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Dexter Dickinson, "Colony Ship," 1980
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Dexter Dickinson, "Colony Ship," 1980
The girlies save a Colony Ship
Stellaris: Shadows of the Shroud - Mindwardens Colony Ship Concept Art by Marnix Rekkers
The Ark, Digital artwork, 2025
Colony Mothership
Profile: Multi-generation human-built spaceship in search of a new world after the destruction of Old Earth. different environments exists within it.
Pictured: The Colony ship inside the candidate solar system of Alpha Centauri.
Appeard in Centaurus Vol 1-5, Editions Delcourt
There aren't enough Dyson Trees in Science Fiction.
I can't believe Dan Simmon's Hyperion was the first time I heard of this concept.
It's a tree that's a space ship. A space ship that is a tree. It's the most delicious idea! Where is it?
It's called Dyson after Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematician and physicist, who also thought up the Dyson Sphere. A concept I'm sure many are familiar with. (There's also the O'Neill Cylinder, that colony thing at the end of Interstellar)
A Dyson Tree is a construct where a plant grows inside a comet or asteroid or something and produces it's own atmosphere. With a human crew it could easily be envisioned as a system where humans produce CO2 and the plant produces oxygen. Slap on some thrusters and you have a space ship. Some artificial gravity and you have a tree instead of a bush.
Tree houses! In space!
And it's not just some fancy scifi nonsense, oh no! An actual nerd thought of this!
Mondasian Colony Ship, "World Enough and Time"