Top 10 Biggest Spaceships In Fiction

After many hours of research and studies (that maybe could have been spent doing homework) I have conglomerated the single most accurate countdown of massive science fiction spacecraft to date. I encountered two problems in the formation of this list: How to classify “big”, and what really qualifies as a “spacecraft”? As far as size goes, this countdown will be based solely upon the longest straight line that can be drawn end to end of the vessel; the length. Now it comes down to what the definition of a spacecraft is. For the purpose of this countdown, I have come up with three necessary qualifications that must be met for a ship to be considered for the list. They are as follows:
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[@Yggdrasil42]

Independence Day 2 lost me at the reveal of the ship. It was so ridiculously large and would’ve done so much damage to the planet that the rest of the movie might as well never have happened.

[@mgDuckyyy]

Yeah. If it had the gravitational pull to lift things from the ground, It had the gravitational pull to cause Tsunamis thousands of feet high. The pull to cause all major rift zones to trigger. To rupture all volcanic zones. To pull the atmosphere away. Just putting that thing on the other side of the moon would've been enough to cause an extinction event.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

​@@mgDuckyyymoonfall.

[@aserta]

That's why we consider the director an idiot. He has never been able to keep his fingers off the pie. He's good at putting decent content out... but then he starts "thinking" and it ends up a mess.

[@NickJaime]

Dune and Warhammer have massive ships and the scales would be incredible to imagine.

[@toddkes5890]

Dune Heighliner = 20 km long, 8 km wide. Rendezvous with Rama = 50 km long, 20 km wide WH40k battleships are often about Lexx's size, so they get the advantage of numbers

[@davie17]

my thoughts exactly, but even googling what are the biggest ships in scifi doesnt mention warhammer, so im gonna guess that its cannon for our universe.

[@davie17]

"The spacecraft must be from a “credible” TV show or movie, which has blueprints or schematics publicly available. This means that I will not be including novels, video games, or animated comics/shows (otherwise Warhammer 40k would take home all of the ribbons). " found out why

[@mikebar42]

Halo and Stargate have some nice ships as well

[@darkmatter1152]

@@toddkes5890 wh40k top main ship are over 26km

[@timothybasil]

Death Star: "Why is there a tube that leads to the center and destroys the entire station? One will never know." Me: *checks to see if this video was made before Rogue One came out* Nope, it was made after. Rogue One answers this.

[@seanmcdonald2287]

My exact course of action as well. ROGUE ONE DIED FOR THAT INFORMATION!

[@EgoEroTergum]

Look at the picture when she says that. It's Galen's shuttle from R1. She's being ironic.

[@thorshammer7883]

The answer is different in the EU before Disney came.

[@Miller54K]

It's Disney. They are garbage so nothing they do to Star Wars is canon.

[@letanktastikluc9691]

I did the same thing 😂😂

[@lonniemcclure4538]

Lexx wasn't restricted to Canada and the UK. It also aired in the US on the Sci-Fi Channel (before it changed to SyFy). It should also be noted that the second Death Star was larger than the first one.

[@edu-kt]

I watched in Bolivia (South-America) and really enjoyed it.

[@pschroeter1]

And I haven't found a way to rewatch this absolutely bizarre surrealist gem, just yet. I've asked SyFy to rerun it a couple times. The wheel it turns it comes around, it makes an ancient rumpling sound.

[@citizenVader]

It was a American and a German television production

[@schwarzerritter5724]

The first 2 season also aired in Germany.

[@caesarmedina8489]

I definitely remember watching Lexx in the U.S. and it did have a cult following. The show was very adult oriented, for the time, so that limited the time slots it could be aired in the U.S.

[@IASEAGLE5]

Oryx's Dreadnaught from Destiny has been calculated to be roughly between 3400 to 3500 km in length. That should make it #2 on this list.

[@requiemlul3140]

And that thing was made from a fucking living creature.

[@Shanbo26]

List of what? Space vessels from unknown video games?

[@requiemlul3140]

@@Shanbo26 No. On this list this video it’s about.

[@Kreschavier]

@@Shanbo26 brother, that "unknown video game" is one of the most well known games to have ever been made.

[@Bladeki]

@@Kreschavier I grind playing that unknown video game almost every day 😅

[@theharbinger2573]

The alien ship in Arthur C Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" was a cylinder 50km by 20km.

[@BaronVonMott]

*Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well...*

[@jebise1126]

rofl dont expect them to know... they find 3 movies and get 3 ships from each. and for bonus find one that is from different movie. extremely lazy clip

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

Yeah, this is one of the least researched "big ship" lists I've ever seen

[@Josh-ht7ci]

I was wandering how the cylinder didn't make the list^^

[@maurenovick]

This is off topic but I love that in Star Trek Lower Decks they actually have sea mammals as officers because of what happened with the Whale Probe. Love how they have embraced all of Star Trek no matter how ridiculous.

[@donovanbradford8231]

Lower Decks is so good it got me to like the Pacleds and believe that was hard. But the Pacled homeworld and Rumdar, was just so good.

[@maurenovick]

@@donovanbradford8231 Oh man do I love how ridiculous the Pacleds are!

[@echos5823]

The idea was in TNG, they mentioned there is a cetacean op on the Enterprise but it was never mentioned.

[@chrispekel5709]

There was a TNG novel that featured dolphin aliens that were intelligent

[@randybaumery5090]

It's funny that you brought up the mammals as officers because the several times that I have ever seen Star Trek the Next Generation and reruns somebody had to actually point out to me where somebody said oh have you come to see the dolphins? I completely miss that one several times.

[@timlott9966]

How about the Maggog World ship in Andromeda? It has a sun at its heart powering it..

[@MusingSprite3045]

My thoughts exactly.

[@jamesgreenshade6065]

That was my first thought too

[@user-ky2it8qc5k]

You're so right!!!

[@cgi2002]

Arguably the Dr's tardis also falls onto this same scale if you look at its internal size, it has a litteral star at its core.

[@kagato3]

@@cgi2002 No, it ether has a black hole (which may or may not have a physical size as the concept of a singularity has no physical dimensions) or has a dimensional conduit to said black hole (the lore is a bit unclear as the Eye of Harmony has been repeatedly said to power all of the Timelords time related devices and it is unclear what exactly was going on in the 90's movie and the idea that the power source for you civilization being in some random museum piece that got stolen and not being tracked down or reclaimed during the many times the Timelords punished the Doctor is a little crazy.)

[@kcsniperboy7148]

The black stone fortresses were absolutely huge. Just one falling into cadia cracked the planet. Even still the planet broke before the guard did

[@Justicegamingandco]

Cadia stands!

[@cynasfan8411]

Yeah, another great day of Warhammer bullshit! Seriously, even when our moon would hit earth, earth wouldn't be destroyed! Holy crap, in the young days of earth another proto planet of the same size as earth hit the planet and we lost some unbelievable amount of material, but without that impact, earth wouldn't have the moon! So as big as Warhammer 40k wants to be, there's always a bigger fish... Or universe, mostly called reality 😅

[@dick6334]

@@cynasfan8411 It seems to me you're more just hating Warhammer and trying badly to hide that plain hatred behind an excuse, that excuse being that reality doesn't allowing some of the things in Warhammer to happen. A planet being destroyed by a planet size space station for example. And yet you seem perfectly content to let the death star, a mere 160 kilometer space station capable of destroying an entire planet into dust, unscathed from your "wrath" of applying reality to fictional settings. You're just being ridiculous, did you even watch the video? Some of those ships are hundreds or near a hundred kilometers in length. Reality says that they would fall apart before being able to properly accelerate as their is no such material in the real world that can endure such stresses. What about them? Why aren't you critiquing them? And don't try and deflect my mentioned points by giving some poor attempt of argument and that I'm just a Warhammer fanboy and my argument are a "nerd-rage". That would be a personal attack and in no way even tries to defend your points or attack my own.

[@cynasfan8411]

@@dick6334 Nope, I won't try to avoid these mentions :3 Still at first: I don't hate Warhammer 40K, Fantasy or Age of Sigmar, but I make fun of it because sometimes it is so ridiculous. One good example: The first time I played Battlefleet Gothic:Armada at some point the Inquisitor Horst, that's alone a meme for every German, sended for the Exterminatus Fleet to destroy my planets. Some rounds later the "Planet Killer" (seriously? Even Death star was more creative 😂) was called so strong, it could destroy planets in one hour! My thoughts: And the Exterminatus fleet throws with cotton balls or what? Sure the Death Star wouldn't destroy any planet by crashing in, but that not how it works! Sure, the amount of energy that you would need is ridiculous, but the PK uses some kind of energy weapon as well and okay, Sci-Fi-fantasy, alright. Same with the material etc. In Star Trek it's explained, nowhere else, but again, that's okay for me. I've massive problems with the Leman Russ Tank, but not his weight, because I guess it's some super fancy Sci-Fi material, way stronger than steel but lighter. Still a battle tank with the height of 4 meters is dumb, sorry! Some parts of the Warhammer lore are cool, but I love "realistic" stories and that's something Warhammer definitely is not!

[@LordEladan]

@@cynasfan8411 You critizise the leman russ 4 meters tall? They're not the problem, why you don't mention 250 meter large titans walking around? :D I mean did you saw the caliber of an leman russ battle cannon? Maybe it's that high to fit the turret and the ammo for this gun. Sure the punisher model doesnt need to be that high for sure but then there's standardization for easier logistics.

[@olebretschneider115]

I love how perry Rhodan and others just get ignored

[@bastardslayer5625]

First couple of entries in this video could all easily park inside of OLD MAN 🤫

[@derwolf7810]

@@bastardslayer5625 Don't forget the swarms, which are star ships (at least technically) measured in light years.

[@tyranojackson3324]

Perry rhodan is Not much known.

[@olebretschneider115]

@@tyranojackson3324 warhammer?

[@karstenschuhmann8334]

​@@tyranojackson3324They present much stuff that I do not know.

[@andreaspedersen3952]

In these Dune times... i tried to search for the size of the heighliners, and they believe they were over 20kms.

[@terran6686]

If you really want to stretch the definition of a ship, and I mean *really* stretch it, V'Ger's cloud was *2 Astronomical Units* in diameter. And the original draft had the cloud at 82.

[@PaulCashman]

Actually, it is stated as "over 82 AUs in diameter" in the film. However, it's described as an energy field, not a discrete ship with a hull.

[@nigelft]

@@PaulCashman Indeed ... In fact, that gas cloud around _V'ger_ can easily be classed as a nebulae, rather then just an energy field, especially as it's likely to contain a large enough amount of gas, and interstellar dust ...

[@asmo69]

The Tarids is basically one of the biggest AND smallest at the same time. While the external dimensions are subject to some debate, the internal dimensions are basically infinite

[@schmoemi3386]

You mean TARDIS?

[@rescuearch7802]

You should change the title to "Top 10 Biggest Spaceship in Movies", since there are a number of vessels in books that are much larger than any of these. To start with, the Fleet of Worlds in Larry Niven's Known Space universe.

[@rafamallencogomez7030]

Gloriana and apocalypse class warhammer 20km and 12km

[@kiophoenix]

pretty sure Halo, the video game, has one of those "halo" things as big as a entire star system. maybe bigger, idk, never played halo

[@Llortnerof]

@@kiophoenix Those aren't ships though, they're locally static installations.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

They would have to remove the Vorlon Ship as it was only used on the TV series.

[@blackly_0726]

@@kiophoenix no, it's big, but not that big, the rings have diameters of 10000 kilometers, a size comparable to the diameter of the earth which is 12000 kilometers, and the size of the ark is 127530 kilometers.

[@TheIconianCat]

It’s worth mentioning that the Voth are such a technologically advanced species that the fortress ship could employ transporters on a scale large enough to beam entire fleets in and out of the ship, the citadel class dreadnoughts also have a limited ability to do this with single starships for capturing and disabling them with intrusive computer programs.

[@TheCJUN]

Harvester mothership is just ridiculous.

[@prehistorichero2755]

Yeah, it feels more like a space station than an actual spaceship. I mean, seriously, why would a harvesting vessel be this big when the Death Star is about five times smaller than the Mothership from the first movie?

[@funfact1310]

@@prehistorichero2755 It's MagMaa Mama!

[@funfact1310]

@@prehistorichero2755 The Great Grand Mother of the Mother of all Motherships..

[@prehistorichero2755]

@@funfact1310 You’re such a child...

[@FRFFW]

@@prehistorichero2755 there is a reason why it need to be big 1. to carry big ass laser drill to dig the shit out of your planet 2. The mothetship it self is the Harvester home

[@molybdaen11]

Lexx the dark zone was also broadcasted in europe. It was just banned from the prime time because of the violence and well, nudity stuff (would not bother anyone today). It had surprisingly good actors and a fresh story from start to finish. Not to mention the great parodys.

[@McCheese-xc9ig]

It was broadcast in the US as well, even had a prime time slot. It just kind of got forgotten due to be overshadowed by shows like Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Stargate.

[@TheLiamis]

I think lexx may have only been in its larval form too.

[@molybdaen11]

@@TheLiamis In that case they delivered a larva to a shadow lord. I can not remember much of the later episodes, maybe Lex mutated later?

[@MarshallLaw1313]

The first ship that came to my mind was Spaceball 1!

[@kennyangel]

There was a Dyson sphere Star Trek, which I think was capable of moving. It could fit an entire star system inside, clearly that would be larger.

[@BrutalMorV]

There is a size comparison killer out there that is never included in these lists. Considering its staggering size, it would always be number 1 on every list, so it makes sense that it is never included. The Magog world ship from the TV series Andromeda. It is literally an entire solar system of planets that have been hollowed out to varying degrees and bound together around an artificial star.

[@pcppbadminton]

I thought it was odd to include Lexx and not the Magog World ship, since they're both pretty niche shows. But the article this video was based on had stipulations that basically disqualified most of the ships not in Star Trek or Star Wars.

[@mikebreeden6071]

Yeah, you have a point. The Ringworld was a ship the size of an Earth orbit in diameter.

[@jamesgreenshade6065]

Yeah that was the first thing I thought of too when I saw the video

[@ASNS117Zero]

There are plenty of things bigger than that in fiction. Especially if you start including stuff like anime and video games.

[@dark_seid_29]

One screw of harvester mother ship is equal to whole size of International space Station 😅

[@khaos_the_abyss4798]

not wrong

[@juhanipolvi4729]

Now imagine the screwdriver needed for those screws...

[@khainoob2496]

I like Independence Day 2.Hope they make a part 3

[@MonkeyJedi99]

You are kidding, I hope.

[@zephyrium1881]

​@@MonkeyJedi99 Independence Day 2 was a great movie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@donovanbradford8231]

Indep D 2 had its moments but I felt was tied way to heavily to the first in that you had the familiar cameos when story takes place 20 something years after the fact yet still told the same story. But we all have our favs.

[@FRFFW]

They leave us a hint that They will goes Starship it there is Independence day 3

[@molybdaen11]

It had some good animation. Sadly they were not brave enough to trust they new ideas and just reused the script of the first one.

[@fritadosebbl9814]

Where is the "Old Man" spaceship from Perry Rhodan? It's a half sphere with 200 km diameter, and around the sphere are 12 additional sections which are 50x50x10 km. The ship is a carrier for sphere shaped battleships, each is 5 km in diameter and Old Man carries 15080 of them.

[@ernstellert229]

Mostly correct, but the battleships were only 2500 meters in diameter. And don't forget the sporeships. Diameter 1126 km.

[@fritadosebbl9814]

@@ernstellert229 You are right. They have a diameter of 2500 m.

[@derwolf7810]

In this list i mostly miss the swarms from Perry Rhodan.

[@ricardoalbuquerque7665]

No one seems to remember the Doctor's TARDIS...

[@frostfallgaming1708]

Please revise the title to top 10 star ships from fictional movies, you forgot every video game and book series that has ships just as large if not larger

[@spartanxander-0476]

Was just thinking "If it included video games Halo would be up there as well, without it's books and comics...then it may just be a Halo starship list" But to be fair Warhammer would be up there as well, not really sure about the sizes but I know their ships are quite huge as well

[@jebise1126]

they are too lazy to look beyond 3 most popular franchises. dont expect too much of them

[@willythemailboy2]

There are all sorts of things that would dwarf even Halo or 40k ships,, such as an Utu-class planetoid from the Fifth Imperium. A smaller version of those ships was disguised as Earth's moon by covering it with a few dozen kilometers of dirt.

[@TheFearlessDave]

How is the JMC's Red Dwarf not number 5 at least? That old rust bucket has 3 million years on the clock, has a ship computer with an IQ of 6 (thousand) and has plumbing that goes "tink kertink tink"

[@bastardslayer5625]

Oh you smeg head 🤗

[@cerisambrook7692]

It's crippled by the fact they only have one after 8 mint left.

[@spoinlar]

My favorite “epic scale” things from SciFi are from the Lensman series by E. E. “Doc” Smith. While not ships, they do utilize entire planets as weapons by means of a device that temporarily removes inertia. Find 2 planets with opposing orbits and neutralize their inertia. Move them at FTL speeds so that they’re on opposite sides of the enemy with their orbits such that, when they regain their inertia they’ll collide with each other, then turn off the devices. Smush. Obviously not a spaceship in this implementation, but at one point they do relocate an entire planet to another galaxy, thus effectively turning it into a spaceship. Later on, they create a series of devices able to focus the ENTIRE output of a star into a beam weapon, because of course the enemy has figured out the mobile planet trick too and they need a defense against it. O.o

[@AlanBarker]

How about the Nth space projectiles? Find a universe where lightspeed is not a limit. Grab a planet from it and install spacedrive. Then send it (with an impossible velocity in our universe) into our universe aimed at an enemy planet...

[@philliplynx7877]

@@AlanBarkeron consideration of size, these and the normal paced planets are the same size. But OK, in view of destruction power, the FTL-Plantes are Overkill :D

[@PaulCashman]

This clearly doesn't include large spacecraft in all "fiction," just on-screen fiction. We also have these things called science-fiction BOOKS. Larry Niven's "Ringworld" -- which is a habitable ring around a star one million miles across and 600 MILLION miles long -- is definably a spacecraft: Not only can it move through regular space by causing its sun to eject plasma, we discover in later books that it is also equipped with a Quantum II hyperdrive. Niven's Fleet of Worlds is also a spacecraft since it can be directed through space, but it lacks a hyperdrive shunt (as far as we know).

[@bahamutknight5783]

don't forget science fiction games like Destiny and massive warships that is the Dreadnaught, the flagship and the Throne World of Oryx the Taken King, wich had about 3500km in length.

[@davidripley2916]

Isn't the Quantum 2 drive offered to Louis Wu's crew as reward for piloting the Lying Bastard? Been a while since I visited. . . 👽

[@PaulCashman]

@@davidripley2916 me, too, but I don't recall that. They deserved it, though!

[@scottgardener]

Unicron from Transformers: The Movie (1986) would fit somewhere between #1 and #2. The second Death Star was larger than the first, even though incomplete; it still counts, because it was technically "fully operational" for its intended purpose, even if it was never fully completed structurally before its demise. Starkiller Base is larger still, though it was a planet that was converted rather than a fresh build. If we include V'ger's cloud, it wins by a long shot. Otherwise, Trek features at least two Dysonian constructs: a Dyson sphere featured in TNG's "Relics" and the Species Ten-C home system; the Ten-C's DMA was also a Construct of Unusual Size, though like V'ger, it was mostly a cloud of energy with a mass core in the middle. (Though, technically, so are atoms, so we're all mostly empty space.) (pushes glasses back up with finger to bridge of nose...)

[@shaundis2117]

Cybertron is allegedly the size of Saturn . Arms and legs out stretched Unicron could ..."dismember" it .Also could crunch its moons and could probably make short work of us.

[@scottgardener]

@@shaundis2117 It was described as "Saturn-sized" in the comic, though the animated series had a different continuity and showed Cybertron as being at best Moon-sized, probably smaller; "The Ultimate Doom" parts 1, 2, and 3 depicted Cybertron being transported by space bridge into Earth orbit. It appeared smaller than Earth, and while it did generate tidal forces by orbiting close, and this was a plot point, it did not cause Earth to orbit Cybertron instead.

[@shaundis2117]

@@scottgardener hence the "allegedly". In the Bay movies it was as big if not bigger than the Earth before it imploded . I don't blame the OP for leaving Unicron out not just as his size is variable depending on the source material but he's primarily a giant evil robot with a planet alt mode. V'ger is a robot/ ex probe in a ship/transport.

[@J.Wolf90]

Yeah the Dyson sphere has gotvto be the biggest of them all, can anything top it?

[@INACTIVE4EVER]

5:00 i love how it says star trek instead of starwars

[@quincybriley4113]

They also said we'll never know why there's a tube in the death star that leads to the core that a missile can be shot down. That's literally the plot of rogue one.

[@cletusmartin4628]

you forgot the Ma'gog world ship from Andromeda...several world's connected by space elevators and powered by a sun kinda seems like it would be in the top 5

[@Llortnerof]

That reminds me of the Stellar Systemcraft from Stellaris mod Gigastructural Engineering. I wonder which of them has more gun.

[@ASNS117Zero]

@@Llortnerof Stellaris, and it's not even close. There are things lower in the tech tree than that, that involve busting galaxies to win the game. lol

[@eddieblanco230]

Lexx was also on the air in the US at the time on the Sci-fi channel. Not just UK and Canada

[@USSDef1ant]

Quite the collection of large vessels in this video. Some in which I agree: Voth Fortress, V'ger, Whale Probe, Harvester Mothership and MegaMothership, Death Star(s), all being gigantic, the; Lexx, Executor ISD, Harvester City Ship and the Vorlon PK all pail in comparison given the exponential size differences. As divisive as it is, from what I've seen in the comments, Dyson spheres are static constructs. In STO they can be moved around, however they do not perform engagement tasks as say the Star Killer base does, which does not move around. I consider "ships" in my books, capable of moving interstellar, perform multiple functions from mining, exploring, performing patrols or mobile starbase duties ect ect... to not being limited to a singular position and can defend itself from attacks. As a result, I don't count the following super/mega-constructs Dyson Spheres, Starkiller Base, Borg Unicomplex, Installation 00, Ringworlds. The V'Ger cloud doesn't count either since it isn't even a ship, it originates from a ship which can be toggled on and off, defeating it's potential as a ship... Not even sure how in comparisons i've seen, mark it as a ship aside from a size-reference... 10. [Star Trek] Whale Probe - 74 km 9. [Star Trek] V'ger - 98 km 8. [Star Trek] Voth Fortress - 134 km 7. [Star Wars] Yuuzhan Vong Worldship - 120 km 6. [Star Wars] Death Star and Death Star II - 120 km and 160 km 5. [Halo] High Charity* - 348 km 4. [Independence Day] Alien Mothership - 550 km 3. [GR's Andromeda] Magog Satellite-ship* - 2,000 - 3,000 km 2. [Independence Day] Harvester Mothership - 5,000 km 1. [GR's Andromeda] Magog Worldship** - 1,500,000 km * - True, it is generally a space-station but it can move interstellar, defend itself and perform tasks. Mantle's Approach - from the same franchise, could also take its place as a battlestation similar to the Death Star(s) ** - I know that this ship is enormous, however I'm not sure as to the precise size of it. However I do know it has it's own Luna-sized structure imbedded in the design, giving it the huge visual size *** - For some bizarre reason, this ship is not widely recognised due to it's sheer colossal size, bigger than our sun! Nevertheless, it IMO is the biggest ship that falls under my aforementioned categories There are additional ships that could be entered onto this list, however their existence is mostly debatable in canon(?) - I should point out my knowledge for the ships and the franchise is somewhat limited. [Star Wars] Ultra Class Star Destroyer - 260 km - !Information is sketchy on my part due to my lack of knowledge. I believe this to be a fan-made ship! [Star Wars] Ascendency Hikari Class Super Star Destroyer - 260 km - !Information is sketchy on my part due to my lack of knowledge. I believe this to be a fan-made ship! I could name more though I'm content with the selection I've put forth, albeit every single comparison and information regarding all these ships seems to be different everywhere and is very difficult to maintain what exactly would be correct to stick with. Hope you all found my post with some intrigue. I always like seeing other comparisons and the opinions that others have. :)

[@dvrchweesse1frfdozemkaanai594]

Mantle's Approach can smash Death Star

[@ZakhadWOW]

technically the Shadow Death Cloud from B5 was far larger, mostly hollow being that iwas interconnected struts, but the structure could wrap around smaller planets at the least. It used a method that destroyed life on the planet, but left the planetary body whole... then there;s the Vorlon Death Star type weapon.. we never saw it fired all the way, just the build up in one shot, and the aftermath. But yeah. the line marcus uses about discovering it was massively erroneous.. THe dreadnoghts themselves are roughly 1.4 km long, and at one point oyu see them under the main PK body, and there are TINY.

[@LordCastleHail]

Question: since when is the Executor 19km long? The Eclipse, yes, but in old technical journals, the Executor is 9 km long. That even matches with the on screen version in ESB

[@nicz7694]

"Vessels of the Executor-class Dreadnought line[3] measured at 19,000 meters in length,[2] and utilizing its thirteen Executor-50.x engines,[1] could reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour. These starships had a crew of 280,784, and could carry 38,000 troops and support staff." Literal quote from the Wookiepedia ^^ Eclipse is 17.5km. Its also shorter than the Excecutor in EAW aswell

[@mijimonmaster]

The "tube" that helped destroy the death star was deliberately built that way as per the designer in Rouge One.

[@star.master_cranium]

Anyone else thought about the TARDIS when seeing this video recommended to them?

[@NightBeWheat]

Im not sure, but some Forerunner installations from Halo could count as ships (they are mobile) and are absolutely massive. The Mantle’s Approach from Halo 4 is over 300km tall.

[@chriswhite3692]

Maethrillian was the size of a gas giant.

[@blademaster2390]

Some people would class the Halos themselves as ships, and they have a 10,000 km diameter… And the previous iteration of the Halo Array had 30,000 km diameter Halos

[@dominikbastian429]

What about the Arks?

[@georgea5991]

Maethrillian's middle platform alone was about 100,000km across, and the Ark's length was scaled comparable to Jupiter.

[@NightBeWheat]

​@@dominikbastian429 The greater ark was so large it could produce 30000km Halos (the original array), its pretty big. The Precursor Star Roads were used for space travel and could connect planets.

[@prehistorichero2755]

The Harvester Mothership should've been a space station instead of a harvesting ship, when they could've send a smaller vessel about the size of a Death Star.

[@merafirewing6591]

The first mothership might be an older model.

[@prehistorichero2755]

@@merafirewing6591 Or a colonizing vessel.

[@yoelchristian6332]

But this thing can move like a spaceship so i guess its still count as a ship

[@JohnDoe-wb5nk]

The harvester mothership looks similar the mothership of the goa'uld Anubis from stargate commando sg1

[@prehistorichero2755]

@@yoelchristian6332 That doesn't count jusdt because it moves!

[@frankreynolds445]

You should of had the Darian 50 mile long, 20 mile wide ship from the 1974 episode of Space:1999 and the Earth Ship Ark from the 1973 series The Starlost. It is 8,000 miles in length. Star Trek : TNG had the 200 million plus wide Dyson sphere from the episode Relics.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Good points except for the Dyson sphere, which was not a ship but a shell around a star.

[@forrest3384]

Halo universe trumps those structures by far. Look up the sarcophagus in the Contact Harvest book.

[@vintagethrifter2114]

Earth Ship Ark was 50 miles by 200 miles.

[@Chobittsu]

3:43: "The single largest ship in Star Trek" 4:10: Literally a ship from Star Trek.

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

And if they were using Star Trek, then what about a Dysen Sphere?

[@Llortnerof]

@@beauxr.benoit1374 Not a ship.

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

@@Llortnerof A Manmade mobile vehicle? even if it were only moved by the sun it would still have to be capable of being moved. And if you classify it as a planet or a Moon anyone could move on to it and then claim themselves a Sovereign Country on it. And then what if it where classified as a satellite? It wouldn't fit the definition. So what else would it be called?

[@Llortnerof]

​@@beauxr.benoit1374 A new category that only becomes relevant when we actually have a significant presence of artificial megastructures? You're trying to apply rules to them that are designed for a system that doesn't include them. Of course you're not getting any sensible results. Not sure why you would even think of classing it as a planet or moon. You're also forgetting that as an artifical structure, it would probably already have an owner who claimed it. A dyson sphere is not "moved by the sun" any more than Earth is, either. Which is to say it orbits it. It may have some stationkeeping engines, but since it would effectively be stuck around the star anyway, any engines for actual interstellar movement would be rather pointless unless you find some way to move its focus star along with it. At which point you could probably build something more sensible than a shell around a star with engines.

[@beauxr.benoit1374]

@@Llortnerof Thank you, I asked a stupid question to get the attention of someone with more knowledge than I do. And now you have answered me and I have learned something. Have a good day.

[@darianleyer5777]

For a given value of spaceship, both The Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds - both by Larry Niven - qualify. The former is the Trope Namer for the Niven Ring, and in the final book of both of the aforementioned series, it goes FTL, and with a diameter equal to Jupiter, it's the largest singular object in fiction to do so. It doesn't, however, move at sublight speeds. That's one thing that the Fleet of Worlds can do that The Ringworld can't, although both can go FTL. The Fleet, though, is less likely to actually qualify as a spaceship because it is not a singular object in the non-gravitational sense.

[@MrSoloun]

Yea was thinking about the Pierson's Puppeteers planets linked together and moving at sublight simply because they were to scared to go into space with something as fragile as a Spaceship :) Only crazy people do that hehe.

[@DRAGON-rf1jp]

From Germany and translated into many different languages: Perry Rhodan Universe, in the rather early time of the booklet series, they had problems with a robotic alien species who had two ships which were SEVERAL LIGHTYEARS big! Try to top that!

[@darianleyer5777]

3:52 This dimension only counts the corporeal portion. The energy field surrounding it was, in fact, part of the ship, giving it a diameter equal to the average orbital diameter of The Earth, or 2AU. This makes it big enough to make even The Ringworld look tiny.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It was originally 82AU in the film but later changed to only 2AU (only!).

[@harrishromero6447]

Kurzgesagt stellar spaceship The whole solar system size

[@molybdaen11]

How to evade a cosmic catastrophe by gently pushing the sun aside.

[@pschroeter1]

I don't know if books count, but the Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds from the Ringworld series was really really big.

[@Sm00k]

I just wanted to argue about calling it a ship, alas, it's just bunch of habitats around a fusion drive, isn't?

[@pschroeter1]

@@Sm00k It's the planets of their home system gathered in a rosette, but it's also an artificial construct and guided by them. The Lexx is just a huge bug. Many of the ships have an organic look to them that makes them look grown.

[@mattrobson3603]

Speaking of Larry Niven, his collaboration with Greg Benford "Bowl of Heaven" was a spaceship shaped like half of a Dyson sphere using the star it was built around as a drive. (I didn't read it, but checking reviews it seems like my suspicions about it were correct - a lot of people are like "It's Ringworld, again.")

[@MusingSprite3045]

I know I'm not the first to say this but: Magog Star Ship. Its center is a star and the rest of it's made out of planets, moons, etc. Pretty crazy and understandable large. Should have been on the list.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It's the 'Magog World Ship', I think.

[@PaulCashman]

Also, you wondered why the first Death Star had such a silly, fatal flaw? It's because it was deliberately DESIGNED with that flaw by its lead architect, Galen Erso. For that tale, watch "Rogue One," which IMO is a great film overall...and downright brilliant in its second half.

[@Sm00k]

Actually, it's because during preparing prop for filming, Death Star shrunk, exposing what was later called the trench. And it's reason why plans do not match with movie model.

[@biocapsule7311]

Rogue One is definitely a great Star Wars film.

[@Mr-ye1cn]

Space Battleship Yamato 2202's Ark of Doom was larger than Saturn, so it measures over 150,000 kilometers.

[@thenerdfulspirit]

Babylon 4 was originally meant to be a starship (it had engines anyway). And you missed out ships like The Empiricist and Sleeper Service from The Culture novels

[@davidripley2916]

Love the Culture, especially Diziet Sma De Marenhide, and Leddy and Demeisen ( the offensive Hypership) Good stories. Hollywood missing a trick again! 👽 P.S. Skaffen-Amtiskaw says Hi! 🤖

[@brianwhedon8442]

B4 is still too small to appear on this chart. It would have appeared below the Lexx. The choice of the Vorlon planetkiller is a good choice. The Drakh mothership is larger (62KM) but it only appears on screen in Crusade and we never get a sense of its true size. All we see is the Drakh cruisers leaving its hangar bays

[@poiujnbvcxdswq]

@@brianwhedon8442 Nope, this is a common misconception stemming from people thinking Babylon 5 is 5 miles long, its not just the O`Neill cylinder bit is, the full station was over 10KM, slightly bigger than Lexx, Babylon 4 was bigger than 5, about 20% longer so it is definitely bigger than Lexx.

[@brianwhedon8442]

@@poiujnbvcxdswq yeah you're right. I think the total length of B5 was closer to 8 miles. B4 was longer and wider since it had counter-rotating sections

[@randomdeadpool]

4:59 The Death Star from Star Trek? Oh boy, Star Wars fans are geting mad ;-;

[@OuttaMyMind911]

Looks like they blurred that out. It’s still on the video thumbnail, though. Maybe it was really Scotty that told Luke to use the force.

[@randomdeadpool]

@@OuttaMyMind911 yes, they did, and they cut the audio too xD

[@brandonvillatuya9539]

5:29 "What can possibly be larger than a small moon, how about a medium sized moon..." 😂

[@Schwartzbruder1]

The Lexx looks like a dragonfly because it was created to be the ultimate weapon of the Bug race

[@molybdaen11]

The awesome backstory of giant insects doing space battles.

[@freddypedraza2066]

Galactus has a ship the size of a solar system

[@chrisneely8130]

He has a ship?? I did not know that

[@dustballz6717]

Yep it's where he kept the ultimate nullifer.

[@toptiergaming6900]

There is the Eclipse class that was ment to be double the size of the executor class (at the time the executor was considered 10km long)

[@Neognostic-pk5wu]

The Eclipse is actually shorter in length than the Executor class, but it's design lines makes it significantly more massive.

[@brianflowers4217]

The Shadow’s Planet Killer was much bigger than the Vorlon version. It surrounded the target planet and fired nuclear weapons that drilled deep into a planet and ripped it apart from the core.

[@MagnanimousEntropy]

The Forerunners from Halo really should have been included on this list.

[@arnaudsurribas2963]

I guess this ranking did not take into acount the video games and other industries... Because major contenders like the universes of Halo or Mass Effect would like to say a word or two...

[@davidmarasigan3863]

Yep, something like the Mantle's Approach would like a couple words

[@arnaudsurribas2963]

@@davidmarasigan3863 Or High Charity !

[@airistal]

@@arnaudsurribas2963 Or The Ark being between 90,000k. and 100,000k.

[@KnightRanger38]

@@airistal Ringworld was used as a starship in 'Ringworld's Children'. 150 million km in radius, 1.6 million km across.

[@InnovationIndip]

You make a video "minesweeper ship in the world".

[@39satcom]

"LEXX looks like a dragonfly without wings" ...yeah, sure

[@kharnt.betrayer2946]

I know I'm doing a classic 40k fan thing here but the Macragge's honour is quoted as 22km long which puts it ahead of the Interdictor, the Furious Abyss is supposed to be a lot bigger and the Phalanx is the size of a small moon.

[@youtubemusicowesmemoney8470]

After seeing a couple of these videos (fine work BTW!), I've noticed that everyone is forgetting about one particular giant ship: V'ger from Star Trek: TMP was the size of a gas nebula and easliy contained the Enterprise along with full scale replicas of worlds it had encountered. It could hold the Death Star and the Harvester with ease.

[@Ozraptor4]

3:49 = V'Ger is #5 on the list. The outer gas layers don't really count as part of a measurable manufactured hull, otherwise things like the Shadow Death cloud from Babylon 5 would also be on the this.

[@nigelft]

@@Ozraptor4 Exactly ... In the Orginal Theatrical release of the film, the gas cloud around the actual constructed _V'ger_ was said to measure 82AU in diameter ... Given 1AU is the mean distance between the Sun and Earth, an already immensely large distance, that is also described as being 8.5 Light Minutes, the time it takes for sunlight to reach us, not only would 82AU count as a small* nebulae, made up of gas, and interstellar dust, but would swallow everything else on this list, not least the Death Star II not mentioned, with ease ... For some reason, in the 'Director's Cut' for DVD/Blu Ray, that was reduced to a nominal 2AU (the diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun), quite possibly because even that large distance is easier to comprehend, relatively speaking ... [Edit: *= 'small' is a relative term, given that a great many nebulae are measured in Light Years, many times the size of the _V'ger_ cloud by several orders of magnitude ... One of the smallest gas nebulae to be measured is NGC 7027, with a recorded approximate diameter of 3,000 Light Years (Ly) across; the biggest is NGC 262, with a maximum approximate diameter of 1,300,000 Ly across ... Even the smallest galaxy discovered (Segue 2) is 110.89Ly in diameter. Thus, as a non-planetary, and non-stellar object, going by the orginal 82AU size, astronomically speaking, though it may be big enough to engulf our entire solar system, it's still pretty small ... which gives an idea of just how big our galaxy is, let alone the entire universe ...]

[@jl9529]

Well the shadow death cloud did have a structure

[@APerson-ni1gb]

@@nigelft Damn cool

[@jeffmckenzie7282]

You left out the Dune Heighliner. Upwards of 20 kilometers.

[@antoniorequiao1899]

Great, but everybody forget one of the most impressive and well concepted starship, the "Rama" from Arthur Clarke's "rendezvous with Rama"

[@SciFiSecrets]

They only did pop TV sci fi. If you want to go to novels, they missed a TON!

[@JonathanAsh007]

The force is strong with this one

[@johnbigboote8900]

Did anyone else mention the Visitor's ships from V (The original series)? They were comparable to the city-destroyers from Independence Day.

[@vintagethrifter2114]

They weren't that big. Their size was mentioned in the series. They were around a mile in length. Some sources list 3.2km.

[@Dreamfox-df6bg]

Don't say 'Fiction' if you mean movies and shows. If you go by fiction your #1 and maybe #2 will be on the list. That's not counting ships that are larger on the inside, by which I don't mean the Tardis, there are ships out there that carry planets and solar systems within them. Though there is at least one ship is technically an entire star system. So please either choose your phrasing more carefully or leave the small fry out.

[@davidboivin7996]

The Red Dwarf was roughly the same length as the LEXX but I believe it had more overall mass.

[@scoutsarado8447]

Second Death Star: roughly 25% larger than first, Star killer base: a mobile planet sized Death Star.

[@N1GHTSTRIKER-45]

Damn independence day movies have some of the largest spaceships

[@skepticalmagos_101]

You missed the ships of warhammer 😢

[@howardallan7849]

These may be the largest ships seen on screen. It doesn't mean they are the largest ships in fiction. The Skylark of Valeron is an over 1000km in diameter sphere. The Lensmen series has mobile planets. there are other larger ships out there.

[@Fireheart318]

It pushes the definition of “spaceship” a bit but the Hive in Destiny have been known to hollow out moons and planets and use them as ships. They call them War Moons

[@reborn6596]

The Death Star is 120km and the Death Star 2 is 160

[@justjakey17]

DS1 is 120km and DS2 is 200km. I'm pretty sure

[@RealNeutronStar]

Just ideas! Video could be included. MCU Quinjet Zephyr one Insight hellicariers Chitauri Comand Center Levithans Outrider dropship Q ship Necro craft Qovas ship Confederate destroyer ships

[@thebuzz4108]

10 Coolest Movie Spacecraft. Maybe on our next video 😉

[@trvebm7812]

Dark Ester? Ronan's ship from GOGV1 and CM?

[@77PacerStudios]

Don't forget Spaceball One from the 1987 parody movie Spaceballs!

[@GoingMetal799]

Leviathans as in Farscape...?

[@mitchellfriedman6446]

@@GoingMetal799 Earthship Ark the Starlost many fifty mile wide Domes

[@JeiHS]

The reason why death star two had a big hole to the core is because Palpatine need to go rent it and buy materials from Amazon. And it was budget cut.

[@WizelBalan]

One thing about the Lexx is that it is also one of the most powerful ships in fiction as it can blow up planets like the Death Star, which it enjoys doing with Stanley Tweedle its favorite captain. Also if you consider the energy cloud part of the ship, then V'Ger is one of the biggest, before it was changed in later showings, its energy cloud was 82 AU's in diameter. One AU is the distance of the Earth's orbit around the sun.

[@f14tomcat46]

Did you have SDF 1 Macross.....from Super Dimensions Fortress Macross 1984?....I want know how size it is....

[@f14tomcat46]

@Tonya Patrick What!

[@poiujnbvcxdswq]

SDF-1 is only 1.2Km long, quite small really.

[@AntVaz7]

This should’ve included: 1. Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyer(from Dark Empire Star Wars legends comics) 2. Yuuzhan-Vong Worldship(from Yuuzhan-Vong War Star Wars legends comics) There are many more who should’ve overthrown these measly ships, and as to say in fiction that means all of fiction, including the unrealistically gargantuan Imperium Class Ultra Star Destroyer which is a fanon ship created around 340 ABY, as a Star Wars fan the lower ships on this list can’t compare to the gargantuan ships that reside in ALL of fiction Edit: Oh and the Imperium Class Ultra Star Destroyer was supposed to be 370km long and 140km wide once it was finished, it was supposed to have 2 Eclipse Class Super Star Destroyers in its hangar and thousands of fleets ready to launch at its disposal, with dozens of world devastators to supply itself, it was supposed to represent a ship which would conquer the universe

[@user-rq5uy4ye5f]

Independence Day mothership from 1 and 2

[@bsgfan1]

Imperium doesn’t count. It’s a fan made design. It was never canon, even in the Expanded Universe

[@plaguebomb2712]

I think the legends and a lot of things of the like are non canon now

[@echos5823]

If Imperium counts then the SDSD Freudian Nightmare counts too

[@Nodux359]

V´ger wasn´t digital in the ´79-version. They just recreated it in CGI for the Director´s Cut (2005). And still they only recreated digitally what could have been done with practical effects.

[@neilsimpson79]

Stanley would have asked the Lexx to blow up the other ships out of sheer boredom or after being insulted by 790.

[@jakethompson9814]

not as big as the 40k Phalanx Imperial Fists Fortress Monastery

[@nicholasmazzarella2720]

Buzz This was super awesome. These ships are definitely not my thing but it was very interesting and I could listen to you talk about anything. Great work.

[@kimkimmomin1797]

Awww thankyou :)

[@mrbuck5059]

Why doesn't anyone ever bring up how monstrous the Elysium is off of the 2009 Sci fi horror movie Pandorum? That thing is huge.

[@razzy4159]

A little disappointed that the Long Night of Solace from Halo Reach didn't make it in since it's a ship that clocks in at almost 29 km

[@primeradiant827]

Or Mantles Approach at 371.4 km

[@jasonwarren9279]

Now do real spaceships.

[@IluminousOne-9.7.2]

BOORING!

[@misterturkturkle]

there arent any left

[@noelle3551]

​@@misterturkturkledo tell, I could think of a couple!

[@misterturkturkle]

@noelle3551 wrong. no ones ever left terra 4

[@devatess8669]

Earth

[@mohammadrezakhani2539]

👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@P4Tri0t420]

Executor in Episode 6: "Am i a joke to you?!"

[@dwightlee4315]

a Guild Highliner is larger than any of those, it could put all those ships in its hold

[@yourseatatthetable]

In Fiction, eh? Nah, I be thinkin' they've left more then a few out. The alien ship from Arthur C. Clark's novels, not to mention those Heighliners from Dune, are just two that immediately come to mind. Oh, about about Atlantis from Stargate? Yeah, left a few out.

[@muzanjackson8827]

The Invincible Reason is at least 28km, the Phalanx is the size of a moon, the Rock is bigger than it (estimated size, anyways) and the Speranza is the size of a *continent.* You need to mention warhammer.

[@NoOneWantsToSubToMe.]

The Star killer base was a planet converted into a space star killing planet like space station first seen in star wars the force awakens!

[@chad1682]

The Harvester mothership is just too absurd to take seriously. Earth would never stand any chance against that.

[@dkkanofkash8798]

The Independence Day movies are just really stupid in general and are overrated even with the critique. In the original it took the US Air Force 2 days to defeat aliens with massive ships. WHAT.

[@JohnDoe-wb5nk]

It looks like the mothership of the goa'uld Anubis from the serial stargate commando sg1

[@vast634]

Less science, more fiction: ridiculously oversized ships.

[@TerbInYourFace]

I remember Lexx fondly from my childhood. Ran on Sci-Fi Channel in like 2000-2002

[@TheKiltedYaksman1]

The largest battleship mentioned in Neal Asher's 'Polity' series is "equal to the mass of Earth's Moon, but larger.

[@poiujnbvcxdswq]

In Mutineers moon, the moon IS a battleship..and a medium sized one at that, later on it heads home and meets its replacement that is 25% bigger.

[@MC2RD]

first chart says Whale probe 74km. Second chart say 8km. Beginning to think you guys don't know. And Rogue ONE told us the design flaw was intentional sabotage, by Galen Erso. Damn yall

[@FalkoAlvaro-cy6lq]

Correction: the death star length is 160km not 140km

[@donovanbradford8231]

A great follow up to this would the largest structures is scifi. Because when I saw that sadly the Disen sphere from Star Trek TNG's episode relics wasn't on here I said that needs to change. The thing is nuilt around a freakin sun.

[@darkmatter1152]

Not a ship

[@philliplynx7877]

@@darkmatter1152 To citise the OP "... follow up ..." ... "... structures in SciFi..."

[@johnfeliciano7560]

Halo has entered the chat (spawns lesser and greater ark) I mean I'm kinda shocked they weren't even mentioned the Halo alone is 10,000 km in diameter

[@lalruatdikavarte7943]

Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos.