The Battlestar Galactica was a true workhorse, and is directly responsible for the survival of humanity, all after her retirement date . She took countless beatings, sabatage, nukes, and nonstop FTL jumps for months. And all this started on the day they were going mothball her to a museum piece.
Every time I try to get mad that they didn't land(crash) her on the moon, and recreate their current level of technology, to jump start the next cycle, I remember exactly what all you listed. She earned that farewell, like a boss!
I'm suprised that Stargate's Destiny wasn't on here. Not only does it regularly fly through stars to refuel, it stayed unmanned and relatively intact for over 50 million years. Most other vessels would have crumbled to ash in a fraction of that time.
low key that ship was pretty strong it shields were also adaptive and in the comic, it had repair drones that could fix the ship to being basically new fast as fuck
Most durable ships, I'd think you'd want to give at least an honorable mention to The Red Dwarf. It ran in a straight line, no crew, for 3 million years under constant acceleration. That's got to count for something.
Red Dwarf is so massive it has a small moon embedded in it that got pulled out of orbit by it's own gravity, and instead of removing it, the Jupiter Mining Corporation decided it was more cost effective to just build around it and mine any valuable resources it might contain. It's so massive you can tell by the changing architectural styles which decade that particular section was built in.
@@jframe9715 yes, its called Alien Tech :) but also along those lines Why is the Arcadia not on the list?! and I want to see a animated Arcadia VS Yamato!
Yamato and Galactica (2004) are two of my favorite ships and I see a lot of similarities in their story arcs. They were both (Yamato after the first season) seen as obsolete and inferior ships that were outclassed by newer “better” models but in the end, through ruggedness, crew skill, and luck (a.k.a “plot armor”) survived and saved humanity.
Don't forget it was used a battering ram against a cylon space station armed with more defensive guns than the entire Cylon bay Stars combined ( minus the nukes ) FOR A FULL 15 MINS WORTH OF BOMBARDMENT ( like real time) before jumping to seemingly random sector of space
How is the Destiny from StarGate not on this list? A ship that survived for millions of years ( at least 5 million, with most agreeing that it’s 50 million years old ) without any maintenance or crew and was still functioning at nearly 40% of its original parameters is unheard of in most other sci-fi universes. It has programmable adaptive shields, a psionic quasi sentient A.I. to shepherd it and it flies through goddam stars to recharge its energy reserves. Smh
It is believed to have been launched from Earth, at least 50 million years ago. That’s based on its tech being at least as old as anything in the Milkyway. The oldest Milkyway gate for instance, was both 50 million years old and more advanced than the ones used by the Destiny and deployed by the seed ships. Similarly with its chair vs the mental download device thing. Atlantis and the base in Antarctica on the other hand, is both newer and more advanced than just about anything else in the Milkyway of Ancient design, and was left Earth for the Pegasus galaxy a few million years ago.
@@eds1942 I know and agree with you, however not everybody does. So I used the still impressive and easier to swallow age of it launching before the plague that destroyed the Alteran civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.
@@yazanmowed I don’t want to argue but. It’s on Star Gate Commands wiki, brought up in season 2, and writers confirmed it. Though they list it as being at least 60 million years old, and having Atlantis original built around 30 million (Edit: The plague happened 5 mil bc), so take it for what you will. (Edit: Most of the dates were taken from SG1 with SGU linking the Destiny with the Seed Ships) I think what they were going for was to play with the idea that perhaps “humans” really did walk with dinosaurs without actually saying that the Ancients were on Earth back then. I mean if Ancients had arrived on Earth 5 or more million years earlier, then you’d be tempted to ask if the Ancient were also responsible for extinction of the dinosaurs? And, on the time scale of the Universe, even 100 million years is like a few minutes compared to how long the ingredients for life have been around, and we have at least a trillion, trillion years before the last stars are born and the Universe begins to go dark, and 10^70 or something before the last energy sources dry up unless vacuum energy is a thing. So in theory, civilization in some form (probably via virtual uploading into simulations) could still be kicking until then. Heck, civilizations arising while the first red dwarfs (the more massive ones have life span of about a trillion years) are just starting to get old could easily look back and be right for thinking of us as being one of the First Ones (relatively) born practically just short of the Big Bang.
The Pillar of Autumn was even more resilient than base Halcion class cruisers. She had recently seen a massive retrofit for a secret mission to take out Covenant highcom.
Actually the halcyon refit was less armoured than the original halcyon class light cruiser in order to make it faster and better armed, it’s outer layers were replaced with titanium a ablative however some still had the original honeycomb internal structure and were more durable than other refit cruisers the pillar of autumn was one of those
Ya both her and the spirit of fire were durable as hell ships. I mean for god saks both of them had an active full frontal major battle take place on them be it inside or outside of it. Tanks literally fought on them, they were hit with orbital bombardments and other huge explosive rounds yet they still stayed strong (pillar of autom less then the fire but it also crashed before the battle and got flood infested). For almost 50 years old ships that were refited into battle cruzers they were amazingly durable.
Red Dwarf is most durable ship in the universe. None other saw millions of years of service in working condition. Cats literally managed to evolve to humanoid bipedal species aboard that ship.
"None other saw millions of years of service in working condition" The Destiny from Stargate Destiny anyone?...............................................................................
@@caelestigladii harbinger is still not a ship its a sentient AI no matter how Big It is if its an AI and Its not considered a ship then its not a ship
@@CresttheCrestfallen Sovereign was Saren's flagship. And Reapers transport husks and other Reaper armies. And in ME2, you actually get inside a derelict Reaper. They may be the personal "bodies" of the AI inside, but for all intents and purposes, those Reaper shells are ships.
You missed the Space Battleship Yamato. It took down ten thousand Gamilan ships during the Battle of Balun and survived the journey to Iscandar and back.
there a lot of ships that are just monsters that he missed honestly mass effect ships are pretty weak when you think about it most oh there weapons are in the low kilotons range
yeah, the Yamato files into a sun and shoots it. survives like ten battles in the first season alone. blows up a planet. on top of all that travels to the next galaxy over to borrow a cup of Cosmo DNA to save the earth all in one year. got to be the toughest ship ever. Beets Kirk's distance run hands down. then in the next season, their commander walked the entire crew onboard to steal it. love star trek but kirk could only get 3 people to go with him, I don't count Bones had to kidnap him.
No Destiny from Stargate Universe? The ship was millions of years old, kept going despite pretty severe damage, and was still able to dive into stars to recharge.
Other than the Borg cube I'm going to say no to this entire list. Stargate's Destiny, the Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf, The Andromeda Ascendant and the USS Voyager are by far the most durable ships in Sci-Fi.
I completely agree, basically anything build by the ancients was insanely overdesigned, i mean look at the gate network, it was functioning after 50 million years of continuous use and was a means of universal travel, everyone basically agrees that destiny was an abandoned project and was not designed to operate without a crew and yet did for an insanely long time, say nothing of other precursor species. This video should be renamed.
He even described the measurements wrong by using the word "squared" instead of cubed! Edit: the TARDIS is far superior to any starship since it is a time ship that is larger within than without and if someone is conceived onboard he or she will have the ability to regenerate.
Where's the Battlestar Galactica?! It literally took multiple nukes point blank broadsided multiple ships at once fell through the atmosphere of a planet
Really, where’s the Galactica (RDM version) ??? That old museum ship while missing parts of it’s armor took multiple nuclear hits and still fought on... for years.
They left out the whole stargate franchise. Ori mother ships were shown to be pretty much indestructible. Except for the one destroyed by nuking a wraith ship well being affected by the gravity well of a black hole. The Daedalus, nuft said. The lantean city ship where literally flying civilizations with super advanced weaponry, and near impenetrable shields. This list definitely needs a part 2....and maybe even part 3.
@@tomlawrence1335 yea, gifted by the asgard wich were the most advanced civilisation that currently lived in the galaxy, beeing former allys with the ancients and came out of a decade long war with the replicators.
@@hulmhochberg8129 and? The video was looking for most resilient ships lol doesnt matter who had the weapons or how all that matters is 2-3 shots made the ship go boom
While it sure is a creative design and rarely used, the lex had not much endurance. Yes, she could survive on any biological substance and travel the stars, also was capable of regeneration. But then again, her hull was not very durable if i remember correctly.
Too bad no General Products hulls from Larry Niven's Known Space were mentioned. They only let visible light through, and can only be damaged by two things: Extreme Gravitational Tide Strength, and Sufficient Antimatter.
Give it a Slaver stasis field, and technically even those can't damage it (granted, it might wind up trapped frozen in time long enough that multiple species could evolve from microbial gut flora to the point of near-casual interstellar travel, if the sensors/off switch got damaged, but the base hull and contents would be fine. The crew would be alive too...).
The Pillar of Autumn was the only reason I clicked on this one. I really love that design philosophy. Same reason I love the A10. Old design, considered obsolete, but crushes the bad guys and soaks up punishment. Edit: Also the Russian Hind. Same idea.
Borg cubes are extremely easy to destroy... once you realize that you can always beam onboard them. Just beam over a few hundred tri-cobalt warheads... or quantum torpedoes with a mechanical (ie: analog) countdown timers. *BOOM*
if you mean the glorious heritage class heavy cruisers, then while it is true it can essentially operate on its own, having full crew kicks up combat performancy by a very big degree.
Andromeda was a interesting series: they came up with amazing ideas and great storys - just to ruin it with plot armor and stupid decisions. Still, they both were hot (ship and A.I.) Also not many ships are commanded by a greek halfgod :)
@@molybdaen11 tbh I think that writing inconsistencies did more hamr there than plot armor/late seasons mythical shenanigans. And when I say writing inconsistencies I mean quite a number of ship features that writers only remembered they exist when they wanted to use them as obstacle for protagonists. Two examples that immediatelly pops to mind: 1. Internal defence system - so many things in the series should not even have possibility to happen just by merit of this one existing, that writers "forgot" about to let plot happen (with most stark example being one time when Dylan literally orders venting whole ship atmosphere to get rid of boarders, instead of haing internal defence system engages as soon as buggers started boarding. 2. Remember like second or third episode in the season that has whole episode running on the idea that particle storm is approaching to hit the station they were at, and them have to fix something/shield field generator to prevent that storm from shredding ship to pieces? (and not having funds for spare parts to do it) The only other time that particular field get's ever mentioned again is when they fired at the golden derelict heritage class cruiser (forgot her name, the one that had romance with captain and went nuts when ordered to self-destroy), intending to disable it, but instead whole ship went boom. And they mentioned her disabling that thing just before impact as explanation for just one missile destroying whole ship. and that' it, thing never get's mentioned again and to this days trekkers are like "andromeda had no shields, so phasorz would just cut her up into bits" And there were more inconsistencies like that, most of the time screwing consistency to allow plot to happen :/ Imo those did way most damage to whole series
Sidonia from "kinghts of Sidonia" should be in the list, even if its not as well known as main franchises it still is a massive hell of a ship. Seriously, it even has around 500m of ice around it as extra armor.
I'm pretty sure that that's not ice, but the asteroid that provided the materials the ship was built from. Also, almost every episode involved an extinction-level event that threatened to destroy the ship, and merely changing vectors caused sizable amounts of the population to become wall ketchup. No, the Sidonia was the opposite of tough. It was an amazing ship that survived incredible situations... but those situations are ones that the other ships on this list would have laughed at. It was a victim of its universe's greater realism.
That's not exactly accurate. While Starfleet ships are designed to amplify the natural Plot Armor of their bridge officers (hence why the bridge is always in a strategically awful location) the ships themselves don't generate Plot Armor. Natural Plot Armor is one of the qualities they test for at Star Fleet Academy, though, so the officers will always have some for the ship to amplify.
What about the Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato it literally skipped over a star, smashed through several Gamilas ships, and finally smashed into a ground based fortress and then still left intact. For another the Normandy SR2 would also fit as well.
Very fun video. Might need a part 2 for all the other tough ships being suggested! I would vote for the Yamato. The number of hits that ship takes is staggering. Plot armor y'all...
dot feel bad. he also ignored Major Iconic ships from some very influential Anime's! Particularity the Yamato from Space Battle ship Yamato, and the Arcadia from Captain Harlock!
The PoA is in my top 3 ships in all of fiction. I don't know who designed the Halcyon, Marathon, Autumn and Valiant classes but I freaking love them all.
Alen sir, I agree with you completely on your thoughts regarding the 1st Halo title. That story had something. A 40+ yr old ship trading with the Covenant & winning. The Master Chief, although super human, no longer in his prime. Cortana, a baby AI at that time. All these insane hurdles & they won. (barely) Watching the Piller of Autumn take off in the Fall of Reach game was a... spiritual moment for me. Holy shit man.
It's a shame the Perry Rhodan Universe isn't as widely known as it deserves to :D Lot's and lot's of ships that would even fill the most Emperor-fearing Space Marine with fear :D
Alan, I know that there is zero chance that you will read this comment.... But this video was awesome!! So was the one on the Star Wars ships! Please consider doing a part 2 to these videos. Thank you for all of your hard work on producing these videos, and thank you for sharing them with us!
How are you going to leave out Battlestars? Battlestars are designed to withstand numerous direct nuclear detonations without shields. Galactica took dozens of nuclear hits, none of which destroyed her. She only ended up broken because they cut corners on interior structure, and it basically rusted inside. It deserves the top spot.
No Battlestar Galactica? After the insane amount of abuse that thing took it still managed to save humanity, neutralize the Ceylon threat and then had to be launched into the sun to finally decommission it.
The Axiom from 'Wall-E' joins the list for me. Not because she's the toughest ship in creation, but because she stayed in perfect working order for hundreds of years due to the continual efforts of her robotic crew. The only thing truly wrong with her was that haphazardly issued final Directive from Earth. Aside from that the Axiom completed her mission and likely brought the biolabs with her needed to restore the Earth - as was seen in the movie's credit scene.
A deep cut to be sure, but as a massive Homeworld fan I feel I have to give a shout out to the "Junkyard Dog", a shabby looking, rusty space tug that's been plodding along the Karos Graveyard for thousands of years like some kind of space WALL-E waiting to tow your ships away and scrap them. Possibly built by the Progenitors, it's best to just stay out of it's way, but if you're feeling lucky it'll take a gravity well and your entire fleet to take it down.
As for the halcyon class upgrades, I believe there were 6 of the class that was built to that design. Titanium A battle plate was also designed for sheer strength and temperature endurance. It is said that the Pillar of Autumn and her sisters could still be operational until approximately 90% of the external armour was missing or had failed. I don't know any other ship that can operate in that extreme
By far the toughest and most durable starships come from the series, Bobiverse, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Written by Dennis E. Tayler. Not only can every single ship self replicate, but they are faster than light speed travel. Each ship is equipped with nuclear bombs, rail guns, lasers and much more. I suggest you folks give it a read, it’s the only book series where I immediately read it and re-read it several times over.
Uh... They were in no sense durable. Bobs were constantly getting blown out of space or fried by death asteroid grasers. Much as I appreciate trying to bring attention to the series, I don't think it fits. The Others' cargo ships in the other hand...
Check out The Liberator from British Sci-Fi show Blakes 7, though the low budget BBC special effects of the time let the ship down the Specks and technological capabilities of Liberator are impressive!
If Donnager isnt there - I'd be very sad. You forgot this little fella managed to fly for quite a while only on "middle finger energy", and took a few thousand tons of munnitions and scrap before...
@@Mobius_118 Definetly. The ship is made to just work, regardless of the damage. Meanwhile, her UN ally way shred during the micrometeorite barrage, clearly showing superiority of MCRN engineering.
The Beast Mothership from Homeworld Cataclysm The Beast Mothership tanks a shot from a modified siege cannon (though itself wasn't fully calibrated and overheated on the first shot) and quickly heals from the damage.
Others have pointed out Battlestars and Daedalus cruisers, so I'll be different and point out the Lexx. It flew for a thousandish years unpiloted and destroyed planets and ate their remains for breakfast. Also pointing out that you said the borg *cube* was 3km *square* :P
Ancient humanity in the Halo universe had some pretty durable ships including one that was hit with a weapon and still manage to be intact and was late discovered by ONI.
I have actually done the calculations. To breach the shields of a Sovereign class Reaper capital ship, it's stated that you need 4 Dreadnoughts (Mass Effect Battleships) attacking it at once. Through some calculated guesses on the difference in firepower between a Dreadnought and Cruiser, I have calculated that in the absence of Dreadnoughts, you would need 12 to 16 Cruisers. Based on further calculations, human fleets only have on average a Dreadnought, 16 Cruisers and 80 Frigates. Meaning that one Reaper requires an entire fleet to destroy it. On the other hand, a Reaper can destroy any ship in the galaxy with a single hit from their main gun and their 11 secondary weapons can each destroy ships at least as large as a Cruiser with a single hit. And to top it all off, Reaper cannons fire once every 5 seconds
What, no Battlestar Galactica? Years of beating, of taking hits, even nuclear ones, for the entire fleet, jumping, ramming into a massive base, dropping in atmo, and more, and still carried on! The one sturdy ship, all the more valiant for its age and very limited technology (proportionally)
If the Borg cube is here, then the SDF class ships from Macross/Robotech should have been considered. The SDF-1 rammed its way through a "Deathstar," launched all of its ordinance at the "main reactor" point blank, and still survived the ensuing explosion. That has to count for something.
While the Borg cube is a worthy choice and the 1st place by a long shot, any Federation ship would be a runner-up. The Federation builds ships so tough, they can literally crashland on a planet and not break up! The Federation builds ships so tough, even after 9/10ths of the ships are destroyed or sections are isolated, Life Support might still work!
Starfleet definitely built in a lot of fail-safes and redundancies into their ships, which really shows when the writers don't forget about them. But I'm not sure that makes them tough as a rule. Starfleet shipwrights had a habit of adding explodium to the hulls and consoles of their ships, and placing rocks around the bridge to fall in the command whenever they entered combat. It wasn't until the Dominion War that Starfleet started adding armor to their ships, up until then if you can get ahold of the shield frequency, you can bypass all the defenses of even a flagship and destroy it in one go. Now, later Federation ships? Probably. I'm not sure how tough the Sovereign Class really is, but the Defiant Class is limited by its size. Even over-packed for its size, the original Defiant still ended up destroyed within a few years of being commissioned.
@@christopherg2347 Here's why I don't buy that excuse. 1) the amount of power running through those consoles is excessive. If my cell phone catches fire, it's because of the battery, those consoles don't need batteries. They only need to be the a touch screen, display and input, and the ship's computer can handle the rest. 2) Building those consoles in such a way as to contain and redirect any problems in them away from the rest of the bridge and into the floor would be an excellent explanation for why they're hard-placed into their locations. They should have safeties that wouldn't even require breaking the circuit, and therefore wouldn't be disabled by battleshorts. 3) The consoles are much less vital to mission success than the officers running them. There is no reason that each console couldn't be configured to take the role of a situationally more important console. The skilled helmsman or tactical officer using it, on the other hand, is a more finite resource. But that's just my thoughts. I'm sure there's a reason why, in the 24th century, all of that doesn't matter, and battleshorts that disable vital ship's personnel are a necessary design feature.
What about the Heart of the Tempest from the Expanse universe? Defeated the combined fleets of Earth, Mars, and the belt single handed with only minor damage.
The Eltreum from Gunbuster is made of a non-baryonic material that was so durable that there was no known way of harming it at all. It could ram neutron stars at 99% lightspeed and not even be scratched. And that's not hyperbole either, as the Gunbuster setting features weapons powerful enough to blow up gas giants with just the sidebleed, and energy shields powerful enough to take 10 000 supernovas worth of energy without falling.
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The Autumn is, and always shall be, my favorite Space Brick
For a brick, he flew pretty good
She was the only reason I clicked.
The Battlestar Galactica was a true workhorse, and is directly responsible for the survival of humanity, all after her retirement date . She took countless beatings, sabatage, nukes, and nonstop FTL jumps for months. And all this started on the day they were going mothball her to a museum piece.
Every time I try to get mad that they didn't land(crash) her on the moon, and recreate their current level of technology, to jump start the next cycle, I remember exactly what all you listed. She earned that farewell, like a boss!
" So say we all. "
But how many of these things it survived were just plot armour
So say we all
@@michaelthompson5933 It’s science fiction homie.
I'm suprised that Stargate's Destiny wasn't on here. Not only does it regularly fly through stars to refuel, it stayed unmanned and relatively intact for over 50 million years. Most other vessels would have crumbled to ash in a fraction of that time.
Cool story bro
low key that ship was pretty strong it shields were also adaptive and in the comic, it had repair drones that could fix the ship to being basically new fast as fuck
Iirc, the only time the Destiny ever took any damage is when the people on board were getting in the way of its automatic defenses.
@@thomasjenkins5727 that part, lasted for 50 million years and almost gets blown up in 1 because of humans
@@cmj0929 That's why it was left on autopilot. Even the ancients knew better than to get in its way.
Most durable ships, I'd think you'd want to give at least an honorable mention to The Red Dwarf. It ran in a straight line, no crew, for 3 million years under constant acceleration. That's got to count for something.
Is that Red Dwarf from Star Treck?
@@justicetaylor3050 Red Dwarf is its own show.
@@justicetaylor3050 it's a BBC show from the late-eighties which ran through, well heck, it ran through last year! I've got some catching up to do!
Red Dwarf is so massive it has a small moon embedded in it that got pulled out of orbit by it's own gravity, and instead of removing it, the Jupiter Mining Corporation decided it was more cost effective to just build around it and mine any valuable resources it might contain. It's so massive you can tell by the changing architectural styles which decade that particular section was built in.
Don't forget Star Bug! sturdiest shuttle in science fiction.
I agree with the people saying the Galactica should have been in this video. That Ship is like a Space Toyota hilux
Big ass space Nokia😂😂
I adore the Hilux comparison
The hilux comparison is strangely accurate. You can beat the shit out of it, neglect it for years, and it'll still keep going.
The Galactica and the Yamato should be on this list. Both ships took a pounding and saved humanity.
Yamato have plot armor.
@@jframe9715 I'd giveit to crew skill.
@@jframe9715 yes, its called Alien Tech :) but also along those lines Why is the Arcadia not on the list?! and I want to see a animated Arcadia VS Yamato!
Yamato and Galactica (2004) are two of my favorite ships and I see a lot of similarities in their story arcs. They were both (Yamato after the first season) seen as obsolete and inferior ships that were outclassed by newer “better” models but in the end, through ruggedness, crew skill, and luck (a.k.a “plot armor”) survived and saved humanity.
@@jframe9715 So does EVERY ship in sci-fi.
Dude! Where's the Battlestar Galactica? That ship took a massive pounding for 4 years without any way to repair it, and it still managed survive.
Don't forget it was used a battering ram against a cylon space station armed with more defensive guns than the entire Cylon bay Stars combined ( minus the nukes ) FOR A FULL 15 MINS WORTH OF BOMBARDMENT ( like real time) before jumping to seemingly random sector of space
@@mikewillis9537 its sad that her last jump broke her back.
Yes it was, but surely Odin made an exception for Galactica being a ship and let her into Valhalla , my God the feats that ship accomplished.....
took a nuke on the very first episode only lost 5% of it's crew that old ship was far tougher than the base stars it took on.
Think of the damage she took during the battle of New Caprica.
How is the Destiny from StarGate not on this list?
A ship that survived for millions of years ( at least 5 million, with most agreeing that it’s 50 million years old ) without any maintenance or crew and was still functioning at nearly 40% of its original parameters is unheard of in most other sci-fi universes.
It has programmable adaptive shields, a psionic quasi sentient A.I. to shepherd it and it flies through goddam stars to recharge its energy reserves.
Smh
It is believed to have been launched from Earth, at least 50 million years ago. That’s based on its tech being at least as old as anything in the Milkyway. The oldest Milkyway gate for instance, was both 50 million years old and more advanced than the ones used by the Destiny and deployed by the seed ships. Similarly with its chair vs the mental download device thing. Atlantis and the base in Antarctica on the other hand, is both newer and more advanced than just about anything else in the Milkyway of Ancient design, and was left Earth for the Pegasus galaxy a few million years ago.
@@eds1942 I know and agree with you, however not everybody does. So I used the still impressive and easier to swallow age of it launching before the plague that destroyed the Alteran civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.
@@yazanmowed I don’t want to argue but. It’s on Star Gate Commands wiki, brought up in season 2, and writers confirmed it. Though they list it as being at least 60 million years old, and having Atlantis original built around 30 million (Edit: The plague happened 5 mil bc), so take it for what you will.
(Edit: Most of the dates were taken from SG1 with SGU linking the Destiny with the Seed Ships)
I think what they were going for was to play with the idea that perhaps “humans” really did walk with dinosaurs without actually saying that the Ancients were on Earth back then. I mean if Ancients had arrived on Earth 5 or more million years earlier, then you’d be tempted to ask if the Ancient were also responsible for extinction of the dinosaurs?
And, on the time scale of the Universe, even 100 million years is like a few minutes compared to how long the ingredients for life have been around, and we have at least a trillion, trillion years before the last stars are born and the Universe begins to go dark, and 10^70 or something before the last energy sources dry up unless vacuum energy is a thing. So in theory, civilization in some form (probably via virtual uploading into simulations) could still be kicking until then. Heck, civilizations arising while the first red dwarfs (the more massive ones have life span of about a trillion years) are just starting to get old could easily look back and be right for thinking of us as being one of the First Ones (relatively) born practically just short of the Big Bang.
Destiny or Atlantis should've been on the list. Not sure which is more durable.
@@GummiAnd Agreed. Destiny was a tough old bird but Atlantis was also a ship, and better built.
The Pillar of Autumn was even more resilient than base Halcion class cruisers. She had recently seen a massive retrofit for a secret mission to take out Covenant highcom.
Actually the halcyon refit was less armoured than the original halcyon class light cruiser in order to make it faster and better armed, it’s outer layers were replaced with titanium a ablative however some still had the original honeycomb internal structure and were more durable than other refit cruisers the pillar of autumn was one of those
Ya both her and the spirit of fire were durable as hell ships. I mean for god saks both of them had an active full frontal major battle take place on them be it inside or outside of it. Tanks literally fought on them, they were hit with orbital bombardments and other huge explosive rounds yet they still stayed strong (pillar of autom less then the fire but it also crashed before the battle and got flood infested). For almost 50 years old ships that were refited into battle cruzers they were amazingly durable.
And that was a "light" cruiser
Good lot that would have done. The fleet at high charity would have destroyed it in seconds.
@@kevind3974 Wasn't the Spirit of Fire even older than that? I think it was a Phoenix class colony ship originally or something like that?
Red Dwarf is most durable ship in the universe. None other saw millions of years of service in working condition. Cats literally managed to evolve to humanoid bipedal species aboard that ship.
"None other saw millions of years of service in working condition"
The Destiny from Stargate Destiny anyone?...............................................................................
Destiny is 50million years old. Harbinger from Mass Effect is at least 1billion.
@@caelestigladii harbinger is still not a ship its a sentient AI no matter how Big It is if its an AI and Its not considered a ship then its not a ship
@@CresttheCrestfallen Sovereign was Saren's flagship. And Reapers transport husks and other Reaper armies. And in ME2, you actually get inside a derelict Reaper. They may be the personal "bodies" of the AI inside, but for all intents and purposes, those Reaper shells are ships.
You missed the Space Battleship Yamato. It took down ten thousand Gamilan ships during the Battle of Balun and survived the journey to Iscandar and back.
there a lot of ships that are just monsters that he missed honestly mass effect ships are pretty weak when you think about it most oh there weapons are in the low kilotons range
Not to mention the time it destroyed a galaxy and forced to remains to merge with and create another.
They made a Japanese language, with English subtitles, live action movie of it that was pretty good.
yeah, the Yamato files into a sun and shoots it. survives like ten battles in the first season alone. blows up a planet. on top of all that travels to the next galaxy over to borrow a cup of Cosmo DNA to save the earth all in one year. got to be the toughest ship ever. Beets Kirk's distance run hands down. then in the next season, their commander walked the entire crew onboard to steal it. love star trek but kirk could only get 3 people to go with him, I don't count Bones had to kidnap him.
No Destiny from Stargate Universe? The ship was millions of years old, kept going despite pretty severe damage, and was still able to dive into stars to recharge.
yeah, it was a pretty lazy list.
Other than the Borg cube I'm going to say no to this entire list. Stargate's Destiny, the Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf, The Andromeda Ascendant and the USS Voyager are by far the most durable ships in Sci-Fi.
I completely agree, basically anything build by the ancients was insanely overdesigned, i mean look at the gate network, it was functioning after 50 million years of continuous use and was a means of universal travel, everyone basically agrees that destiny was an abandoned project and was not designed to operate without a crew and yet did for an insanely long time, say nothing of other precursor species. This video should be renamed.
Stargate's Destiny, Space battleship Yamato, and of course the TARDIS.
He even described the measurements wrong by using the word "squared" instead of cubed! Edit: the TARDIS is far superior to any starship since it is a time ship that is larger within than without and if someone is conceived onboard he or she will have the ability to regenerate.
Everyone knows the most durable ship is the Starbug, shits made out of the same stuff black boxes are
A fellow smeghead?
Where's the Battlestar Galactica?! It literally took multiple nukes point blank broadsided multiple ships at once fell through the atmosphere of a planet
The last time I was this early to a video harvest was a safe human colony
“The Will of Eternity is one of the most durable ships in sci-fi”
Literally has a picture of it being destroyed behind him
even halo human ships can take massive beatings and disections
Really, where’s the Galactica (RDM version) ??? That old museum ship while missing parts of it’s armor took multiple nuclear hits and still fought on... for years.
They left out the whole stargate franchise. Ori mother ships were shown to be pretty much indestructible. Except for the one destroyed by nuking a wraith ship well being affected by the gravity well of a black hole. The Daedalus, nuft said. The lantean city ship where literally flying civilizations with super advanced weaponry, and near impenetrable shields. This list definitely needs a part 2....and maybe even part 3.
They were easy enough to destroy after they got beam weapons, couple shots is all it took
The Wraith ZPM powered Super Hive ship was the toughest ship in the Stargate franchise, it disabled several 304's on its way to Earth.
@@chbu7081 Two 304s, which is still a crazy good feat
@@tomlawrence1335 yea, gifted by the asgard wich were the most advanced civilisation that currently lived in the galaxy, beeing former allys with the ancients and came out of a decade long war with the replicators.
@@hulmhochberg8129 and? The video was looking for most resilient ships lol doesnt matter who had the weapons or how all that matters is 2-3 shots made the ship go boom
LEXX!
Do I have to say more? A living ship that can operate with only its captain, and is capable of smashing a planet to dust with one shot...
While it sure is a creative design and rarely used, the lex had not much endurance.
Yes, she could survive on any biological substance and travel the stars, also was capable of regeneration.
But then again, her hull was not very durable if i remember correctly.
Too bad no General Products hulls from Larry Niven's Known Space were mentioned. They only let visible light through, and can only be damaged by two things: Extreme Gravitational Tide Strength, and Sufficient Antimatter.
Good job!
You beat me to it!😎👍
Good to see that getting a call out.
Give it a Slaver stasis field, and technically even those can't damage it (granted, it might wind up trapped frozen in time long enough that multiple species could evolve from microbial gut flora to the point of near-casual interstellar travel, if the sensors/off switch got damaged, but the base hull and contents would be fine. The crew would be alive too...).
The planet broke before the guard did!
@0:05 Space actually has literally everything life needs to survive in it. Including the entire Earth. 😉
I cannot say that you are wrong.
The Pillar of Autumn was the only reason I clicked on this one. I really love that design philosophy. Same reason I love the A10. Old design, considered obsolete, but crushes the bad guys and soaks up punishment.
Edit: Also the Russian Hind. Same idea.
Shouldn't the Borg entry be 3 km cubed? I'll see myself out.
Come back here, you have a point!
Borg cubes are extremely easy to destroy... once you realize that you can always beam onboard them.
Just beam over a few hundred tri-cobalt warheads... or quantum torpedoes with a mechanical (ie: analog) countdown timers.
*BOOM*
You can always use WW1-era warship guns to take one out.
Andromeda, it can survive just about anything, can repair and rearm itself without the help of others, and doesn't even need a crew.
if you mean the glorious heritage class heavy cruisers, then while it is true it can essentially operate on its own, having full crew kicks up combat performancy by a very big degree.
Andromeda was a interesting series: they came up with amazing ideas and great storys - just to ruin it with plot armor and stupid decisions.
Still, they both were hot (ship and A.I.)
Also not many ships are commanded by a greek halfgod :)
@@molybdaen11 tbh I think that writing inconsistencies did more hamr there than plot armor/late seasons mythical shenanigans.
And when I say writing inconsistencies I mean quite a number of ship features that writers only remembered they exist when they wanted to use them as obstacle for protagonists.
Two examples that immediatelly pops to mind:
1. Internal defence system - so many things in the series should not even have possibility to happen just by merit of this one existing, that writers "forgot" about to let plot happen (with most stark example being one time when Dylan literally orders venting whole ship atmosphere to get rid of boarders, instead of haing internal defence system engages as soon as buggers started boarding.
2. Remember like second or third episode in the season that has whole episode running on the idea that particle storm is approaching to hit the station they were at, and them have to fix something/shield field generator to prevent that storm from shredding ship to pieces? (and not having funds for spare parts to do it) The only other time that particular field get's ever mentioned again is when they fired at the golden derelict heritage class cruiser (forgot her name, the one that had romance with captain and went nuts when ordered to self-destroy), intending to disable it, but instead whole ship went boom. And they mentioned her disabling that thing just before impact as explanation for just one missile destroying whole ship. and that' it, thing never get's mentioned again and to this days trekkers are like "andromeda had no shields, so phasorz would just cut her up into bits"
And there were more inconsistencies like that, most of the time screwing consistency to allow plot to happen :/
Imo those did way most damage to whole series
Sidonia from "kinghts of Sidonia" should be in the list, even if its not as well known as main franchises it still is a massive hell of a ship. Seriously, it even has around 500m of ice around it as extra armor.
I'm pretty sure that that's not ice, but the asteroid that provided the materials the ship was built from.
Also, almost every episode involved an extinction-level event that threatened to destroy the ship, and merely changing vectors caused sizable amounts of the population to become wall ketchup.
No, the Sidonia was the opposite of tough. It was an amazing ship that survived incredible situations... but those situations are ones that the other ships on this list would have laughed at. It was a victim of its universe's greater realism.
The aurora better be on here.
The damn thing survived a crash landing, and only lost its exterior upon nuclear detonation!
"The Aurora suffered orbital hull failure. Cause: unknown. Zero human life signs detected"
1. U.S.S. Plot armour
That's not exactly accurate. While Starfleet ships are designed to amplify the natural Plot Armor of their bridge officers (hence why the bridge is always in a strategically awful location) the ships themselves don't generate Plot Armor. Natural Plot Armor is one of the qualities they test for at Star Fleet Academy, though, so the officers will always have some for the ship to amplify.
What about the Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato it literally skipped over a star, smashed through several Gamilas ships, and finally smashed into a ground based fortress and then still left intact. For another the Normandy SR2 would also fit as well.
In Stargate: Universe the ship Destiny could actually fly inside stars.
Could you do the five worst designed ships in science fiction? I’d love to see ships that are just badly built and fall apart at every opportunity.
Very fun video. Might need a part 2 for all the other tough ships being suggested! I would vote for the Yamato. The number of hits that ship takes is staggering. Plot armor y'all...
Or the HMS Warspite
Just to note, the Will of Eternity had already been destroyed when she was crashed into Cadia
As usual, Stargate gets completely ignored….
dot feel bad. he also ignored Major Iconic ships from some very influential Anime's! Particularity the Yamato from Space Battle ship Yamato, and the Arcadia from Captain Harlock!
Great video as ever
The PoA is in my top 3 ships in all of fiction. I don't know who designed the Halcyon, Marathon, Autumn and Valiant classes but I freaking love them all.
*Rick's car and the TARDIS should have been here*
Also ricks car from trailer park boy
@@GenerationFilms i never watched that but i meant Rick from Rick & Morty
Alen sir, I agree with you completely on your thoughts regarding the 1st Halo title.
That story had something. A 40+ yr old ship trading with the Covenant & winning.
The Master Chief, although super human, no longer in his prime.
Cortana, a baby AI at that time.
All these insane hurdles & they won. (barely)
Watching the Piller of Autumn take off in the Fall of Reach game was a... spiritual moment for me.
Holy shit man.
We all know the Pillar of Autumn will be on here somewhere
Edit: called it
The thumbnail was a bit of a hint.
@@tba113 oh wait
*embarrassment noises*
It's a shame the Perry Rhodan Universe isn't as widely known as it deserves to :D Lot's and lot's of ships that would even fill the most Emperor-fearing Space Marine with fear :D
Alan, I know that there is zero chance that you will read this comment.... But this video was awesome!! So was the one on the Star Wars ships! Please consider doing a part 2 to these videos. Thank you for all of your hard work on producing these videos, and thank you for sharing them with us!
Nope, the alien died by getting punched in the face by The Fresh Prince.
The Honor Harrington series' superdreanoughts were quite durable
Though its much less well known, the Space Battleship Yamato from its many anime series is damn near indestructible
Dont Forget the Arcadia! gods I want a CGI genius to make a battle between the 2 Iconic ships !
I live how Cadia is in the background
Surely the Event Horizon should be included? It literally survives a trip to hell and back!
"Survives" is relative. Pretty sure the ship is more alive after the trip then before it - which is worrysome.
love these videos
How are you going to leave out Battlestars?
Battlestars are designed to withstand numerous direct nuclear detonations without shields.
Galactica took dozens of nuclear hits, none of which destroyed her. She only ended up broken because they cut corners on interior structure, and it basically rusted inside.
It deserves the top spot.
No Battlestar Galactica? After the insane amount of abuse that thing took it still managed to save humanity, neutralize the Ceylon threat and then had to be launched into the sun to finally decommission it.
WHY WOULD THEY DESTROY THEIR SYMBOL OF PERSEVERANCE!?
Red Dwarf, Battlestar Galactica and Destiny from SG·U. You missed the best ones!!
The Axiom from 'Wall-E' joins the list for me.
Not because she's the toughest ship in creation, but because she stayed in perfect working order for hundreds of years due to the continual efforts of her robotic crew.
The only thing truly wrong with her was that haphazardly issued final Directive from Earth. Aside from that the Axiom completed her mission and likely brought the biolabs with her needed to restore the Earth - as was seen in the movie's credit scene.
A deep cut to be sure, but as a massive Homeworld fan I feel I have to give a shout out to the "Junkyard Dog", a shabby looking, rusty space tug that's been plodding along the Karos Graveyard for thousands of years like some kind of space WALL-E waiting to tow your ships away and scrap them. Possibly built by the Progenitors, it's best to just stay out of it's way, but if you're feeling lucky it'll take a gravity well and your entire fleet to take it down.
I hope to see the "massive" in here it can literally plow through small planets and stars with minor to no damage.
"...to bridge the Halo universe with the Warhammer 40K universe..."
I freaking lost it right there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0:41 star trek first contact vibes from that scene
The harvesters Sheilds could be overloaded using plasma weapons and some emp weapons from independence day 2
If you're going to invade Earth, always set up your firewall and anti-virus software.
As for the halcyon class upgrades, I believe there were 6 of the class that was built to that design. Titanium A battle plate was also designed for sheer strength and temperature endurance. It is said that the Pillar of Autumn and her sisters could still be operational until approximately 90% of the external armour was missing or had failed. I don't know any other ship that can operate in that extreme
Pah! John Ringo's Troy leaves the rest in the dust in the durability department!
The Shadow beam weapon in Babylon 5 was second to none
Energy shields are pretty simple thing. To do with carbon nanotubes and plasma
How the hell was the Battlestar Galactica not on this list? It's the epitome of "Ship Literally Too Angry To Die".
*sad rocinante noises*
Anyone know where I can get the image on the TV behind him?
Nice Blackstone fortress poster
By far the toughest and most durable starships come from the series, Bobiverse, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Written by Dennis E. Tayler. Not only can every single ship self replicate, but they are faster than light speed travel. Each ship is equipped with nuclear bombs, rail guns, lasers and much more.
I suggest you folks give it a read, it’s the only book series where I immediately read it and re-read it several times over.
Uh... They were in no sense durable. Bobs were constantly getting blown out of space or fried by death asteroid grasers.
Much as I appreciate trying to bring attention to the series, I don't think it fits.
The Others' cargo ships in the other hand...
Any spaceship with a general products hull (Larry Niven).
look into the macoss ships.
Imagine if humanity in mass effect had discovered mass effect technology 100 or so years later, they would have likely survived into the next cycle
Check out The Liberator from British Sci-Fi show Blakes 7, though the low budget BBC special effects of the time let the ship down the Specks and technological capabilities of Liberator are impressive!
lol the Borg cube's size is 3km squared? lol You know you've been calling it a cube, right?
Yeah, first tought of mine was bah, not even nearly close to a starforge or a sun crusher 's destructity.
What about the Vorlon planet killer, or the shadow vessels, or even the Whitestar fleet.
If Donnager isnt there - I'd be very sad.
You forgot this little fella managed to fly for quite a while only on "middle finger energy", and took a few thousand tons of munnitions and scrap before...
It probably would've kept going on the middle-finger energy if it hadn't been stabbed in the back.
@@Mobius_118 Definetly. The ship is made to just work, regardless of the damage. Meanwhile, her UN ally way shred during the micrometeorite barrage, clearly showing superiority of MCRN engineering.
The Beast Mothership from Homeworld Cataclysm
The Beast Mothership tanks a shot from a modified siege cannon (though itself wasn't fully calibrated and overheated on the first shot) and quickly heals from the damage.
The Rocinante?? Although a smaller ship. It's pretty damn tough.
What is the name of that ship on the tv screen behind him!!!? That is 🔥 amazing
Ah. The Pillar of Autumn. ALL HAIL THE GIANT FLYING NOKIA!
I would combine the best qualities of the Halcyon class with the Harvest ships.
Others have pointed out Battlestars and Daedalus cruisers, so I'll be different and point out the Lexx. It flew for a thousandish years unpiloted and destroyed planets and ate their remains for breakfast.
Also pointing out that you said the borg *cube* was 3km *square* :P
Sdf 1 from Robotech as well
I love you Allen
Ancient humanity in the Halo universe had some pretty durable ships including one that was hit with a weapon and still manage to be intact and was late discovered by ONI.
I had been hoping for a list of ships that survived punishment way past their design spec.
I have actually done the calculations. To breach the shields of a Sovereign class Reaper capital ship, it's stated that you need 4 Dreadnoughts (Mass Effect Battleships) attacking it at once. Through some calculated guesses on the difference in firepower between a Dreadnought and Cruiser, I have calculated that in the absence of Dreadnoughts, you would need 12 to 16 Cruisers. Based on further calculations, human fleets only have on average a Dreadnought, 16 Cruisers and 80 Frigates. Meaning that one Reaper requires an entire fleet to destroy it. On the other hand, a Reaper can destroy any ship in the galaxy with a single hit from their main gun and their 11 secondary weapons can each destroy ships at least as large as a Cruiser with a single hit. And to top it all off, Reaper cannons fire once every 5 seconds
What, no Battlestar Galactica? Years of beating, of taking hits, even nuclear ones, for the entire fleet, jumping, ramming into a massive base, dropping in atmo, and more, and still carried on! The one sturdy ship, all the more valiant for its age and very limited technology (proportionally)
I always wondered, what was the lucky ship that survied Wolf 359? 🤔
The funny thing it was an Oberth class ship. It was doing coordination work for the fleet and was far away enough to survive.
@@jonmcgee6987 an oberth class, yeah that thing could havr only survived by staying far away from the Action 😆😆
Durability is basically another word for plot armor for these ships. LOL
If the Borg cube is here, then the SDF class ships from Macross/Robotech should have been considered. The SDF-1 rammed its way through a "Deathstar," launched all of its ordinance at the "main reactor" point blank, and still survived the ensuing explosion. That has to count for something.
Lest we forget that it had an entire metropolitan center with over 70,000 humans on board while doing this.
While the Borg cube is a worthy choice and the 1st place by a long shot, any Federation ship would be a runner-up.
The Federation builds ships so tough, they can literally crashland on a planet and not break up!
The Federation builds ships so tough, even after 9/10ths of the ships are destroyed or sections are isolated, Life Support might still work!
Starfleet definitely built in a lot of fail-safes and redundancies into their ships, which really shows when the writers don't forget about them. But I'm not sure that makes them tough as a rule. Starfleet shipwrights had a habit of adding explodium to the hulls and consoles of their ships, and placing rocks around the bridge to fall in the command whenever they entered combat. It wasn't until the Dominion War that Starfleet started adding armor to their ships, up until then if you can get ahold of the shield frequency, you can bypass all the defenses of even a flagship and destroy it in one go.
Now, later Federation ships? Probably. I'm not sure how tough the Sovereign Class really is, but the Defiant Class is limited by its size. Even over-packed for its size, the original Defiant still ended up destroyed within a few years of being commissioned.
@@thomasjenkins5727 The consoles exploding was a result of using "battle shorts" in some form or another.
@@christopherg2347 I'm sure that makes sense somehow.
@@thomasjenkins5727 If you don't know what a battle short is, ask Wikipedia.
@@christopherg2347 Here's why I don't buy that excuse.
1) the amount of power running through those consoles is excessive. If my cell phone catches fire, it's because of the battery, those consoles don't need batteries. They only need to be the a touch screen, display and input, and the ship's computer can handle the rest.
2) Building those consoles in such a way as to contain and redirect any problems in them away from the rest of the bridge and into the floor would be an excellent explanation for why they're hard-placed into their locations. They should have safeties that wouldn't even require breaking the circuit, and therefore wouldn't be disabled by battleshorts.
3) The consoles are much less vital to mission success than the officers running them. There is no reason that each console couldn't be configured to take the role of a situationally more important console. The skilled helmsman or tactical officer using it, on the other hand, is a more finite resource.
But that's just my thoughts. I'm sure there's a reason why, in the 24th century, all of that doesn't matter, and battleshorts that disable vital ship's personnel are a necessary design feature.
What about the Heart of the Tempest from the Expanse universe? Defeated the combined fleets of Earth, Mars, and the belt single handed with only minor damage.
The great spirit robot is the true piece of engineering.
just throwing it out there but i'd check out Captain Harlocks ship.
The Eltreum from Gunbuster is made of a non-baryonic material that was so durable that there was no known way of harming it at all. It could ram neutron stars at 99% lightspeed and not even be scratched. And that's not hyperbole either, as the Gunbuster setting features weapons powerful enough to blow up gas giants with just the sidebleed, and energy shields powerful enough to take 10 000 supernovas worth of energy without falling.
Is that a "Chandelier" in the background? ;)
honestly i would've thought sidonia would make the list