Vastership

A vastership is a ship that is designed for the permanent residency by anywhere from ten to several hundred people. Though once popular during the Millennial Calm, post-Godbomb ships have to contend with inferior technology and negative public perceptions of vasterships, as they tend to be seen as places for criminals to run away to or otherwise somewhere for people that cannot adjust to "normal" society.
==Origins and Name==
The first vastership is generally thought to be the Green Horizon, a ship invented by business partners Vast Brenid and Ernaldo ne Reydrid. Green Horizon's first flight was in the year 4000, and it was designed around cruise ships at the time that went throughout space and the oft-heard sentiment of passengers wishing they could stay aboard the ships forever to escape their troubles back home.
The name "vastership" is sometimes thought to be a portmanteau of the inventors' first names; however, this is only a coincidence, as vastership was coined based on the marketing slogan of "No ship vaster than Green Horizon" to call attention to the sheer size of the spacecraft.
==Modern Vasterships==
The most well-known vastership is the Union's Compromise, a gargantuan ship that boasts a potential capacity of a few thousand residents (though its actual population is estimated to be well below). Due to having imported soil and plants as well as a host of individuals well-versed in druidic magic, the Union's Compromise is more self-sufficient than other ships and is capable of growing its own food supplies. It is known for allowing less-wealthy individuals to move in and serve on the ship's crew in order to "pay off" their cost of living with labor, and it is rumored that some of these people are former criminals looking to start a new life when they couldn't get work anywhere else.
Smaller vasterships tend to maintain themselves simply by word of mouth, advertising in spacecraft-related circles, and picking up potential new residents at space stations in their endless journey throughout space. While uncommon, there are sometimes children born on vasterships that never know a life beyond the depths of space. Such children are sometimes called "starborn" for how they were born and raised among the stars, though the sheltered lives they lead tend to result in ignorance and naiveté of the outside world.
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