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Explore the Universe

This artwork is described as featuring "over 120 locations, vessels, and characters." The locations are labeled and there are only a few characters, so that leaves the vessels.

Many I recognize (see below), however, there are many that I don't recognize.

So I ask for you guys' help.

Vessels I noticed and recognized:

  • The BttF DeLorean
  • The TARDIS
  • The space-station from 2001: AS0
  • The Enterprise
  • The Second Death Star
  • An X-Wing
  • The Close Encounters of a Third Kind ship
  • A Borg ship
  • A ship from The Last Starfighter (I think)
  • Serenity
  • The Axiom
  • The Millennium Falcon
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This is a community wiki answer, so feel free to add to it or make corrections.

From the website that is selling the poster:

Presenting iam8bit's Space Worlds Map, a painstakingly researched poster print that merges together over 70 popular planetary destinations and 50+ vessels/characters into one beautiful, gigantic map. Inspiration comes from a variety of sources - movies, TV shows, books, comics, animation - but despite their origins, everything happily co-exists in this insanely epic artwork by illustrator Edison Yan.

Numbers are used to identify large vessels, generally put in the top-left corner of the vessels bounding box.

Letters are used to identify characters and smaller vessels.

  1. Dark Star - Dark Star?
  2. Red Dwarf - Red Dwarf
  3. The Delorean - Back to the Future
  4. Battlestar Galactica - Battlestar Galactica (2004 series)
  5. Gunstar One - The Last Starfighter
  6. Comet Observatory - Mario Galaxy
  7. Alien invasion craft - Independence Day? Visitor Ships - V?
  8. Sulaco - Aliens
  9. Kodan Armada - The Last Starfighter
  10. Gundam - Possibly RX-78-2 or ZGMF-X42S Destiny?
  11. TARDIS - Doctor Who
  12. U.S.S. Cygnus - The Black Hole
  13. Event Horizon - Event Horizon
  14. United Space Cruiser C-57D - Forbidden Planet
  15. Galaga - Galaga
  16. Yamato - Space Battleship Yamato 2199
  17. Death Star II - Star Wars Episode VI The Return of the Jedi
  18. Borg Cube - Star Trek
  19. Jupiter 2 - Lost in Space
  20. Millennium Falcon - Star Wars
  21. Planet Express ship, AKA Old Bessie - Futurama
  22. Deep Space Nine - Deep Space Nine
  23. Heart of Gold - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  24. ?
  25. U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701 - Star Trek (original series)
  26. Hermes - The Martian
  27. Citadel - Mass Effect
  28. Cosmic Ark - Cosmic Ark
  29. Mark I Colonial Viper - Battlestar Galactica
  30. ?
  31. Alien Mothership - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  32. Axiom - Wall-E
  33. Restaurant at the End of the Universe - HHGTTG?1
  34. Babylon 5 - Babylon 5
  35. Thunder Road - Explorers (1985)
  36. TCS Lexington - Wing Commander
  37. Enemy Base - Bosconian
  38. Narcissus - Alien
  39. ?
  40. Serenity - Firefly
  41. Alpha 7 - Barbarella
  42. Voltron - Voltron: Defender of the Universe
  43. SDF-1 Macross - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
  44. Moya - Farscape
  • A. Great A'Tuin - Discworld
  • B. Podracers - Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
  • C. Podracer, Left & Sebulba's Podracer, Right - Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
  • D. Robby the Robot - Forbidden Planet
  • E. Space Invaders - Space Invaders
  • F. Whale - ?2
  • G. Star Furies - Babylon 5?
  • H. Another Star Fury - Babylon 5?
  • I. Little Dipper School - The Jetsons
  • J. EVE - Wall-E
  • K. Ultraman 80 - Ultraman 80
  • L. Cthulhu - Works of H.P. Lovecraft
  • M. ?
  • N. ?
  • O. Starfuries - Babylon 5
  • P. ?
  • Q. Starchild - 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • R. Gonzo - Muppets from Space
  • S. Cosmic Fish - Muppets from Space

Labeled image of vessels and characters

1 Based on the logo on the restaurant's sign, which matches the cover of the book.

2 Obviously some sort of whale; it looks like a Humpback or Blue Whale. This trope is common enough to have it's own page on T.V. Tropes. Examples include a Sperm Whale in HHGTTG, several species in various Star Trek media, "Star Whales" and similar creatures in Doctor Who, a four dimensional "Möbius Dick" in Futurama, Ruari Robinson's pitch-short for a proposed film called Leviathan, and many more. We need help figuring out exactly which whale (possibly none of the above mentioned examples) the artist had in mind.

Edit: The artist, Edison Yan, graciously provided me with this list:

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However, their list in incomplete, or unclear. Some items are formatted to say only "Ship", and some don't clearly state the IP they're from.

Of those that are unique enough, Yvaine is the only one from the artist's list yet to be included in the master list. Unfortunately, there's still more ships to be named in the master list.

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  • I believe the second image shows the "Hotel at the End of the Universe" - (the building with the star on top). –  Nov 11 '15 at 05:24
  • Possible, but unverified (feel free to check and add to the wiki): @300,460 (near TARDIS) -> USS Cygnus from "The Black Hole" (1979), see http://www.standbyformindcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/black-hole-cygnus-crop.jpg – Ghanima Nov 11 '15 at 08:04
  • Planet in the middle of 1. is Ego the living planet from Marvel comics – user23614 Nov 11 '15 at 10:36
  • The ship to the right of Discworld (the one the Millenium Falcon is firing at) looks like a Vree saucer (from Babylon 5). – x86tux Nov 11 '15 at 15:10
  • Critter alert: The blue whale from HGTTG is contemplating above planet G889. – Major Stackings Nov 11 '15 at 16:56
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    @MajorStackings I think it's from something else, possibly a game. The whale in the picture is a Blue Whale, and the Whale in Hitchhiker's Guide is a Sperm Whale. –  Nov 11 '15 at 17:57
  • @CreationEdge Fine. Now I'm contemplating over the blue whale above planet G-889. – Major Stackings Nov 11 '15 at 18:23
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    I challenge (4) to be the Battlestar Galactica. It doesn't even begin to look like it. Less so for the listed original series. – Ghanima Nov 11 '15 at 19:34
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    There's definitely some artistic license. – Rogue Jedi Nov 11 '15 at 19:42
  • @WadCheber, sure I can use google image search too and tell you what I had a look around. If you insist - and quite a bucket (pun intended) full of artistic license granted - it's a ship from the reimagined series and not the original (as implied in the text). – Ghanima Nov 11 '15 at 19:59
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    I've deleted my comments that just had suggestions that have been implemented, but I'll include two useful links here from comments I deleted. This page has a lot of ship size comparisons which might be useful--some of the images are small, but you can right-click any chart to view it in a new window or tab, then use the magnifying glass icon (for most browsers) to enlarge. And here is a list with the author's 75 favorite sci fi ships. – Hypnosifl Nov 11 '15 at 20:41
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    I notice some of the size comparison charts on the page I linked to aren't big enough even when you zoom in, but Dirk Loechel's deviant art page has the full-sized charts. – Hypnosifl Nov 11 '15 at 20:46
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    Above F - it's pretty small, but there's a vaccuum sucking the air from the planet Druidia, a clear nod to Spaceballs even if it doesn't look anything like MegaMaid.

    H - just appears to be another star fury, it's identical to the ones around B5 just below and to the left.

    7 - Looks much more like the V visitors ship than the ID4 one

     – roryok Nov 11 '15 at 21:08
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    If the vehicle to the left of Babylon 5 is most likely a star fury given its proximity, aren't the ones labeled O likely to be star furies too, rather than B wings? The ones to the right and left look the same to me. – Hypnosifl Nov 11 '15 at 21:31
  • @Hypnosifl - Aside from the most glaring omissions - the giant ships we haven't identified - we may have named everything that has a name: "over 70 popular planetary destinations and 50+ vessels/characters". We ignored the planets, and we have at least 51 names. – Wad Cheber Nov 11 '15 at 21:38
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    @Wad Cheber - I agree some of the small ships with letters might not have been intended to be anything specific, although I think M and N are likely to be from something given their size and specific shapes. But I was mainly just responding to roryok's comment that H was probably "another star fury, it's identical to the ones around B5 just below and to the left"--if the part about the one below and to the left of B5 is correct, then the ones just to the right (labeled O) are probably star furies too, not B wings. – Hypnosifl Nov 11 '15 at 22:29
  • @Hypnosifl - I have no idea. Your argument makes sense, but when Richard suggested B-Wings, I saw some similarities. I actually don't know if the tiny, more or less similar things should have been labeled with numbers/letters at all. I'll leave it up to you to sort out. I need to stop looking at this damned picture for a while. It's starting to burn the negative of the image into my retinas. :) – Wad Cheber Nov 11 '15 at 23:18
  • H could possibly be a B-wing fighter – Often Right Nov 11 '15 at 23:27
  • Given that H is close to the Citidel, could it be the Destiny Ascension? – Greenstone Walker Nov 17 '15 at 20:13
  • M kind of looks like an Imperial Transport, except it's brown – DCShannon Aug 04 '16 at 02:27
  • @GreenstoneWalker The Destiny Ascension should have a much fatter middle, but it is generally a cross shape. Possible with artistic license. – DCShannon Aug 04 '16 at 02:30
  • O has got to be star furies. They're the right shape and right next to Babylon 5. G and H may be as well. 24 could be the modified star furies from later in the series, with the 2-person cockpits. – DCShannon Aug 04 '16 at 02:34