MEANING
A spacecraft designed to carry colonists to another planet, where they can establish a new settlement.
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A spacecraft sent to deliver colonists to another world.Use for a colonist-carrying ship sent to establish a settlement beyond its home world.
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The seedship’s sleeping colonists would wake only after the planet’s first survey was complete.
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- Base
- seedship
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