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The White Star is a fictional starship in the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
First appearing in the season three episode, Matters of Honor, the computer generated 3D model was designed and built by the Emmy Award winning co-founder of Foundation Imaging, Ron Thornton. As with a number of other ships he designed for the television show, Thornton took inspiration from nature when creating the White Star, explaining that “The animal I based it on was the pelican. I am still amazed to this day as to what masters of the air these seemingly clumsy birds are. Beautiful fliers.”
Originally intended by Thornton to be a small and cramped vessel much like the Millennium Falcon, with the small bridge being the only habitable area, when he was asked to create “something that was a Minbari ship only more predatory and with Vorlon influences”. He quickly realised it would have to be a larger vessel after seeing the original sets that were designed for it.
As the series progressed, further sets were included to show additional areas of the ship, such as hallways and sleeping quarters as more stories took place on the vessel. After a previously unseen and un-referenced docking bay was added in the season 5 episode, Meditations on the Abyss, this resulted in Tim Earls (the Art Director for visual effects who joined in season 4) to size the design at 475 metres long as part of a set of size charts he drew up towards the end of season 5, in order to accommodate all the internal areas which had been added by the writers since the designs original conception two years earlier.
White Star (and similar) may refer to:
- Any star with a suitable spectral type
- WhiteStar, a Sega Pinball /Stern Pinball's hardware platform for their pinball games
- White Star (Babylon 5), a fictional starship or class of starship in the Babylon 5 universe
- White Star (cider), a type of British white cider
- White Star Line steamship company
- Whitestar, a common name for the morning glory species Ipomoea lacunosa
- White Star Woluwé F.C., a football club in Belgium
- FBC White Star, a football club in Peru
- Operation White Star, name for a U.S military assistance program to the government of Laos from 1959-1962.
- The Order of the White Star of Estonia
- Tesla Model S, previously codename Whitestar, a Tesla Motors electric sedan
- Wisła Kraków, a football club in Poland
- White Star, Kentucky
- ☆ or U+2606, a Unicode character
White Star is a brand of white cider produced in Somerset, England by the Gaymer Cider Company, under contract for supermarkets and off licences. It is a cider with an alcohol content of 7.5% ( abv).
Its main competition is from other low cost, white ciders such as White Lightning, White Ace and Frosty Jacks.
It is available in 500 ml cans, as well as 1 and 2 litre bottles and is traditionally served over ice. As of 2010, in some off licences it could be purchased for £0.69 per can, a rate of only 18.4 pence per UK unit of alcohol. Today, its current price is £1.00 per can.
It has also been made popular in various Misery Bear videos online.
No one seems to know when White Star cider was first sold to the UK public. Even the brewery who now own the brand name, are unsure of the date of origin of White Star.