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Space craft in Star Trek

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	===[[Star Trek Starships\|Space craft in Star Trek]]===		===[[Star Trek Starships\|Space craft in Star Trek]]===
	Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, in the TOS era ~~with~~ a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and by the time of the TNG era an entire fleet is able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.		Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, in the TOS era a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and by the time of the TNG era an entire fleet is able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.

	While small shuttles exist and were used for combat a few times, you almost never see a dogfight. Gene Roddenberry asked his NASA advisor about space fighters and was told the boring truth - that there's nothing a space fighter can do that a guided missile (Torpedo in Star Trek's case) can't do.		While small shuttles exist and were used for combat a few times, you almost never see a dogfight. Gene Roddenberry asked his NASA advisor about space fighters and was told the boring truth - that there's nothing a space fighter can do that a guided missile (Torpedo in Star Trek's case) can't do.

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	===[[Star Trek Starships\|Space craft in Star Trek]]===		===[[Star Trek Starships\|Space craft in Star Trek]]===
	Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, with a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and an entire fleet ~~being~~ able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.		Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, in the TOS era with a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and by the time of the TNG era an entire fleet is able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.

	While small shuttles exist and were used for combat a few times, you almost never see a dogfight. Gene Roddenberry asked his NASA advisor about space fighters and was told the boring truth - that there's nothing a space fighter can do that a guided missile (Torpedo in Star Trek's case) can't do.		While small shuttles exist and were used for combat a few times, you almost never see a dogfight. Gene Roddenberry asked his NASA advisor about space fighters and was told the boring truth - that there's nothing a space fighter can do that a guided missile (Torpedo in Star Trek's case) can't do.

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Spacecraft in Warhammer 40,000

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	Unlike most other sci-fi spacecraft, [[Imperium of Man\|Imperial]] ships in the WH40K universe have some special requirements. Instead of traveling faster than the speed of light, they enter an alternate dimension known as the [[Warp]] where the laws of physics are altered, and serves as the basis for most FTL travel in the setting. Because the Warp is basically hell and is full of [[daemon]]s that want to eat your soul, ships also carry Gellar Field generators to keep the ship safe inside a bubble of realspace. The liberal use of religious iconography also helps to ward off unwelcome visitors. In addition, Imperial ships make use of a [[Navigator]], a special strain of mutant that uses his psychic abilities to locate the [[Astronomicon]] found on Earth, and use its location to plot a course to their destination.		Unlike most other sci-fi spacecraft, [[Imperium of Man\|Imperial]] ships in the WH40K universe have some special requirements. Instead of traveling faster than the speed of light, they enter an alternate dimension known as the [[Warp]] where the laws of physics are altered, and serves as the basis for most FTL travel in the setting. Because the Warp is basically hell and is full of [[daemon]]s that want to eat your soul, ships also carry Gellar Field generators to keep the ship safe inside a bubble of realspace. The liberal use of religious iconography also helps to ward off unwelcome visitors. In addition, Imperial ships make use of a [[Navigator]], a special strain of mutant that uses his psychic abilities to locate the [[Astronomicon]] found on Earth, and use its location to plot a course to their destination.

	All that being said, the Warp is still quite treacherous and unpredictable, and a single accident can cause a ship to become irrevocably lost. Sometimes however, a ship returns to realspace as part of a [[Space Hulk]], which can house all manner of nasty threats to nearby planets. Other factions thus sometimes use slower but more reliable means of travel, such as the Ether Drives of the [[Tau]] which merely dip into the Warp.		All that being said, the Warp is still quite treacherous and unpredictable, and a single accident can cause a ship to become irrevocably lost. Sometimes however, a ship returns to realspace as part of a [[Space Hulk]], which can house all manner of nasty threats to nearby planets. Other factions thus sometimes use slower but more reliable means of travel, such as the Ether Drives of the [[Tau]] which merely dip into the Warp. A phenomenon called “Warp Storms” can make large swaths of space closed off to space travel, as the storm creates an impassable barrier (generally speaking; sometimes a route through the storm may exist such as the [[Cadia\|Cadian Gate]], making it a frequent target for chaos attacks). The most famous example is the [[Eye of Terror]].

	For other means of travel that do not rely on the Warp, when they don't use [[Dolmen Gate\|Dolmen Gates]], [[Necron]] ships use Inertialess Drives which removes all inertia from a ship. The [[Tyranid]] don't make use of the Warp at all to travel, though their ships are not individually capable of FTL. Instead, they have a specialized bio-ship called a [[Narvhal]], which senses distant systems and warps spacetime to create tunnels toward them for their fleets, similar to a wormhole. The tunnels break down in the presence of strong gravity wells, however, forcing the fleet to slow down as they approach their target and reach planets through more conventional means.		For other means of travel that do not rely on the Warp, when they don't use [[Dolmen Gate\|Dolmen Gates]], [[Necron]] ships use Inertialess Drives which removes all inertia from a ship. The [[Tyranid]] don't make use of the Warp at all to travel, though their ships are not individually capable of FTL. Instead, they have a specialized bio-ship called a [[Narvhal]], which senses distant systems and warps spacetime to create tunnels toward them for their fleets, similar to a wormhole. The tunnels break down in the presence of strong gravity wells, however, forcing the fleet to slow down as they approach their target and reach planets through more conventional means.

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Things you'll want on a large spaceship

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	* '''Artificial Gravity''': Less advanced spaceships can get it via centrifugal force by having rotating sections. More advanced ones don't really need explaining how they do it. It's a big deal as even life on the ISS has shown how microgravity can make the human body suffer weakened cardiovascular systems, brittle bones, and degraded eyesight (called Spaceflight associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome) from nerves being pinched by bodily fluids normally restrained by gravity. The former two can be mitigated with copious exercise, latter currently has no viable method to counter unless inertial rotation to generate artificial gravity is used.		* '''Artificial Gravity''': Less advanced spaceships can get it via centrifugal force by having rotating sections. More advanced ones don't really need explaining how they do it. It's a big deal as even life on the ISS has shown how microgravity can make the human body suffer weakened cardiovascular systems, brittle bones, and degraded eyesight (called Spaceflight associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome) from nerves being pinched by bodily fluids normally restrained by gravity. The former two can be mitigated with copious exercise, latter currently has no viable method to counter unless inertial rotation to generate artificial gravity is used.
	* '''Parasites''': No, not [[Nurgle\|like that]]. One or more small ships your big-ship carries around for various purposes. These start with simple EVA sleds for moving stuff around the ship and small drones to escape pods, work craft with articulated arms for repairs, construction or salvage, mining ships to top up on raw materials from asteroids, shuttles to move stuff from ship to ship without having to dock and Dropships for when you want to land on a planet.		* '''Parasites''': No, not [[Nurgle\|like that]]. One or more small ships your big-ship carries around for various purposes. These start with simple EVA sleds for moving stuff around the ship and small drones to escape pods, work craft with articulated arms for repairs, construction or salvage, mining ships to top up on raw materials from asteroids, shuttles to move stuff from ship to ship without having to dock and Dropships for when you want to land on a planet.
	*'''FTL Drive''': Even if a ship has enough propulsion to reach light-speed it will still hate a couple of years at best to reach another system because of those pesky things called laws of physics. An FTL drives solves that problem, either bends the laws of physics around the spaceship so it can go faster, takeing the spaceship through another dimension where said laws just don't apply, or creating an artificial wormhole to connect two places. There are a couple of theoretical FTL drives, which sci-fi writers keep using, but since we have nothing concrete with our current science feel free to use any principle that sounds pseudo-scientific.		*'''FTL Drive''': Even if a ship has enough propulsion to reach light-speed it will still hate a couple of years at best to reach another system because of those pesky things called laws of physics. An FTL drives solves that problem, either bends the laws of physics around the spaceship so it can go faster, takeing the spaceship through another dimension where said laws just don't apply, or creating an artificial wormhole to connect two places. There are a couple of theoretical FTL drives, which sci-fi writers keep using, but since we have nothing concrete with our current science feel free to use any principle that sounds pseudo-scientific. It should be noted that the distance to the closest galaxy is just 20 times the length of our galaxy so any ship that can travel the galaxy in less than a week should have no trouble reaching another galaxy.

	=== Things you'll want on a slow spaceship ===		=== Things you'll want on a slow spaceship ===

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	* '''Artificial Gravity''': Less advanced spaceships can get it via centrifugal force by having rotating sections. More advanced ones don't really need explaining how they do it. It's a big deal as even life on the ISS has shown how microgravity can make the human body suffer weakened cardiovascular systems, brittle bones, and degraded eyesight (called Spaceflight associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome) from nerves being pinched by bodily fluids normally restrained by gravity. The former two can be mitigated with copious exercise, latter currently has no viable method to counter unless inertial rotation to generate artificial gravity is used.		* '''Artificial Gravity''': Less advanced spaceships can get it via centrifugal force by having rotating sections. More advanced ones don't really need explaining how they do it. It's a big deal as even life on the ISS has shown how microgravity can make the human body suffer weakened cardiovascular systems, brittle bones, and degraded eyesight (called Spaceflight associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome) from nerves being pinched by bodily fluids normally restrained by gravity. The former two can be mitigated with copious exercise, latter currently has no viable method to counter unless inertial rotation to generate artificial gravity is used.
	* '''Parasites''': No, not [[Nurgle\|like that]]. One or more small ships your big-ship carries around for various purposes. These start with simple EVA sleds for moving stuff around the ship and small drones to escape pods, work craft with articulated arms for repairs, construction or salvage, mining ships to top up on raw materials from asteroids, shuttles to move stuff from ship to ship without having to dock and Dropships for when you want to land on a planet.		* '''Parasites''': No, not [[Nurgle\|like that]]. One or more small ships your big-ship carries around for various purposes. These start with simple EVA sleds for moving stuff around the ship and small drones to escape pods, work craft with articulated arms for repairs, construction or salvage, mining ships to top up on raw materials from asteroids, shuttles to move stuff from ship to ship without having to dock and Dropships for when you want to land on a planet.
	*'''FTL Drive''': ~~If you want~~ to ~~go to other star systems in less than~~ a couple of years at best, ~~you'll need one. Usually the drive~~ either bends the laws of physics around the spaceship so it can go faster, ~~takes~~ the spaceship through another dimension where said laws just don't apply, or ~~creates~~ an artificial wormhole to connect two places. There are a couple of theoretical FTL drives, which sci-fi writers keep using, but since we have nothing concrete with our current science feel free to use any principle that sounds pseudo-scientific.		*'''FTL Drive''': Even if a ship has enough propulsion to reach light-speed it will still hate a couple of years at best to reach another system because of those pesky things called laws of physics. An FTL drives solves that problem, either bends the laws of physics around the spaceship so it can go faster, takeing the spaceship through another dimension where said laws just don't apply, or creating an artificial wormhole to connect two places. There are a couple of theoretical FTL drives, which sci-fi writers keep using, but since we have nothing concrete with our current science feel free to use any principle that sounds pseudo-scientific.

	=== Things you'll want on a slow spaceship ===		=== Things you'll want on a slow spaceship ===

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So you want to build a Spaceship

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	== So you want to build a Spaceship ==		== So you want to build a Spaceship ==
	Lets say you have the means to get into space and you want to build a vehicle to get around in (barring any simulation experiments like the [[Video games\|Kerbal Space Program]]). Well it's going to need a few things.		Lets say you have the means to get into space and you want to build a vehicle to get around in (barring any simulation experiments like the [[Video games\|Kerbal Space Program]]). Well it's going to need a few things, at least for human and most species' ships. A few alien ships can do without some of these if the species is sufficiently...well...alien, compared to humans.

	=== Things your spaceship needs ===		=== Things your spaceship needs ===

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Spacecraft in Star Trek

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	In addition, starships require sophisticated computers to perform navigation calculations before every jump, to avoid slamming into any celestial bodies in transit. This is why ships tend to stick to well-plotted "hyperspace routes," where the pathway is known to be clear of obstacles and can accept a high volume of traffic. Much lesser-known routes tend to be closely guarded secrets for strategic purposes (clandestine smuggling, top secret building projects, a shortcut to important hub worlds, etc). Being able to guard a hyperspace route effectively from outsiders, or else discovering a new route to land your forces right on top of your enemy's capital, can make a huge difference in an interstellar war. That said, you can cross the galaxy in at most a matter of days.		In addition, starships require sophisticated computers to perform navigation calculations before every jump, to avoid slamming into any celestial bodies in transit. This is why ships tend to stick to well-plotted "hyperspace routes," where the pathway is known to be clear of obstacles and can accept a high volume of traffic. Much lesser-known routes tend to be closely guarded secrets for strategic purposes (clandestine smuggling, top secret building projects, a shortcut to important hub worlds, etc). Being able to guard a hyperspace route effectively from outsiders, or else discovering a new route to land your forces right on top of your enemy's capital, can make a huge difference in an interstellar war. That said, you can cross the galaxy in at most a matter of days.

	===~~Spacecraft in~~ [[Star Trek]]===		===[[Star Trek Starships\|Space craft in Star Trek]]===
	Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, with a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and an entire fleet being able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.		Spaceships in Star Trek use antimatter reactors called "warp cores", meaning that any breach from battle damage will destroy the ship as antimatter and matter get along worse than pretty much everything in existence. Weapons are also very immensely powerful, with a single ship being able to destroy a planet with enough time and an entire fleet being able to do it in a few seconds. Because of this every time you hear the shields fail completely means the ship will be destroyed within the next 2 hits or so. Star Trek created the trope of consoles exploding during battles, as hearing "shields down to 60%" alone just doesn't show tension well.

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Spaceships in Fantasy

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	== Spaceships in Fantasy ==		== Spaceships in Fantasy ==
	Needless to say, Spaceships are far less common in Fantasy than in Sci-Fi. The best you’ll find are magically powered Arks or so that carry exiled civilizations from one world to another. Not much thought is put into how they can be used beyond transportation or habitation.		Needless to say, Spaceships are far less common in Fantasy than in Sci-Fi. The best you’ll find are magically powered Arks or so that carry exiled civilizations from one world to another. Not much thought is put into how they can be used beyond transportation or habitation.

			That said there is the occasional exception, such as [[Spelljammer]].

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