All while dispensing hot radioactive justice in the form of lime-green fuel rods that vaporise everything in a 5-metre blast radius. A sort of jet ski of the skies, the Banshee can do barrel rolls, loop-the-loops, and big jet propulsion boosties. Only one person can fit inside the Banshee (one 7 ft, half-ton person). The simplicity of this compact purple death bird is what makes it a top space fightist. Every ship I build - Kerbal Space Program There is more character in this flying garden shed than there is in all Star Trek’s Enterprises put together. If you damage the ship, clipping it off the top of a mountain or bouncing into an errant asteroid, you have to clamber out in mid-space and fix the broken component before gravity takes you crashing back to whatever planet you’re drifting towards. It is the easiest ship to pilot on this list, and the most eternal, being trapped in a time loop and everything. This lunar lander looking thing is built like a bunch of clever children made a cool treehouse and then asked their deranged rocket scientist uncle to come and attach thrusters to the bottom. Space lander - Outer WildsĪ rustic tugboat of a space vessel. This ship is so hard it sunbathes in lightning. But the colonial gunship just lies down and sleeps in those storms, absorbing the blue bolts to use as energy in its batteries. In this roguelite space ‘em up, there is a nasty environmental hazard where electrical storms will normally zap the shields right off your ship's back. It has a cadre of drones that follow it around, like a bully with an entourage of creepier sub-bullies. It is a large, sluggish fighter and it does not mess about. Shields, who needs ‘em? Not the colonial gunship, guv, Everspace’s equivalent of the big lad in kung fu movies who gets hit in the stomach and simply does not react. It has bombed you into next week, which is, incidentally, the approximate time it will take to earn back the money to buy a new ship.
Did you see the Nemesis appearing claustrophobically close to your ship’s aft? I did. Picture the scene: you are exploring an ancient field of valuable debris. It can just be a cosy place to rest while your robot takes the helm. Proof that your space vessel doesn’t need to be a killing machine. The webbed sails, the golden struts, the refined wood-paneled cabin with its hammock, the floor strewn with rugs and books. But even the most impatient among us has to admire this shimmering dragonfly of a ship. The ponderous flying sections of this archaeological adventure game are probably the least-loved thing about it. Granted, the Nightingale is a bit of a chore to drive along these floaty highways. Let's assume the nebulous streaks of dust and water that create the “rivers” of Heaven’s Vault exist in what is otherwise a vacuum. I too would probably fly this ship, were I an insufferable space fascist. I admire its gall, its rancor, its giant ears. The noise it makes as it screeches across the galactic ink blot is appealing and sacrosanct to SFX artists everywhere. I concede the Tie Fighter is an attractive death machine. This is a concession to the Star Warsers. Enemy boarding parties in both corridors? Uh… Tie Fighter - Star Wars: Tie Fighter
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Hull breach in the airlock? Zip through hatchway maintenance. Fire in security? No worries, scramble through the airlock corridor instead. If anything, the twisting, asymmetrical layout of this hurtling metal cereal box actually works in its favour. This cuboid collection of small rooms and higgledy-piggledy containers appears to the earthbound layperson as a messy junkyard in the sky. Torus - FTL: Faster Than Lightĭon’t put me in a box, unless it is the Torus Engi cruiser from FTL. The Cobra is all spaceships to all spacepeople. Versatile, inexpensive, angry as a box of bullet ants. Or you can stock up on piratical thief drones and head out with an electronic space lasso, ready to catch interstellar truckers for mid-flight shakedowns. You can strap a giant cargo compartment to the backside, yank off the shield generator, paint it bright yellow, and stand back in awe at your beautiful glass lorry. Here, you fripperist, you child, gaze upon the true list of the 9 best spaceships in games. Only an exponent of the foulest incorrectitudes would indulge a shipyard with all the basic-ass nomenclature of an episode of Sesame Street. Who do you think you are? Sitting there in the pilot’s seat of that garish tin can. A disdainful scoff as you vroomify your engines in the docking bay, click-clacking your flight checks in the seat of some dusty Y-wing, some classless X-Wing, some bogus B-wing. I have nothing to offer but the sneer of a veteran Elite Dangerous pilot. Happy Star Wars: Squadrons day, internet. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next month it may be struck off.
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