Largest Space Stations in Science Fiction Films
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- We take a look at the Largest Space Stations in Science Fiction ranging from several dozens of miles long to the size of solar systems.
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"the other Sci-Fi series that starts with Star and ends with JJAbrams"
I'm gonna quote you so much!!!
Guy 1: "Hey look at this space station i built, its pretty big"
Guy 2: "HaHa, thats cute"
Space opera writers in a nutshell...
@@failedexperiment9073 There's a lot of this especially in modern scifi settings. Probably the funniest example is Halo were it's basically a dick measuring contest with ships. Until the Forerunners get involved.
Unsc: we built a kilometer long ship.
Covenant: That's great! Its just a little bigger than our corvette! Now look at our cruiser it's over a mile long..
Unsc: Wait! Our Epoch carriers is 2.5 kloms long...
Covenant: Assault Carrier
Unsc: Infinity
Ur-Didact: WHAT'S UP BITCHES! Check out Mantle's Approach. Yeah, it's 300 kloms high and 140 kloms long. It's ok to be jealous.
@@failedexperiment9073 Pretty much. I remember reading E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen and Skylark series. Each book had bigger ships/stations than the one before.
Forerunners: Hehe, good job. Nothing compared to the Greater Arc.
Guy 1: My god...
@@RoburDrake you're right! Haven't read those is a long time
Mass Effect did have a movie, it was an anime though.
It is called Paragon Lost.
they are talking about theater released movies.
"Won't be including The Expanse"
*Spacedock fans and generally any sci-fi fans uproar*
Those were all within reasonable size limits anyway.
Would be pointless because Im pretty sure they don't have 20 kilometers large space stations
I love how you used Ender’s game as an example of book only franchises despite the fact that Ender’s game has a movie.
As several Ph.D.'s -- who have CZcams channels -- have stated, Freeman Dyson actually postulated the "Dyson Swarm," and not a solid sphere.
the halo rings werent even close to the biggest space "stations" in halo, the ark was massively bigger it consumed suns and planets to construct the halo rings at its center, then three were the shield worlds which were artificially constructed planets that
Mind you too we have only actually seen the Lesser Ark, not the Greater Ark, Maethrillian, or even particularly the inside of Onyx. If memory serves, Onyx alone (inside) was 300,000,000 km in diameter, nearly 3 times the distance of the earth to the sun.... even if it was only something like a foot wide on the outside.
And Onyx
@@tonytheguineapig7494 Onyx (Or Trevalyan (or Sarcophogus (why does this place need three frigging names))) being the biggest of them all at 2 AU or about 300 million miles in diameter. And then just to style on everyone else, the Forerunners stuffed it into a slipspace bubble with an entrance that's 23 cm across.
@Ninja Crackpot You talking about Anchor station 9?
Onyx is, or was, the planet before the events of Ghosts of Onyx. Trevalyan was the research outpost named after Kurt (whatever the hell his SPARTAN tag was), who died in defense of the Forerunner installation against Covenant attack.
And also ended up saving Cathrine E. Halsey, creator of the SPARTAN / ORION programs (excluding SPARTAN-IVs and, hypethetically speaking, Vs), Lucy and Tom (SPARTAN IIIs - and not the 'III's like Noble Team WHICH WAS A WALKING CONTRADICTION IN THE TIMELINE), as well as CPO Mendez and Kelly of Blue Team.
Secondly, yeah. *The Forerunners partially made Onyx*, Trevelyan whatever you want to call it. Basically, it's an incomplete Shield installation. *The end product would have ended up like Requiem in Halo 4 - both are stupid-tardedly huge, and both of them can 'hide' inside of Slipspace.*
*While in hiding, the objects aren't visible but cause a whole fuckload of EM and gravitic disturbances* that most basic non-military human sensors can pick up - and *it would appear as if an object no larger than an over-inflated soccer ball was causing enough EM tomfuckery to account for an entire goddamn SOLAR SYSTEM.*
*_>Tl;Dr - Forerunners win. If Onyx-Trevelyan wasn't good enough, Greater Halos (IE Installation 02). If that's not good enough, the Greater Arc (Installation -- (number is unknown atm???)_*
Babylon 5 had movies 6 of them in fact (7 or 8 If you count the 2 part Legend of the Rangers), so it had more than Halo and longer too.
But the space stations in Babylon 5 were relatively small, less than 10 km.
@@coreymicallef365 But it was an actual station, the Death star isn't as it's capeble of unsupported travel, it's just a weirdly shaped spaceship.
I came here to say this.
Don't count Legend of the Rangers, let's just pretend those never existed. Still none of B5's movies went to theater, they were made for TV.
Wait, Halo movies were in theatre?
The Star Trek Dyson sphere is the largest space station in Sci-Fi.
Halo: “What?”
Lmao ikr. Poor Onyx being left out
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@xc5647321 xc5647321 what?! a galaxy sized Dyson sphere!!?
@xc5647321 xc5647321 im sure there's alot of huge ones in fiction but thats gonna take long finding
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Well..technically the largest would be 'The Way' situated inside an asteroid in the Eon books by Greg Bear.
If you make a rule then stick to it. Including a bunch of stations that never appeared in movies is fine just call your list "big space stations that we kinda like"
That's actually not a bad point. Several of these were from TV shows.
Elysium was based on a Stanford Torus, not an O’Neill cylinder.
And it can be called a type of "Von Braun Space Station". O'neill cylinders are, well, cylinders; like the huge spaceship of cultists in The Expanse.
That's wat I thought ... It was not cylinder thing
yeah...
I would like to know what kept the air in the ring, yet allowed the shuttlecraft, or whatever it was called, to enter. It did not seem to be a force field as that would have stopped it. Unless it was dialed back to a point where the fields resistance would just keep atmosphere gasses in?
An example of an O'Neil Cylinder is, I believe, the colonies of Mobile Suit Gundam.
The Dyson sphere in Shield World 006 (halo) is technically larger at 300 million kilometers
I would imagine they are only including structures that are actually seen on screen.
Nickolas G It is also technically 23 cm wide.
Well Star Trek TNG did it first xD
Goliath Projects no I’m pretty sure Hinline, Author, or Asimov did it first. Still Star Trek did make the idea popular.
@@hitandruncommentor Of cause, they "invented" the concept. I thought we were talking about franchises here xD
B5 franchise has films. Multiple, in fact.
I only know of one. What are the others? The one I saw had G'Kar (Ithink that's him, it's been a while).
Well, it could be that American Ben did the research for this video... We know how he is... Allen & British Ben know how to do a good job...
I guess direct to TV films don't count.
@@ojisanhoward8940 he did halo those movies were straight to dvd.
@@michaelreedx6823 You are correct, just finished watching. I got no clue now.
I think you all forgot Shield World Trevelyan in Halo or the Sarcophagus. A Dyson sphere of 2 AU or 300 million KM. 100 Million more then the Star Trek Dyson sphere. Loved the video thou! ❤️
Point of order: Babylon-5 had several films.
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No mention of Gundam's O'Neil Cylinders?
Isn't that never considered a space station?! I thought Libra or Messiah is more fit in this
@@zerox8413 they are stations but not called as such.
@@zerox8413 Space Colony to be exact, but still function as space station of Interstellar
And its two body spin designs.
There is already mention of O'Neil cylinders in both Elysium and Babylon 5. So it might have been redundant.
"The other sci fi series that starts in Star and ends in JJ Abrams"
I cried
The Dyson shell. It gives me a chuckle now and then when I watch that TNG episode, and see a glaring mistake: at one point, you see a starfield inside the structure.
Uh...what?
The Dyson Sphere as depicted in trek is a purely science fiction version of the concept ( the original was a swarm of structures around the star )
Did you learn that from Isaac Arthur as well?
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The Star Trek Dyson sphere is the largest space station in Sci-Fi. ... Halo: “What?”.. Perry Rhodan giggles ..and say .. Hold my Beer .... :D
And since when is a DYSON SPHERE a space station? It's not a station, it's a metal surrounding around a star system. Inside the dyson sphere you don't have special environments like... atmosphere and gravity, at least not in the real sense of a dyson sphere
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The exterior of the dyson sphere looks like Requiem and other shield worlds from Halo
One other famous o'neill cylander is the colonies from the universal century timeline in Gundam.
Babylon 5. All the Babylon stations.
I wish they would revisit the Dyson Sphere in a Star Trek tv series. It’s such a shame it only appeared in a single episode. I thought it was a very interesting concept.
Awesome video. Since i don't know much about Star Wars and Star Trek this was very interesting to watch. Tons of cool concepts.
Though, nothing here beats the Megastructure from Blame. Written by Tsutomu Nihei. I have yet to see or hear about something bigger than that in any science fiction story ever.
*bUt bLaMe iSn'T a fIlM*
Yes it is, Netflix made a film out of it and it was the only one they did right because 90% of it's production had no influence from Netflix. lol
Cool!
Man you should do a video on the expanse that shows good
Next month will be introduced the 4th series. looking forward, because i am a fan too.
Elysium ins't a O'neil cylinder it's a Stanford torus, a NASA design popularised by Larry Niven in his "Ringworld" series. For sci-fi nerds you seem pretty uniformed. Don't you guys read sci-fi? He is only one of the greatest writers of the genre. Pick up your game
Exactly, Oneil cylinders are generally much longer than they're radius and can have the equivilen living area of a large island or small continents if you go up to the largest versions
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Anthony (Tony) Rich while I agree calm down, they obviously do read sci for and are highly interested and it was just a slight mistake. Foolish yea but seriously calm down
Unfortunately wrong if we are talking about ring world as Niven's ringworld was set at 1 AU from the stories star so no not quite
If the Dyson sphere makes this list, then so should Iokath
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Happy holidays!
"Starts in star and ends in JJ Abrams."- I like what you did there.
0:50 I'd say that estimation is incorrect knights of the Old Republic is one of the most well-known pieces of Star Wars Media outside of the films you don't exactly need to be hardcore to know about it
I just want to say that the Dyson Sphere" was actually realistically envisioned as a "Dyson Swarm" where there are enough satellites surrounding the star they collect 100% of it's energy output. A single structure with the radius of our distance from our Sun would not be physically possible with any know materials or even with the current laws of physics (I believe I remember reading that trying to spin something so massive could potentially rip apart the molecules holding the material together). The Dyson Swarm could even realistically be built today (or construction could start today) if we manage to collect enough materials. I think because the satellites had been said to "completely encapsulate the star" most people would assume it was a large spherical container as opposed to numerous power collecting satellites.
Exactly. It's more appropriately referred to as a Dyson shell if it is a completely enclosed ball.
And yeah, the material would have to be something with the tensile strength equivalent of the strong nuclear force in order to hold together. You wouldn't actually spin up a Dyson shell--I think the implication is artificial gravity generators. It's the Ringworld that spins, around 770 mps.
@@Revan2908 Maybe Dyson shell that is stationary in space at the distance of the center star that causes outer surface gravity to match, lets say half the earth gravity. That would still be big, not include tensile strength problems and allows atmosphere to stick. Still pretty hard to maintain the constant distance from the star. A bit like big ass hollow Earth with heat source at the center. Star itself would have to be something like cool brown dwarf, otherwise it would get pretty damn hot at the sphere at that distance.
@@3characterhandlerequired Yeah, well, this is Star Trek, with all the wonderful speculative science fiction implied lol The shell probably has ways of venting heat, self-correcting its position, and so on (pretty much the same glaring "defects" Larry Niven had to address in his second Ringworld novel). Just not enough time in a 47 minute episode to get into it all, or the need. We're just nitpicking nerds! lol
Timo P "... it would get pretty damn hot...". It all depends on the structure's heat-shedding efforts. If the structure was made of an insulating material the insides would get dangerously hot even if it only enclosed a brown dwarf. If instead the structure was diamond or graphene it would conduct the heat away quickly to make the internal temperature tolerable, maybe even chilly.
If it wasn't for Earth's atmosphere with its greenhouse gases like water vapour the average temperature would be a little below zero centigrade. That's just passive cooling, no special efforts to shed heat. Active measures like shifting albedo with white/black louvres on the surface could probably get Earth down in the -200 C range. Louvres would be set to present white sides to the daytime sun then flip to black on the night side to shed whatever little they did absorb on the day side.
"Ends in JJ Abrams" - Epic line.
The biggest space structure/station possible, is the birch world a dyson sphere built around a super massive black hole bigger than the one in the middle of our galaxy. The coolest part is that it can hypothetically be built with a graviti of 1 g at the surface
You missed the gundam franchise , as they have tonnes of films, and tonnes of stations , well they are colonys but if you include esylium
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Remember in the Universal Century that they're supposed to be mass producing the typical O'Neill class about 3 to 5 per year before the war. Each is over 5km in diameter and around 35km long.
Yeah but if we start including anime then we have the solar system size space station from tenchi Muyo. It also had a battle ship the size of a moon.
@@hitandruncommentor It was a moon or would be considered a Shield World but mobile. Anyway Ryo-Oh-Ki made short work of it by turning it. The UC is the earliest scifi/anime that had lots of O'Neill class in space.
Jon Bonda true but ryo oki is a goddess so..... also Gundam fan so trust me, the fact it gets neglected bugs me too.
#7 In the book Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke an O'Neill sphere is described as a cylinder 50 km long and 20 km in diameter (31 by 12 miles). If I'm not wrong it's pictured in your movie at 5.00
Halos dison sphere is 100 million kilometres wider in diameter and is fully habitable with 550 million times Earth surphace area
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What about the Centerpoint Station?
What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?
Hello there, Master Kenobi
It's pix was shown in the video but wasn't mentioned. About the size of a moon but capable of moving stars around.
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The Cageworld book series had the biggest megastructures that I'm familiar with. Think Russian nesting doll Dyson Spheres. A sphere was built at every planet's orbit. The Mercury shell was built inside the Venus shell, that was inside the Earth shell, that was build inside the Mars shell, etc. Very fun series.
Dyson himself said that he never envisioned the sphere as a solid object. Instead, he imagined a spherical arrangement of habitats and powersats around a star.
Hopefully you make the top ten biggest creature in Science - Fiction .
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Energetic force that makes no sense. Tarkin was British xD
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"The first is from a video game...."
Good to see that Allen and Ben didn't have a falling out.
Alan I think Kotor is something most to Normie’s are aware of
Nice!!!
And if anyone wants to build these things, you can just play Stellaris with I think the Megacorp or Utopia DLCs. Dyson Sphere? Check! Mega Shipyard the size of a star? Check! Weaponised moon with movement thrusters? Check! Layered planetary rings? Check! Artificial Habitation space stations? Check!
Elysium is a Taurus-class colony.
Torus, not Taurus. Torus means ring, Taurus means bull
Why "class"? It's just a shape.. And Elysium isn't a torus, it's a ring
Amir Halperin it’s the design of the model. For example “Babylon 5” is an O’Neal-class colony
weldonwin thanks. Had trouble with the spelling
@The Insufferable Insomniac I was under the impression that a ring is a flat torus, and torus is an o shaped tube/cylinder
You forgot to mention the Warhammer 40k universe's space stations: The Phalanx - Fortress Monastery of the Imperial Fist's, Mars's Ring Of Iron , and the Blackstone Fortresses. Love the channel
This is about Sci-Fi *films*
Well done. Glad you have the Dyson Sphere. You can see the inside of it is Star Trek Online.
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WTF!!! STAR FORGE IS FROM A VIDEO GAME NOT MOVIE!!!!!
He said it in the beginning. If there is a movie about the subject you can use all of it. But this brings me back to Babylon5 there is a movie about it
The star forge isn't even official canon. As much as I like Star Wars and KotOR it should NOT be on this list.
Same for the Star Trek Dyson sphere. Yes it is canon. Yes there are movies. But never was a sphere in the movies or has it been mentioned.
The real problem we have is that the title is sorely inaccurate. They're trying too hard to stick with the Generation FILM niche of this channel.
@@franskamstra2728 Great. but Babloyn 5 is tiny..
@@captainseyepatch3879 true it is not a 100k plus station. But none the less very imposing in its own universe
I can see where Stellaris got their idea of a Dyson Sphere
Uh, excuse me, Elysian was clearly modeled after a Stanford Torus. GOOD DAY, SIR!
lol
That's what I came here to say. :-)
If you do the smallest Sci-Fi space stations, would it include Deep Space 9 ?
No. DS9 was over a mile in diameter. Star Trek has had much smaller stations featured (like space station K-7 in "The Trouble with Tribbles", or the orbital station in "The Motion Picture"; or Regula 1 in "The Wrath of Khan", or the Relay Station in "Aquiel", or the Amargosa Observatory in "Generations", etc). DS9 is probably the fifth largest space station in Star Trek (after the Dyson Sphere, Yorktown, the Borg Transwarp Hub, and Spacedock).
B5 had like 6 films. But I get where your going. Cheers.
Yay, British Ben is back...
Allen, please do a video that compares Large Space Stations from all franchises please!!!
I was promised stations larger than solar systems. Nice clickbait
Technically, thats not a station, its a ship, since I think the thumbnail is supposed to be Rama from Arthur C Clarke's Rama trilogy of novels
Nice spv3 footage for number 2
You forgot about the old Halos they are BIGGER
And the Ark
It's okay Babylon 5 l still think your cool
Me too....ummm I mean also!
WTF? A StarTrek movie directed by Quentin Tarantino? My life is complete.
(Gasp) It's British Ben! It's been so long!
Alan mate you always make me laugh. You're my fave presenter of this channel. Don't tell my fellow brits 😉
Elysium's space habitat reminded me of Larry Niven's ringworld
I know It's an obscure movie and graphic novel series but the station/ship from blame! Would have easily been number one by a significant margin.
Oh my god, finally someone else who knows about that series. The Megastructure is by far the biggest i've ever seen in any science fiction ever. It'll make every single one of these on the list look cute, even all of them put together.
1st entry you already broke your own rule. The starforge isn't in a movie.
Do you suffer from premature explosion? One in five sith lords...
Biggest one should actually be the Forerunner Dyson sphere at Trevalian.
Centerpoint Station only got a photo. An honorable mention within the honorable mentions lol.
In an old episode of Star Trek the Next Generation, they encountered a Dyson Sphere.
It was the episode where they rescued Scotty, "James Slogan".
The Dyson Sphere was built around an actual star.. but I don't remember if they mentioned, how big it actually was.
Since it was both mobile and capable of traversing the galaxy through hyperspace, the Death Star was technically NOT a space station (the very term implying that it is stationary), but a massive starship.
It's a series of books but Rama would be an incredible place to see on film.
Little known even in Japan, but well known for "sci fi" fan, MAPS by Yuichi Hasegawa featured "Sacrifice Canon" that use negative emotion emitted by life forms being killed off in the Milky-way Galaxy as ammunition (=the whole canon is bigger than a galaxy).
I know this video is old but here are two I think should have been included at least as honorable mentions:
First Low orbit station Rhadamanthus from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a station atached to a space elevator and an orbital ring, the stations is very likely the size of a small country and it has a huge city called Elysium
and the space colonies from the Gundam franchise, those are literally bunch of O'neil Cylinders
Nice
Seems that British Ben has been seduced by the dark side
To be fair, the episode of TNG with the Dyson Sphere did indicate that not only was the star unstable, but many of the systems were malfunctioning, so the civilization that built it was wither long dead or long since moved on. If you are up for game lore, however, this Sphere, referred to later as the Jenolan Dyson Sphere (named after the USS Jenolan, the first Stafleet ship to find it) is brought back to prominence in the Star Trek Online MMO, along with 3 other Dyson Spheres.
The Forerunners had a bigger version of the number 1 station.
The Dyson Sphere would be so massive, you could not see a curve. You simply could not see far enough to ever see a curve. Of course, the structures inside could be built to look unique, but inside the DS itself would appear as a flat surface. And you're stretching it a bit to call the two Death Stars space stations. Obi-wan may have called it that, but the fact that it is mobile disqualifies it. Space stations are artificial satellites, and by definition must orbit a celestial body. The Death Star was a spaceship that happened to be spherical in shape. Great video though, I love this stuff.
7:25 "and the 'supposed' death of Palpatine" UHM, SIR??? THIS VIDEO CAME OUT A YEAR BEFORE TROS
Cool, but if you were including Halo structures why not kick out High Charity, move the lesser Halos back a spot and smash in the Greater ark, measuring in at an estimated 382,590 Kilometers.
Notice I said Lesser Halos, yes you did indeed use the Halos seen in the games which makes sense.
However this is the second Halo array, the first Halo array consisted of 12 Halos measuring in at 3 times the size of the lesser Halos at 30,000 km in diameter.
Bring back British Ben!!! I miss his Star Trek Videos!
If you can have him make a Star Trek video every 2 weeks on the "Generation Tech' channel, that would be fine =D.
Preferably 1x video a week if possible!
You didn't mention either of the arks from Halo.
Andromeda series was also one solarsystem size spacestation
Except for the swearing I love how well Karl Urban does Bones!
I guess Unimatrix 01 (The Borg, Star Trek Voyager), with it's trillions of Borg living on it doesn't make this list. :-/
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has both an 18,000 km across space station (TSAB Navy HQ) and multiple movies were released in cinema.
Space Battleship Yamato likewise has at least one artificial world and multiple cinematic releases.The White Comet being rather greater in both size and capability to the Death Star ( see the movie Arrivedici Yamato).
Gundam has multiple movies and space stations up to Geostational Orbital rings (Both in the Gundam 00 movie). All of them have stations bigger than Elysium.
In Macross, there's the Zentraedi/Meltrandi Mobile Command Fortress&Factory Satellites that's supposed to be several times bigger than the DeathStars around 1200km to 1600km. In MacrossII there's the Marduk's Mobile Command Fortress that's originally around 80km but was recently supersized into 700km. In Robotech, Dolza's Command Fortress was around 800km. Each Mobile Command Fortresss had a Main Converging Beam Cannon is typically over the size of the entire DeathStar itself. Anyway since there's at least over some hundreds of thousands of Zentraedi/Meltrandi Grand Fleets with each consisting of over some million ships, i can only assume that each Grand Fleets has their own Mobile Command Fortress as well as dedicated Factory Satellites/Moon. It's likely constructed by nanites consuming large asteroids&platentoids and turning the raw materials into semi-organic/crystalline structures. Think of it like a more advanced supersized version of the Tok'ra tunnelling crystal from StargateSG1 series. The Zentraedi looks like turds while the Meltrandi are like giant crystals.
Also consider the Dyson Trees which could be like supersized corals/starfish and the Yuuzhan Vong WorldShips from StarWars.