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Tree Vessel
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A ship or vessel of some kind is made out of a tree. It is not merely made of wood, this ship looks like — and possibly functions as — a giant tree. The tree is probably still alive, making it a Living Ship. The tree was probably cultivated or designed for this exact purpose, so it is Organic Technology. Most often appears in Speculative Fiction, since no such vessels have been built in Real Life (unfortunately). The vessel is likely a spaceship, though it does not have to be. This unusual type of ship may characterize the people who built/grew it. A single glance can show that its engineers are Space Elves who have developed advanced technology and spaceflight but are still In Harmony with Nature. A Sub-Trope of Living Ship. Compare Genius Loci and World Tree. See Lily-Pad Platform and Leaf Boat for more terrestrial examples of plants being used for transportation. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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Saga: There's an entire forest of rocketship trees, and they don't die once they've blasted off. They're very much alive as they travel through space, and seemingly fond of their passengers. | |
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Xeelee Sequence: In Raft, one of the strange lifeforms in the high-gravity universe is a species of mobile floating trees. Humans turn them into vessels and steer them through space. | |
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Alice Grove: The Praeses are vast, space-dwelling tree-like organisms of unknown origin who host civilizations of Transhumans in orbit above Earth. The climax reveals that the colonies and colonists are a virtual reality simulated by the Praeses, who have forgotten where they came from and why. | |
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Tenchi Muyo!: Juraian ships are all sapient, giant trees that are shaped to look and function like spaceships. This also means that after being shot down, they can be regrown as long as the core tree survived. | |
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The Last Continent does this with a tree that's been made into a boat by the local god of evolution. The sail is a leaf, the hull is a floating seed, etc. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Space vessels created by elves in Spelljammer are grown, not built, from living, leafy trees. | |
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Hyperion Cantos: The Ouster "Treeships", which are built around a single, massive living tree made vacuum-sealed and spaceworthy by containment fields. | |
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| Tree Vessel / int_90c73dda | type |
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Animorphs: Pemalite ships use huge trees as computers for their spaceships. Even Ax (whose species' ships have giant biodomes filled with forests and plains) finds it ridiculous. | |
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| Tree Vessel / int_a15c03fd | type |
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Starfinder: Xenowarden ships are seamless mixes of technology and plant life that are grown as much as built. The most common models are modular, podlike ships shrouded in large leaves that act as solar panels and armed with spore pod launchers. The largest, rarest capital ships are essentially spaceworthy forests, with numerous titanic trees anchored around a technological core and protected by force fields from the hard vacuum of space. On the one hand, these ships are remarkably self-sufficient, as they run almost entirely on solar power and can produce enough oxygen and hydroponic food to sustain their crews indefinitely. On the other, their organic makeup makes them very vulnerable to radiation-based weaponry. | |
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Warhammer: Downplayed by the High Elves. Each ship in their navy is formed from a single enormous tree, carefully planted and attended by elven wizards channeling Ghyran, magically forming it into the needed shape over hundreds of years before uprooting it and moving it into a drydock for finishing. The hull is a hollow trunk and the masts are carefully shaped branches, its own sap wrung out to form a tough and tight outer seal. | |
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| Tree Vessel / int_d4642985 | type |
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Revelation Space Series: The "Greenfly" infestation that is taking over the galaxy in Absolution Gap is shown to be billions of self-contained biospheres containing trees and tree-like plants. | |
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| Tree Vessel / int_d981184b | type |
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The Fountain: Tom the astronaut travels to a distant nebula in one of these. It resembles a bubble surrounding an unusual tree that is Implied to be the Tree of Life. | |
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| Tree Vessel / int_fa738078 | type |
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Sailor Moon: The Makaiju ("Doom Tree" in the American dub) was originally a tree on an alien planet. When the planet was destroyed, it uprooted itself and proceeded to travel through space, sheltering some of the inhabitants of the planet in its roots. | |
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