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* ''[[Megazone 23]]'' (the first two installments).
* ''[[Megazone 23]]'' (the first two installments).
* The official backstory for ''[[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' says that {{spoiler|there are no space colonies because they were all converted into Generation Ships and left the Earth Sphere.}}
* The official backstory for ''[[Turn A Gundam|Turn a Gundam]]'' says that {{spoiler|there are no space colonies because they were all converted into Generation Ships and left the Earth Sphere.}}
** We get to see the beginnings of this process in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]''. The [[Wave Motion Gun|Genesis System]] used at the end of the series was originally created as a laser propulsion/nuclear pulse hybrid engine meant to be attached to colonies to facilitate their exodus from the solar system & thus escape the conflict between Naturals & Coordinators, before Patrick Zara decided to repurpose it as a doomsday weapon & tried to use it to end the war in [[Nuke'Em|a more direct manner]]. In the ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'' manga the heroes actually help a neutral colony afix one to use for its intended purpose.
** We get to see the beginnings of this process in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]''. The [[Wave Motion Gun|Genesis System]] used at the end of the series was originally created as a laser propulsion/nuclear pulse hybrid engine meant to be attached to colonies to facilitate their exodus from the solar system & thus escape the conflict between Naturals & Coordinators, before Patrick Zara decided to repurpose it as a doomsday weapon & tried to use it to end the war in [[Nuke'Em|a more direct manner]]. In the ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'' manga the heroes actually help a neutral colony afix one to use for its intended purpose.
* City 7 of ''[[Macross 7]]'' was a rare example of a faster than light generational ship.
* City 7 of ''[[Macross 7]]'' was a rare example of a faster than light generational ship.
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== Comic Books ==
== Comic Books ==


* A ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' story had the FF come across an [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/kestoranracenegzone.htm alien race] who had been traveling so long that they had adapted to their ship's artificial environment and could not survive on a planet. When Reed reveals this to their captain, he [[Go Mad From the Revelation|doesn't take it well]]. Ultimately the next leader decides to keep the truth from her people [[I Did What I Had to Do|for the greater good]].
* A ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' story had the FF come across an [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/kestoranracenegzone.htm alien race] who had been traveling so long that they had adapted to their ship's artificial environment and could not survive on a planet. When Reed reveals this to their captain, he [[Go Mad from the Revelation|doesn't take it well]]. Ultimately the next leader decides to keep the truth from her people [[I Did What I Had to Do|for the greater good]].
** He doesn't take it well because the religion he follows find the idea that they are not as their god created them but have evolved abhorrent. He commits suicide. Incidentally all the aliens look the same. It's a bit of a surprise to find the first mate is female, the captain's wife, and that her ancestors knew all along but kept it a secret.
** He doesn't take it well because the religion he follows find the idea that they are not as their god created them but have evolved abhorrent. He commits suicide. Incidentally all the aliens look the same. It's a bit of a surprise to find the first mate is female, the captain's wife, and that her ancestors knew all along but kept it a secret.
* The [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/levianst.htm Levians] were another comics race who lived on a generation ship and encountered Earth superheroes.
* The [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/levianst.htm Levians] were another comics race who lived on a generation ship and encountered Earth superheroes.
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*** It was the same planet that the team had been warped to in the pilot to receive their powers and was the home of the team's resident [[Human Alien]]. So, not so much luck as destiny.
*** It was the same planet that the team had been warped to in the pilot to receive their powers and was the home of the team's resident [[Human Alien]]. So, not so much luck as destiny.
* [[All There in the Manual|It appears]] the 'Verse was colonized by these in ''[[Firefly]]''.
* [[All There in the Manual|It appears]] the 'Verse was colonized by these in ''[[Firefly]]''.
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' has "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky".
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' has "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky".
** And "By Any Other Name" had a faster-than-light generation ship that the Kelvans used for the immense journey between galaxies.
** And "By Any Other Name" had a faster-than-light generation ship that the Kelvans used for the immense journey between galaxies.
*** [[Fridge Logic|Silly of them not to have gone ''just slower than light'' and have made the trip in a (subjective) day.]]
*** [[Fridge Logic|Silly of them not to have gone ''just slower than light'' and have made the trip in a (subjective) day.]]
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|If they had gone slower than light, it would have taken them over 2 million years to get to an Andromeda Galaxy that had been uninhabitable since the 123rd century due to increasing radiation levels.]]
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|If they had gone slower than light, it would have taken them over 2 million years to get to an Andromeda Galaxy that had been uninhabitable since the 123rd century due to increasing radiation levels.]]
* The ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "The Disease" has a generation ship which is over four hundred years old.
* The ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "The Disease" has a generation ship which is over four hundred years old.
** In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'', this was the original concept of the ''Galaxy''-class ships like the Enterprise-D. In practice, they [[Travel At The Speed Of Plot]] and between that and the amount of combat scenarios encountered, the idea of ''Enterprise''-as-a-family-poting was dropped from future iterations of the franchise.
** In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', this was the original concept of the ''Galaxy''-class ships like the Enterprise-D. In practice, they [[Travel At The Speed Of Plot]] and between that and the amount of combat scenarios encountered, the idea of ''Enterprise''-as-a-family-poting was dropped from future iterations of the franchise.
** In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'', the enterprise {{spoiler|gets sent 100 years back in time with [[Trapped in the Past|no way to return]]}}. The Enterprise then becomes a Generational Vessel {{spoiler|in one of the few successful attempts at not screwing up the time line, though they wanted to change one thing while staying out of the way until it happened.}} {{spoiler|They succeed so well that by traveling on [[The Slow Path]], they meet their parents/grandparents, completely the same as the ones that went back.}}
** In an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', the enterprise {{spoiler|gets sent 100 years back in time with [[Trapped in the Past|no way to return]]}}. The Enterprise then becomes a Generational Vessel {{spoiler|in one of the few successful attempts at not screwing up the time line, though they wanted to change one thing while staying out of the way until it happened.}} {{spoiler|They succeed so well that by traveling on [[The Slow Path]], they meet their parents/grandparents, completely the same as the ones that went back.}}
** Janeway often wonders whether "Voyager" will become such a ship itself: the original return estimate is 70 years, after all. {{spoiler|they make it in seven}}
** Janeway often wonders whether "Voyager" will become such a ship itself: the original return estimate is 70 years, after all. {{spoiler|they make it in seven}}
* The Magog Worldship on ''[[Andromeda]]''.
* The Magog Worldship on ''[[Andromeda]]''.
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== Tabletop Games ==
== Tabletop Games ==


* The Eldar Craftworlds in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. They do have FTL-capabilities, but since they are essentially spacefaring colonies designed to house the survivors of the Fall, they count.
* The Eldar Craftworlds in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. They do have FTL-capabilities, but since they are essentially spacefaring colonies designed to house the survivors of the Fall, they count.
** Most human vessels as well. Military craft and the ships of rogue traders have warp drives. Everyone else does it the hard way. It takes a few decades for short trips, each way.
** Most human vessels as well. Military craft and the ships of rogue traders have warp drives. Everyone else does it the hard way. It takes a few decades for short trips, each way.
** Actually, virtually all Imperial ships (interstellar ones that is) are this - their bigger ships frequently have issues with the spontaneous development of small civilisations in less well-known parts of the hulls. Also, with mixed-gender crews in the thousands on a ship that serves for millennia, it is sort-of inevitable.
** Actually, virtually all Imperial ships (interstellar ones that is) are this - their bigger ships frequently have issues with the spontaneous development of small civilisations in less well-known parts of the hulls. Also, with mixed-gender crews in the thousands on a ship that serves for millennia, it is sort-of inevitable.
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