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Post by Rune Lai on Aug 24, 2012 23:42:05 GMT -5
I'm rewriting an old sf story of mine and I realized that I'm going to throw out the last third of it and in its place is going to be a large ship battle.
Problem I realized is that I don't really have a good grasp of what happens on the bridge of a large combat vessel. I have some old military sf book anthologies I'm currently sifting through to see if I have any fleet battles in them (so far there are way too many involving marines), but no luck as of yet.
So I figured I'd check out anime as well.
The criteria for an anime is that:
1) It must focus on large scale ship combat rather than individual fighter craft or mecha, which unfortunately throws out 90% of military anime.
2) It must be legally available through either Hulu, Crunchyroll, or Funimation. Since I'm using this as research for a story I hope to eventually be paid for, I want to make sure that I tip my hat to the creators of the work I'm viewing and that they are duly credited for my views.
It doesn't actually have to be science fiction or in space as long as it has a bridge and a bridge crew that I can observe. It actually doesn't even have to be military as long as the crew is reasonably well disciplined.
As a side note, though Star Trek does have a large ship and gets into combat sometimes, that's not quite what I'm looking for. They don't act like people who regularly get into combat.
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Post by Ambrienne on Aug 25, 2012 7:17:47 GMT -5
With regards to sci-fi books, did you try checking out the Honor Harrington (or is it Carrington?) series (name of the lead character, not the author which I cannot recall at this time)? That, if I recall correctly, did have fleet ship battles.
You could also try Firebird: A Trilogy by Kathy Tyers. I'm not sure that one will have enough instances enough for fleet sampling, but it's a good read in any case.
As far as anime goes is Space Ship Yamamoto available on those sites? I've never watched it, but from what I've heard, the battles were supposed to be based on WW2 stuff, so it might give you the kind of structure you need.
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Post by Anon Mous on Aug 25, 2012 9:22:23 GMT -5
Anime wise you can try Vandread. It is single fighter based, but there are some good bridge scenes with the Nirvana. Some of the Stellvia episodes may be good to look at too. I was never that big into the the whole sci-fi space battle thing in anime.
You may also want to check out the new Star Trek movie or Space Quest. There was also a Star Trek PS2 game that was battle based from a big ship perspective. Don't know how good it was, but it's an option.
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Post by Rune Lai on Aug 25, 2012 16:15:20 GMT -5
I've heard of Honor Harrington, but I haven't read the series. I took a skim through Wikipedia and it looks like it might be worth a look. Ooo... and the first two books are available free online through the publisher. Nice.
Sadly Space Battleship Yamato is not online anywhere (legally anyway). I'm not sure it's ever had an unedited US release, unlike Space Pirate Captain Harlock, which was about the same time and by the same director. But Captain Harlock's too cartoony for me get into, though he also has a ship. (I did watch Arcadia of My Youth though, which has a nice ship-to-ship "duel" in the end, but it wasn't quite what I was looking for since most of the bridge crew consists of unnamed extras with unknown duties.)
Anon, I don't normally go for sci-fi space battles either (which is why I'm struggling here), but I realized as I was revising my story that it really made sense for the main character to lead her rescue mission from the bridge of a small warship rather than the shuttlecraft of the original draft.
When she was on the shuttle it was fine just giving her a few extra people and making the environment very informal, but the story is drawing a parallel between her and her idol, who is an ex-military captain. To really hammer home that she has been unknowingly following in his footsteps, I need to put her in a situation where she is the de facto captain of a combat ship (she's not military) and in a position that he has regularly faced.
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Post by Rune Lai on May 6, 2018 20:55:33 GMT -5
Wow... I didn't realize this thread was so old (and I sold the story I was working on a while ago). But I started watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These and holy crap, watching this is like "Where have you been all my life?!" Massive ship battles, tacticians against tacticians. This is the high level stuff I was looking for.
There's no way they're fitting all 10 novels into a single run, so I might have to go back to the older, stodgier OVA series from the 80s/90s once I'm done, but right now it's very gripping.
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Post by Roas on May 6, 2018 21:33:40 GMT -5
Wow... I didn't realize this thread was so old (and I sold the story I was working on a while ago). But I started watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These and holy crap, watching this is like "Where have you been all my life?!" Massive ship battles, tacticians against tacticians. This is the high level stuff I was looking for. There's no way they're fitting all 10 novels into a single run, so I might have to go back to the older, stodgier OVA series from the 80s/90s once I'm done, but right now it's very gripping. That's on my to watch list in the coming weeks. |
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