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** The ''New Frontiers'' in ''[[Methuselahs Children|Methuselah's Children]]'' was a Generation Ship which was later upgraded with a FTL Drive.
* ''The Galactic Whirlpool'' is set in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], where the Enterprise discovers a generation ship launched just before the Last World War, whose inhabitants have-- surprise surprise --forgotten their origins and descended into barbarism.
* The most extreme example -- in [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[
** The Pak also did this with when they colonized Earth and the Ringworld itself.
*** In addition to that ultra-long journey (half a million years), the Pak have ships that ''would'' be generation ships for a species with less incredible lifespans - Phssthpok flies a ship for 1200 years ([[Time Dilation|ship's time]]), ''alone''.
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== Web Original ==
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