“Once the mass production of Subspace gunships yielded a certain number of units, it would then be possible to launch all of them through the hole at once. Once the gunships were in our world, there would be no way to stop them from dragging all the remaining pieces of our world into theirs.” - The Self-Destruction of the Isle of Ancients, Smash Bros DOJO!!From: Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Nintendo Wii, 2008)
Number built: 1, maybe more.
Weight: Unknown.
Length: Unknown
Width: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Crew: 2, or above.
Engine: Unknown.
Armament: 1x Subspace Cannon, 5x Triple-barrelled Laser Turrets (Orange), 10x Side-mounted lasers (Green)
Background: First of all, don't take unknown to mean it's small or anything, this thing is absolutely goddamn massive. I mean, it has to be at least bigger then most islands in our world. And I'm not kidding.
Right, so Tabuu is working on turning the World of Trophies into Subspace by means of Subspace Bombs, which are powered by two R.O.B.s (which I may touch on in a later article). As for why, according to Smash Bros DOJO!!, he is the embodiment of Subspace, and as such, cannot leave it to enter the World of Trophies.
To do so, he uses the Ancient Minister's forces (The R.O.B.s) to create the Subspace Bombs from the Isle of Ancients, which, when they explode, draw large areas of the World of Trophies into Subspace, where they have to be connected to other regions of Subspace.
Even though a great many areas are destroyed in this way, the heroes slowly progress towards the Isle of Ancients, which is fairly bad for the villains, and as such, the Subspace Bombs that were being made on it were detonated to bring forth the Subspace Army's ultimate weapon.
A effing massive goddamn ship.
What does it do? And why should I be afraid of it?
“Ganondorf made the Subspace Bomb factory self-destruct in order to draw this ultimate weapon out from Subspace. It's capable of infinitely rending space, and it's firepower is greater than that of any weapon. It exists to draw all of this world into Subspace, but the last-ditch efforts by the fighters might prevent this.” - Trophy description of Subspace Gunship, Super Smash Brothers Brawl.
Right, you saw that huge cannon sticking out the front, right? That emulates a Subspace Bomb, but at range.
Now, that is very bad in terms of world not being destroyed/drawn into Subspace.
The Gunship only appears in one cutscene, 'The Great Invasion', so we don't know the construction facility, or the date, or who it's first kiss was with.
All that's known is that it has a crew of at least 2, and that it is absolutely gorgeous for a superweapon.
So, Ganondorf gives the order by pointing, and the Gunship charges up and fires, ripping apart some air and sea since Ganondorf is too manly to consider using a normal fishing rod to get his fish.
The reclaimed Battleship Halberd comes rocketing in from another direction after to have a go at screwing up their plans, and that's when the five laser turrets appear, and raise hell, ripping apart the Halberd with two glancing blows, and one shot that rips right through it, nose to tail or bow to stern, depending on what you call a flying ship.
It seems bad, but then the main theme starts playing as the five heroes on board bail out safely in their various craft, Samus and her Gunship, Olimar and the Hocotate Ship, Falco's Arwing, and Captain Falcon's Falcon Flyer, and start ripping towards the Subspace Gunship.
Cue Nintendo's attempt at a bullet hell shooter as the ten other laser cannons start firing, with all of the shots missing, because it would be pretty horrible to see one of the heroes be ripped apart by a giant laser beam. After a few seconds of the four ships racing towards the Gunship, there is a twinkle in the sky as Kirby (Yes, the pink blob that goes HAAAAAIIII and sucks more than an Electrolux.) appears on the Dragoon, and rips straight through the ultimate weapon of the Subspace Army, causing the Subspace Gunshp to blow up for the last 30 seconds of the cutscene, while the Dragoon gets off scot-free.
Ganondorf and Bowser get to head back through the void, presumably to have a sulk at about why they lost the a pretty damn sexy weapon.
Ultimately, the ultimate weapon kinda failed, but think back to the top quote.
These things were to be mass produced, and sent through en-masse. Now, assuming that it's above, say, 4, that would be pretty frightening to go up against. Instead, they sent one through, and took out a battleship that is, being ridiculously generous, a twentieth of it's size, and some ocean.
It's enough to make you want to cry.
Sources:
Smash Bros DOJO!!: Mysteries of The Subspace Emissary
Subspace Gunship: Mario Wiki
Subspace Gunship: SmashWikia
Subspace Bomb: SmashWikia
Subspace: SmashWikia
Isle of (the) Ancients: SmashWikia
Subspace Emissary: The Great Invasion: Youtube
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
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