originally following in the footsteps of the Galaxy class - in normal service, an exploratory cruiser that could be up-armed and retrofitted to serve in a battleship role; but then it had to be redesigned to fit that role by default in the wake of the destruction of Utopia Planetia. The Alita, on the other hand... Well, Starfleet designs and builds their ships like Swiss Army Knives; multipurpose, and capable of cutting you. The Alita was designed and built from the keel up as a Swiss Army Knife where EVERY attachment is a knife - it is build for the sole, exclusive purpose of cutting you.

@Drave_Jr. 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, seems post Borg and Dominion Wars, the Federation realized maybe having a standing military isn't the worst thing to have, as both powers proved you can't always talk your way out of a situation.

@markmarano913 5 ай бұрын

@@Drave_Jr. There's a brilliant line from the Klingon intro mission in Star Trek: Armada 2 - "Why does the Federation expect everyone to be as peaceful as they? Are they completely without guile? Or is it just lack of common sense?" Welp, they've certainly learned their lesson by the 25th century!

@Drave_Jr. 5 ай бұрын

@@markmarano913 To be fair, it was only in the 24th Century, during the Federation Golden Age after the Klingons lost Pravus and was more or less a weird form of a Federation protectorate, that there was the whole, "We aren't military."

@Momo-tc7sc 6 ай бұрын

I’d love a new show with one of these as the hero ship!

@Teletran35 6 ай бұрын

Wow the federation now uses fighter craft. I was going too say this ship reminds me of a Battlestar

@StarMandoForge 6 ай бұрын

Thunderchild, Armitage & Alita all come from one fine ship

@lordofentropy 6 ай бұрын

The Alita was the first ship I spent actual money on when I started STO in 2021. It's a fun ship, it would cool to see it get an update.

@lukewishmier9632 6 ай бұрын

I'm currently farming to get this ship so this video was quite a surprise, but a welcome one.

@calebhorn9671 6 ай бұрын

I interpret the shuttle bay layouts to be the smaller fore bays for launching shuttles/fighters and the larger bay for recovery. I know they just launched out the back in game, so thats just my personal headcanon. The fore bays are lower than the aft. So I thought after recovery was done in bay 1, the craft would be moved down to bays 2 and 3 by lifts. I guess it could depend on circumstance. If you had an enemy in front of you and you wanted a protected launch, you'd use the aft bay or vice-versa. I use the same logic for my Presidio class.

@jack1701e 6 ай бұрын

Ok I feel more comfy naming my OC Akira class ship 'Aragorn' if the classes' successor is the Alita class! Ship names from stories and fiction are awesome, especially after USS Thunderchild!

@aaronmurphy9353 3 ай бұрын

Ok... The Alita Class is very cool. I play Star Trek Online... I know what ship I want to switch over to for a while. She's a tough little ship and I'm interested in playing STO with her. Good job on the video. It was excellent.

@Macintoshiba 6 ай бұрын

There she is! Been sailing my Alita in STO for a while now. Shes fun :D

@antcow1239 6 ай бұрын

We are starfleet, and we are dedicated to peace and exploration. So how many guns should this new class have? All of them! MORE! MORE!

@navblue20 6 ай бұрын

And inside that space there are bad guys that would do nothing better than the blow us out of space peace or not

@JeremyBuxman 6 ай бұрын

As a community, we do not really get how horrifying any Fed ship would be if we start at TOS. Any science vessel should be able to burn a planet.

@kaitlyn__L 6 ай бұрын

@@JeremyBuxmana few “defensive” torpedoes is all it takes to glass a planet! That’s one of the things I liked that Discovery finally showed, given it did come up in dialogue a few times in earlier shows but was always averted.

@davidb4715 6 ай бұрын

We are starfleet, we love to meet new civilizations in mutual co-existence. Just don't push us to thin ice.

@antcow1239 6 ай бұрын

@@davidb4715 Its all thin ice out there!

@Zeithri 6 ай бұрын

Worthy of the name _Battle Angel_ .

@hudsonball4702 6 ай бұрын

The logo for the class had angel wings too.

@barrybend7189 6 ай бұрын

@@hudsonball4702both the Sword and angel wing is Damascus patterned. Neat detail to the rusty angel herself.

@roblancoberto6782 6 ай бұрын

This ship is awesome! I love the design. But the armament is just... wow. I would love to see this ship in battle in one of the tv series or forthcoming films.

@XTheCronosX 6 ай бұрын

It would look great but runs out of Torpedos in what...20 Seconds? And where do they get the energy from to fire all those Phasers at once? But for the game its fun.^^

@roblancoberto6782 6 ай бұрын

@@XTheCronosX I see your point. 😅

@jacara1981 6 ай бұрын

@@XTheCronosX well the torpedos are slightly smaller than a adult human so could carry a few thousand in the pod. As for power, likely routers power from the Warp Drive for it.

@XTheCronosX 6 ай бұрын

@@jacara1981 both is not going to happen. Is the whole ship/pod just torpedos then? one good hit and its gone. And why is every other ship running out? Power from the warp core? That was never enough in every other ship ever before... They can do hit and run and recharde in between though... Or don't use shield, thrust etc just to fire? risky, but depending on what is going on... Edit: If it would be that easy to do, half the klingon would have Guns with thruster/Warp, not ships XD

@jacara1981 6 ай бұрын

@XTheCronosX before the dominion war ships didn't pull most of their power from the warp core, because that power is needed to run if they have to. Main weapon, shields, and other power needs comes from Fusion generators the ship has, thus the need for deuterium and tritium.

@Alpha_Digamma 6 ай бұрын

My favorite STO ship and canon now too? Noice.

@roscuro1787 6 ай бұрын

My hero ship is an Armitage Class upgraded with an Ailta saucer section. I named my ship the USS Exit Strategy. Been naming my lead ship that ever since the multi vector advanced escort was a thing.

@xaero76 5 ай бұрын

I remember making the Suggestion for the Akira Class on the STO Forum like 13-14 years ago.... managed to convince them to add the Carrier hanger bays and 15 torpedo launchers... even tho in game it would be pretty much a 360 degree firing type device...

@feralprocessor9853 6 ай бұрын

Right off the bat, some real cool references

@captaincharlemagne 6 ай бұрын

Looking forward to eventually seeing the Lexington dreadnought cruiser appearance on ur channel

@allnamesaretakenful 6 ай бұрын

I love it, but Defiant Class is still my favorite.

@tred6292 6 ай бұрын

The Grand Old Lady. The Alita class Battlestar Galactica.

@dantheplasticman9742 6 ай бұрын

Apart from bingewatching your STO Story Series, I *love* these class breakdowns. Would love to either see the Glenn class or the Narendra (personal favorite) as the next video please sir.

@TrentonBennett 6 ай бұрын

I got to admit this is a cool design. 14 torpedo tubes on a Starfleet ship...yikes. I wouldn't want to be on the opposite side of that thing in battle.

@StevenHouse1980 6 ай бұрын

It's a ship thats a bit too tall for my taste, it almost looks like an old Akira Class had hull parts added from a Klingon ship. Also it's soo not the USS Imperious, it was Achilles-class.

@JonathanGFoulds 4 ай бұрын

HI Rick, ANOTHER - wonderful video…. in ANSWER to the question about “ not wanting to be in front of this thing “ -> my answer would be more along the lines of… I think I would need to be on the other side of a closed wormhole? Kapisch ? LOL

@jamesdietz29 6 ай бұрын

A candidate for my new favorite star ship!

@alexandercross9081 21 күн бұрын

The escort that just says, "I'm not letting anything touch the thing I'm escorting, and I will create a true vacuum in the space where anything that thinks about it used to be."

@justinpatterson5291 6 ай бұрын

This looks like a fun ship to try and replicate. At least- a slightly less complex version of it. I'd need 2 cockpits. 1 for flight'n, 1 for fight'n.

@deanj1981 6 ай бұрын

Great ship, I think a star trek series of this ship should be made. That would be fantastic 🇬🇧

@Phoenixryu 6 ай бұрын

That's an incredible ship! The Enterprise-E I think is still my overall favorite ship but this may come close. I always wondered what would happen if Starfleet went wild and tried to make something that rivals a SW Star Destroyer (In size/scope) but this ship is probably as close as we're going to get.

@DStrormer 6 ай бұрын

I love the Armitage III movies and I'm going to assume that was the namesake given the Akira and Alita names. For that reason alone I really hope it makes it into canon.

@NotBCT 6 ай бұрын

It is. Look at the development patch at 1:29. Has a III in the center.

@barrybend7189 6 ай бұрын

@@NotBCTthe Alita patch also has a Damascus wing and sword so nice detail there.

@nunya3163 3 күн бұрын

I Like how the new shuttle bay, looks like the back end of an old timey sailing ship.

@bjrnfrederiksson2505 6 ай бұрын

Loved the outtakes 😂😂

@bpblitz 6 ай бұрын

Armitage and Thunderchild classes looking like Mass Effect ships. Also worth noting that Armitage was ALSO an anime. Armitage III.

@grantmobile8777 6 ай бұрын

I'm curious regarding the bay silhouette displayed at the 4:53 mark. When I watched your video for the original Akira-class, that acknowledges a through-deck hanger concept. Bow to Aft. With the intention that it was carrier of fighter craft. As interpreted by the artist who designed it for Star Trek. But was never seen filmed as such. Is it not possible that within the Alita that the aft hanger reaches further forward to permit a lift situation connecting to the spaced apart shuttlebays at the bow?

@synaesthesia2010 3 күн бұрын

also, Alita Battle Angel is a fantastic underrated movie

@DeaconBlu 6 ай бұрын

Omg…I’m in Love. ❤

@ElderNewt 6 ай бұрын

We really need a new game like Star Trek: Armada but with these new updated ships and enemies :)

@ericdunn7352 6 ай бұрын

Maybe Starfleet needs combat starships because there are a lot of strange new worlds in the Milky Way that could be hostile to strangers, And wouldn't think twice about destroying them.

@gislasson 6 ай бұрын

another awesome video sir cheers from venezuela!

@johnshue8082 4 ай бұрын

big fan of AKira class design. this Alita looks good too!

@bladeofakira 6 ай бұрын

Honestly, I love the idea of anime inspired class names using the classics. Akira, Armitage, Alita. Also, they all start with "A", coincidence?

@idoticHydra5671 6 ай бұрын

Now i wonder what armament the "Attack on Titan"-class would have - probably just a big YES

@ryanmeakins2993 6 ай бұрын

I always get a kick out of a thunderchild reference

@guardianofthebrick6491 6 ай бұрын

I really love your videos

@hudsonball4702 6 ай бұрын

I have to comment that the vessele you used as the "study model" for the Alita class was the "Edgerunner" Also named after the Cyberpunk anime "Cyberpunk Edgerunners." So potentially we might get an "Edgerunner" class in the future.

@BigEpinstriping 6 ай бұрын

Edgerunner is a general term in the Cyberpunk game system, most Player characters are Edgerunners, people who live and ply their trade on the fringes of society: Fixers, Solos, Netrunners, Etc. It's been a term in the Cyberpunk game setting long before the anime came out. It was in use back in the day when I played Cyberpunk 2020 (the Tabletop RPG)

@hudsonball4702 6 ай бұрын

@@BigEpinstriping Yes, but the ships are named after cyberpunk anime. Edgerunner refer to the anime Cyberpunk Edgerunners, which opens up the possibility of an "Edgerunner" class in the future in the same vain.

@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 6 ай бұрын

Very nice. 😎

@seankane8628 6 ай бұрын

A mother bear capable of launching a strike and following her brood into battle.

@jaymikevillanueva1212 6 ай бұрын

That is definitely a battleship. It certainly has a battlestar vibe, too.

@ODST_Parker 6 ай бұрын

This ship's visual design is 50/50 for me. I absolutely love every bit of the saucer and most of the hull (except that weird shape of the impulse engines), but I hate the nacelles and pylons. Upper pod isn't great either. What's worse is that the pylons raise the nacelles upwards instead, creating one of the worst side profiles of any ship in the fleet. Seriously though, that saucer is perfect. The shape is great, the cannons are visually distinct now, and the hangar doors are enlarged and emphasized even better than on the Armitage. It looks more like the light carrier it's meant to be, in addition to looking more heavily armed as a warship.

@alphaone5406 6 ай бұрын

I use this ship a lot U.S.S Arethusa NCC-95632

@rookhobbes9055 6 ай бұрын

I love that this makes it Canon that these works are treated with the same reverence as other classics of human history like the works of Shakespeare or Tolkien

@barryelverson9486 5 ай бұрын

It’s Japanese name would be Gunm considering that’s the actual name of BattleAngel Alita, that was almost called Rusty Angel. Being an old anime/manga fan back when it came out makes me do this.

@Drave_Jr. 5 ай бұрын

The Akira is when Starfleet is still lying to itself about not being a military organization. The Alita is when they stopped lying.

@Daxsymbiote 6 ай бұрын

Oooh, she's great. Talk about gnashers. I gotta get me one of these on STO

@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent 6 ай бұрын

Put opening salvo, along with the auto targeting torp spam and your normal torpedo orders and you pretty much turn the Akira or its offshoots into a god of destruction and choas with torps flying everywhere

@thetruth45678 6 ай бұрын

Remember in the 90s how everything was *_eXtreme!!_* ? That's this ship. I would ask if Rob Liefeld designed it, but I can tell he didn't because it lacks a thousand pouches.

@nsr-ints 6 ай бұрын

This thing is capable of the firepower of an entire carrier strike group.

@jy3n2 6 ай бұрын

"Give me an engine, and a cockpit. Then strap on as many guns as you can. Then twice that."

@GiancarloPaniccia 6 ай бұрын

A deeper dive into "carrier" ship effectiveness would be interesting.

@FoxURA 6 ай бұрын

Great episode but the background music seems a bit too loud at some points. With the sound of road noise it made it harder to make out what you were saying.

@Sealhunt 6 ай бұрын

This ship showing up to a fight screams, "You've been a bad boy! You go boom now!" 14 torpedo tubes?! There's probably a Klingon ship designer crying into his blood wine because he never designed a ship with so much weaponry before, where as the peace-loving UFP designed a flying weapons platform

@MrMortull 6 ай бұрын

*quietly weeps* Farewell Thunderchild!

@briankriens5645 6 ай бұрын

I love Battlestars, especially the Mercury. That said the Alita could probably fit in the flight pod of a Battlestar, lol!

@patrick_j_lee 6 ай бұрын

Could be a fun hero ship with a scrappy crew, doing patrol duty along the Cardassian DMZ or the Gamma Quadrant.

@captianmorgan7627 6 ай бұрын

Armitage (the edited movie version), that was an ... interesting anime. Mostly sticking in my mind for Jar Jar Binks (his voice actor anyway) showing up.

@seanheath4492 6 ай бұрын

Still prefer running my Defiant derivatives when I get the itch to play STO, but I do have a fondness for the Alita and Armitage classes. If nothing else, they're great for pissing off a lot of enemies at once. :P