Oh shit noice, I love sci-fi first contact/interaction stuff like this. More please!

@mbeeston
 
Read this:
 
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/DropShip
 
It’s science fiction. As in, not real. That’s what he drew in response to the comment thread here:
 
https://derpibooru.org/images/2377367
 
Edit: I don’t know how to make links clickable. Just copy and paste.
 
In the Mechwarrior universe, a DropShip can mass over 100,000 tons. In-universe, the engines to land something that big would be loud. They don’t have antigravity, but they do have nuclear fusion drives. Now think about what it takes to launch a Saturn V or space shuttle, and then scale that up. The engines have to be powerful enough to land something that weighs as much or more than a fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, and land it gently enough not to damage or destroy either it or the cargo it’s carrying.
 
So yeah, “thunder” is an appropriate description.

@Podbeing  
nothing has a rocket for landing that big.  
and if anything did, the ground wouldn’t shake at all if they did.

@mbeeston  
Think “landing” instead of “falling.
 
Things that are landing will have rockets pointing downward to slow their descent, because if they weren’t, they’d be crashing.

… down?  
if they had flares/rockets that bright, they’d be going up..  
falling things don’t have the flares burning in front, they’re behind…

I like thing. This is good thing. I like that you made thing.
 
Since I like things you make, I shall watch you. Consider yourself watched, friendo.

This is some serious feature material.