Organic Ships

[SirShua]

Do you think organic or living spacecraft will feature in the default setting?

How would you have them function?

I think the easiest way would be to add some flavor about it being grown with living analogs to starship functions, or having them implemented as cybernetics.

[IonutRO]

I think Eoxian ships are organic, albeit made from undead flesh.

I don't see how organic ships would be different from normal ships outside of flavour.

[David knott 242]

I wonder whether the ship in Alien Archive that you would have to be a jerk to use is some sort of organic spaceship?

[Fardragon]

IonutRO wrote:

I think Eoxian ships are organic, albeit made from undead flesh.

I don't see how organic ships would be different from normal ships outside of flavour.

I think the description stated that they where styled to look organic.

But I agree, it shouldn't make any difference if the ship was built or grown. It would still be functionally the same.

[IonutRO]

David knott 242 wrote:

I wonder whether the ship in Alien Archive that you would have to be a jerk to use is some sort of organic spaceship?

Maybe it's a giant enslaved space whale and you're a jerk because it's slavery.

[Fardragon]

IonutRO wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

I wonder whether the ship in Alien Archive that you would have to be a jerk to use is some sort of organic spaceship?

Maybe it's a giant enslaved space whale and you're a jerk because it's slavery.

I saw that story on Doctor Who!

Come to think of it, I wonder if there will be a Starfinder story that Doctor Who hasn't already done?

[Opsylum]

I believe Brethedans are highly skilled bioengineers who adapt their own bodies to create tools or survive in the vacuum of space. They commonly fuse together to create greater, hive mind organisms capable of effectively operating as a self-sustaining corporation or blimplike starships, and through such ingenuity have colonized many of much of Bretheda and its neighboring planet Liavara.

I figure the Xenowardens will probably have something of their own. Drift-free drives, to protect the cosmological environment!

[Voss]

Fardragon wrote:

IonutRO wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

I wonder whether the ship in Alien Archive that you would have to be a jerk to use is some sort of organic spaceship?

Maybe it's a giant enslaved space whale and you're a jerk because it's slavery.

I saw that story on Doctor Who!

Come to think of it, I wonder if there will be a Starfinder story that Doctor Who hasn't already done?

Tricky. Especially considering that was actually a thirty-odd year old X-men story. Though if Jonah had been a bit more enterprising, it could have been a 2000 year old story.

'Already done' is a bad road to travel, it tends to reveal that we're a super unimaginative species, constantly stuck in a 'let me tell you about my character' loop.

[Ouachitonian]

Eh, I had about enough of biotech starships when the Yuuzhan Vong were all the rage in Star Wars. If they exist they exist, but I would be perfectly happy if they don't.

[JetSetRadio]

Have you been reading Saga?

[Imbicatus]

Ouachitonian wrote:

Eh, I had about enough of biotech starships when the Yuuzhan Vong were all the rage in Star Wars. If they exist they exist, but I would be perfectly happy if they don't.

Eh, the Yuuzhan Vong were terrible, but the Vorlon, Shadows, Species 8472, and Moya are all very cool. I'm fine with bio-ships.

[Nathan Monson]

The Dominions of The Black have Bio-Ships, and are almost certainly part of the setting.

[Azten]

I remember a Star Wars novel that had this. How big your ship grew was determined by how high your Midichlorian count was. I quite liked the idea.

[SirShua]

I'm hoping i can get me a pet Leviathan (the starcraft one). They're big, cool looking and can literally punch other ships.

[Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan]

I liked Moya from Farscape.

[Natsu Rage]

SirShua wrote:

I'm hoping i can get me a pet Leviathan (the starcraft one). They're big, cool looking and can literally punch other ships.

too much starcraft 2 for you!...although i also agree this would be awesome...even thought about running a starcraft style game since they give me a hive race.

[PaladinDemo]

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[SirShua]

I've been thinking about an encounter with one. It'd be approaching planetary defenses and would send scourge (little suicide flyers) and broodlords (manta rays that birth then throw creatures called broodlings) at the defenses, and would use mutalisks (flying shooty thing) and scourge to take out the players ship. If it got close enough it would grapple a ship, and deploy other zerg into it to destroy it.