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The fog parted as a feak show curtain, revealing a graveyard of ships. Rusty steel, ancient wood Dhows, Viking long-boats, modern frigates, oil tankers, and luxury cruise liners - they all dipped and bobbed in the same water - vessels from all times, all cultures, all covered in red.
— Lore entry on The Lady Margaret, The Secret World

The surface of the planet was a mess. Ruined ship parts and machinery as far as the eye could see, with discernible individual wrecks visible among unrecognizable heaps of scrap metal and junk. Several large plumes of smoke were visible in the distance, creating a thick layer of haze which was occasionally punctured by more falling debris.

It's like this is a giant spaceship graveyard. [beat] Has anyone else got the feeling that we've been led here like lambs to the kebab shop?
Dave Lister, Red Dwarf

The Void is filled with derelicts - Technocratic Constructs, Traditionalist Chantries, broken pocket dimensions, temporal bubbles, Nephandic strongholds, Voidships and Etherships - all up for grabs and all contested. Centuries of investment are floating out there.
Mage: The Ascension - Convention Book: Void Engineeers (revised)

Here and there, nestled between the trees, were spacecraft. Some had been there so long they were completely overgrown with vines and moss and trees. Some looked like they might have crashed just weeks or at most months before. They were huge, and they were small. Dangerous-looking and innocuous. Some bristled with weapons or were painted fantastically. Others were utilitarian boxes.
All the ships of all the races that had been lured to Father over the millions of years he lay in wait. I had found Father's trash dump.
Animorphs - The Ellimist Chronicles

"The Tolstoy...the Kyushu...the Melbourne."
Lt. Commander Shelby identifying recently-destroyed ships, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The Best of Both Worlds, pt. II"

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