colony ship
Interstellar emigrant transport
A colony ship is a spacecraft designed to transport settlers to establish a permanent human presence on another world.
The concept appears throughout science fiction, where colony ships carry passengers across interstellar distances—often in suspended animation or across multiple generations.
The colony ship carried ten thousand souls toward a new home.
- suspended animationHalted vital functions, reversible
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- settlersThose who establish homes
- cryosleepFrozen preservation of sleepers
- interstellarBetween celestial bodies
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