What is a Spaceship?
Simply put, a spaceship is a vehicle that lets people traverse the lonely void beyond the sky. This is a rather boring definition, as it is way too broad. Science fiction has been around a long time and so have science fiction roleplaying games, the image conjured up by the word spaceship has changed through the years. In the novel The War of the Worlds, H.G Wells envisioned Martians invading the Earth. They came in metal cylinders that fell to earth like meteors. These early spaceships were propelled not by an engine; instead, the cylinders were shot out of a giant Martian cannon, aimed at the earth by some malevolent intelligence. Of course, this fanciful tale of Martian invasion was written in 1898. Attitudes towards spaceships and space travel have changed a lot in the last century. Early science fiction stories brought people all around the world to sit near to their radios to listen to the exploits of their favorite pulp heroes flying a rocket ship around the solar system. In the
