I may buy Kingdoms in a few months but M2:TW Vanilla is pretty meh so I'm not really in a hurry to buy the expansion. Plus I want spore first.
Now for me to post some pics.
This is my "Launching Ship" from Gal-Civ2
Its basically a huge launching system for getting ships into orbit. (though serves no purpose in the game) Ship sits on the platform, its launched into orbit and the 6 little shuttle pods on the edges of it help guide it back to earth.