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** In a possible subversion, even Free Traders are major investments. It is [[Your Mileage May Vary|worth a guess]] that even on a small ship, the bridge(if not the hold) will look like a library or an office, rather then like the classic [[Firefly]] or Millenium Falcon style.
* As with the Literature example above, any game with a cyberpunk setting will have this trope in effect by default.
* There's something about having as a "pet" some oversized bastard child of [[The Alleged Car]] from [[Flying Dutchman]] that players (surprisingly often) and GMs ([[Killer Game Master|less]] surprisingly) use just about any system that supports generation of custom spaceships to do this - for style, or just for the hell of it.
** ''[[Traveller]]'' atrocity: "[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12616355/#12618478 The Bucket Of Ever-Seething Rust]".
{{quote|- Which begs the question: [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|WHY HASN'T SOMEBODY LAUNCHED IT INTO THE NEAREST STAR YET]]?
- Perhaps they have tried, dearest anon. Perhaps they have even stayed aboard to make sure the ship goes down this time. }}
** /tg/ -run ''[[Only War]]'' adventure "[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/All_Guardsmen_Party All Guardsmen Party]" had the party stuck with an unlucky ship "Occurrence Border", damaged and jury-rigged again and again over time, to the point where it became a mostly-habitable deathtrap maze fused with somewhat spaceflight-capable [[Rube Goldberg Device]]. Then it fell into hands of the Most Holy Inquisition - but things improved little. Except the Gellar Field (after what happened the last time, Inquisition had the old set replaced with fresh and redundant system) and medbay (this ship ''really needs'' to keep it in a good shape, and anyway, "the old medbay was torn apart by [[Haunted Technology|daemonically possessed]] [[Wetware CPU|servitors]], so everything there is brand-new"). Uneven and unstable gravity is the least of
{{quote|For example, if you rolled 52, 2, and 5, for a Major Xeno-Tech Issue you would discover that an Eldar personal defense system needs to be repaired. At first this seems insurmountable (and indeed, you may wish to simply look stony and roll some more dice if you can't think of anything quickly,) but if you have time to prepare in advance, you might decide that an Eldar Harlequin Flip-Belt was, at one point in time or another, incorporated into the [[Artificial Gravity|grav-plating]] in the spinal corridor of the ship as an expedient repair measure. With the Flip Belt in need of repair, however, the original problem is back; the grav-plating is pulling harder and harder gravity at the dorsal spine of the ship, increasing steadily. Eventually, structural members will give out. It may be techno-heresy, but if you don't repair that Flip Belt, Bad Things will be happening to the Border in short order. }}▼
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== Web Originals ==
* ''[[AH Dot Com the Series]]'', thanks to the ship being a battered old ex-battleship kept running by a fraction of its proper crew.
▲* /tg/ -run ''[[Only War]]'' adventure "[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/All_Guardsmen_Party All Guardsmen Party]" had the party stuck with an unlucky ship "Occurrence Border", damaged and jury-rigged again and again over time, to the point where it became a mostly-habitable deathtrap maze fused with somewhat spaceflight-capable [[Rube Goldberg Device]]. Then it fell into hands of the Most Holy Inquisition - but things improved little. Except the Gellar Field (after what happened the last time, Inquisition had the old set replaced with fresh and redundant system) and medbay (this ship ''really needs'' to keep it in a good shape, and anyway, "the old medbay was torn apart by [[Haunted Technology|daemonically possessed]] [[Wetware CPU|servitors]], so everything there is brand-new"). Uneven and unstable gravity is the least of the problems. The vessel's colourful history and "little quirks" were summarized in a special set of "random encounters", and the guide emphasizes that it needs to be interpreted creatively, in "anything may happen here" way:
▲{{quote|For example, if you rolled 52, 2, and 5, for a Major Xeno-Tech Issue you would discover that an Eldar personal defense system needs to be repaired. At first this seems insurmountable (and indeed, you may wish to simply look stony and roll some more dice if you can't think of anything quickly,) but if you have time to prepare in advance, you might decide that an Eldar Harlequin Flip-Belt was, at one point in time or another, incorporated into the [[Artificial Gravity|grav-plating]] in the spinal corridor of the ship as an expedient repair measure. With the Flip Belt in need of repair, however, the original problem is back; the grav-plating is pulling harder and harder gravity at the dorsal spine of the ship, increasing steadily. Eventually, structural members will give out. It may be techno-heresy, but if you don't repair that Flip Belt, Bad Things will be happening to the Border in short order. }}
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