Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's no moon... It's a space station.
Han Solo: It's too big to be a space station.
Han Solo: It's too big to be a space station.
— Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
"Warhammer 50,000 - Mankind has taken to the stars in a ship of unimaginable proportions. Cannibalising the million worlds of the old Imperium, mankind seeks a refuge from the horrors of this galaxy. Home to untold trillions, the great black ship travels the void, whole decks lit by the light of artificial plasma suns, each room a continent, each rivet a mountain. Humanity lives and dies on a vessel of it's own making.
But all is not well on the great ship Imperius. Legions of Orks thrive in the vast wildernesses of the ships bowels, Tyranids infest it's corridors like cockroaches, Shadowy metal figures make whole sections of the ships unpassable, the miles of empty corridors as still as a tomb. In the crowded markets of the Cabinhives, strangely elegant travellers can be seen wrapped in rustcowls and speaking to no-one.
In this great ship mankind still faces war. Legions of soldiers fight to keep the great arterial corridors open. Millions of men die to defend a single coolant junction. These are the things mankind survival depends on and what it's enemies seek to destroy. But still it journeys on, it's destination only known to the navigator, the Emperor himself.
And if he knows, he is staying silent..."
But all is not well on the great ship Imperius. Legions of Orks thrive in the vast wildernesses of the ships bowels, Tyranids infest it's corridors like cockroaches, Shadowy metal figures make whole sections of the ships unpassable, the miles of empty corridors as still as a tomb. In the crowded markets of the Cabinhives, strangely elegant travellers can be seen wrapped in rustcowls and speaking to no-one.
In this great ship mankind still faces war. Legions of soldiers fight to keep the great arterial corridors open. Millions of men die to defend a single coolant junction. These are the things mankind survival depends on and what it's enemies seek to destroy. But still it journeys on, it's destination only known to the navigator, the Emperor himself.
And if he knows, he is staying silent..."
Colonel: Radar reception has been impaired, but we were able to get these. Now, we estimate that it has a diameter of over 550km and a mass roughly one-fourth the size of our moon.
General Grey: What the hell is it? A meteor?
Major: No, definitely not.
General Grey: How do you know?
Major: Well, sir, it's slowing down.
General Grey: It's what?
Major: It's, uh, slowing down, sir.
General Grey: What the hell is it? A meteor?
Major: No, definitely not.
General Grey: How do you know?
Major: Well, sir, it's slowing down.
General Grey: It's what?
Major: It's, uh, slowing down, sir.
Admiral Bala-Amin: You want to put Jumpstar Prime in Eina-Afa? I thought your home was a space station?
Hioefua: It is a station with more than adequate space, yes.
Hioefua: It is a station with more than adequate space, yes.
Emil Nader: It'll take us days to get from the embarkation deck to the bridge.
Roboute Surcouf: Perhaps they have internal teleporters.
Adara Siavash: Don't joke about that.
Roboute: I'm not. Seriously, I'm not. How else would anyone get about a vessel that size?
Roboute Surcouf: Perhaps they have internal teleporters.
Adara Siavash: Don't joke about that.
Roboute: I'm not. Seriously, I'm not. How else would anyone get about a vessel that size?
"The readings I'm getting on this base aren't consistent with any of the others I've destroyed. It's acutally moving. Maintaining speed and heading just like a starship."
"It's Warworld! I've spotted it — only a couple of light-years away! It's about to pass in front of that white dwarf star and... and... Great Rao — It's not possible! Nothing artificial could be that huge! Warworld didn't pass in front of the star — It passed behind it! And the dwarf star's overwhelming gravitational pull had absolutely no effect on it!"
