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* ''[[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 (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.}}

** 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.

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* The entire world of ''[[Phantasy Star]] 3'' takes place on one of these. Later, in ''Phantasy Star 4'', the heroes find the wreckage of one such ship that had fallen from the sky.

** To elaborate a little bit, these things were basically planetary escape pods, sent out when Parma exploded. Didn't go too well, though - some got lost, some were caught in the explosion and destroyed.. the one mentioned above was crippled in the escape and suffered the nasty fate of getting stuck in a decaying orbit around Motavia.

* In ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ 5]]'' the Veruni spent most of the 10,000 years they wandered for a new home on their ship, Locus Solus. By the time the Veruni have settled on Filgaia the ship itself is considered by many of the Veruni to be their homeland, and they revere it to the point of calling the ship Mother.

* In ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'' the Veruni spent most of the 10,000 years they wandered for a new home on their ship, Locus Solus. By the time the Veruni have settled on Filgaia the ship itself is considered by many of the Veruni to be their homeland, and they revere it to the point of calling the ship Mother.

* According to the manual, you can occasionally run across these in the original ''[[Elite]]''; however, that's the ''only'' place they exist in that game. In the expandable remake ''[[Oolite]]'' on the other hand, you can ''really'' run across them with the right [[Game Mod|OXP]].

* The titular ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' colony ship.