designed to cross interstellar distances, then it had better have a faster-than-light drive if you don't want to wait several thousand years to get where you're going, and transporters, which may be used to travel to and around any number of Stock Star Systems. To be even cooler, the cool starship may also be a Faceship or come with escape pods, lasers, faster than light drive, note If it really is a star ship, i.e. The lack of facilities is a non-issue, Hand Waved for the Rule of Cool. See the Standard Sci-Fi Fleet for various types.Ĭool ships can even be single-seaters or maybe doubleseaters with no room to get up and walk around but capable of zipping across the cosmos in no time. Often the director or writer will let the audience know that their ship is one of these by doing a Sci-Fi Flyby. In fact, because Space Is an Ocean, it is often heavily inspired by the Cool Boat many spaceship types are named after equivalent water ship types. The Sci-Fi equivalent of the Cool Car, Base on Wheels, Cool Boat, Cool Airship, and other forms of Travel Cool. Okay, dude, quit hogging the cool.Ī form of Cool Ship. If you can't call it a rustbucket, though, it has to be the one and only latest, just-about-a-prototype, bleeding-edge techno-miracle.Īn ancient living Precursor-craft, retrofitted with the latest techno-miracle gadgetry disguised as a rustbucket, that can think for itself. The cool ship can be a spaceship that many other characters consider a piece of junk.
