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* WorthlessYellowRocks: Diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald are all popular ''building materials''. Diamond is used in place of glass on almost everything, and the others are just pretty to look at but not particularly valuable.

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In the distant future, an [[PlanetSpaceship enormous ship larger than many worlds]] is discovered streaking towards the Milky Way at a third the speed of light. The near-immortal, {{TransHuman}} descendants of humanity are the first to set foot on the enormous ship, and the first to claim it. The ancient reactors are warmed up, and life is nurtured inside the millions of enormous caverns inside the ship's hull. A burst from the moon-sized engines catapults the ship around a brown dwarf, setting it into the galactic plane, where humanity sells berths on the Great Ship in exchange for worlds, information, and technology. The nearly indestructible hyperfiber hull makes the Great Ship NighInvulnerable, a very desirable feature to the nearly immortal, fantastically rich sentient entities in the galaxy, who desire something safer than a planet to reside on. Technology, colonization rights, pledges of assistance, and information is sold for the right to reside on the Ship.

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In the distant future, an [[PlanetSpaceship enormous ship larger than many worlds]] is discovered streaking towards the Milky Way at a third the speed of light. The near-immortal, {{TransHuman}} {{transhuman}} descendants of humanity are the first to set foot on the enormous ship, and the first to claim it. The ancient reactors are warmed up, and life is nurtured inside the millions of enormous caverns inside the ship's hull. A burst from the moon-sized engines catapults the ship around a brown dwarf, setting it into the galactic plane, where humanity sells berths on the Great Ship in exchange for worlds, information, and technology. The nearly indestructible hyperfiber hull makes the Great Ship NighInvulnerable, a very desirable feature to the nearly immortal, fantastically rich sentient entities in the galaxy, who desire something safer than a planet to reside on. Technology, colonization rights, pledges of assistance, and information is sold for the right to reside on the Ship.

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There's no point mentioning tropes that aren't present. Plenty of science fiction settings don't have FTL


* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted. While it's not hard to get around, it's ''extremely'' dangerous - when you're moving at a significant percent of the speed of light, a few stray atoms of hydrogen can rip through your hyperfiber shield and annihilate your ship instantly; the dangers of interstellar travel is what makes the Great Ship such a popular destination, as the shallowest habitat in the Ship are buried under several kilometers of hyperfiber.



* CranialProcessingUnit: Averted. AIs in robotic bodies keep their "brain" in the chest.



* FasterThanLightTravel: Averted; FTL is completely impossible.



* MisappliedPhlebotinum: Way averted. Hyperfiber is used for just about everything that it can be used for.



* [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Distance]]: Averted. The Great Ship will take hundreds of thousands of years to complete one circle around the Milky Way. Travel is extremely slow - a small ship spends 900 years accelerating to near lightspeed in order to reach the Great Ship. [[spoiler: Chasing the Greatship across the universe after it leaves the Milky Way is expected to be a multi-million-year mission, if not more.]]
* [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime SciFi Writers Have No Sense of Time]]: Averted with the Great Ship; when it was discovered, the leading face of the hull was battered and scarred from being exposed to intergalatic dust for billions of years. The rocky core of the Great Ship is noted to have been scrubbed of ''any'' radioactive elements that would decay, as it would compromise the integrity of the ship as the elements decayed over millions of years, heating up the core and making it less dense.

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