Looking for a term for “super vehicles” like airships, mega-tanks and mecha. Things that are only built by governments and factions, costing millions if not billions of credits.
Looking for a term for “super vehicles” like airships, mega-tanks and mecha.
Looking for a term for “super vehicles” like airships, mega-tanks and mecha.
Materiel?
You could borrow a page from Scot Westerfeld and go Leviathan for Air, Behemoth for Water and Goliath for Land.
Theater scale?
Super heavy?
Economic stimulus?
Jacob Ross Hmmm, not bad, I like the theme there. Though I’m looking for an overarching term to describe that “classification”, in the same way that Groundcars, Shuttles, Walkers and Bikes are all “Vehicles”. I fully admit that I may have written myself into a corner!
What’s the interface going to be like between vehicles, these, and ships?
I’m thinking that you could lump them all into ‘Vehicles’ and just have scales within that.
And scales could be by Asset Class, rather than physical size.
The Episode IV crawl called the Death Star an “ultimate weapon,” and I’d be tempted to use that just to get across the scale of importance you might be operating at.
Weapons Platforms?
Noah Doyle These are to Groundcars and Walkers what Starships are to Shuttles. Theoretically, you could use these rules to create a more granular Starship too.
I’ve already got a Tier system built; these Super Vehicles have no limit of upgrades, and every 3 upgrades knocks it up one Tier (so Tier 2 Super Vehicle is a Class 4-6, a Tier 3 is a Class 7-9, etc). All upgrades scale with Tier (Turrets = 1 turret per Tier, Cargo Hold = 2 Cargo spaces per Tier, etc)
Though perhaps Titans, Behemoth, Leviathan or something like that might be a cool classification of “omg why would you make something that big mobile”
If you were leaning in that direction, I feel like Leviathan is a badass choice, although if I was going biblical like that I would be tempted to cast an eye towards other faith-based terminology (ie, something like Deva-Class).
The Culture uses these classifications en.m.wikipedia.org – List of spacecraft in the Culture series – Wikipedia but they’re not super helpful.
I would go old school and suggest Land Dreadnaught, Dreadnaught, and Airship, or Airnaught.
Goliath, Nephilim, Colossus (Colossi), Juggernaut
Colossi could be the term to bind them all. With further naming as suggested: Leviathan for air, Goliath for land, etc
Ogres.
Behemoths, Titans, Supernals
Planetary Class, Solar Class, Nebula Class
Myth class.
Almost all of these sounds like they’d be great names for a specific vehicle, instead of vehicles of a certain value range in general. I’d stick with ‘Vehicles’, and ‘Tiers’ within that.
I like Dreadnought in general.
Alpo _
Wouldn’t Leviathan be for water, and Ziz be for air?
Citycraft, for the fact that each is a whole metropolis of people and machinery.
Continental Siege Units…
Macro-machines? Macro engines?
For now I ended up going the very boring route of “Greater Vehicles”. It’s about as flavorful as styrofoam, but at least it’s straight-forward and to-the-point. If something comes along that really catches my eye, I’ll reconsider.
None the less, thanks for the suggestions all. At the very least it’s food for thought.
It’s good. Leave the flavor for the name of a specific vehicle.