Spacebattles.com



""Only SB would attempt to derive accurate and canon calculations of both firepower and yields from a goddamn cartoon featuring talking ponies."

- from SB user Ryan

""SB is involved. It's already Gone Horribly Wrong""

- SB user SapphireFox, on new RP

Not to be confused with an actual Space Battle (though it certainly loves them), Spacebattles.com (often known as "Spacebattles" or simply "SB") is a message board dedicated to all things science fiction-related. While far from the largest community on the Internet, it's still extremely active with some 13,000 active members.

It has three major sub-forums:

Spacebattles General: A subforum based around random stuff involving sci-fi and video games. Includes a general discussion forum, a forum about games in general, a Role-Playing Game forum and a tech support forum.

Spacebattles Creative: A sub-forum involving creative enterprises undertaken by members of the forum. Includes a fanfiction section, and rather less popular Art/Animation and Original Fiction sections.

Spacebattles Debates: A sub-forum dedicated to debates. Includes a section for versus debates involving fictitious parties, a section dedicated to actual militaries and equipment and a forum dedicated to news and Real Life.


 * Cavemen vs. Astronauts Debate: An entire sub-forum dedicated to it, divided into fiction and non-fiction sections.
 * Deconstructor Fleet: Is very proud of its reputation and ability to deconstruct all fandom tropes.
 * Deceitfulness, Mercilessness, Grimace, Selfishness, Faithlessness and SCIENCE. Though, it really varies between the actual users, who could very well deconstruct these tropes as well.
 * Fanfic: Has an entire subsection dedicated to them, and hosts a few notable fics. For example: Nobody Dies, Sleeping with the Girls, Renegade, A Hero, Friends of a Solar Empire and Magica Madoka Veneficus Puella.
 * Gun Nut: A disturbingly high ratio of posters, so much so that it often leads to the very next trope.
 * Gun Porn: The conversations regarding firearms tend to get very detailed, and very intense about their usage and scenarios they can be used in.
 * Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: There is "sufficient velocity" meme.
 * More Dakka: An alternative to the "Nuke'Em," trope seen below.
 * Nuke'Em: One of Space Battle's catchphrases is the classic "Take off and nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure." Another is "One, at sufficient velocity," when asked 'how many of X does it take to beat Y?', referring to the tendency of anything to act like a nuke- or worse- if going sufficiently fast.
 * Play-By-Post Games: What the Role Playing Games take the form of.
 * Role Playing Games: A subforum and a sub-subforum dedicated to different versions of this.
 * Tropes Will Ruin Your Life: Every couple of months, somebody in the Creative Writing forum will start a thread complaining about how TV Tropes is destroying fanfiction and/or the English language. So far no one has complained about All The Tropes.