Dr. Anomaly

Oh ho! That reminds me! For the ultimate in large-scale constructed objects, what about Cuckoo from Farthest Star and Wall Around A Star ? It was, after all, a vehicle!

Sector Twelve General Hospital is more of a BASE than a SHIP, isn't it? I don't recall it having any movement capability at all -- which is why when the war happened, they had to evac the personnel instead of moving the hospital.

The Local Group IS a galactic cluster -- albeit a small one, but a galactic cluster none the less.

You looking to wipe out a whole galactic cluster or supercluster? Geez...

Not really. Mass has to be REALLY concentrated before it will collapse into a singularity. If you look at the Main Sequence, 80%+ of the stars in the average galaxy are less than 2 solar masses anyway, which is well outside Chandresarker's Limit. Besides, if you hurl two fast-moving hot stars head-to-head, when they hit most of the kinetic energy gets turned into heat -- heat which has no place to go, so it causes a runaway fusion reaction in the outer layers of the stars, instead of in the cores where it belongs. Result: a really BIG boom.

Now, this is strictly from memory, so please feel free to point out where (if?) I'm wrong, but I thought the British had a .50 cal revolver used by naval officers during the latter years of the 19th century / first years of the 20th. (As it's currently 4:34 a.m. here and I haven't been to bed yet, I'm not gonna go and try and dig out the references right now. Besides, that shelf of the bookcase where those are stored is currently blocked by a mound of Transformers.)

Sorry, no can do. The rules explictly state: "Bases cannot buy movement. If you want a moving base, buy a really large vehicle."

Hardly. Take a mass of 10 kg as 1) a lump of lead 2) a lump of Styrofoam. Submerge them both in water (it will take quite a bit of force to make the Styrofoam submerge). The Styrofoam, when submerged, will displace FAR more water than the same-mass lump of lead...and thus they displace a different 'tonnage' of water, since the greater volume of water displaced by the Styrofoam will mass a great deal more than the mass of water displaced by the lead.

Either Multiform or Only In Heroic ID would seem to be the way to go. Hmmm...I *suppose* you could use a self-only, no range "Transform"... Or a bunch of different "Aid"s... Yeah, there's a lot of different ways it *could* be done, but Multiform is probably the easiest & least messy, mechanics-wise, not to mention giving you a nice point break. Just remember that things like Skills & Psyche Disads don't automatically get shared between forms (you have to add them in for each form, even if they're the same in both forms) and take that into account as needed.

Hmmmm... a nice idea, but... 1) The Size of the vehicle will be bought just once 2) The Armor/DEF of the vehicle will be bought just once 3) The Movement of the vehicle only gets bought once for each type of movement So at least a few of the really expensive things gotta be bought "as is."

Yeah, baby! But I don't think I'll be able to get the Valeron herself anywhere NEAR that cheap...apart from the defensive screens, etc. (which it took the combined output of over 1,000 worlds to overcome) she's constructed of inoson: "a synthetic metal that is as toughest and resiliant as is possible to any substance that has a molecular or atomic structure." I.E. you simply *can't* have *any* material that is stronger, tougher, etc. That's gotta be like 100 rPD / 100 rED, x64 Hardened, at least...

Oh, yeah, is that "5 minutes to activate" for *each* shot? If so, it's gonna take a while to transform the galaxy. If not, it needs a longer set-up time (it took them a couple of weeks in the book to set up the baselines, etc. for the 4th-D trajectories, using star clusters on opposite sides of the target galaxy as "anchors" from which to work).

That is the FUNNIEST thing I have read in some time! My hat's off to you!

Remember -- it'd be Teleport Usable As an Attack, too. Points = uh...ouch? Actually, if you're actually gonna pay points for it, it'd make more sense to buy it as a really, really, big RKA with loads of MegaRange (intergalactic) and MegaArea (volume of a large star), Expendable OIF ('ammunition' star). STILL more points than I really wanna think about, tho...

Yeah? Well, I'd like to see one, as well! Have you actually read the books in question? If not, I'll say that all we ever see of the interior of this monster is (1) the multiple layers of kilometer-thick airlock doors leading to the innermost chamber and (2) said innermost chamber which was the size of, and had the look & feel of, a small park. The park contained 3 houses and a small control room building, as well. We're told the 1 cubic km of Brain that runs the thing is "underground" in relation to the houses, but we never see it once the ship has been constructed. (The Brain was built first, then the ship was materialized around it.) Other than that, all we're told in the books is that the main sixth-order drive engines, main power plants, shield generators, etc. are within a spherical area about 100 km in diameter that makes up the core of the vessel. We know this because at one point, the Valeron is hit with such an attack that she gets mostly vaporized -- peeled like an onion -- by such strong forces that the creator has to re-tune the shield generators to protect only the vital 'interior' instead of protecting the whole vessel. Only with the supposedly invincible screens doing a 200x overlap over a much smaller area does the core of the ship survive the attack and escape. [by the way, if you're not familiar with "Doc" Smith's over-the-top style and love of synonyms for 'huge' or 'gigantic', the end of this particular series will illustrate it quite nicely. Determining that the antisocial race that runs the galaxy which nearly destroyed his vessel has GOT to go (it's a threat to all humanity everywhere, y'see) the creator of the Valeron with some help from notable allies and one major enemy, destroys said enemy galaxy. Yes, the galaxy. Actually, he destroys two galaxies, because he uses the stars from one galaxy as ammunition to destroy the stars in the enemy galaxy. (He picks a star in the enemy galaxy, determines its direction and velocity; picks a like-sized star from the 'ammunition' galaxy with a diametrically-opposed velocity, and flips the 'ammunition' star through the 4th Dimension so it reappears in the path of the enemy star. Splat, Kaboom: super-super-super nova. Wash, rinse, repeat. Since nearly every star in the enemy galaxy had a planet of the enemy around it, pretty much every star gets destroyed.]

The Skylark of Valeron is from a series by E. E. "Doc" Smith (also creator of the Lensman series). She was the biggest "built" ship I can recall (i.e. not a converted asteroid or something) and was 1000km in diameter. Despite that ridiculous tonnage, she had the power-to-mass ratio of a speedster and could traverse vast intergalactic distances in mere days...and the amount of firepower and defenses she packed made many galactic-wide civilizations look underarmed by comparison.

What with Star Hero and The Ulitmate Vehicle now out (and the expaned Size tables for vehicles) I'm considering, just for fun, doing a write-up of the Skylark of Valeron. Anyone else planning any really BIG write-ups?

Remember, it wasn't originally even the heavy-world bit -- it was being "evolutionary advanced" or "genetically advanced", I forget the exact wording. The defining scene that stands out in my mind is Jor-L swatting debris from a crumbling tower away while he carried Kal-L to the rocket. (And also a number of Kryptonians leaping to safety from 100-story towers, even as said towers crumbled.)