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A starship whose voyage spans multiple generations, so descendants of its original crew reach the destination.
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A starship whose travelers live and die during a voyage lasting generations.Use for long interstellar journeys in which a shipboard society must sustain itself across successive generations.
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By the time the generation ship reached Proxima Centauri, its founders had become legends.
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