#ANCIENT SPACE TV TROPES FREE#

They refuse to settle down due to the ever-present danger of the Wraith, who destroy all advanced cultures. The current crew of Red Dwarf count too, since they're travelling through the universe in a bid to return back to the their home system.They first evolved on the mining spaceship Red Dwarf before leaving it, and are revealed in 'The Promised Land' to be currently roaming the universe in a fleet of spaceships. Lastly, the Reavers are somewhere between an Always Chaotic Evil version of this trope and Space Cossacks, as seen in the Big Damn Movie: They have one region of space that they call home, but travel all over the 'verse looking for somewhere to Rape, Pillage, and Burn. Mal also counts, after a fashion: He grew up on the surface of a colony world, but after losing his home and family during the Unification War his only home is aboard the Serenity. Firefly: Zoe (at least according to supplemental materials) is the daughter of two tramp freighter crewmembers and spent most of her childhood in space.They'll only land on a planet when they need to grow new Sackers and head right back to their ship once the new Sacker or Sackers are mature enough to handle space travel. The Three Minute Universe features a race of brown note beings called Sackers who wander the galaxy ever since an unspecified incident happened to their home system.This aspect of their society makes it difficult for Thrawn to decisively defeat them, as the Vagaari fleet can easily disperse and regroup elsewhere anytime they're attacked. Instead, their entire civilization is housed aboard a vast fleet of starships which the Vagaari maintain using slaves taken from planetary raids. This is because their culture views having any sort of attachment (including home) as a weakness.

The Vagaari from Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight are an interesting example of this since the Unknown Regions sourcebook establishes that they do have a homeworld and their nomadic lifestyle is purely by choice.and, being the Yuuzhan Vong, promptly try to take over. After being in transit for millennia, they finally arrive at the Galaxy Far Far Away. After their home galaxy was completely devastated during a massive war, they loaded their entire population onto massive organic worldships and left to find a new one. New Jedi Order: The Yuuzhan Vong were like this for much of their history.Presumably, the two civilizations destroyed each other, and the survivors banded together and now travel through space in what's left of their fleets, looking for more primitive races to scam for resources. They are The Remnant of two once-powerful interstellar civilizations, who were at war with one another. In Invasion: Earth, both alien races turn out to be this.The Remoras, a Human Subspecies residing on the ship's outer hull, rarely enter the ship proper and spend their entire lives on the hull or in the space immediately around it. While the majority of the residents have planetary holdings, one race lost control of their own system and have a large community on the Great Ship. Great Ship: The eponymous ship is a Jupiter-sized starship housing billions of transhuman beings that paid for their way onto the Starship Luxurious either for only a short duration, a circuit around the Milky Way, or, for a much larger price, permanent residence.The Qeng Ho hold that if they start to use the local time system (days/months/years) instead of their UNIX-time based system ( seconds/kiloseconds/megaseconds, etc), they've been in the system for too long.

In A Deepness in the Sky, the Qeng Ho traders are a loose collective of interstellar traders that travel via slower-than-light Ram Scoop-powered Sleeper Starships.The Culture: Many people in the Culture live their lives on space craft which travel around, and consider planetary life to be a weird concept.The Citizen Series: The Riders are a nomadic hunter-gatherer culture that travel from world to world on mysterious 'beasts' that can travel through the Continuum unaided.

#ANCIENT SPACE TV TROPES FREE#

Citizen of the Galaxy: The Free Traders are a Proud Merchant Race who spend their entire lives hopping between planets, buying and selling.

They spent forty million years hiding in deep space, and after the Qu left they had become too specialized to re-adapt to planetary life.

The Spaceborn, descended from those few humans who escaped the Qu invasion by creating hollow, moon-sized Generation Ships and adapting themselves for a life in zero gravity.

This is what brought them to the worlds of men, and why they later left.

The Qu, who wander between galaxies in vast migrations on a quest to reshape the universe.

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