Starship Breakdown : Terran BattleCruiser - The Equalizer 

I still find it hilarious that Spacedock hasn’t done a video of this ship. It has been requested hundreds of times lol

This is kinda awesome. A full breakdown of StarCraft ships and lore is definitely welcome.

Terran BC is not a ship, it is a Yamato dispenser.

The United Earth Directorate was spying on the Koprulu Sector long before the Brood War took place. My personal belief, backed up by some conjecture by developers, is that the UED relied on copies of Koprulu Sector tech during the Brood War, so they could more easily resupply given that they were so far from Earth.

Battle cruises carry a compliment of 4,000 to 8,000 personnel. Crap I’m gonna need more supply depots

Considering how varied the BC's are in Starcraft 2 I find it likely that the Terran BC of the Koprulu sector was based on the aesthetic of the old Earth BC's and maybe a few knowns however the actual design was done more or less from scratch.

I love how you timed this to coincide with Mark Kern's birthday.

I love the battlecruiser. I love everything there is to it.

plis more starcraft lore

Glad to see you branch out into other IP again. Star Craft has a special place in my heart both as an RTS and as a Sci Fi setting.

Off topic, but seeing the mention of how shields were limited by reactor power, what were the limitations on shield strength in Star Trek? Could you just fit larger warp cores/reactors and extra shield emitters to scale up shields even more - what was the bottleneck? The EPS grid would have to be reinforced, but that's just a case of laying extra cables ect?? And was there a performance effect on the ship, besides overall power demands and the power being diverted from other systems? With armour there is always the limiting factor or weight and the thickness taking up space. So you need to balance it against speed and the loss of room for other components like the firepower. But with shields is there significant mass and space taken up.? Or could you take a old Miranda class, strip out the saucer section of all amenities and so forth, stick in the largest reactors that can fit and reinforce the wiring, add new state of the art shield emitters and create a tank that can shrug off photon torpedoes. Would it make sense (except from a logistical perspective) to shoehorn in the largest warp core that you could stick in the hull in any ship for the boost. And does the same reasoning apply to Star Wars ships (although a ISD's reactor appears to be a major part of its mass and internal (ahem) volume). Star Trek the warp cores are pretty small and light, and the support engineering could be scaled up. Could you even stick a Intrepid core in a Nova class ship [the Equinox episodes went very different].

One of my favorite ships from star craft great video

You kinda forgot to mention how they got upgraded with missile pods during SC2 era to help fight air threats oh and one variant that really should have been mentioned is Jackson's Revenge

Great job! Please continue with StarCraft ships and equipment!

This told me everything I needed to know about the Terran Battlecruiser except how big it was. I understand that the lore for its actual size is all over of the place and there isn't anything really definitive, but man, I wish we knew how many kilometers it actually is.

Nice, hardware stuff, wel introduced. Thanks.

i love this ship class too, i always called it the "Yamato class" battlecruiser.

They had access to the designs because of what was basically a mad scientist scheme. The short version is the prisoner ships were modified (as well as the people on board if I remember right) so they could establish colonies quickly and easily once they reached where they were going. However they missed their target and ended up in the Koprulu sector by mistake. I know wikis aren't the most reliable sources of information but here's a link: starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Doran_Routhe As most of the sources are Q&As and a timeline included in one of the books this should be taken with a grain of salt.

Yay! More Video game vessels!

Don't know why but that joke always gets me chuckling, not that joke but this one

There is a possibility that it looks similar due to them remembering what it looked like and making a similarly shaped vessel since they know that design works so it removes part of the effort needed to make one of their own, similar to how the Soviets, China and Iran did/do copy American designs despite not having access to the schematics.

Do more of these please

umojan is pronounced "yu-moh-jen" and is not a mercenary variant, its one of the three terran "nations" in the korpulu sector: the terran dominion, the umojan protectorate, and the kel-morian combine.

I had always assumed that the core chassis was carried over from the UED but the exact technology that operated it was somewhat different. By the time the two ships met each other in combat they were roughly equivalent in capabilities. I also assumed that the new units that showed up in broodwar like the Valkyrie were brought over by the UED and the technology was quickly stolen or copied. At that point there would have been much more infighting and intrigue in Kaprulu than in UED space making the dominion much better at spy-craft, especially considering the guerrilla war tactics that they came into power through.

Wait, I thought the Aleksander was the UED's flagship... Dominion's was Norad III...

Regarding the database, the original 'Crew' in cold sleep were originally supposed to function as a penal colony, they were only supposed to set up the basic infrastructure. They having weapons design, kind of makes sense, since they would be guards, and UPL would want to have the ability to defend the colony after the real colonist arrived. However it could be argued that the UED only used a design that was made to look like the Terran version, as a type of cover.

A area of lore that hasn't been explored, *Blake's 7.* They have some interesting ships (besides the Liberator, although that should be #1) and a IP that is well laid out. There's a technical manual that gives good detail. And while the original model shots are varied in quality - from nice artwork to models that you can actually see the string holding them up!, there are also modern CGI recreations. Now, how much Space 1999 have you done? the Eagle and the Hawk along with the Long range probe. The universal detachable cockpit is a nice concept and the Eagles detachable main module could be seen as inspiration for the Federation's Runabout. The Eagles Flatpack assembly was a obvious inspiration for Voyagers shuttle bay - with the ability to build replacements.

Can your next starcraft video be about Bob's Bazaar?

But does it have a Gelato machine?

well its about time

I would love to see a StarCraft grand strategy game, or mod for stellaris maybe.

Honestly this new Star Trek Discovery / Picard stuff is getting a little bit too grimdark for my tastes. Also they should probably update their CGI, it's a bit behind the times.

The Griffin from StarCraft nova covert ops please.

I'm not sure if you ever covered this but... I was rewatching DS9 S7E6 - Treachery, Faith, and the Great River where Weyoun 6 tried to defect to the Federation by surrendering to Odo. Now I know how much you covered the fall of Federation principles through In Pale Moonlight, but I'm not sure if you touched upon the same subject on the Dominion. By this point, they were losing the war, desperate, and the Cardassians were becoming disillusioned with their alliance with hints that Demar assassinated Weyoun 5. And with Weyoun 6 so disappointed that his own bloodline was tainted with a defective, he was willing to have Odo, a Changeling who the Vorta consider Gods, to be killed. We saw fractures, and I wonder how this would affect their future operations.

it COULD BE possible that one of the original prisoners that crash landed could have been an engineer for the old earth military, perhaps he had most of what was required to build the ship in terms of design and through decades of trial and error they ended up with the first battlecruisers?

My thoughts are I wish I could have afforded the giant replica dark horse made last year.

Two dozen Classes barely any different from each other. My takeaway was, "Whatever works, built a butt ton of em." since you always saw hundreds of the things. Kind of upsetting to find out the massive crew compliments though.

Are the components at the end of each wing warp nacelles or are they weapons?

More starcraft!!!!!!!

Imho these things make little sense as units in SC, considering the size of almost everything else. A, say frigate could work exactly the same way gameplay wise and would make much more sense.

"Battle Cruiser Operational"

*Battlecruiser Operational*

Who would be stupid enough to mass Protoss stalkers against massed battlecruisers?

Size?

"Surrender! To the Terran Empire!" ... Did I get it right?

This ship really looks like the bilisknir from star gate

Kia ora from New Zealand. Couldn't help noticing you mentioned the Zerg is that the Buzz Lightyear Zurg if so you forgot the evil Emperor part.

The Dominion *not that one*

Norad II or Hyperion?

So the Terran Dominion was founded by decendants of prisoners and criminals marooned in an inhospitable region and developed a civilization geared towards surviving against giant bugs and creatures.... so this would make them.... space Australians?

A Star Trek Mirror Universe series!

Came here for my weekly dose of UTILIZE!!!

I find the Terran Battlecruiser to be a poor design. In almost all iterations its reliance on burst laser armaments for both AtS & AtA have been its undoing. Especially since the Terrans already have 2 off-the-shelf, modular weapon systems already available that don't have such high energy demands & are far more effective for their respective roles. I'm talking, of course, about the Thunderbolt missile system, & Arclite siege cannon. Thunderbolt missiles are long-ranged, cheap to produce & cheaper to field than burst lasers, while the advantage of an aerial-mounted siege cannon against ground targets are obvious.

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