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== Literature ==

* ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'': are giant space ships that are programmed to [[Omnicidal Maniac|kill every form of life in the universe]]. They are quite good at it, but don't consider themselves "alive" due to not being organic.

* ''Nightingale'': the titular hospital ship in [[Alastair Reynolds]]' short story is sapient. Also, the {{spoiler|''Nostalgia For Infinity'' after the melding plague takes over.}}

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Traveller]]'' adventure ''The Kinunir'': The Kinunir's [[AI]] security system [[2001: A Space Odyssey|goes berserk and kills the entire crew of the ship]]. The [[PC]]s must deal with it in order to bring the Kinunir home.

** Many Chaos ships are infused with Daemons, in many cases giving them sapience. Some extreme examples of this slowly devour, or even forego entirely, human crew.

** ''[[Spelljammer]]'': features a legendary [[Living Ship]] known as... well, "''the'' [[Title Drop|Spelljammer]]". It also spawns little cute Smalljammers - unarmed, but very agile living boats with [[Glamour|magical mimicry]] abilities.

** ''Voyage of the "Princess Ark"'' story published as a series of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine articles, was about an Alphatian vessel set out to explore the world of [[Mystara]]. Although initially a "plain" sailing ship enchanted to fly, the Princess Ark eventually had a spirit of an extraplanar creature bound to it, and later became its new "body", acquiring a new layout, the capacity for self-direction and self-defense, and a quirky personality.

* ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Love and Rocket": the Planet Express Ship gets a new AI, which quickly falls in love with Bender.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', it turns out that Optimus's team's ship is {{spoiler|Omega Supreme, one of the largest bots created in the previous war who can transform into a ship}}. For most of the first and second seasons, he was in stasis lock and therefore was not sentient until Ratchet revived him with the help of Sari's key.

 

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