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* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has the Travelers, who fled the Wraith in a fleet of starships centuries ago. They did try to start a colony on a planet late in the series though.
* The Gatekeepers of ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' are aliens who have, as a result of 100,000 years of genetic engineering, more limbs than can be easily counted and the ability to survive vacuum for short periods.
** According to the extra materials (such as ''Planet Mercenary'' RPG) the Fobott'r for the last eleven centuries are divided to two groups. One is those remaining on their homeworld, the other are soldier caste mercenaries - there were billions of them by the time their kin... forcibly renegotiated their old beads-and-mirrors deals, and they were stranded, so their descendants became spaceship-based nomadic clans when not hired somewhere else.
* In ''[[Freefall]]'' Winston Thurmad has spacer genes and his parents live in an asteroid, but he himself hasn't been in space since the colony ship from home.
* ''[[Orion's Arm]]'' has Space Adapted People, Vacuum Adapted People (for short periods), and [http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f597011eb3c Sailors of the Ebon Seas].
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* The titular characters of ''[[The Space Gypsy Adventures]]'' [[Radio Drama]].
* The "Free Traders" in the [[Robert A. Heinlein]] juvenile ''Citizen of the Galaxy'' live in nomadic clans whose homes are their starships. They are noted for being [[Fantastic Racism|somewhat disdainful of planet-dwellers]], whom they sometimes refer to as "fraki".
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' series lists "Void Born" as one of origin world types. A ship roughly equals a city - with its own traditions and usually inhabited by clans with hereditary jobs, since "small" transports and destroyers have crews of 15-20 thousands, a Grand Cruiser around 120-140 thousands. A common [[Space Station]] has crew around 10000, but total population (mostly civilian) up to ten times greater, and there are much larger ones.
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