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-on-XWSS flotillae such as those described below, others involving sidecars, pushalongs, x66s and Coe ships have been found.

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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See also

• Growing/shrinking spaceship

External links

• Flotilla at the Life Lexicon

• The 47 two-spaceship flotillae at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page