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An [[RPG]] trope, especially console RPGs. See also [[Warp Whistle]] and [[Hub Level]].
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== Action Adventure Games ==
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*** The party doesn't make much use of them in the game due to the fact that most of the airships they find are {{spoiler|fal'Cie, and at least one is made up of the detached body parts of the [[Big Bad]]. Sazh makes a passing note on this. The party does find a honest-to-God, regular airship late in the story, but they crash it in a cutscene.}}
* Not a ship so much, but ''[[Borderlands (Video Game)|Borderlands]]'' allows you access to the "Fast Travel Network" moderately late in the game, after you "fix" it. You can only use it to visit places you've already been (and DLC, presumably to prevent "I BOUGHT IT AND IT DOESN'T WORK" complaints), and there's a bit of [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize that, since it uses the New-U stations to teleport you around, it's really just killing you in one place and recreating you in another.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' has the Epoch ([[Hello, Insert Name Here|which may be called something else]]), which not only can fly you to any part of the map, but can allow you to travel to any of the game's preset time periods.
** It doesn't really get to be a [[Global Airship]] until Dalton modifies it, adding wings. Until then it's just a time machine that's rooted in place: but it's still known as the "Wings of Time" because it can fly across time but not space.
* The car from ''[[Fallout 2 (Video Game)|Fallout 2]]'' allows you to cross the map quickly, but it still leaves you vulnerable to [[Random Encounters]] and terrain.
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