Without interstellar ships there could be no galactic civilization. Information transfer through light-speed links and nanoguage wormhole alone are not enough to bind the Civilized Galaxy together; physical transport by spaceship is also necessary. The type of ship design, function, and drive of interstellar transports have varied greatly throughout history and among the different polities, clades, cultures, and societies, but all have served a vital purpose. Nothing symbolizes Terragen civilization as perfectly as the Ship.
Chillers - Text by John B Chillers are a family of technologies used to reduce ship temperature (and, hence, IR radiation) to the background level.
Civilization Ship - Text by M. Alan Kazlev A massive ship holding vast amounts of data; originally designed as a protection against the collapse of civilisation.
Creihtership - Text by M. Alan Kazlev, modified from original concept by Kevin Self Slang term for Vedokiklek interstellar sub-relativistic (rarely relativistic) freighters (Klhkkteskkdv in the Vedokiklek language.
Explorer Class - Text by M. Alan Kazlev Long range, rugged and reliable self-repairing amat-powered exploration vessel used during the First Federation period. Some remained in service as late as the Empires age, and even today Explorer Class vessels little different from the original design are popular among many minor and independent clades, especially in the outer volumes.
Generation ship - Text by Steve Bowers Huge, slow, self-contained interstellar ships taking more than one lifetime to arrive
Grapeships - Text by Anders Sandberg Grapeships are the most common wormhole nexus passenger and cargo liners in the Inner Sphere and along the main wormhole routes. The ship consists of a "stem" onto which bulbous shuttles are attached (giving them their name due to their similarity to grape bunches).
Interstellar Singleship - Text by ROM 65536 A small, light duty interstellar craft that can be operated for long periods of time by a single individual.
Museum Ship - Text by M. Alan Kazlev Peripatetic curatorial sentient ships acquiring collections of objects, arranged along scientific or aesthetic lines, late Expansion period to present.
Muuh ice ship - Text by Steve Bowers An interstellar spacecraft created by the Muuh from an icy object such as a comet.
Seedship - Text by Steve Bowers Interstellar vessel carrying embryos, gametes or digitised DNA in order to raise humans or other modosophonts on arrival using robotic parents