Have you ever wondered who owned your starship before you? This list contains one hundred different, impossible things a starship is reputed to have done.
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| 1 | The starship won a long distance race through an extremely dangerous region of space (ie. the galactic core). |
| 2 | The ship allegedly traveled to a realm of space-time that supposedly doesn't exist. |
| 3 | The ship once outran a specific ship, or specific class of ship that is supposedly the fastest in the galaxy. |
| 4 | The ship traveled to an allegedly unreachable region of space, and came back! |
| 5 | The ship was the flagship (either intentionally or by circumstance) in a major battle. |
| 6 | The starship is the only one to survive the destruction of an entire world, space station or fleet. |
| 7 | The starship allegedly knows the location of a lost or hidden treasure (saved in its navicomputer). |
| 8 | The starship ran a uniquely dense blockade. |
| 9 | The starship carried supplies to a beleaguered force and ended up breaking a siege that had been going on for a long time (then the winged hussars arrived kind of thing). |
| 10 | The ship once engaged a superior foe and won! (It's the ship that took on an Imperial Star Destroyer and disabled it, but no one knows how!) |
| 11 | The ship was stolen by/from a famous pirate. |
| 12 | The starship was present during a major famous crime (It was the 11th member of the Solar's Eleven.) |
| 13 | The ship was once eaten by - and escaped from inside of - a massive space creature. |
| 14 | The ship was dredged up from the ocean floor of a planet and restored. |
| 15 | The ship is fabled to appear to spacers right before they make the Final Jump - and now it’s appearing to you. |
| 16 | The ship was once so heavily damaged that the only systems remaining on returning were the thrusters and landing gear - and it still made it. |
| 17 | The ship is rumored to have jumped right through the mass shadow of a planet to escape pursuit - a known impossibility. |
| 18 | It’s said the ship’s armor plating is made of pure beskar (or other ridiculously precious material). |
| 19 | No one knows the ship’s home port, despite many attempts to track it. It’s like it just disappears… |
| 20 | Multiple reports have this ship popping up in distant ports much faster than should be possible… sometimes even before it leaves. |
| 21 | Despite multiple successful dockings, cargo drops, and maintenance stops, no one has ever seen the captain. Even the cockpit windows are dark. The manifest and registry entry just lists an error. |
| 22 | The ship does not show up on sensors, even though your eyes tell you it's RIGHT THERE. |
| 23 | The ship is the first of an experimental line that never got made because of a bug in the shipboard intelligence. If you board the ship, you're greeted by Marvin the Sad Robot in ship form. |
| 24 | The ship appears to shine brighter than nearby stars before it jumps into hyperspace. |
| 25 | The starship was purchased from a reclusive alien species and includes mysterious alien technology. It's been made-over to look human-built, but that's just a ruse. |
| 26 | The starship's first captain uploaded his consciousness into the ship's computer before he died. |
| 27 | The starship was found empty in space, abandoned yet in perfect working condition. Nobody has explained what happened to its old crew. |
| 28 | The starship was used for a secret espionage mission that was the reason for an abrupt and otherwise inexplicable political change. |
| 29 | The starship was designed by a famous and eccentric scientist (think Nikolai Tesla) who decided to briefly dabble in shipbuilding. Its FTL drive includes unique settings and components that nobody has ever figured out how to use... or dared to use. |
| 30 | The starship is uniquely beloved by a specific species (alien to its owners) for reasons that get lost in translation somehow. |
| 31 | Cantina chat says that no crew has ever survived more than three hyperspace jumps on the ship. |
| 32 | No one actually knows what the ship looks like, it's rumored they have some kind of holographic disguise tech for the ship. |
| 33 | It is said that that ship can only be piloted by "the chosen one." Who the one is, and who does the choosing is anybody guess, but without that person it's said that the ship won't fly. |
| 34 | The ship was found derelict, with dozens of bodies on board in varying states of decay with no signs of struggle. |
| 35 | Legend says the ship is haunted. |
| 36 | The starship has been abandoned for years, and is being flown around by ghosts! |
| 37 | The starship's engine "sings" to those who stay aboard too long, driving them to travel to the edge of the galaxy/seek a long-lost treasure/enhance the ship itself. |
| 38 | The starship is actually made from the husk of a creature that, when alive, was able to travel through space under its own power. (Bonus points for space whales!) |
| 39 | The starship is actually just a whole, living creature able to travel through space under its own power. |
| 40 | The starship emits a psychic signal that can be heard even in the vacuum of space. |
| 41 | Despite being a typical size for its class, the starship is so dense that other nearby craft are drawn into its orbit. |
| 42 | The starship originated in a different galaxy entirely, and is completely unrecognizable as a space worthy vessel. |
| 43 | The starship has no weapons, but no one has ever fired a shot at it and lived to tell the tale. |
| 44 | The ship was used to break a dozen political prisoners out of a hellish prison colony. |
| 45 | A famous holo-drama was filmed aboard the ship. Some things have changed since then, which is probably why you don't recognize it. |
| 46 | The ship was built for a scientific expedition deep into a gas giant and can withstand enormous pressures. |
| 47 | The ship carries an electronic mimicry device that lets it appear on sensors as anything from a small communications satellite to a heavy battle cruiser. |
| 48 | The ship carries concealed weapons salvaged from the wreck of a famous warship. They're a bit out of date but still quite powerful, and not at all legal. |
| 49 | The ship survived a nuclear near-miss so intense that its metal parts have been hot ever since. The bridge and crew quarters have internal rad shielding to make it usable. |
| 50 | Anyone who has seen the inside of the ship (or the captain) has met mysterious and untimely deaths, except somehow the crew. |
| 51 | One time it jumped to hyperspace but left the crew behind, floating in empty space. |
| 52 | Rumor is, the ship keeps the crew from aging. |
| 53 | This ship's autopilot once safely saw its crew through all the way through the twisting core tunnels of a planet and out the other side without a scratch. |
| 54 | This ship is modded with a number of hypermatter intakes valves that would make it illegal to land on most settled worlds. It's a good thing the inspectors never actually check those. |
| 55 | The ship has a perpetual stowaway. All efforts to flush them out, lure them out, or even unambiguously confirm their existence fail, but glimpses and noises and bits of evidence continue to turn up. |
| 56 | The ship's computer has biological components that periodically have to be fed with organic matter. Its favorite is human blood. |
| 57 | The ship carries an experimental reactor that never needs fuel. The design has never gone mainstream because it's unstable. Probability says it should have gone critical years ago, but somehow it just keeps flying. |
| 58 | Reports say that the ship's hull is organic or something, patching up its own breaches. |
| 59 | The ship is deceptively small. Like it doesn't look that big, but it is massive inside |
| 60 | The ship never runs out of food and can make whatever food you want. |
| 61 | The Love Boat: There seems to be something inexplicably romantic about the ship, given the number of people who have met as passengers and ended up as couples. |
| 62 | The Plague Ship: This is the very ship that broke quarantine and turned the Pyrian Fever from a planetary crisis to a galactic one. That crew is dead, of course, and the ship has long since been decontaminated, but no disinfectant can scrub away the infamy. |
| 63 | The ship was once the official presidential yacht of a planetary ruler from decades ago, retired and sold after his overthrow. It's not what it used to be, but remnants of its original luxury remain. Rumors that it still contains stashed loot are silly. How could it go undiscovered this long? |
| 64 | The Little Freighter that Could. When an asteroid impact de-orbited the space station this ship was docked at, the ship's thrusters somehow managed to slow the station's descent enough for other ships to evacuate the station's survivors in time. |
| 65 | The ship once belonged to the hero of a famous space battle. |
| 66 | The ship once belonged to a famous bounty hunter. (he, she, it) was known for never losing a bounty, even if they had to travel to the farthest reaches of space. |
| 67 | The ship was the 1st to use a prototype FTL Drive. It vanished without a trace on its maiden voyage. No one has seen it in over a decade, until now. |
| 68 | The ship avoided capture by flying through a dense (asteroid, debris, mine) field. |
| 69 | The ship was discovered by archaeologists on an alien world. It is reputed to be thousands of years old. All of its systems are reputed to be still functioning. The company that owns it, has created many new technologies based on its design. |
| 70 | The ship is the (first, last) of a series of ships that (a famous ship building company manufactured / a famous ship engineer designed). |
| 71 | This ship was constructed by spacers that were marooned on a planet, when their ship crashed. It was grafted together from several shipwrecks. Engineers that looked it over afterwards were amazed by the ingenuity of the jury rigging. |
| 72 | This ship was owned by a famous pirate. The ship was reputed to be completely destroyed five times. There is even a video that shows it being blasted into debris by a bounty hunter. |
| 73 | It's the "Revenge" , the ship of the dread pirate Roberts. He is reputed to be an immortal, who is thousands of years old. It is also said that he leaves no survivors when he attacks. (Princess Bride) |
| 74 | This ship was reputed to be stolen from (a crime lord / a high security military facility / an enemy faction's naval base / the ruler of a faction). There is a ridiculously large bounty for the capture of the person or persons that stole it. |
| 75 | The ship was built by a race that was believed to be completely wiped out by war. There are only a few examples of their technology left in the universe and all of it is very advanced and extremely valuable. |
| 76 | After being struck near the edge of a galaxy, the ship was launched into the intergalactic void with no power to push it back towards civilization. The crew managed to repair a single thruster after 36 hours of non-stop work, and made a desperate bid for the closest system to survive being marooned, barely managing to return to port. |
| 77 | The ship managed to outsmart an Imperial/Rebel Fleet by approaching dangerously close to a star then slingshotting away with the gravity boost; many of the chasing destroyers fell into the star attempting such a precise maneuver, while others believed such maneuver was impossible and believed the ship to be lost for sure. |
| 78 | The ship's thrusters are so powerful, they were once used as a weapon of their own, blinding permanently an Imperial/Rebel Admiral who was on their track. A rogue star that disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared years ago is rumored to be linked to this event. |
| 79 | The ship is such a well-known legend, that the one captain to outmaneuver it became a legend themselves because of it. |
| 80 | The ship is badly infested with Cherunian spiders. The captain is sanguine, explaining that they're clean, they keep away other vermin, and she carries plenty of antivenom. |
| 81 | The ship was once captained by St. Hue, patron Saint of spacers, who was martyred for smuggling persecuted refugees. Hue must still be looking out for her, because when her reactor was pierced by a micrometeorite, she made it back to port without losing a soul. |
| 82 | The ship's FTL drive once misfired catastrophically and took it across unfathomable intergalactic distances. The engineer somehow managed to precisely reverse the jump and return. |
| 83 | The ship was an old smuggling vessel with compartments so cleverly hidden that somehow the current crew hasn't been able to find them. Who knows what's still stowed in them? |
| 84 | The ship is just lucky. An asteroid prospector used it to discover a huge load of pure thorium. A gambler took passage on it to the casinos of Kb'ar and returned with twenty million credits. |
| 85 | The ship was built for an astronomy mission and still carries incredibly sensitive (though finicky) imaging gear. |
| 86 | The ship hit a magnetic mine which turned out to be a dud. The crew definitely left it in place, still stuck to the hull, LEDs still blinking. |
| 87 | The ship was used to transport an infamous mass murderer to trial, but he somehow escaped en route. Theories range from "an unregistered escape pod" to "he's still aboard". |
| 88 | The ship survived a collision with a pinhead black hole - nearly half the ship was sheared off and pulled in... possibly to another universe? You can still see the seam. |
| 89 | The ship once rescued a falling spacewalker by catching him in midair as he deorbited. Yes, midair; he'd already begun re-entry and was seconds from burning up. |
| 90 | The ship carried a famous pop star on her interplanetary tour just before she went big. She signed the bulkhead in her berth. |
| 91 | This ship used to act as a new frontier colonization vessel. Providing essentially a tiny outpost city for settlers in the new world. |
| 92 | According to the legend this ship was used to smuggle the ruler in exile out from the hostile zone. They lived in these quarters, can you imagine! |
| 93 | Captain (former?) of this ship established an outer rim hideout base where you can get anything with credits. |
| 94 | According to the story, due to a warp core anomaly this ship sometimes sends one of its crew members back in time while others do space warp normally. |
| 95 | Captain of this ship has discovered over hundreds of new worlds. More than almost any explorer out there. The coding (insert yours / KN– ) in front of some worlds, comes from his initials. |
| 96 | This captain is the one who was stranded on a remote world (on their own or with an alien race) and managed to survive and be found. They act a bit weird sometimes, but oh boy can they survive. |
| 97 | This captain allegedly knows how to jump start a pulse drive / warp core / engine only using a portable generator and a torpedo. |
| 98 | The captain/pilot is the former universe champion of ship racing from years back. Stories say that they can be challenged into a race to the surface with landing shuttles. |
| 99 | This ship currently employs a famous chef who can turn even rations or slur into a delight! No one has ever been able to figure out their secret ingredients. |
| 100 | Rumour has it that this captain/pilot has been to and back from a black hole. |