Space Battleship TEXAS

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Someone beat me to it!

bobbie-c's picture

Just saw this in the list of new stories. As a long-time fan of Space Battleship Yamato, or as I knew it first, Star Blazers this should be interesting! Will try and read it soon.

But, y'know, you don't need to go back to that 70s TV classic - there's a live action movie of the show, which was released 2010. And the effects are at par with any current sci-fi movie or TV show. If you're a fan, you're gonna looove it. Be warned, though, it is still as melodramatic as the original - it is a Japanese movie, after all. Although I still say the use of Stephen Tyler's "Love Hurts" in the closing credits wasn't over the top.

https://youtu.be/7hLE_AoFTiM
https://youtu.be/1vj5g5CrIpA

Shoulda thought of making a Yamato tribute a long time ago... Darn... someone beat me to it...
Would have used the USS Iowa myself bday-face.png but, hey, it's your story.

In any case, let me know if you want some nice graphics mocked up for your posts. I can make up some for you, using the actual USS Texas, even.

 

New version of TV series

Teek's picture

I grew up watching the TV show back in the 70's. I saw the movie (even though I hate sub-titles). I was on Amazon and saw a new version of the TV series. It is Called: Star Blazers 2199 (sold in two parts), and part one of the Comet Empire is out called: Star Blazers 2202. The story is slightly different but same premise, just updated to modern graphics, and technology.

I look forward to seeing what this story does with the story line.

Keep Smiling, Keep Writing
Teek

Texas vs Iowa...

Texas (BB-35) at least has the grace of being the Navy's technology demonstrator (14in guns, radar, fire control, etc) for most of it's career. If you wanted the biggest & best, the Montana (BB-67, 70,000 tons, never built) was the last and largest US design. (Think of it as an Iowa with heavier armor and a fourth turret.)

Battleship Texas

Melanie Brown's picture

I think I read that the Texas, when commissioned in 1914, was the most powerful weapon on the seas at that time.

That said, let's not lose sight of the story. If I was writing a serious story, I probably would have gone with a ship like Big Mo. After watching a live-action movie of Space Battleship Yamato, this parody popped into my head. It's just for fun. I picked the Texas largely because I live in Texas.

Thanks for reading and your interest in the story.

Melanie

Battle ship vs carrier

0.25tspgirl's picture

First: Both ship types require a battle group to operate. The fate of the Bismarck illustrates this quite finally.
Second: Choice of battle ship to “revive” is limited as most were scrapped after Korea. Texas, Iowa, Missouri, New Jersey are all that are left. None of them are in great shape internally. They exist as museums since Missouri and New Jersey were decommissioned after gulf 1. The big guns can’t complete with missiles.
Third: battle ships are not designed for global combat-they hav an undefended bottom ( perhaps you could mate 2 together bottom to bottom...nah).
Fourth: Carriers replaced battle ships as fighters and fighter-bombers are more effective than big guns too. The Arizona was sunk by a bomb.
Fifth: Fantasy is good but this one exceeds my capacity to suspend disbelief. Sorry....

BAK 0.25tspgirl

Disbelief

Melanie Brown's picture

Sorry you can't bring yourself to a little fun. The story is a parody of live action version of an anime series. If you're taking the story seriously, then you're missing the point.

Melanie

Just an opinion...

bobbie-c's picture

I think Melanie's right - you've missed the point here, applying real-world rationales to justify your pov.

As to your first point - who says there are two ship types - I think we can't assume that sea-based naval ship styles and methods will be replicated in space. We also cannot posit that there will be "carriers" and "battleships" when we finally start living in space. And the classification of "battleship" in the ship depicted here doesn't have any association with the WW2 "battleship" other than the name. As a parallel, I guess we can use the 17th century classification "frigate" that the British revived - the new "frigate" is basically an anti-submarine ship, as opposed to the 17th-century fast and maneuverable frigates. (Btw, the Arizona was indeed sunk by a bomb, and the reason for that is because her crew was caught flat-footed, and she was trapped, moored in Pearl Harbor instead of cruising free in the ocean, with her anti-aircarft crew ready to repulse enemy fighters - it was not necessarily an indictment of the incapability of battleships to ward off planes, but a result of great planning by the Japanese).

As to your second point - I doubt if "reviving" a ship means actually using the original ship as-is. It is obviously just a conceit used in the story. The real Yamato broke in two. That didn't stop the TV people from using the premise of resurrecting an ancient, intact ship in their TV shows.

As to your third point - well, of course, they have an undefended bottom. They're seagoing vessels. We have to assume that the ship will be converted with a heavy redesign. Watch any of the five Yamato cartoon series.

As to your fourth point - carriers did not replace battleships. Rather battleships became obsolete as the platform for projecting force in the way wars are fought now. Carriers now fulfill a role that didn't exist back before WW2 - a role batttleships were never meant to fulfill. I think you are again projecting equivalencies in the way naval sea-based war is fought with the way they will be fought in space.

As to your fifth point - yes, indeedy, it IS fantasy. I mean, it's ridiculous for the WW2-era Imperial Battleship Yamato to be converted into a space-going warship - the original premise was way out there to begin with, so your gripe about being unable to suspend disbelief is, I think, something you needed to have considered at the get-go: this was a take-off from the Yamato cartoons, and the premise requires that you do have disbelief-suspending skills.

I think you should lighten up a bit, and try and enjoy the story the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Just an opinion, of course. Feel free to disagree.
 

Daniel Da Cruz - U.S.S. Texas trilogy

A while back Daniel Da Cruz wrote a trilogy centered around the U.S.S. Texas where it was re-fitted to modern specs, I think it could even go into space, but not 100% sure about that.

First book - The Ayes of Texas
Second Book - Texas on the Rocks
Third Book - Texas Triumphant

Anyway, if you can find the books they are worth a read. At least I found them to be so. No TG or anything just solid military fiction.

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