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* The Fhloston Paradise in ''Film/TheFifthElement'', which is designed to be a luxury line in space. Its interior is a combination of a five-star hotel and the Sydney Opera House. It also works as a low-altitude airship so patrons can visit the beach. Sadly, though not surprisingly, it gets blown up at the climax of the film.

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* The Fhloston Paradise in ''Film/TheFifthElement'', which is designed to be a luxury line liner in space. Its interior is a combination of a five-star hotel and the Sydney Opera House. It also works as a low-altitude airship so patrons can visit the beach. Sadly, though not surprisingly, it gets blown up at the climax of the film.
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*** Surprisingly enough, this is less the case than it might seem for modern airliners. The profit margins on low-density high-luxury first class seating, which in some regional airlines can include beds or even ''cabins'', vastly outstrip those of the economy section. The issue tends to be demand. While there are some people willing to pay five figures for the full flying hotel experience, it's not nearly enough to fill regularly flights even on high-traffic routes. In comparison, while profit margins per square footage of plane is lower for economy seats, the ''demand'' for them is higher, even in proportion, and ensures the Airline doesn't either end up with massive amounts of empty seating or idle planes burning money.
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* Much as with Live Action TV and Films above, it's probably useful to keep in mind camera and pathing limitations when dealing with the common isometric, over-the-shoulder, and third-person cameras found in games limiting the usability of cramped corridors.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Alien ships, such as Ha'taks and Atlantis-class city ships, are generally larger and more spacious than Earth ships. The Atlanteans at least had the excuse that they were actually [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] and one step short of becoming [[PhysicalGod physical gods]] and were building these city-ships to, you know, live in. And to the Goa'uld, the spacious nature of the Ha'tak motherships had a dual role: to carry large numbers of [[{{Mooks}} Jaffa]] troops and Death Gliders, and to reinforce their carefully cultivated image as [[AGodAmI gods]]. Even the smallest Asgard ships, the ''Daniel Jackson''-class science vessel, is larger than a Ha'tak. All Asgard ships have a standard crew of a single [[TheGreys very small]] person.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': If it weren't literally falling apart around their ears, the ''Destiny'' would have been quite luxurious. There are spectacular viewing decks and everyone gets his own room with a large bed, sheets and comfy duvet, which must have come with the ship, since no one is seen dragging a mattress through the gate during the evacuation of Icarus Base.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Atlantis is technically a spaceship. And a city, roughly the size of Manhattan with 150-200 square feet rooms having an internal height over 12 feet. But as mentioned above, city-ships like Atlantis were meant to be lived in ''permanently''. They were designed as cities first and ships second (to the point that they don't actually have airtight hulls; they need their [[DeflectorShields shields]] operational to fly through space), so comfort was of paramount importance.

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* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Alien ships, such as Ha'taks and Atlantis-class city ships, are generally larger and more spacious than Earth ships. The Atlanteans at least had the excuse that they were actually [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] and one step short of becoming [[PhysicalGod physical gods]] and were building these city-ships to, you know, live in. And to the Goa'uld, the spacious nature of the Ha'tak motherships had a dual role: to carry large numbers of [[{{Mooks}} Jaffa]] troops and Death Gliders, and to reinforce their carefully cultivated image as [[AGodAmI gods]]. Even the smallest Asgard ships, the ''Daniel Jackson''-class science vessel, is larger than a Ha'tak. All And Asgard ships have a standard crew of a single are crewed by [[TheGreys very small]] person.
people with levels of automation that allow them to be flown remotely or autonomously, or just one person. That said, they also posses the best drive technology in the known universe (spanning multiple galaxies at this point), along with extremely potent fabrication technology, combined with a very small total population, and very little need to do anything efficiently in our sense of the world (they literally say that the idea of propelling pieces of metal with explosives never occurred to them, for example). Even when pushed to more frantic ship-building by the Replicators, they keep building humongous ships - though them being so open might be an advantage when a single replicator that hides out of sight can replicate and take over the whole ship in a few hours.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': If it weren't literally falling apart around their ears, the ''Destiny'' would have been quite luxurious. There are spectacular viewing decks and everyone gets his own room with a large bed, sheets and comfy duvet, which must have come with the ship, since no one is seen dragging a mattress through the gate during the evacuation of Icarus Base.
Base. On the one hand, the ship's purpose was to cross the entire universe at FTL... on the other hand, it was supposed to be autonomous and uncrewed until it reaches its destination (and is connected through the Stargate).
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Atlantis is technically a spaceship. And a city, roughly the size of Manhattan with 150-200 square feet rooms having an internal height over 12 feet. But as mentioned above, city-ships like Atlantis were meant to be lived in ''permanently''. They were designed as cities first and ships second (to the point that they don't actually have airtight hulls; they need their [[DeflectorShields shields]] operational to fly through space), so comfort was of paramount importance. Their warships are still very spacious compared to modern naval vessels, but compared to other ships in the Stargate universe, they're a lot more reasonable (and likely weren't primarily designed to be warships).

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* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'': The Leviathan is the gigantic, mobile pleasure palace of the fantastically hedonistic Emperor Calus, who may have been ousted and exiled from the Cabal Empire but at least got to do so aboard it. Every surface that isn’t polished white marble is plated with gold and elaborately trimmed, and onboard luxuries include public baths, pleasure gardens, vast libraries, and gladiatorial deathmatches. Many of those locations are open-aired, retaining atmosphere only via SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. Also, the ship itself is a PlanetEater engineered to swallow planetoids whole and process them into wine. The player also gets to visit the massive, grimy, machinery-filled engineering sections that keep the rest of the ship running luxuriously

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* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'': The Leviathan is the gigantic, mobile pleasure palace of the fantastically hedonistic Emperor Calus, who may have been ousted and exiled from the Cabal Empire but at least got to do so aboard it. Every surface that isn’t polished white marble is plated with gold and elaborately trimmed, and onboard luxuries include public baths, pleasure gardens, vast libraries, and gladiatorial deathmatches. Many of those locations are open-aired, retaining atmosphere only via SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. Also, the ship itself is a PlanetEater engineered to swallow planetoids whole and process them into wine. The player also gets to visit the massive, grimy, machinery-filled engineering sections that keep the rest of the ship running luxuriouslyluxuriously.
* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'': The higher up in a starship (namely, yours) you get, the more luxurious you get. The top level, for the Rogue Trader and senior officers, has virtually every luxury you can ask for available at your beck and call. In contrast, the lower decks where the common crew live are dingy and unappealing warrens of tunnels.
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Often overlaps with UnnecessarilyLargeVessel. May overlap with MileLongShip or even PlanetSpaceship. Contrasts with the cramped quarters in salvaged UsedFuture spaceships.

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Often overlaps with UnnecessarilyLargeVessel.UnnecessarilyLargeVessel and SpaceSailing. May overlap with MileLongShip or even PlanetSpaceship. Contrasts with the cramped quarters in salvaged UsedFuture spaceships.
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* In ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'', this is the ''Ares'' to the point of parody as Vance is mystified by all of the amenities on what was supposed to be a battleship (and formerly was during the Kolahn War). After it's refit, it has carpeting and suites plus an actual ''mall'' including gift shop. {{Justified}} by the fact Vance wanted to captain a warship but it is now a vessel of diplomacy.

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* In ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'', this is the ''Ares'' to the point of parody as Vance is mystified by all of the amenities on what was supposed to be a battleship (and formerly was during the Kolahn War). After it's refit, it has carpeting and suites plus an actual ''mall'' including gift shop. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact Vance wanted to captain a warship but it is now a vessel of diplomacy.
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* The second starship we're introduced to in ''Literature/{{Deathstalker}}'' is Owen's ''emergency escape yacht'', which he keeps around just in case it'll come in handy. Naturally, it does. (Contrast the ''first'' starship, which is very much [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Spaceship]], an old busted-up smuggler's runabout with a crew of two.) There's also the Deathstalker Standing, which gains bonus points for being a literal castle.

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* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Spoofed when Scotty finds himself running for a control terminal which is at the end of a very long hangar bay.
-->'''Scotty:''' I'm running! *pant* *pant* ...[[OverlyLongGag Still running!]]

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* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'':
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Spoofed when Scotty finds himself running for a control terminal which is at the end of a very long hangar bay.
-->'''Scotty:''' --->'''Scotty:''' I'm running! *pant* *pant* ...[[OverlyLongGag Still running!]]
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The first ship Arthur and Ford find themselves on, Arthur complains is squalid, and Ford justifies as a "working ship". Arthur's book reaction to the Heart of Gold is mostly still bewilderment over being on spaceships at all.


** In the novels, he finds the bright, white and roomy ''Heart of Gold'' strange. When they stumble on an old spaceship, one that is dark and cramped, Ford is unimpressed, maybe even disgusted, but Arthur finds it fitting.
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** The ''Tempest'', the equivalent of the ''Normandy'' from ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', is smaller than the SR-1 and slightly more compact and efficient, though also runs with a considerably smaller crew. It still has an unusually large set of quarters for the Pathfinder, possible even larger than the space allowed for the crew quarters for everyone else to share, but given the Pathfinder's quasi-diplomatic role this may have been intended to allow for private meetings.

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** The ''Tempest'', the equivalent of the ''Normandy'' from ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', is smaller than the SR-1 and slightly more compact and efficient, though also runs with a considerably smaller crew. It still has an unusually large set of quarters for the Pathfinder, possible even larger than the space allowed for the crew quarters for everyone else to share, but given the Pathfinder's quasi-diplomatic role this may have been intended to allow for private meetings. Also, it's an unarmed civilian vessal so it has more room to devote to crew amenities than either Normandy did.
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** This returns in full with the redesigned ''Enterprise'' on ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds''. Most notable are the ''gargantuan'' officer's quarters, which are about four times the size of Kirk's quarters on the original series.
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* The Elsior in ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', and later, the Luxiole. The Elsior's size was such that it could carry entire biomes (such as the beach, complete with a space whale!). Not to mention convenience stores, dining rooms, medical bay, firing range, a entire park (complete with a late night snack vendor), etc. A throwaway line handwaved it away by saying that the Elsior is/was a ceremonial ship. However, it gradually became a bona fide battleship with upgrades to its weaponry (including the fearsome [[WaveMotionGun Chrono Break Cannon]]). On the other hand, other ships belonging to Transbaal Space Navy looks considerably more spartan.

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* The Elsior in ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngel'', and later, the Luxiole.Luxiole in ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII''. The Elsior's size was such that it could carry entire biomes (such as the beach, complete with a space whale!). Not to mention convenience stores, dining rooms, medical bay, firing range, a entire park (complete with a late night snack vendor), etc. A throwaway line handwaved it away by saying that the Elsior is/was a ceremonial ship. However, it gradually became a bona fide battleship with upgrades to its weaponry (including the fearsome [[WaveMotionGun Chrono Break Cannon]]). On the other hand, other ships belonging to Transbaal Space Navy looks considerably more spartan.
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* Played even straighter in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' than in the parent franchise (how does a bridge that big even ''fit'' on an escort?), but at least this time [[EnforcedTrope they have a real-life excuse]]. Cryptic has stated the corridors and so forth are huge in order to prevent CameraScrew from having the POV butt up against walls and the like.

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* Played even straighter in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' than in the parent franchise (how does a bridge that big even ''fit'' on an escort?), but at least this time [[EnforcedTrope they have a real-life excuse]]. Cryptic has stated the corridors and so forth are huge in order to prevent CameraScrew the camera from having the POV butt up against walls and the like.
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* ''Literature/{{Dune}}'': Heighliners were the only form of FTL travel in the Old Imperium, used to carry entire fleets of starships and their cargo at once. While their interiors are rarely, if ever, described, they were ''gigantic'' vessels at over ''20,000 meters'' in length.
** The Heighliner's successor, the No-Ship, is large enough to comfortably carry thousands of people for years at a time, with enough cargo space to house even the [[SandWorm sandworms]] of Arrakis - which can grow up to ''400 meters'' in length. And, as the name implies, it is undetectable by any form of prescience.
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* Jurai treeships in ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', especially those belonging to the royal family, are not simply roomy and well-outfitted, but can be ridiculously spacious and luxurious. ''Mikagami'', Seto's personal warship, one of the most powerful in the Jurai fleet, has a huge Japanese-style landscape park (complete with TheThingThatGoesDoink). Its crew -- exactly one. But then, the Juraian Empire IS wealthy beyond belief, and they ARE {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s.

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* Jurai treeships in ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', especially those belonging to the royal family, are not simply roomy and well-outfitted, but can be ridiculously spacious and luxurious. ''Mikagami'', Seto's personal warship, one of the most powerful in the Jurai fleet, has a huge Japanese-style landscape park (complete with TheThingThatGoesDoink).a shishi-odoshi). Its crew -- exactly one. But then, the Juraian Empire IS wealthy beyond belief, and they ARE {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s.



* While not as bad as some of the other examples, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' still managed to include a classic, Japanese-style tea room in the Arthra, one of the [[TheFederation Time-Space Administration Bureau's]] Dimensional Cruise Patrol Warships. The room even had TheThingThatGoesDoink

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* While not as bad as some of the other examples, ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' still managed to include a classic, Japanese-style tea room in the Arthra, one of the [[TheFederation Time-Space Administration Bureau's]] Dimensional Cruise Patrol Warships. The room even had TheThingThatGoesDoinka shishi-odoshi.
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* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', the Trans-Galactic Republic's starships are viewed as this trope by technologically-inferior Citadel races. Steak? Check. Huge quarters, no hot-bunking? Check. ''Massive, opulent bridge windows that could be blown out in a fight?'' (Except not, due to extremely strong DeflectorShields)? ''Check.''

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* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', ''Fanfic/FracturedSovereignGFC'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', the Trans-Galactic Republic's starships are viewed as this trope by technologically-inferior Citadel races. Steak? Check. Huge quarters, no hot-bunking? Check. ''Massive, opulent bridge windows that could be blown out in a fight?'' (Except not, due to extremely strong DeflectorShields)? ''Check.''
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* The small sizes of real life spacecraft habitats are mostly a function of high launch costs making Every Gram Count, in conjunction with launch vehicle fairings requiring spacecraft to be compact by default. In theory, the lack of gravitational stresses, aerodynamic forces and environmental limitations could allow spacecraft to be built much more spacious for a given mass than any earthbound vehicle - Bigelow Aerospace's expandable module are one example that works around fairing limitations via inflatable habitats that expand to large volumes after launch.
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* VideoGame/StarshipTitanic has it all, luxury restaurant with big windows, first class rooms.. One Problem, the ship has lost its mind as well as most of its crew (robots) and it's up to you to set things right.

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* VideoGame/StarshipTitanic The titular ''VideoGame/StarshipTitanic'' pretty much has it all, all: a luxury restaurant with big windows, first class rooms.. One Problem, rooms, the works. The only problem is that the ship has lost its mind as well as most of its crew (robots) (which are all robots) and it's up to you to set things right.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'': the Leviathan is the gigantic, mobile pleasure palace of the fantastically hedonistic Emperor Calus, who may have been ousted and exiled from the Cabal empire but at least got to do so aboard it. Every surface that isn’t polished white marble is plated with gold and elaborately trimmed, and onboard luxuries include public baths, pleasure gardens, vast libraries, and gladiatorial deathmatches. Many of those locations are open-aired, retaining atmosphere only via SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. Also, the ship itself is a PlanetEater engineered to swallow planetoids whole and process them into wine. The player also gets to visit the massive, grimy, machinery-filled engineering sections that keep the rest of the ship running luxuriously

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* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'': the The Leviathan is the gigantic, mobile pleasure palace of the fantastically hedonistic Emperor Calus, who may have been ousted and exiled from the Cabal empire Empire but at least got to do so aboard it. Every surface that isn’t polished white marble is plated with gold and elaborately trimmed, and onboard luxuries include public baths, pleasure gardens, vast libraries, and gladiatorial deathmatches. Many of those locations are open-aired, retaining atmosphere only via SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. Also, the ship itself is a PlanetEater engineered to swallow planetoids whole and process them into wine. The player also gets to visit the massive, grimy, machinery-filled engineering sections that keep the rest of the ship running luxuriously
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Often overlaps with UnnecessarilyLargeVessel. May overlap with MileLongShip or even PlanetSpaceship. Contrasts with rusted, patched-up UsedFuture spaceships.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster''. The luxury starship Humongous, with "ballrooms the size of football fields! Football fields the size of planets! (if they were flat)." Unfortunately the ship is so expensive, only half a dozen people in the universe can afford to travel on it.
* The Cosmopolitan in ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois''''...Space'', a large luxury liner RecycledInSpace complete with a hangar to launch much smaller ships, ballrooms, a greenhouse, lookouts for passengers, a big, spacious [[TheBridge bridge]], and very likely countless stuff that does not appear in the cartoon.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster''. ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'': The luxury starship Humongous, ''Humongous'', with "ballrooms the size of football fields! Football fields the size of planets! (if they were flat)." Unfortunately the ship is so expensive, only half a dozen people in the universe can afford to travel on it.
* ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois'': The Cosmopolitan ''Cosmopolitan'' in ''WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois''''...''...Space'', a large luxury liner RecycledInSpace complete with a hangar to launch much smaller ships, ballrooms, a greenhouse, lookouts for passengers, a big, spacious [[TheBridge bridge]], and very likely countless stuff that does not appear in the cartoon.cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E07WherePleasantFountainsLie Where Pleasant Fountains Lie]]": The Hysperion flagship ''Monaveen'' looks like a flying royal palace on the inside, with ornate decorations, galleries full of paintings and an entire feasting hall, and is similarly gaudy on the outside.
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* In ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'', this is the ''Ares'' to the point of parody as Vance is mystified by all of the amenities on what was supposed to be a battleship (and formerly was during the Kolahn War). After it's refit, it has carpeting and suites plus an actual ''mall'' including gift shop. {{Justified}} by the fact Vance wanted to captain a warship but it is now a vessel of diplomacy.
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*** With the advent of [[{{Teleportation}} the teraport]], much of the noncombatant sector of Battleplates (which amounts to a decent sized city) is teraported out of the interior during combat engagements to prevent unnecessary losses, leaving a good chunk of a the Battleplate's interior ''hollow''.

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*** With the advent of [[{{Teleportation}} [[DestructiveTeleportation the teraport]], much of the noncombatant sector of Battleplates (which amounts to a decent sized city) is teraported out of the interior during combat engagements to prevent unnecessary losses, leaving a good chunk of a the Battleplate's interior ''hollow''.
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* Subtly used in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', where the flagships of Galactic Empire are very roomy and advanced compared to the utilitarian vessels of the Free Planets Alliance. Smaller Imperial vessels seem to be as Spartan as their Alliance counterparts.

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* Subtly used in ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', where the flagships of Galactic Empire are very roomy and advanced compared to the utilitarian vessels of the Free Planets Alliance. Smaller Imperial vessels seem to be as Spartan as their Alliance counterparts.

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