Spaceship flotilla

A flotilla (plural flotillae) is a spaceship composed of a number of smaller interacting spaceships. Often one or more of these is not a true spaceship (e.g. an overweight spaceship) and could not survive without the support of the others; those ships are said to be escorted by the true ships.

In addition to the XWSS flotillae such as those described below, others involving sidecars, pushalongs, x66s and Coe ships exist.

Example

In the following example, a long overweight spaceship is being escorted by two heavyweight escorts; most of the 10-bit spark that would make it unstable is suppressed by the HWSSes, except for two cells that dissipate harmlessly.

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Standard spaceship flotillae

There are 42 flotillae of two standard spaceships (lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight); 39 of these are actual spaceships, while 3 are pseudo-spaceships.

1 LWSS on LWSS (a pseudo-spaceship)
3 LWSS on MWSS
8 LWSS on HWSS (including 1 pseudo-spaceship)
5 MWSS on MWSS
15 MWSS on HWSS
10 HWSS on HWSS (including 1 pseudo-spaceship)

name	type	comments
LWSS on LWSS Catagolue: here	LWSS on LWSS
LWSS on MWSS 1 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Third most common spaceship flotilla and seventh most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
LWSS on MWSS 2 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Fourth most common spaceship flotilla and eighth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
LWSS on MWSS 3 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Sixth most common spaceship flotilla and tenth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
LWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	The first flotilla to occur naturally^[1] Fifth most common spaceship flotilla and ninth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue	File:Lwssonhwss.png
LWSS on HWSS 2 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Ninth most common spaceship flotilla and thirteenth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
LWSS on HWSS 3 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Tenth most common spaceship flotilla and fourteenth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
LWSS on HWSS 4 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
LWSS on HWSS 5 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
LWSS on HWSS 6 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
LWSS on HWSS 7 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
LWSS on HWSS 8 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
MWSS on MWSS 1 {{LinkCatagolue\|xq4_27dee6z4eb776\|style=brief}	MWSS on MWSS	The most common spaceship flotilla and fifth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue}
MWSS on MWSS 2 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS
MWSS on MWSS 3 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS
MWSS on MWSS 4 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Seventh most common spaceship flotilla and eleventh most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
MWSS on MWSS 5 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS
MWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS	Approximately the twenty-eighth most common spaceship flotilla and thirty-second most common spaceship overall on Catagolue	File:Mwssonhwss.png
MWSS on HWSS 2 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 3 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 4 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 5 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 6 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 7 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 8 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 9 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 10 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 11 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 12 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 13 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 14 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 15 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS	Second most common spaceship flotilla and sixth most common spaceship overall on Catagolue
HWSS on HWSS 2	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 3	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 4	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 5	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 6	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 7	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 8	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 9	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here
HWSS on HWSS 10	HWSS on HWSS	Catagolue: here