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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.}}
** We get to see the beginnings of this process in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (Anime)|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
* City 7 of ''[[Macross 7]]'' was a rare example of a faster than light generational ship.
** Macross in general has these, with humanity deliberately spreading itself out to avoid species-ending disasters like the end of the original series. ''[[Macross Plus]]'' is actually the only series set after the original without one.
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* ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' had the Travelers, a race of space nomads who live entirely on self-built ships in order to avoid being culled by the Wraith. Despite their strict population control, they don't have the resources to build new ships any more and were forced to abandon some people on planets where the Wraith culled them. This was why they kidnapped Shephard in their introductory episode: they found an Aurora-class Ancient battlecruiser and needed his ATA gene to get it operational since the ship could carry thousands. They lost one of their ships in the battle above Asuras and with the Replicators gone, they settled on a planet... then the settlement and the Aurora was nuked in the final season when their Stargate exploded.
** The Destiny from ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|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
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S31 E02 The Beast Below|The Beast Below]]" has ''the entire United Kingdom'' (minus Scotland) on a single spaceship, searching for a new home after the Earth becomes uninhabitable. The discovery of just how this massive ship is travelling through space with the engines apparently off forms the main mystery of the episode.
** 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).
* The ''[[Space: 1999]]'' episode 'Mission of the Darians'. The crew of Moonbase Alpha respond to a distress call from a 20 mile long ship on a 900-year voyage. {{spoiler|They discover that an accident a century earlier has wrecked most of the ship and its passengers have reverted to barbarism, except for an elite who are keeping themselves alive by using the others for transplant surgery.}}
* The ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' housed a breeding population of life-forms descended from a single pregnant cat for about 3 million years, long enough for them to evolve sapience and build their own arks to leave.
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