The Space Battleship Yamato, seeing as you said “Battleship”.
I recommended that show to my anime watching daughter and she laughed at me
No respect for the classics.
Didn’t the last Star Wars movie have deathstar laser mounted to battleships and they were all going to shoot one planet somewhere in the galaxy - and they started with Corrisont which was on the other side of the galaxy. Would that be considered longest range?
Mixing up a couple movies. The planet-killer fleet never got to use their main guns. Starkiller Base did destroy planets in another star system, but none of them was Coruscant. The main planet was commonly mistaken for Coruscant, but that’s due to bad communication with the audience. The laser splitting to hit individual planets in the same system being visible with the naked eye from anywhere in the galaxy also indicates Abrams has no idea how distance works.
Did you know it would have been impossible for Denethor to run the distance across the courtyard of Minas Tirith while on fire?
Regardless of how distance works, it was still one of my favorite scenes
I know it’s not on a ship but if Deathstar counts, this should be pretty close.
I want to introduce you guys to a bunch of Colony Lasers in Gundam universe.
I can’t remember what it was, but there was a game or a book I played/read where the lasers on battleships were infinite and there’s an argument over why the gunner needed to be precise.
Not Mass Effect; not the “Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in the galaxy” line. Similar thing, but that game world used ballistics, not energy weapons IIRC.
Horus Heresy had something similar to that. Using their weaponry, I think that the quote was something like you will ruin someone’s day. It might be today or it might be a planet 10000 years from now, so be accurate.
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Fun books but the formula gets tired quick. Every book starts the same way, and what a Mary Sue character. Haven is such a caricature of communism that they’re not even fun as a villain.
I read both the Honorverse and Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series, and They both have some interesting caricatures of communism/hyper-corpo-communism.
Reading both series, and other serial space operas, I’m really just reading it for the space battles and futuristic Cyberpunk political intrigue, that’s why the Mary Sue main characters work, that and having a cast of characters that are nice to come back to, part of what I loved about the familiarity of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Also Weber hasn’t been writing Honor as frequently these days, so it’s a treat to go back to that storyline when something new comes out, I’ve been a Weber fan for decades and enjoy the Safehold series as well, even though the main character is pretty much Honor Harrington, lol.
Probably whichever uses an actual laser.
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The Behemoth from the Expanse Series had a laser with a range of literal light years.
Granted, it was a comm laser, but they did weaponize it at one point.
Even if we assume that the beam had a solar-system sized diameter after 4 ly, a weaponized output should still be in ship-killer range after an AE or five.
Ultimately, the weapon was never fired (and would have melted half the ship if it ever were).
Death Star fired from lunar range. Not sure if that’s the answer but it’s a good start.
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Oh fine. You win this one.
It’s definitely no moon.
The Tribe of Silver melted Earth from several hundred light years away.
SDF1 main gun. Anything larger than a city shouldn’t be considered a ship.
But SDF-1 had an entire city within it 🧐
The Macross can hit from Earth’s surface to past the moon, probably much further aswell but it’s never really explained
