@@jozefkozon4520 think the World Engine and Phalanx qualify more as mobile stations than actual ships, just like the Death Star... necron Cairn tomb ships don't though, and those things are HORRIFYING
40k wins so much on countdowns that you have to exclude it to give all the other franchises a fair shot. The winner’s trophy might as well say your #1 (next to 40k)
not really. the wraith even at the end were barely beating the SG team and were getting their butts whooped on by the replicators. their ships also were limited in terms of ftl and weaponry. I'd say the Ori were more deadlier. they were actually the Atlanteans, and as such were practically gods.
@@sunny-sq6ci You are not trading well, the wraith -super- hive is the series finale wraith ship, it outmatched at least two BC-304 with Asgard weapons
It's funny that no one in the video OR the comments mentions the Andromeda Ascendant. It could self replicate fighters, self repair the ship, build it's own automated crew and oh yeah, featured a torpedo that caused supernovas and wiped out entire systems in one shot, which it could again, self replicate.
It got weird in the middle when the show runners changed. Entire plot lines were dropped, remember the whole engine of creation thing? The consensus? They dropped that in favor alternate dimension aliens ... lame
Would be great if Andromeda was redone again by Netflix, HBO, Amazon, or some channel/streaming service like them. Given a good budget. And they ignored all that alternate dimension crap and went with the Sentient Suns/Stars story that was suppose to be done.
I love The Expanse but, the Amun-ra class, really? No ship from the expanse should be on this list. Instead you are missing ships from other franchises like: The vorlon planet killer from B5. The Narada, the species 8472 ships, the Krenim time ship from Star Trek. The Lexx. The Sun Crusher from Star Wars. Any ship from Andromeda equipped with a nova bomb. Many others.
Exactly!!! Also the title has "starships" and the Amun Ra is never shown to have any form of interstellar nor FTL capability. One deadly ship not mentioned was Blake 7. Another was the Space Battleship Yamato with its Wave Gun and also the dreaded Asguard ships from Stargate and had transgalactic ability. What about Macross? Sorry not the best ships chosen for this video.
@@deathstrike To be fair, no human ship in The Expanse has ftl. I don't know much about Yamato or Blake's ship, it was the Liberator i think, odd looking ship.
What I really liked about the Reapers was that they operated as a hive consensus when beneficial to all but also each considered itself like a sovereign intelligence each making up something similar to a state of a greater Nation
Agreed! The Yamato (and other Wave-Motion Gun equipped ships from that series) are much more deadly than several ships on this list. The long range of the weapon and its ability to destroy (at maximum energy) a continent-sized land-mass, punch a hole through a solar prominence or destroy an artificial star all give it much more firepower than something like the Scimitar and though I adore the Expanse, the Amun-Ra class is a joke compared to the Yamato.
@@robertkreutzer9186 There are a lot of extreme ships out there, for instance, xenosaga's Durandal I think it is called, has so much firepower it rivals stars at some points, wiping whole fleets of god creatures out. Or what of the ships in Star Ocean 3?
@@danielawesome36 Starfleet always hails new vessels to open communications. Starfleet always attempts diplomacy. This plays ludicrously hard into Reaper favor. Looking at the case with sovereign, who knew it was outclassed by itself, sought to establish agents before revealing itself as the threat it was. Mass Effect universe had the best luck imaginable that Shepard responded to Saren's actions on Sovereign's behalf. Deep Space 9 leaned HARD into how cells within Starfleet had, and would abuse, authoritarian power with extrajudicial means. From an infiltration and political perspective, Starfleet is, hands down, the most vulnerable faction to Reapers due to thier philosophy.
@@christopherdriscoll6628 Only the mortal factions of Star Trek might fall to the Reapers... Any militant sci-fi settings will rape the Reapers, and I'm not even counting the factions who "throw" galaxies like ninja stars...
I'd like to bring to your attention Andromeda. A particular ship could actually deploy what is called a nova bomb. As the name suggests they could actually induce a Nova into a star system. This weapon was so powerful it could fry an entire star system in one shot. When fully loaded and drop it off to deploy up to forty of these.
The Infinity also had storage for smaller ships, essentially enabling it to become a small fleet on its own. Also, I'd like to introduce the Phalanx. Mobile Fortress Monastery to the Imperial Fist Adeptus Astartes and the most powerful starship in the Imperial Navy. Fully capable of taking on entire fleet on its own with the track record to back it up. The exact specs aren't known but it has destroyed entire fleets on it's own suffering while little damage itself.
No Andromeda Ascendant? She carries Nova bombs. 40 Nova Bombs. They do exactly what they say on the tin. None of the ships mentioned here have weapons capable of destroying an entire star system. Let alone 40 of them.
@@Tonydjjokerit Not even close - the Glorious Heritage class Andromeda Ascendent can destroy 40 entire solar systems on her own - and before the Fall, she was one of a fleet of hundreds.
Then, Voyager in last episode should be there, because it killed cubes with one shot, and scared species 8472 back to fluidic space, before they got their future tech. The one shot cube thing was after they got their future tech.
@@ArtifexAnimations There wouldn't be enough time to arm the weapon and fire it before Species 8472 destroyed it. The Theleron weapon was designed to use on mostly stationary targets.
Cortana also revolutionized how plasma was used on Covenant ships. Up until humanity, the plasma the Covenant used to glass planets was basically just a giant ball of plasma. Cortana found out that you could shape the plasma into a laser and it would take considerably less energy to absolutely gut even the covenants own ships after easily bypassing the shields.
Borg Cube, IAS Excalibur, Yamato, Superdreadnough GPS Dauntless (Lensman book Series), Ori Templeship, SDF-1. All these ships went toe to toe against entire fleets and won, usually many times over their times of service.
Ori Toiletships are in a class of their own. Their shields were implied to be powered by the Ori ascended. They shrugged off head-on collisions with Pyramid ships! They were only ever broken by 1: A wormhole vortex or 2: The most high-tech weapon in the series finale: Asgard shield-piercing high-energy plasma beams. And even then it took a volley.
I just found this video after three years. You mentioned that the Whale Probe and the Doomsday Machine from ST are not ships because they are not manned. I will agree with you on the probe because of no further info on it. However, in the ST:RPG module "A Doomsday Like Any Other", it shows towards the back of the DM that there is a compartment (Can it house somebody though?). According to the game module (yes I have the ST:RPG and modules as you have figured), if players are smart they can actually find said section (although the GM will make sure they do not keep the weapon) that can house individuals. Also, in the Star Trek book (vendetta I believe, been awhile and all my ST items are in storage), there was another DM that was a Borg Killer. There was a person onboard that one. I think that person knew or communicated with Guinan in the book. I think Picard had something to do at the end (been awhile). So, I think technically the DM can be classified as a ship and a damn powerful one at that. My input on this.
Not a good list: - Questionable choices for both Star Wars (the Eclipse is NOT canon) and Star Trek (a Borg cube or a bioship of Species 8472 is much more deadly than the Scimitar) - No ships from any Anime movie or series - No ships from Warhammer 40,000 - No ships from Perry Rhodan - No ships from Babylon 5 - No ships from Stargate - ...
Eclipse is actually still canon...and canon at this point is questionable considering Disney's butchering of their timeline and inconsistencies all over the place...canon things are not even canon... Sorry...everyone who argues for Disney's timeline being canon clearly is lacking in the brain department... But i will agree with part of it being WRONG...Eclipse armament was larger than they stated...carried twice the fighters....but was NOT designed to ram anything...
@@animedude34 The Endeavor Space Shuttle comes to mind, as it was featuref in Stargate SG-1, and their main firepower comes from a grappling arm. It was used as well, albeit for recovery rather than combat, as well as a psychological deterrent...well, at least ONeill tried to make them sound impressive when Bratac asked if they were powerful.
5 Starships in Star Trek that can wipe the floor with the Scimitar" Species 8472 Bioship Borg Cube Krenim Imperium Temporal Weapon Ship V'ger Voth City ship V'ger is a bit of a stretch, but it technically qualifies since it was a vessel built for the Voyager 6 probe to command.
@@gerhardadler3418 The Temporal Weapon Ship would have to be able to target the Scimitar to hit it with its main weapon and Voyager was heavily damaged by the time it engaged the time ship so its possible voyagers ability to evade the weapon was compromised, the time weapon didn't look like a very accurate weapon for ship to ship combat.. Now of course if it caused a temporal change that might affect the Scimitar since time itself changed, but in a battle scenario the Scimitar's cloak would allow it to cut the Krenim ship to pieces. Also if we are taking crew into consideration the Scimitar had a very powerful psychic character on its bridge, which could allow for unpredictable advantages. As for the Borg and 8472, by this time in the story both had been reliably defeated by Voyager, which brought its tech back to the alpha quadrant, and the talshiar probably procured said tech, meaning the Scimitar had access to it. It is very possible that anti-borg or 8472 tech may have even been shared openly with other alpha quadrant species in an effort to get them to fight such threats for the federation (though maybe not since such tech could of been turned into other weapons that could be used against the federation). Also we see in Picard that the captured borg cube had been harvested by the Romulans for decades by the time picard takes place, so it is possible that effort had already begun during Nemesis, but we don't know. Vger is really hard to compare to Nemesis level of technology since it was from such a different era.
Everybody always forgets about the Voth. I really enjoyed this outing and Chakokay got a rare chance to shine. I'd like to see more of them. You could easily bring them back and have had their society undergo some changes since Voyager and the realisation they come from elsewhere. Or maybe it's like as a small group of effective hippies / zealots decide to bring a few ships back "home" and this upsets the Alpha Quadrant balance and creates for some interesting scenarios. Maybe this "small" group of just a few million Voth decide to further uplift humans as they have a warped sense of legacy - either genuinely or with ulterior motives - etc etc.
Gonna go ahead and toss maybe some honorable mentions: Moya from Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars, after Creighton had built the Wormhole Weapon on board. The Blackstone Fortress: Warhammer 40k. One of them can cut battleships in half, scour planetary surfaces and is damned near unassailable. Two of them can combine their power to destabilize a star, resulting in a super nova shortly thereafter. Three supposedly were used to put the most powerful member of a race of immortal star gods called C'tan (The Void Dragon) into a crippled state of dormancy. There have been at least 7 known Blackstone fortresses and there could be more undiscovered out there.
In the Expanse, Eros was explicitly called a spaceship many times. I feel like with all the stuff that the Protomolecule gets up to, that would be a pretty powerful ship as well.
I think the title of this video should be "Our 5 favorite deadly ships from sci-fi" because most of these except from maybe the reaper is nowhere near the most deadly or powerful space ship in it's respective universe.
Plus Reapers are not ships, they are living entities part biological and part mechanical, the smaller reapers were ship controlled by them remotely, and Sovereign was just posing being a ship in Mass Effect
FK DRoNe what about tyrands then since each and every single thing is a living entity including they space ships that transport the ground forces and carry the Queens but they are also all controlled by the hive mind
@@brandoncook1123 Not really saying much mate, the Empire's kind of a pushover. Now put the Reapers against the UNSC...oh whats that, MACs ignore thermal shielding?
the cool think about the borg is that if they have some ressources they are nearly unstopable. They were only stopped by the federation because of plot armor. One ship might not be that strong but a fleet can adapt fast enough to beat almost everything without plot armor.
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Amazed they didn't talk about the Shadows from Babylon5. One of the larger varients could wipe out entire fleets of Minbari warships with little effort.
Good video, but how is a Borg cube not on this list? The Scimitar might be able to take on a taskforce of top-tier enemy warships at once, but Borg cubes as originally depicted in Q Who?, The Best of Both Worlds and First Contact were damn-near-unbeatable fleet killers. The Borg were terrifying when first introduced, and their capabilities were too strong to overcome in any direct engagement. As originally envisioned, the Borg were the single greatest superpower in the Milky Way. Voyager neutered the Borg to a ridiculous degree through plot contrivances, writer choices and necessity, culminating in the absurd case of Voyager single-handedly fighting a Tactical cube twice during Unimatrix Zero, and surviving. If they had been depicted consistently with the same strengths they had in their introductory stories, and if they had ever employed common sense in their strategies, they would have invaded the Federation with a fleet of cubes instead of one ship at a time, and there is no conventional Trek fleet that could stand against that kind of threat.
The HALO Universe, guaranteeing random ships and planets getting hit by relativistic projectiles for eternity… Taking collateral damage to the next level. So if you're minding your own business on a faraway planet, a couple of tonnes of ancient metal moving at a percentage of light speed could take you out without warning.
casbott I think that was the natural evolution of humanity’s “well fuck you. You’ll regret raging this war even though you are winning” strategy. What with all the nuclear mines and planet scorching moon cracking nova bombs.
I’d like to add an honorable mention to this list: The Sathanas class Shivan Juggernaut from FreeSpace 2. Nearly 7 kilometers long and armed with weapons they could shred almost any capital ship in short order. Also, when about eighty or so of them surround a star, they can send it supernova!
@@meh12345HEYA Borg Tactical Cube is probably the most deadly ship behind the 8472 Bioships (when linked up). Either should be on this list before the Scimitar.
The only thing I would add to this, the Infinity from the halo series was also equip with 10 strident class frigates stored in its underbelly, ready to deploy if nothing else its 10 extra MAC cannons to bring too the fight as always brilliant video, I love watching you cover halo content!
As for Star Trek cannon - Voyager encountered a ship ( in Year of Hell) where the commander repeatedly reorders time, retroactively wiping out whole planets in an attempt to bring back his late wife.
@@rustkarl It is a fair point. Have a list of the deadliest ships from other sci fi franchises for a bit of variety. The Imperial Navy/Astartes Fleets/Ad Mech Fleets can be addressed another time. There is more than enough material there to do a 'Top 10 Deadliest Imperial Ships' list if the Genration Tech guys wanted to, all the more so if you broaden it out to include ships from all 40K factions.
The MD from the book could be, and was, mounted on fighters. The fighter version had shorter range than the capital ship models, but stopping the entire swarm of fighters was more than Formics could handle.
careylymanjones they could also go kamikaze and fire the MD without opening the gunports, essentially turning the ship into an MD missile, using the ship’s own mass to power the initial MD field. That’s what Bean tells the fleet to do during the final run
@@artembentsionov In the book, MD-armed fighters hit the planet, and were caught in the chain reaction. Hitting the planet with fighters was like using a hand grenade in an elevator.
I feel like a borg cube is way more deadly than the scimitar I mean one blew through a whole fleet and I think they would adapt and destroy it before 7 minutes
I like how you have all these huge deadly warships but even simple Federation, Klingon, Romulan, etc... ships can destroy planets. An average Klingon ship destroys the entire surface of a planet in the TNG episode "The Chase" and the USS Enterprise could do it whenever it wanted. Species 8472/Undine ships can cause planets to outright explode, and on top of that they can basically teleport by going in and out of Fluidic Space.
Scimitar? Not the Voth City ship? Borg Tactical cube? Not V'Ger? (the Voyager probe aboard was technically the captain of the ship so it would just barely make the qualifications to be on the list). What about the Husnock, Ori warship, Asguardian O'Neill class, any number of First Ones ships of Babylon 5, or, heck, the War World from Young Justice?
Remember Unending? Even then the Asgard Plasma Beam equipped Odyssey was destroyed when cornered. The Asgard Plasma Beam equipped ships were the only things that could stand up to them and there were too few to beat the Ori in open combat.
Reapers didnt harvest all life, just life that is"technologically evolved intellegent" life - it was even stated in game that humanity and several others was spared the previous cycle
@@andrewlocke4609 it has been a long time since I watched A Call to Arms. Did the Shadow Planet Killer get classed as a ship? I never got the impression that it had a bridge as it was a cloud that fired missiles. Though I remember there being something about linkages and they destroyed it by targeting a critical link.
Ugh. This list covers pretty much nothing from written works/ sci-fi novels. Any of these would eat the ships on this list in a heartbeat: 5. Vorlon Planetkiller, for reference (Babylon 5) 4. Any Honorverse Superdreadnought (David Weber, Honor Harrington series). Their missiles, as well as the ships themselves, use impenetrable wedges of gravity for propulsion. A near flyby would kill anything in this video. 3. Utu-class planetoid (David Weber, Mutineer's Moon). Moon-sized battlestation, advanced AI, armed with FTL-capable missiles that can shatter planets. 2. Culture General Offensive Unit- GOU (Iain M. Banks, Culture novels). Armed with "gridfire incursion", basically pumping energy from another dimension into known space, blast radii up to "light years". Advanced AI brain so space battles take mere seconds. 1. Xeelee Nightfighter (Stephen Baxter, Xeelee Sequence). Intergalactic travel in seconds, total manipulation of time and space, and armed with weapons that can destroy stars.
Hmm, Dahak 2 post-boot-strap would certainly be a contender. Though this is Armageddon Inheritance. Ima hafta concur with all these. @Noble713: you win at SciFi destruction
Oh yes, say, an Apollo-capable Invictus-class podnought would be one of the deadliest ships in space, short of an Imperial planetoid. Short of those Imperial planetoids, there is nothing that can outrange their missiles...
3:15 in that case, the Borg Cube should be in this spot. After all, we’re talking deadliest ships here, and I’m sorry, but the Scimitar was never capable of WIPING OUT ENTIRE FLEETS IN CLOSE-RANGE COMBAT WITHOUT TAKING SEVERE DAMAGE.
Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion: The Vasari Vorastra Titan. It had an ability called 'The Maw' that literally released so many nanoparticles that it formed a visible vortex stripping ships of shields and hull, and with it's great size, it was ridiculously overpowered.
The Abominator Class Offensive Unit “Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints” which describes itself as "borderline eccentric and very slightly psychotic”. Is pretty much in a league of its own... well, apart from others in that class. TBH any half respectable GCU, let alone GSV would handle anything outside an OCP, it’s ass on a plate. Let alone a fully gunned up ready for business Culture warship.
Banks also wins simply on the grounds of naming conventions. Some make me smile just from memory, *Hand Me the Gun and Ask Me Again, Appeal to Reason,* and *Frank Exchange of Views.*
Hey guys, this list is awesome and those ships are deadly. But, there is one ship that is criminally overlooked and should have been on this list, mainly because it is more powerful than most of the ships on this list. I'm talking about the Andromeda Ascendant from the show Andromeda. Built by the System's Common Wealth for the High Guard, it is the last of the Glorious Heritage Class warships. The Andromeda is equipped with over 200 missiles tubes, along with Point Defence Laser turrets and antiproton cannons. With these weapons along, it can destroy a fleet of one thousand warships in less than 3 secondes. (Dylan Hunt asked) On top of that, back during the era of the Common Wealth, it would carry an army of over 2000 ground troops, nearly 500 fighters and a pair of planetary warfare pods. But, what makes the ship so powerful is that it could carry up to 40 nova bombs. Nove bombs are devices that, if aimed properly, could wipe out an entire solar system.
@@Demobot1 Unfortunately the Culture is mostly confined to novels. Not many people read these days so it's not so well known. Amazon picked it up to turn into a TV series though. I have my doubts how well that will go though.
There are a lot of powerful starships in books and short stories too. In the novel THE MIXED MEN a super-starship used as an exploration ship was so strong that when tricked into warping into a space that was in the middle of a supernova, the ship had systems to take it, though it meant tearing the ship into hundreds of small self-sufficient mini-ships, each being its own escape pod moving outward from the point away from the danger, and then later those mini-ships would find each other and those who had survived would rebuild the main ship, which would then complete its repairs automatically. Now THAT is one tough starship!
Voth City ship, Hirogen Warship, Husnock Warship (last version), Undine (species 8472) Bioship, Gumtu (code name Tinman), Borg type 4 Tactical cube would all give the Scimitar a run for its money.
Give me a Dragon starfighter equipped with a flashpack from Wing Commander 4 and some cover fire and I'll take just about any of those out with a single weapon! Seriously, there's got to be at least half a dozen planet killer ships and several dozen one shot big ships or wipe out entire fleets kind of ships and some of these things are doing good to take out a large city in a single shot.
I want a list of sci-fi super weapon emplacements, like planetary defensive weapons. I would want to see the BFG 10,000 on there. "You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars!" -Dr. Samuel Hayden, DOOM Eternal
The correct answer however, is _Sajuuk._ The Precursor capitol ship from Homeworld. Can jump anywhere in the galaxy in minutes (and lol through gravity wells.) Plus it has the best armor and armaments in the galaxy by an order of magnitude.
What about The Spear of Adun? I think it can easily destroy any of those ships. That thing is massive and can destroy several minotaur class battlecruisers at once without taking any significant damage
I would say that the doctrine of obedience through fear was originally pitched by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who in the end blew up with his pride and joy: the Death Star.
Vorlons had ships capable of destroying planets and fight other ships. That episode in ST:TNG where they find a ship with a phasing cloak making it completelly invulnerable, I think that would be a pretty one sided battle no matter your own firepower. The shadow planet killer is basicly a cloud of nuclear missiles. How can you take it out and what could survive it? I am sure I am forgetting some, but there are much deadlier ships in sci-fi than what can be found in the Expanse or Master Chief's universe.
Cool ships but NOT the deadliest! Andromeda Franchise: Abyss World Ship and any Ship with nova Bombs! Star Wars: New Planet killing emperial Star destroyers. Lexx: Lexx Star Trek: 8472 Bioships 10 of those small crafts could destroy a Planet in seconds so we can assume that one can do the same with a little more time. Star Gate: Latest Tech asgardian ships!
Wing Commander III: Behemoth class planet killer Wing Commander III: any ship as small as a large starfighter equipped with a temblor bomb Quick google search (which led to Wikipedia) indicates things of similar magnitude as Dalek mothership A number of different options in StarCraft ......
The starships from Ender's Game. The Little Doctor could trigger chain reactions to destroy entire planets or fleets. Tiny, yes, and not very robust, but indisputably deadly.
The Scimitar is a weird choice for Star Trek, considering the heavy hitters of the franchise. A Borg Cube would rinse the Scimitar. A couple 8472 bioships destroyed an entire planet in one volley. And V'ger? It could win by just being in close proximity.
I'd argue that no ship from the Expanse should be on a list of "deadliest" starships in science fiction by the simple fact that Expanse ships are bound by physics and don't have magical technology. There are so many other ships that are more powerful that could be included on this list. In fact, I'd argue that the only ship on this list that can stay is Harbinger. Even that is debatable. If it's meant to be the deadliest ship in its respective universe, then the video should have been framed that way. Why are the Ori ships from Stargate SG-1 not included? What about ancient ships fully equipped with drones? How come a Vorlon planet killer isn't on this list?
@@jesusmora9379 Except they are bound by MORE real word concept compared to other franchises. It makes them less deadly, but they are probably the most realistic scifi ships out there
The Expanse is one of my favorite shows ever but the only ship even worth an honorable mention (and it still shouldn't make this cut) without spoiling anything is the Heart of the Tempest from the books. Those Mangnatar class battle cruisers are no joke for the level of tech in that universe.
@@Ananamitron The Epstein drive is still made up technology that has made fuel a seemingly non issue in the show. So jesus mora was right that "don't have magical technology" wasn't totally correct. Unless you wanna specify what you mean by "magical technology".
I disagree with the Scimitar being the most deadly Star Trek vessel. Adding in a dozen qualifiers doesn't, to me, make for a good requirement, and a ship doesn't have to have a multitude of crew to still be a vessel (my opinion). I think V'Ger (from the first Star Trek movie) would be more than capable of destroying something like the Scimitar. And before saying that V'Ger was just a probe, consider that it was found by a machine intelligence society who improved it and sent it back home to complete its mission. It was a single machine intelligence operating a megalithic vessel.
Technically, Moya from Farscape, maybe the most powerful ship, after John Crichton creates a wormhole weapon, which once activated, technically the wormhole would just keep growing until it destroyed everything in the universe. Though the weapon could be built on any ship, so it would be a stretch to call her one of the 5 deadliest ships in science fiction. The Vorlon Planet Killer could destroy planets and was only able to be destroyed by other first ones, working together. The shadow death cloud is less of a ship but technically would also count. If you really want to go nasty, then all culture warships could destroy a planet. You have the Xeelee nightfighter, which could destroy a star
Plus not only did it have it's pinpoint barrier system, it also had a full shield that absorbed all attacks coming in then exploded that energy back out 10 fold around itself.
I think the Macross Super Dimensional Fortress would rip through some of these ships. The SDF1 had: 2 Arms that were capitol class ships of their own (Daedalus and Prometheus) which in turn had other drop ships and mecha. Armaments : 1 Reflex Cannon - Anyone who knows the story knows what this cannon can do! 8 main Particle Cannon 1 secondary triple-barreled particle cannon 4 single barrel Rail Cannons 16 triple barreled Laser/particle beam turrets 12 Torpedo tube 48 ten-tube missile launcher box with Reflex Multi Warheads (that track targets) Defences : Pinpoint Barrier System Omni-Directional Barrier System Mecha : 320 VF-1J Veritech fighters 150 Destroids (30 Defender , 30 Phalanx , 30 M.A.C.II, 30 Spartan, 30 Tomahawk / Excaliburs) 50 AEW aircraft, various space shuttles
How does any primitive ships from the Expanse make the list and a Borg tactical cube and Species 8472 get ignored? They would eat everything in this list for breakfast.
@@brianflowers4217 depending how you look at the Shadow planet killer it is difficult to call it a ship but certainly the Vorlon. The only definitely more powerful weapon in Babylon 5 is not a ship
@@brianflowers4217 It's a weird an difficult to define one you must agree. Yes mobile but given the way it is portayed in both series and feature I'd say it's a bit more like a station although station doesn't seem to fit it either. If I were to give it a definition I for the moment call it a seige system. The Vorlon one was undeniably a ship. Either way like you I also feel Babylon 5 was an omission
Species 8472 ships from Star Trek: takes like 3 seconds for a handful to blow up a planet. Andromeda, or the Magog world ship from Andromeda: Andromeda's Nova bombs can blow up a star and the world ship has mini black hole canons. Someone else said it; but, the LEX eats planets. Galactus' ship with the power cosmic. And I know... No weapons, but when Doctor Who's T.A.R.D.I.S. blew up it literally took the entire universe with it. Also Dr. Who: the Dalek Crucible had a weapon that would have wiped out all matter in every universe.
A space station couldn't chase and catch the Enterprise. Maybe the Scimitar's special weapon could destroy a cube (or at least it's crew). But the next cube would have learned from the last and adapted.
@@GodOfWar109 I am not an ST expert, so I cannot tell you the name of the episode, but there is a far superior ship. It is quite small compared to a cube and attaches itself to ships a bit like a parasite. In this episode, the borg and humans join forces, as the borgs are at risk of defeat. They want to 'flush' the entire galaxy with some 'bug' or whatever, but humans object because they don't want to completely extinct any life form bla-bla.... sorry, it's been 20 years or so :) Anyway, the borg ship did not even have a slight chance, all they could do was 'run', but they were not fast enough, either.
In Star Wars there's actually a ship that's deadlier than the Eclipse. It's called the Sun Crusher. It carries resonance torpedoes. You could launch one of these into a sun's core, making it go supernova, destroying everything in the system. It had really strong armour. It managed to take a superlaser hit from a Death Star prototype and could fly straight through a Star Desfroyer. The only thing that destroyed it was a black hole.
There does seem to be a dirth of vast, space born battle cathedrals on the list, but that is OK. A chance for others to shine without the Inquisition declaring everyone Excommunicate Diabolus and rolling in with the kind of almost comedically OP ships that fire shells the size of ships from some other franchises.
too many to pick i guess. here's a few notable one that i can think of, Talisman of Vaul, the Gloriana classes, 1st legion The Rock, Phalanx, Necron world engine, Eldar craftworlds, ork rok, Planet Killer (exactly as it says on the tin), Abyss class battleships (Our Blessed Lady is such a fine name for a battleship btw), Ark Mechanicus, Imperator Somnium, and ork attack moon.
'when a captain thinks an order there should be no delay in executing it.' well you were never in the Navy. the best ship would have the captain never think any orders, just let the enlisted do what they do.
Xeelee and the Culture topping the list. Forerunner warcraft would also roflstomp everything on this list. The only reason humanity didn't lose in Halo 4 is plot armor.
@@JackR936 Yeah in H5 just 6 Forruner Guardians are used to subdue the galaxy at the end. Their big warships were even stronger. But it was hard for them to fight tier 0 FLood graveminds with a directive from an angry precursor. (they could kill/infect stuff before they arrived with fancy time shenanigans, could control space with their minds and teleport anywhere whilst also controlling indestructible constructs known as star roads. Outside of that shenanigans the forerunners were GOAT).
Gloriana-class Battleship I can understand why 40k is omitted from stuff like this, it just fair since everything in 40k is op. However this is the god of ships when it comes to conventional defense and firepower. Scimitar can one shot it if it had time to charge, but it can kill everything else. Plus it looks awesome, think the ultramarines primarch got his back in battlefleet gothic 2.
A gloriana would board the scimitar with it's Astartes contingent well before the scimitar can fire. Remember, the Gloriana is first and foremost an Astartes flagship. They love boarding their enemies. Then think about the Scimitar having no astropaths on board capable of fending off psykers, and of course 40k engagement ranges which start from the edge of the system
What about the Asgard O'Neill class battle cruiser? Across the expanse of a galaxy in just a few minutes, fully battle capable and ready with just one living being on board, beam weapon that would stop an Ori ship with one shot, 1500m long, 700m wide, fought to a draw (4 ori ships against 1 battlecruiser).
I think I see what they are going for. Deadliest in their respective stories and they left 40k off cuz then it would just be insanity. Older franchises that have fallen into obscurity are not in, maybe on a second part? Andromeda, B5, BSG etc etc. And maybe also do a list of the Deadliest starfighters? I would like to see videos on personal weapons in Sci-Fi, and maybe include some Sci Fi anime into their channel.
The Scimitar is the deadliest because it _almost killed a Franchise…_
More like the USS Discovery. That _did_ kill a franchise.
It did kill the TNG movie franchise
it did come close ;)
@@ArtifexAnimations deploy the capital weapon *comment now*
Then mushrooms finished off the job.
No Warhammer 40K ships like The Phalanx? The World Engine? This list is HERESY!!!!!!
A HERESY IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@jozefkozon4520 think the World Engine and Phalanx qualify more as mobile stations than actual ships, just like the Death Star... necron Cairn tomb ships don't though, and those things are HORRIFYING
40k wins so much on countdowns that you have to exclude it to give all the other franchises a fair shot. The winner’s trophy might as well say your #1 (next to 40k)
Burn the heretics!!
@@thorveim1174 necron anything is horrifying. That's why we try to eliminate them as fast as possible whenever we get the chance.
Wraith Super-Hive Ship (Stargate Atlantis)
Surely by this Metric, Atlantis is a more powerful ship as it managed to travel from one galaxy to another within seconds and destroyed it
@@HighLatencyEmu The ship was destroyed because of the nuke that was planted inside of it.
not really. the wraith even at the end were barely beating the SG team and were getting their butts whooped on by the replicators. their ships also were limited in terms of ftl and weaponry. I'd say the Ori were more deadlier. they were actually the Atlanteans, and as such were practically gods.
How about an Ori Warship? (Stargate SG-1)
@@sunny-sq6ci You are not trading well, the wraith -super- hive is the series finale wraith ship, it outmatched at least two BC-304 with Asgard weapons
"Most starships are not large organisms" - Alan, Alan, Alan, you totally forgot about the Event Horizon!
Hell Yeah! That is really a fucking deadly Ship!
or lexx
''Most'', meaning some are, but not all.
Mean while, in fluidic space : THE WEAK WILL PERISH! (Undine bio-ship)
@@grindcorejoe6661 yeah, but it was only deadly to its own crew.
It's funny that no one in the video OR the comments mentions the Andromeda Ascendant. It could self replicate fighters, self repair the ship, build it's own automated crew and oh yeah, featured a torpedo that caused supernovas and wiped out entire systems in one shot, which it could again, self replicate.
Yeah, people have basically forgotten Andromeda. Loved that show.
Kevin Sorbo! Criminally underated actor!
It got weird in the middle when the show runners changed. Entire plot lines were dropped, remember the whole engine of creation thing? The consensus? They dropped that in favor alternate dimension aliens ... lame
And the Magog worldship.
Would be great if Andromeda was redone again by Netflix, HBO, Amazon, or some channel/streaming service like them. Given a good budget. And they ignored all that alternate dimension crap and went with the Sentient Suns/Stars story that was suppose to be done.
I love The Expanse but, the Amun-ra class, really? No ship from the expanse should be on this list.
Instead you are missing ships from other franchises like:
The vorlon planet killer from B5.
The Narada, the species 8472 ships, the Krenim time ship from Star Trek. The Lexx.
The Sun Crusher from Star Wars.
Any ship from Andromeda equipped with a nova bomb.
Many others.
A shadow battlecrab would be a good contender, as just one or two could effortlessly wipe out fleets of tye younger races
Exactly!!! Also the title has "starships" and the Amun Ra is never shown to have any form of interstellar nor FTL capability. One deadly ship not mentioned was Blake 7. Another was the Space Battleship Yamato with its Wave Gun and also the dreaded Asguard ships from Stargate and had transgalactic ability. What about Macross? Sorry not the best ships chosen for this video.
@@deathstrike, I agree the Argo (Yamato) and the Aluus (S.D.F. Macross) not included Blasphemy!
@@marsar1775 I like the battle crab, i chose the vorlon ship because it can destroy a planet by itself.
@@deathstrike To be fair, no human ship in The Expanse has ftl.
I don't know much about Yamato or Blake's ship, it was the Liberator i think, odd looking ship.
You forgot the lexx, it destroyed and feed on planets, it punched a hole between universes
Exactly
Omg funny you mention Lexx ive just started to watch it again.
I was wondering if anyone would mention Lexx. One of the greatest TV shows. I need to re-watch it again.
I destroyed a Universe!
I destroyed a Universe!
I destroyed a Universe!
Im hungry stanley
What I really liked about the Reapers was that they operated as a hive consensus when beneficial to all but also each considered itself like a sovereign intelligence each making up something similar to a state of a greater Nation
Volgon Constructor Fleet...
So Long,and thanks for all the fish.
No YAMATO? The ship that literally fought its way through two galaxies and entire fleets of thousands of enemy ships?
Damage output for a ship that size is high.
Agreed! The Yamato (and other Wave-Motion Gun equipped ships from that series) are much more deadly than several ships on this list. The long range of the weapon and its ability to destroy (at maximum energy) a continent-sized land-mass, punch a hole through a solar prominence or destroy an artificial star all give it much more firepower than something like the Scimitar and though I adore the Expanse, the Amun-Ra class is a joke compared to the Yamato.
@@robertkreutzer9186 There are a lot of extreme ships out there, for instance, xenosaga's Durandal I think it is called, has so much firepower it rivals stars at some points, wiping whole fleets of god creatures out. Or what of the ships in Star Ocean 3?
Tha Yamato has the most powerful weapon THE WAVE MOTION GUN
the Yamato was not only powerful; it was tough, fast, had its own fighters, and proved itself battle after battle against varied opponents
"ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL"
Harbinger wins lol
The usa defiant can take out a planet with 2 torpedoes
@@willt3223 and it's crew will serve the Reapers nicely. >:)
@@christopherdriscoll6628 What's the reaper gonna do? Hug the ship?
Indoctrination doesn't work if it's not close quarters.
@@danielawesome36 Starfleet always hails new vessels to open communications. Starfleet always attempts diplomacy. This plays ludicrously hard into Reaper favor. Looking at the case with sovereign, who knew it was outclassed by itself, sought to establish agents before revealing itself as the threat it was. Mass Effect universe had the best luck imaginable that Shepard responded to Saren's actions on Sovereign's behalf. Deep Space 9 leaned HARD into how cells within Starfleet had, and would abuse, authoritarian power with extrajudicial means. From an infiltration and political perspective, Starfleet is, hands down, the most vulnerable faction to Reapers due to thier philosophy.
@@christopherdriscoll6628
Only the mortal factions of Star Trek might fall to the Reapers...
Any militant sci-fi settings will rape the Reapers, and I'm not even counting the factions who "throw" galaxies like ninja stars...
I'd like to bring to your attention Andromeda. A particular ship could actually deploy what is called a nova bomb. As the name suggests they could actually induce a Nova into a star system. This weapon was so powerful it could fry an entire star system in one shot. When fully loaded and drop it off to deploy up to forty of these.
Heart of Gold, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It destroys reality every time the main drive powers up.
Awol991 That seems improbable...
@@brianflowers4217 HHGttG is fun. But its not really well-designed for 'realism'.
Brian Flowers I see what you did there “ improbable”
Well you’re only turned into a yarn version of yourself *briefly*. And reality is a bit overrated, especially if you enjoy reading Douglas Adams.
@@MrJinglejanglejingle nor are any of the designs listed elsewhere...
The Infinity also had storage for smaller ships, essentially enabling it to become a small fleet on its own.
Also, I'd like to introduce the Phalanx. Mobile Fortress Monastery to the Imperial Fist Adeptus Astartes and the most powerful starship in the Imperial Navy. Fully capable of taking on entire fleet on its own with the track record to back it up.
The exact specs aren't known but it has destroyed entire fleets on it's own suffering while little damage itself.
No Andromeda Ascendant?
She carries Nova bombs. 40 Nova Bombs.
They do exactly what they say on the tin.
None of the ships mentioned here have weapons capable of destroying an entire star system. Let alone 40 of them.
Vorlon Planet Killer ,Shadow planet Destroyer and even EVE online Titans can and do not forget the Lexx!
@@Tonydjjokerit Not even close - the Glorious Heritage class Andromeda Ascendent can destroy 40 entire solar systems on her own - and before the Fall, she was one of a fleet of hundreds.
I would have thought the First One (Vorlon or the Shadows) ships from Babylon 5 might merit a mention.
Larche Osborne-Simmons more so than the expanse, which I never heard of. Even the Excalibur is far better.
Scimitar?
What about one of the species 8472 bioships, that can basically one shot a cube.
The bioships were also able to blow out planets!
Then, Voyager in last episode should be there, because it killed cubes with one shot, and scared species 8472 back to fluidic space, before they got their future tech. The one shot cube thing was after they got their future tech.
@@ArtifexAnimations There wouldn't be enough time to arm the weapon and fire it before Species 8472 destroyed it. The Theleron weapon was designed to use on mostly stationary targets.
@@martinhanke1670 Voyager never one shot a Cube before the future tech was mounted.
Your talking about the Nucor & Dactylis class Undine Bioships which work in tandem to destroy a planetary body
Cortana also revolutionized how plasma was used on Covenant ships. Up until humanity, the plasma the Covenant used to glass planets was basically just a giant ball of plasma. Cortana found out that you could shape the plasma into a laser and it would take considerably less energy to absolutely gut even the covenants own ships after easily bypassing the shields.
Borg Cube, IAS Excalibur, Yamato, Superdreadnough GPS Dauntless (Lensman book Series), Ori Templeship, SDF-1. All these ships went toe to toe against entire fleets and won, usually many times over their times of service.
don't forget White Base and her kin from the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise's those ships took a beating and still survived
Ori Toiletships are in a class of their own. Their shields were implied to be powered by the Ori ascended.
They shrugged off head-on collisions with Pyramid ships!
They were only ever broken by 1: A wormhole vortex or 2: The most high-tech weapon in the series finale: Asgard shield-piercing high-energy plasma beams. And even then it took a volley.
Definitely missing the SDF-1 on this list
with the bs disney has doing on star wars, number one deadly´s ship any star wars ship with lightspeed jump
XeeLee and Culture would wipe the floor with every ship in 99% of other franchises combined.
I just found this video after three years. You mentioned that the Whale Probe and the Doomsday Machine from ST are not ships because they are not manned.
I will agree with you on the probe because of no further info on it. However, in the ST:RPG module "A Doomsday Like Any Other", it shows towards the back of the DM that there is a compartment (Can it house somebody though?). According to the game module (yes I have the ST:RPG and modules as you have figured), if players are smart they can actually find said section (although the GM will make sure they do not keep the weapon) that can house individuals.
Also, in the Star Trek book (vendetta I believe, been awhile and all my ST items are in storage), there was another DM that was a Borg Killer. There was a person onboard that one. I think that person knew or communicated with Guinan in the book. I think Picard had something to do at the end (been awhile).
So, I think technically the DM can be classified as a ship and a damn powerful one at that.
My input on this.
Not a good list:
- Questionable choices for both Star Wars (the Eclipse is NOT canon) and Star Trek (a Borg cube or a bioship of Species 8472 is much more deadly than the Scimitar)
- No ships from any Anime movie or series
- No ships from Warhammer 40,000
- No ships from Perry Rhodan
- No ships from Babylon 5
- No ships from Stargate
- ...
Eclipse is actually still canon...and canon at this point is questionable considering Disney's butchering of their timeline and inconsistencies all over the place...canon things are not even canon...
Sorry...everyone who argues for Disney's timeline being canon clearly is lacking in the brain department...
But i will agree with part of it being WRONG...Eclipse armament was larger than they stated...carried twice the fighters....but was NOT designed to ram anything...
the yamato could one shot any of these ships with wave motion gun
But he has deadliest in the title, that's good for some clicks, even when it's a bad top 5
At the end of the day, all these lists are subjective.
Great to see people from all over the universe collaborating
The bob Semple tank is clearly the most deadliest Starship
Now we need a list of Bob Semple like ships of scifi
@@animedude34 The Endeavor Space Shuttle comes to mind, as it was featuref in Stargate SG-1, and their main firepower comes from a grappling arm. It was used as well, albeit for recovery rather than combat, as well as a psychological deterrent...well, at least ONeill tried to make them sound impressive when Bratac asked if they were powerful.
Anime_ Fan123 one Bob Semple tank, at maximum velocity!
5 Starships in Star Trek that can wipe the floor with the Scimitar"
Species 8472 Bioship
Borg Cube
Krenim Imperium Temporal Weapon Ship
V'ger
Voth City ship
V'ger is a bit of a stretch, but it technically qualifies since it was a vessel built for the Voyager 6 probe to command.
Any Enterprise lol
I was thinking about voyager from the future that was 1 shotting Borg cubes lol
Yes, first thing i thought about was that Temporal Weapon Ship
@@gerhardadler3418 The Temporal Weapon Ship would have to be able to target the Scimitar to hit it with its main weapon and Voyager was heavily damaged by the time it engaged the time ship so its possible voyagers ability to evade the weapon was compromised, the time weapon didn't look like a very accurate weapon for ship to ship combat.. Now of course if it caused a temporal change that might affect the Scimitar since time itself changed, but in a battle scenario the Scimitar's cloak would allow it to cut the Krenim ship to pieces. Also if we are taking crew into consideration the Scimitar had a very powerful psychic character on its bridge, which could allow for unpredictable advantages.
As for the Borg and 8472, by this time in the story both had been reliably defeated by Voyager, which brought its tech back to the alpha quadrant, and the talshiar probably procured said tech, meaning the Scimitar had access to it. It is very possible that anti-borg or 8472 tech may have even been shared openly with other alpha quadrant species in an effort to get them to fight such threats for the federation (though maybe not since such tech could of been turned into other weapons that could be used against the federation). Also we see in Picard that the captured borg cube had been harvested by the Romulans for decades by the time picard takes place, so it is possible that effort had already begun during Nemesis, but we don't know.
Vger is really hard to compare to Nemesis level of technology since it was from such a different era.
Everybody always forgets about the Voth. I really enjoyed this outing and Chakokay got a rare chance to shine.
I'd like to see more of them. You could easily bring them back and have had their society undergo some changes since Voyager and the realisation they come from elsewhere.
Or maybe it's like as a small group of effective hippies / zealots decide to bring a few ships back "home" and this upsets the Alpha Quadrant balance and creates for some interesting scenarios. Maybe this "small" group of just a few million Voth decide to further uplift humans as they have a warped sense of legacy - either genuinely or with ulterior motives - etc etc.
Space battleship Yamato deserves a spot on the list
Fire the wave motion gun
Wave motion gun かいほ
Macross class vessels.
I remember seeing that movie 28 years ago or so when my dad brought it home... Aaahhhh the memories
I used to draw terrible pictures of that ship obsessively as a child.
No Andromeda Ascendant? Nova Bombs can take out whole solar systems!
Strictly speaking you didn't need the Andromeda to use Nova bombs, since those could be slung under a fighter
@@weldonwin Yeah, but a fighter can't carry enough to make a white hole!
Or world ships?
@@sotek2345 And Magog's World Ship used blackholes as a weapons. That series was crazy :)
bad writing killed the series
Gonna go ahead and toss maybe some honorable mentions:
Moya from Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars, after Creighton had built the Wormhole Weapon on board.
The Blackstone Fortress: Warhammer 40k. One of them can cut battleships in half, scour planetary surfaces and is damned near unassailable. Two of them can combine their power to destabilize a star, resulting in a super nova shortly thereafter. Three supposedly were used to put the most powerful member of a race of immortal star gods called C'tan (The Void Dragon) into a crippled state of dormancy. There have been at least 7 known Blackstone fortresses and there could be more undiscovered out there.
In the Expanse, Eros was explicitly called a spaceship many times. I feel like with all the stuff that the Protomolecule gets up to, that would be a pretty powerful ship as well.
I think the title of this video should be "Our 5 favorite deadly ships from sci-fi" because most of these except from maybe the reaper is nowhere near the most deadly or powerful space ship in it's respective universe.
Plus Reapers are not ships, they are living entities part biological and part mechanical, the smaller reapers were ship controlled by them remotely, and Sovereign was just posing being a ship in Mass Effect
or sci-fi
FK DRoNe what about tyrands then since each and every single thing is a living entity including they space ships that transport the ground forces and carry the Queens but they are also all controlled by the hive mind
Don’t forget the lack of mercy because to them the mercy is collecting/destroying. Reapers would destroy even the empire by force
@@brandoncook1123 Not really saying much mate, the Empire's kind of a pushover.
Now put the Reapers against the UNSC...oh whats that, MACs ignore thermal shielding?
the cool think about the borg is that if they have some ressources they are nearly unstopable. They were only stopped by the federation because of plot armor. One ship might not be that strong but a fleet can adapt fast enough to beat almost everything without plot armor.
Species 8472 :)
there's just something about your voice that sounds soo convincing and soothing but at the same time your reasons, theories, and logic are the reasons why I subscribe plus you look like you can vibe with me at the same time live your videos I just needed to get that out.
Really, he doesn't seem that convincing. He's a decent speaker but eh
Space Battleship Yamato : Laughs In Wave Motion Gun.
Amazed they didn't talk about the Shadows from Babylon5. One of the larger varients could wipe out entire fleets of Minbari warships with little effort.
Exactly, how did they overlook such a stand out monster.
Good video, but how is a Borg cube not on this list? The Scimitar might be able to take on a taskforce of top-tier enemy warships at once, but Borg cubes as originally depicted in Q Who?, The Best of Both Worlds and First Contact were damn-near-unbeatable fleet killers. The Borg were terrifying when first introduced, and their capabilities were too strong to overcome in any direct engagement. As originally envisioned, the Borg were the single greatest superpower in the Milky Way. Voyager neutered the Borg to a ridiculous degree through plot contrivances, writer choices and necessity, culminating in the absurd case of Voyager single-handedly fighting a Tactical cube twice during Unimatrix Zero, and surviving. If they had been depicted consistently with the same strengths they had in their introductory stories, and if they had ever employed common sense in their strategies, they would have invaded the Federation with a fleet of cubes instead of one ship at a time, and there is no conventional Trek fleet that could stand against that kind of threat.
Well the Enterprise crew destroyed both borg cubes and the scimitar. But the scimitar has a more deadly weapon
The HALO Universe, guaranteeing random ships and planets getting hit by relativistic projectiles for eternity…
Taking collateral damage to the next level.
So if you're minding your own business on a faraway planet, a couple of tonnes of ancient metal moving at a percentage of light speed could take you out without warning.
The chance for something like this is extremely low
@@nobleman9393 one could say.... *astronomically* low ;) :D
Sir Isaac Newton remains the deadliest sonofabitch in space.
@@Taliesyn42 Once you fire this chunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something.
casbott I think that was the natural evolution of humanity’s “well fuck you. You’ll regret raging this war even though you are winning” strategy. What with all the nuclear mines and planet scorching moon cracking nova bombs.
I’d like to add an honorable mention to this list: The Sathanas class Shivan Juggernaut from FreeSpace 2. Nearly 7 kilometers long and armed with weapons they could shred almost any capital ship in short order. Also, when about eighty or so of them surround a star, they can send it supernova!
In the Star Trek universe, species 8472 had bioships that could blow up a planet; that's pretty impressive in my book.
[The Tyranid Hive mind is looking to recruit species 8472]
Apocalypse 8 biohips equal one dead planet. Plus they massacred the Borg.
E Man that would be an interesting battle for sure.
@@IronWarhorsesFun exactly. A borg cube is easily worse than the Scimitar, and 8472's bioships could beat the cubes.
@@meh12345HEYA Borg Tactical Cube is probably the most deadly ship behind the 8472 Bioships (when linked up). Either should be on this list before the Scimitar.
You forgot the "Lexx" They used to fly round in that blowing up planets for kicks.
The only thing I would add to this, the Infinity from the halo series was also equip with 10 strident class frigates stored in its underbelly, ready to deploy if nothing else its 10 extra MAC cannons to bring too the fight as always brilliant video, I love watching you cover halo content!
As for Star Trek cannon - Voyager encountered a ship ( in Year of Hell) where the commander repeatedly reorders time, retroactively wiping out whole planets in an attempt to bring back his late wife.
Damn. No comments
Where’s the vengeful spirit
Licking it’s wounds after what happened at Vigilus I suppose.
And I suppose 40k is kind of sci-fi/science fantasy.
And they are likely tired of 40k.
@@rustkarl It is a fair point. Have a list of the deadliest ships from other sci fi franchises for a bit of variety. The Imperial Navy/Astartes Fleets/Ad Mech Fleets can be addressed another time. There is more than enough material there to do a 'Top 10 Deadliest Imperial Ships' list if the Genration Tech guys wanted to, all the more so if you broaden it out to include ships from all 40K factions.
No mention of 40k? Fuggen heresy!!!!!!
Any Gloriana Class battleship could kick the ass of any SW, ST ship.
Im Surprised the Molecular Disruption Device, Aka MD or the "Little Doctor" seen on the film Ender's Game did not make this list.
That thing was a glass cannon. Could 1 shot most things, but not take damage itself.
The MD from the book could be, and was, mounted on fighters. The fighter version had shorter range than the capital ship models, but stopping the entire swarm of fighters was more than Formics could handle.
careylymanjones they could also go kamikaze and fire the MD without opening the gunports, essentially turning the ship into an MD missile, using the ship’s own mass to power the initial MD field. That’s what Bean tells the fleet to do during the final run
@@artembentsionov In the book, MD-armed fighters hit the planet, and were caught in the chain reaction. Hitting the planet with fighters was like using a hand grenade in an elevator.
careylymanjones in the original or Ender’s Shadow (basically the same events but from Bean’s POV)?
I feel like a borg cube is way more deadly than the scimitar I mean one blew through a whole fleet and I think they would adapt and destroy it before 7 minutes
Not to mention a Borg Tactical Cube can still function even if 80% is destroyed.
@@itschrisritter And not to mention that a Species 8472 bioship one shots a Borg cube ;)
and a simple x-wing from the bs disney starwars franchise just lightspeed jump through everything
I like how you have all these huge deadly warships but even simple Federation, Klingon, Romulan, etc... ships can destroy planets. An average Klingon ship destroys the entire surface of a planet in the TNG episode "The Chase" and the USS Enterprise could do it whenever it wanted. Species 8472/Undine ships can cause planets to outright explode, and on top of that they can basically teleport by going in and out of Fluidic Space.
Scimitar? Not the Voth City ship? Borg Tactical cube? Not V'Ger? (the Voyager probe aboard was technically the captain of the ship so it would just barely make the qualifications to be on the list).
What about the Husnock, Ori warship, Asguardian O'Neill class, any number of First Ones ships of Babylon 5, or, heck, the War World from Young Justice?
Xeelee Nightfighter. Culture ship "Mistake Not...". The god-like Excession.
If there were space for more I'd have out the Ori Mothership from the Stargate series.
Except, that the Asgard Beam equipped Daedalus class ships outmatched them.
Remember Unending? Even then the Asgard Plasma Beam equipped Odyssey was destroyed when cornered.
The Asgard Plasma Beam equipped ships were the only things that could stand up to them and there were too few to beat the Ori in open combat.
@@galbert117 If you wanna add a Stargate ship, wouldnt the Aurora Battleship or the Cityship make more sense?
@@DLordSadow I would argue that Daedalus shields were still subpar compared to Ori shields.
Totally
Reapers didnt harvest all life, just life that is"technologically evolved intellegent" life - it was even stated in game that humanity and several others was spared the previous cycle
Yea they’re actually protecting organic life in their own way haha
Like a good fisherman
You only catch it when it is matured
It was more like culling an invasive environmentally destructive species like cane toads.
Minbari sharlin battlecruiser? Shadow vessal? Battlestar galactica? 😂
Against the Sharlin, I'd bring up the IAS Victory class
The Vorlon capital ship that destroyed planets was more powerful than a Sharlin
excalibar class vessel volon planet killer and shadow planet killer
@@andrewlocke4609 The Excalibar was really rather limited compared to the Vorlons, Shadows and other first one ships.
@@andrewlocke4609 it has been a long time since I watched A Call to Arms. Did the Shadow Planet Killer get classed as a ship? I never got the impression that it had a bridge as it was a cloud that fired missiles. Though I remember there being something about linkages and they destroyed it by targeting a critical link.
Ugh. This list covers pretty much nothing from written works/ sci-fi novels. Any of these would eat the ships on this list in a heartbeat:
5. Vorlon Planetkiller, for reference (Babylon 5)
4. Any Honorverse Superdreadnought (David Weber, Honor Harrington series). Their missiles, as well as the ships themselves, use impenetrable wedges of gravity for propulsion. A near flyby would kill anything in this video.
3. Utu-class planetoid (David Weber, Mutineer's Moon). Moon-sized battlestation, advanced AI, armed with FTL-capable missiles that can shatter planets.
2. Culture General Offensive Unit- GOU (Iain M. Banks, Culture novels). Armed with "gridfire incursion", basically pumping energy from another dimension into known space, blast radii up to "light years". Advanced AI brain so space battles take mere seconds.
1. Xeelee Nightfighter (Stephen Baxter, Xeelee Sequence). Intergalactic travel in seconds, total manipulation of time and space, and armed with weapons that can destroy stars.
Xeelee stuff is made to laugh on other sci-fis, so people don't really take it seriously
@@Genesongx Would you say its the One Punch Man or the Gurran Lagann of scifi novels?
Hmm, Dahak 2 post-boot-strap would certainly be a contender. Though this is Armageddon Inheritance. Ima hafta concur with all these. @Noble713: you win at SciFi destruction
So what everyone is saying is Xeelee is what I should read next, thank you.
Oh yes, say, an Apollo-capable Invictus-class podnought would be one of the deadliest ships in space, short of an Imperial planetoid.
Short of those Imperial planetoids, there is nothing that can outrange their missiles...
3:15 in that case, the Borg Cube should be in this spot. After all, we’re talking deadliest ships here, and I’m sorry, but the Scimitar was never capable of WIPING OUT ENTIRE FLEETS IN CLOSE-RANGE COMBAT WITHOUT TAKING SEVERE DAMAGE.
And if you manage to destroy it, the next wave will be immune to your weapons...
@@Adzakorrahn And that's a huge "if".
Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion: The Vasari Vorastra Titan. It had an ability called 'The Maw' that literally released so many nanoparticles that it formed a visible vortex stripping ships of shields and hull, and with it's great size, it was ridiculously overpowered.
The Abominator Class Offensive Unit “Falling Outside the Normal Moral Constraints” which describes itself as "borderline eccentric and very slightly psychotic”. Is pretty much in a league of its own... well, apart from others in that class. TBH any half respectable GCU, let alone GSV would handle anything outside an OCP, it’s ass on a plate. Let alone a fully gunned up ready for business Culture warship.
Also Deimesen is awesome :D
But one must not forget the Mistake Not...
@@ThomasTee Yes, lets not forget Mistake Not....
I clicked on this video expecting to see SOMETHING from the Cultureverse in the Top 2 and was sorely disappointed.
Banks also wins simply on the grounds of naming conventions.
Some make me smile just from memory, *Hand Me the Gun and Ask Me Again, Appeal to Reason,* and *Frank Exchange of Views.*
@@derekburge5294 one could say Culture names have *Zero Gravitas*
American Ben looks like he just woke up. Get a comb dude. LOL
O'Neill class ofthe Asgard from Stargate
Just deal with the fact that we will never see any stargate on any of these videos :(
@@mccvargues7792 imagine not seeing his Stargate videos and inclusion of the Asgard hyperdrive on the fastest FTL methods
Hey guys, this list is awesome and those ships are deadly. But, there is one ship that is criminally overlooked and should have been on this list, mainly because it is more powerful than most of the ships on this list.
I'm talking about the Andromeda Ascendant from the show Andromeda. Built by the System's Common Wealth for the High Guard, it is the last of the Glorious Heritage Class warships.
The Andromeda is equipped with over 200 missiles tubes, along with Point Defence Laser turrets and antiproton cannons. With these weapons along, it can destroy a fleet of one thousand warships in less than 3 secondes. (Dylan Hunt asked)
On top of that, back during the era of the Common Wealth, it would carry an army of over 2000 ground troops, nearly 500 fighters and a pair of planetary warfare pods.
But, what makes the ship so powerful is that it could carry up to 40 nova bombs. Nove bombs are devices that, if aimed properly, could wipe out an entire solar system.
What about pretty much any of the Culture Mind ships from Ian M Banks Culture series? They tend to be very, very powerful indeed.
I would love to see a vote of people that have any clue what your talking about.
@@Demobot1 Unfortunately the Culture is mostly confined to novels. Not many people read these days so it's not so well known. Amazon picked it up to turn into a TV series though. I have my doubts how well that will go though.
I was going to say Dahak, which is a powerful ship indeed. But the Culture ships could probably take it. Still, I'll vote Dahak.
@@danieltempas6062 I posted a comment with the Top5 list I expected, features both Culture ships and Dahak. ^_^
There are a lot of powerful starships in books and short stories too. In the novel THE MIXED MEN a super-starship used as an exploration ship was so strong that when tricked into warping into a space that was in the middle of a supernova, the ship had systems to take it, though it meant tearing the ship into hundreds of small self-sufficient mini-ships, each being its own escape pod moving outward from the point away from the danger, and then later those mini-ships would find each other and those who had survived would rebuild the main ship, which would then complete its repairs automatically. Now THAT is one tough starship!
Voth City ship, Hirogen Warship, Husnock Warship (last version), Undine (species 8472) Bioship, Gumtu (code name Tinman), Borg type 4 Tactical cube would all give the Scimitar a run for its money.
Give me a Dragon starfighter equipped with a flashpack from Wing Commander 4 and some cover fire and I'll take just about any of those out with a single weapon!
Seriously, there's got to be at least half a dozen planet killer ships and several dozen one shot big ships or wipe out entire fleets kind of ships and some of these things are doing good to take out a large city in a single shot.
the Eclipse? Seriously? The Sun Crusher tells the Eclipse to hold its beer.
I want a list of sci-fi super weapon emplacements, like planetary defensive weapons. I would want to see the BFG 10,000 on there. "You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars!" -Dr. Samuel Hayden, DOOM Eternal
The correct answer however, is _Sajuuk._
The Precursor capitol ship from Homeworld.
Can jump anywhere in the galaxy in minutes (and lol through gravity wells.) Plus it has the best armor and armaments in the galaxy by an order of magnitude.
What about The Spear of Adun? I think it can easily destroy any of those ships. That thing is massive and can destroy several minotaur class battlecruisers at once without taking any significant damage
I would say that the doctrine of obedience through fear was originally pitched by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who in the end blew up with his pride and joy: the Death Star.
No 40k in this list, what kind of HERESY IS THIS!!!!!!
It needs to be excluded from the list for other francies.
Abandons planet killer or the good old space marine bs not much stands up to full chapter drop ship assaulting your ship
@@Asshat4717
Because a random Culture ROU can eradicate entire star systems with its black hole guns, micro-bombs, or just straight-out Grid-fires...
陳潔明 there is a ark Mechanicus war ship that can also fire black wholes reverse time so its dost miss and a few other nasty surprises
Why does warhammer need to be on here and WHY do you guys say heretic and heresy so much its kinda of annoying tbh
Vorlons had ships capable of destroying planets and fight other ships. That episode in ST:TNG where they find a ship with a phasing cloak making it completelly invulnerable, I think that would be a pretty one sided battle no matter your own firepower. The shadow planet killer is basicly a cloud of nuclear missiles. How can you take it out and what could survive it? I am sure I am forgetting some, but there are much deadlier ships in sci-fi than what can be found in the Expanse or Master Chief's universe.
Cool ships but NOT the deadliest!
Andromeda Franchise: Abyss World Ship and any Ship with nova Bombs!
Star Wars: New Planet killing emperial Star destroyers.
Lexx: Lexx
Star Trek: 8472 Bioships 10 of those small crafts could destroy a Planet in seconds so we can assume that one can do the same with a little more time.
Star Gate: Latest Tech asgardian ships!
The only significant thing those planet killing star destroyers managed to destroy was the fanbase.
I’d put the super hive for stargate
@@Efeye-s
I fully agree with you! Those things are stupid and make no sense! But they are powerfull!
Babylon5: Vorlon planet killer, shadow ship
Wing Commander III: Behemoth class planet killer
Wing Commander III: any ship as small as a large starfighter equipped with a temblor bomb
Quick google search (which led to Wikipedia) indicates things of similar magnitude as
Dalek mothership
A number of different options in StarCraft
......
The starships from Ender's Game. The Little Doctor could trigger chain reactions to destroy entire planets or fleets. Tiny, yes, and not very robust, but indisputably deadly.
"Space battleship Yamato laugthing in the background"
Saraba chikyuu yo
tabidatsu fune wa
uchuu senkan
yamato
Macross Cannon.... Fire!
*2000 Andromedas and 10000 Borodino battleships quietly wait behind it*
Man I used to love watching that show when I was a teen :)
Perry Rhodan universe - both chaotenders and cosmic factories could take out entire galaxies in the course of their battles against each other.
Now there's a valid question!
Chief: I need a weapon
UNSC: hold my beer
The Scimitar is a weird choice for Star Trek, considering the heavy hitters of the franchise. A Borg Cube would rinse the Scimitar. A couple 8472 bioships destroyed an entire planet in one volley. And V'ger? It could win by just being in close proximity.
I'd argue that no ship from the Expanse should be on a list of "deadliest" starships in science fiction by the simple fact that Expanse ships are bound by physics and don't have magical technology.
There are so many other ships that are more powerful that could be included on this list. In fact, I'd argue that the only ship on this list that can stay is Harbinger. Even that is debatable. If it's meant to be the deadliest ship in its respective universe, then the video should have been framed that way.
Why are the Ori ships from Stargate SG-1 not included? What about ancient ships fully equipped with drones? How come a Vorlon planet killer isn't on this list?
"Expanse ships are bound by physics and don't have magical technology."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@jesusmora9379 You're an idiot. Have a bad day sir.
@@jesusmora9379 Except they are bound by MORE real word concept compared to other franchises. It makes them less deadly, but they are probably the most realistic scifi ships out there
The Expanse is one of my favorite shows ever but the only ship even worth an honorable mention (and it still shouldn't make this cut) without spoiling anything is the Heart of the Tempest from the books. Those Mangnatar class battle cruisers are no joke for the level of tech in that universe.
@@Ananamitron The Epstein drive is still made up technology that has made fuel a seemingly non issue in the show. So jesus mora was right that "don't have magical technology" wasn't totally correct. Unless you wanna specify what you mean by "magical technology".
40k has the Planet Killer. It's basically an Executor, but blows up planets.
What about the Shadow ships in Babylon 5. They powerful with very accuracy and precision shoot capabilities and very hard to lock on to.
I disagree with the Scimitar being the most deadly Star Trek vessel. Adding in a dozen qualifiers doesn't, to me, make for a good requirement, and a ship doesn't have to have a multitude of crew to still be a vessel (my opinion). I think V'Ger (from the first Star Trek movie) would be more than capable of destroying something like the Scimitar. And before saying that V'Ger was just a probe, consider that it was found by a machine intelligence society who improved it and sent it back home to complete its mission. It was a single machine intelligence operating a megalithic vessel.
What about the Lexx?
Things for and against lexx, for it's as powerful as the death star and smaller and faster, against it can be damaged
Technically, Moya from Farscape, maybe the most powerful ship, after John Crichton creates a wormhole weapon, which once activated, technically the wormhole would just keep growing until it destroyed everything in the universe. Though the weapon could be built on any ship, so it would be a stretch to call her one of the 5 deadliest ships in science fiction.
The Vorlon Planet Killer could destroy planets and was only able to be destroyed by other first ones, working together. The shadow death cloud is less of a ship but technically would also count.
If you really want to go nasty, then all culture warships could destroy a planet.
You have the Xeelee nightfighter, which could destroy a star
Hey guys can you please do a video on the ships from SDF Macross.
Yeah that ship has a massive gun that can destroy anything, and transform too!
Plus not only did it have it's pinpoint barrier system, it also had a full shield that absorbed all attacks coming in then exploded that energy back out 10 fold around itself.
And when their idol sings it is pretty much a guaranteed win especially if the idol is Basara.
I think the Macross Super Dimensional Fortress would rip through some of these ships.
The SDF1 had:
2 Arms that were capitol class ships of their own (Daedalus and Prometheus) which in turn had other drop ships and mecha.
Armaments
:
1 Reflex Cannon
- Anyone who knows the story knows what this cannon can do!
8 main Particle Cannon
1 secondary triple-barreled particle cannon
4 single barrel Rail Cannons
16 triple barreled Laser/particle beam turrets
12 Torpedo tube
48 ten-tube missile launcher box
with Reflex Multi Warheads (that track targets)
Defences
:
Pinpoint Barrier System
Omni-Directional Barrier System
Mecha
:
320 VF-1J Veritech fighters
150 Destroids
(30 Defender
, 30 Phalanx
, 30 M.A.C.II, 30 Spartan, 30 Tomahawk / Excaliburs)
50 AEW aircraft, various space shuttles
I love the mention of the SDF-1 here. 😀
How does any primitive ships from the Expanse make the list and a Borg tactical cube and Species 8472 get ignored? They would eat everything in this list for breakfast.
Exactly... not to mention Babylon 5's Shadow cruisers and Vorlon ships
I believe the LEXX should be in that ranking.
no ID4? no stargate? no babylon5?
Thank you. I think this is a popular sci-fi list.
Both Shadows and Vorlons had Planet killers. We also see very little of the other First Ones.
@@brianflowers4217 depending how you look at the Shadow planet killer it is difficult to call it a ship but certainly the Vorlon. The only definitely more powerful weapon in Babylon 5 is not a ship
@@JopardBDS It was self propelled, and had a command center, so I'd call it a ship. It certainly wasn't a station.
@@brianflowers4217 It's a weird an difficult to define one you must agree. Yes mobile but given the way it is portayed in both series and feature I'd say it's a bit more like a station although station doesn't seem to fit it either. If I were to give it a definition I for the moment call it a seige system. The Vorlon one was undeniably a ship. Either way like you I also feel Babylon 5 was an omission
Species 8472 ships from Star Trek: takes like 3 seconds for a handful to blow up a planet. Andromeda, or the Magog world ship from Andromeda: Andromeda's Nova bombs can blow up a star and the world ship has mini black hole canons. Someone else said it; but, the LEX eats planets. Galactus' ship with the power cosmic. And I know... No weapons, but when Doctor Who's T.A.R.D.I.S. blew up it literally took the entire universe with it. Also Dr. Who: the Dalek Crucible had a weapon that would have wiped out all matter in every universe.
About the Star Trek one: would the Borg Cube be far superior? I guess it doesn't apply, as it's closer to a station than a ship
Borg cube is still a ship. And is the most powerful in the st universe
Gen tech is wrong
A space station couldn't chase and catch the Enterprise. Maybe the Scimitar's special weapon could destroy a cube (or at least it's crew). But the next cube would have learned from the last and adapted.
A borg cube isn't designed to be deadly, even if it is sometimes, but a 8472 ship is able to destroy borg cubes with ease.
@@GodOfWar109 I am not an ST expert, so I cannot tell you the name of the episode, but there is a far superior ship. It is quite small compared to a cube and attaches itself to ships a bit like a parasite. In this episode, the borg and humans join forces, as the borgs are at risk of defeat. They want to 'flush' the entire galaxy with some 'bug' or whatever, but humans object because they don't want to completely extinct any life form bla-bla.... sorry, it's been 20 years or so :) Anyway, the borg ship did not even have a slight chance, all they could do was 'run', but they were not fast enough, either.
In Star Wars there's actually a ship that's deadlier than the Eclipse. It's called the Sun Crusher. It carries resonance torpedoes. You could launch one of these into a sun's core, making it go supernova, destroying everything in the system. It had really strong armour. It managed to take a superlaser hit from a Death Star prototype and could fly straight through a Star Desfroyer. The only thing that destroyed it was a black hole.
No WH40k lmao im glad they didnt include wh40k cuz if they do then we already know who's the boss.
5. Random wh40k ship
4. Random wh40k ship
3. Random wh40k ship
2. Random wh40k ship
And on the first place!
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Random wh40k ship
Bitter much?
@@Nothing-1w3 nah man Halo and star wars still could hold their place.
There does seem to be a dirth of vast, space born battle cathedrals on the list, but that is OK. A chance for others to shine without the Inquisition declaring everyone Excommunicate Diabolus and rolling in with the kind of almost comedically OP ships that fire shells the size of ships from some other franchises.
too many to pick i guess. here's a few notable one that i can think of, Talisman of Vaul, the Gloriana classes, 1st legion The Rock, Phalanx, Necron world engine, Eldar craftworlds, ork rok, Planet Killer (exactly as it says on the tin), Abyss class battleships (Our Blessed Lady is such a fine name for a battleship btw), Ark Mechanicus, Imperator Somnium, and ork attack moon.
And the Droplet form the Dark Forests can kill all of these without firing a shot or taking any damage
If you go the literary route, there's the Skylark of Valeron...
Forgot to mention that the Infinity also carried several frigates essentially making it its own fleet.
'when a captain thinks an order there should be no delay in executing it.'
well you were never in the Navy. the best ship would have the captain never think any orders, just let the enlisted do what they do.
“ noooo Necron you can’t just make a hologram that can kill the galaxy” “lol” lmaooo”
Feels like those ships were just selected to please 5 specific franchises.
Otherwise this would be dominated by WH40k, Lexx, etc.
star wars is not even sci-fi
@@jesusmora9379 Fuck yes, give this guy a medal!
Jokes aside, yes id rather call it space fantasy or something.
Xeelee and the Culture topping the list. Forerunner warcraft would also roflstomp everything on this list. The only reason humanity didn't lose in Halo 4 is plot armor.
@@JackR936 Yeah in H5 just 6 Forruner Guardians are used to subdue the galaxy at the end. Their big warships were even stronger. But it was hard for them to fight tier 0 FLood graveminds with a directive from an angry precursor. (they could kill/infect stuff before they arrived with fancy time shenanigans, could control space with their minds and teleport anywhere whilst also controlling indestructible constructs known as star roads. Outside of that shenanigans the forerunners were GOAT).
Actually Marvel Comics and Dr Who ships and races shit on Xeelee and Culture too. So.....
Gloriana-class Battleship
I can understand why 40k is omitted from stuff like this, it just fair since everything in 40k is op. However this is the god of ships when it comes to conventional defense and firepower. Scimitar can one shot it if it had time to charge, but it can kill everything else. Plus it looks awesome, think the ultramarines primarch got his back in battlefleet gothic 2.
A gloriana would board the scimitar with it's Astartes contingent well before the scimitar can fire. Remember, the Gloriana is first and foremost an Astartes flagship. They love boarding their enemies. Then think about the Scimitar having no astropaths on board capable of fending off psykers, and of course 40k engagement ranges which start from the edge of the system
Miranda class from Star trek deservers honorable mention... it was deadly for its crew mainly... but still...
Lol
The oberth kills more people than the Miranda class.
Miranda class: the red shirt among starships.
To be fair Khan deployed the genesis device from USS Reliant which was Miranda class and others including Klingon empire regarded it as a super weapon
What about the Asgard O'Neill class battle cruiser? Across the expanse of a galaxy in just a few minutes, fully battle capable and ready with just one living being on board, beam weapon that would stop an Ori ship with one shot, 1500m long, 700m wide, fought to a draw (4 ori ships against 1 battlecruiser).
Obscure to alot of you but where is LEXX in all of this?
Oh American Ben, my sweet summer child, you don't know the Magentar Class Battleship yet ;).
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The Phalanx from Warhammer could have tanked all 5 of these ships at the same time!
Planetary defense ships could tank those ships when we are talking 40K.
I think I see what they are going for. Deadliest in their respective stories and they left 40k off cuz then it would just be insanity. Older franchises that have fallen into obscurity are not in, maybe on a second part? Andromeda, B5, BSG etc etc. And maybe also do a list of the Deadliest starfighters? I would like to see videos on personal weapons in Sci-Fi, and maybe include some Sci Fi anime into their channel.