Generation Ships: Difference between revisions

** The Destiny from ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' could be seen as a generation ship, in that it not only took the resources of an entire generation to build, but wasn't even boarded until over a million years after it launched. While it is a ship on autopilot and flies through FTL, the scope of its mission is so large that the [[Precursors|Ancients]] who built it could not have hoped that they or their children would be alive to see that mission to its end.

** The Novus civilization, founded by the crew of the Destiny over 2000 years before the crew actually encounters Novus ([[Timey-Wimey Ball|long story]]), dedicated its resources to building a fleet of ships for its millions of citizens so that they could evacuate their dying world. They will reach their destination in a few hundred years (in stark contrast to the 10 days Destiny needs to cover the same distance with its FTL).

** And the Doctor claims it is just one of many, with each country building their own ship. The others are just not shown.

** Much earlier, First Doctor serial ''The Ark'', had the title spacecraft serving as both a generational ship for its crew (of both humans and subservient aliens), and as a [[Human Popsicle]]-stand for the remaining billions of humans and subservient aliens, since a ship that could carry both species in their entirety would've been far too massive to build (or move).