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2-D Space

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2-D Space	comment	As far as most writers are concerned, space is flat, like a great big tabletop. A few may allow that space may have a third dimension as large as five or ten miles high, but not much more than that. There's just enough up-and-down to allow for dogfights between fightercraft and clever one-time-only attacks from above during battles between space warships. Otherwise, vessels approach each other as if they were floating on the sea and attempt broadside or bow-to-bow shots almost exclusively. Maneuvering is also shackled to the horizontal plane most of the time. Very rarely will shows and writers take advantage of the lack of "up/down" in real space by having ships attack each other at odd angles or vectors, which would offer something visually and tactically fresh. Even outside of battle, when two ships approach each other, no matter where they come from, they will always be oriented the same way; you never see a ship flying "upside down". (On rare occasions, an exception will be made for derelicts. Then again, upside-down derelicts can be found in the ocean, too. In space, no-one can see you list.) Perhaps as a corollary to the above, two (or more) starships, when involved in a standoff situation, will inevitably position themselves literally nose to nose in classic stare-down posture. This can be justified depending on the ships' weapons placements, but as often as not it's just a metaphor for the situation. The flip side of this is that when two friendly ships are together they will always be traveling side by side — that is, "shoulder to shoulder" — not unlike escorts, even when they're not escorting. Abandoned/damaged ships may list visibly to one side as if sinking. The near-total separation spaceships have between yaw, pitch, and roll, and the path their inertia is carrying them on, is very rarely observed — "fighters" will nearly always be pointing in the precise direction they are moving in (and bank when turning), as atmospheric planes are forced to. This may be explained for ships utilizing vectored thrust propulsion systems, as backward thrust will result in forward movement. Certain configurations may also still require banking to turn, even in space. Characters rarely think of bypassing a planar asteroid belt or similarly hazardous feature by simply going above or below it. It's also possible to wall off part of the universe by placing a barrier that spans the full ten-mile height from top to bottom. By extension, and by analogy to earth-bound geography, every major location in space is at a fixed position. A planet may turn on its axis (if you're lucky), but its place relative to its sun and other planetary neighbors never changes. Think of a model solar system made of balls on a table. All distances and travel times are static; all positions are permanent and unchanging. Orbits simply don't happen — if two planets are X units apart on the left side of their sun, they'll always be X units apart and on the left side of the sun. A similar situation occurs when mapping out larger sections of the galaxy; these areas are always shown as two-dimensional planes, fundamentally identical to maps of the surface of a planet — all starfaring nations exist as flat, 2D shapes like real-life countries, and travel between different star systems is only plotted out in two dimensions. There is never any "overlap" between space nations (that is, no nation ever controls stars "above" or "below" those controlled by another), and space travel never involves going "over" or "under" star systems or stellar phenomena — everything in your way must be be either visited, crossed or gone around. In real life, although galaxies are certainly very flattened overall, they still have appreciable thickness — the Milky Way's galactic disk, for instance, is around 1,000 light years thick. Depending on how dense inhabited worlds are in a story, the third dimension would be very important to both politics and travel. As a byproduct of this, solar systems and galaxies tend to be treated as flat "continents" in the "ocean" of open space. Someone approaching one from the outside will typically make "landfall" at its edge, while someone leaving it will travel all the way to the rim before departing. The idea of just moving at an angle to the orbital or galactic plane rarely gets brought up. It isn't always a result of hack writing, though. Sometimes writers do this as intentional Acceptable Break from Reality; two-dimensional strategies are simply easier to show and explain, and much easier for most viewers to grasp (since that's how we're used to thinking). This is especially common in older video games, or tabletop games where three dimensions would needlessly complicate the interface. Furthermore, not only are we used to thinking in two dimensions, but there is no concrete precedent for 3D combat yet; ground and naval combat is two-dimensional, dogfighting isn't done with fleets and is limited by the atmosphere and ground, and submarine combat has important depth restrictions and maneuvering concerns (and has been recorded to have happened in all of history exactly once). For pre-CGI film and live-action television, using motion control photography, it's also a technical limitation. You have to mount the spaceship somewhere. See also Space Is an Ocean, Acrophobic Bird, 1-Dimensional Thinking, Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, Reality Is Unrealistic and Old-School Dogfight.
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2-D Space / int_12ffd3e9	comment	In Megas XLR, there are TWO coordinates indicating the location of objects in space.
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2-D Space / int_13a61240	comment	In The Rise of Skywalker, the path through the unknown regions to Exegol requires precise coordinates, but it's not clear if there are entrances that can be accessed from flying above the unknown regions. The Xyston Star Destroyers do not appear to take advantage of the Z-axis, and end up staying in formation rather than using rotation maneuvers.
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2-D Space / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online has an interesting mix of 2D and 3D. On the one hand, there is a universal "up", ships only have 4 shields (front/back, port/starboard), and ships can only travel 45 degrees up or down. On the other hand, the combat space is entirely three-dimensional, allowing ships to pass over or under each other, come at each other from top or bottom (well, at a 45-degree angle) and be in or out of weapons range in a full sphere around a target.
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2-D Space / int_15d445ed	comment	Space combat in Planet 404 is entirely 2-D (as is the rest of the game).
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2-D Space / int_1641fd92	comment	Sunrider: While ships can and do perform three-dimensional maneuvers during cutscenes, in gameplay space combat takes place on a two-dimensional plane.
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2-D Space / int_17bfcf60	comment	In Homeworld, the environment is three-dimensional, but everything orients along an invisible horizontal plane and capital ships tilt to move "up" or "down", like submarines. This has less to do with technical limitations, and more with looking cool. Several modders took this to heart and played with it in the most interesting ways. Some mods have frigates ditch the 2-D adherence and circle the target at a spherical, instead of a ring trajectory. This gives a very interesting battle as when the other, more stationary battleships are pounding away head-to-head, some annoying frigates are either taking potshots from up, down, or behind, or a hard-to-catch mezzer is running around in spheres, effectively Min-Maxing his fleet.
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2-D Space / int_19254472	comment	Standard in Stars! (1995) where the universe is set out on a 2-D plane.
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2-D Space / int_19350db9	comment	The Master of Orion series uses a 2-D Galaxy map, a 2-D system map and 2-D combat. This is generally handwaved as part of the level of abstraction in the game.
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2-D Space / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	Similar to Escape Velocity, Endless Sky is a top-down Asteroids-esqe space game.
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2-D Space / int_1cc11947	comment	Descent (and its follow-ups) was revolutionary because it was fully 3D: not only could you move and fight with complete freedom in three dimensions, so could the robots.
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2-D Space / int_1e015a5d	comment	The Empire Strikes Back has the Millennium Falcon pulling off 3D manouevers all the time during the Hoth chase, and Star Destroyers are often seen at odd angles relative to one another. The Falcon did all this while filmed with motion control photography, which (as noted above) makes 3-D space difficult to shoot.
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2-D Space / int_211315b8	comment	One of the biggest complaints about Starfleet Command was its 2-D space, by being a port of Star Fleet Battles, as seen in Tabletop Games.
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2-D Space / int_2250e67e	comment	In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Catwalk", the crew must take refuge from a "storm" that is clearly just a flat sheet.
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2-D Space / int_23633967	comment	Averted (a bit) in the sequel Top Gun: Maverick, during the training phase of the Top Gun graduates, Maverick starts the dog-fight phase nearly skimming the ground while engaging in verbal banter with the students. As he starts the actual training, he climbs nearly vertically, flying between the two, who had been looking only in front and behind themselves.
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2-D Space / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: In keeping with the Age of Sail IN SPACE! motif of the series, ships line up to present broadsides, but this is explained as being due to the "Impeller wedges" formed by the propulsion system being impenetrable, because they're just massive lumps of gravity. Although since space is 3-D, they line up vertically as well as horizontally: a "wall of battle" rather than a "line of battle" (and in turn, heavy capital ships are called "ships of the wall" instead of "ships of the line"). Further, locations in a star system are often given in relation to the system's ecliptic. Given that most planets and asteroids tend to be on that plane, most facilities of value will also be on that same plane for convenience's sake, and by extension most of the defending forces. An intruder who wishes to avoid detection will often try to position themselves deep in the Z-axis to avoid chance encounters. The various system maps shown at the front of the books are resolutely two-dimesional. There is no indication in the maps or in the text that multi-system star nations could be three-dimensional, even though this seems quite likely.
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2-D Space / int_270bac51	comment	In rymdkapsel, you build a space station out of Tetris blocks.
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2-D Space / int_2acb12c5	comment	The X-Universe series: On the one hand, 3D maneuvering is a critical part of combat tactics. On the other hand, the first three games have all the default stations and jumpgates in a sector laid out on the X-Y plane (i.e. flat). X3: Reunion breaks the pattern; stations vary in "altitude". Then X3: Terran Confict falls back into it: Terran sectors are laid out with their stations' geographical centers on the X-Y plane. The sector map display uses a pretty creative workaround for the conundrum of mapping 3D space onto a 2D computer screen. The default view of the sector is a top-down view of the X-Y plane. Clicking a button in the corner switches the view to the X-Z plane. X3: Albion Prelude adds major variations in station altitude to the Terran sectors. This becomes very annoying in the Asteroid Belt since they put the sector's main dock about a dozen kilometers below the ecliptic, with its docking ports on the bottom. Given the absurdly slow ships in the game, this borders on a Scrappy Mechanic. In X: Rebirth, solar systems, sectors, and zones all vary on the Z-plane, which is most noticeable in Omicron Lyrae, where one superhighway takes you down to right above the atmosphere of a planet. However, all stations within a sector are aligned to the same plane.
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2-D Space / int_2c2a56e3	comment	Averted in The Phantom Menace: the Trade Federation blockades Naboo with a fleet of ships arranged in a spherical wall surrounding the planet.
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2-D Space / int_2f863d0d	comment	"Strikebreaker": The setting, Elsevere, is a planetoid only a few hundred miles in diameter. The total surface area is estimated to match three-quarters of New York state. However, they build levels into the rock, and they could easily make fifty-six million square miles of usable area, one that is equal to the total land area of Earth. Their visitor from Earth is amazed at this example of lateral thinking.
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2-D Space / int_353b7af3	comment	Star Trek: Discovery In the episode "Such Sweet Sorrow", both Discovery and Enterprise become "surrounded" by a fleet of Section 31 ships. Except that both the exterior view, and the onboard displays do not show the Section 31 vessels organized into a 3-D sphere, as would fully surround Enterprise and Discovery, cutting off any escape in every direction. Instead, the two ships are "surrounded" in an obvious right-side-up, 2-D ring, on the same plane as themselves, which can be effortlessly overcome by flying in any other direction.
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2-D Space / int_37bef890	comment	Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies features airship battles between giant floating islands, but all combat is at the same height, making it two-dimensional.
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2-D Space / int_389ea38f	comment	The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr: Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids: After the pirate raid on Ceres, Captain Aton manages to avoid getting his ship photographed by the observatory by going up along the polar rather than along the elliptical. Most ships travel along the 2-d ecliptic plane of the solar system to maintain communication contact. With a twelve-hour head start in the chase, Captain Aton would be in the asteroid belt rather than risk a confrontation with the Terrestrial government before he had delivered his message. Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn: Lucky tries to sneak the Shooting Starr back to Saturn without the Sirians knowing, so he goes "below" the normal elliptical orbits of the planets, where they wouldn't normally be watching. That's also where he picks up the message capsule that Agent X left in orbit around Saturn.
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2-D Space / int_3c65a1d1	comment	In Crest of the Stars and its sequel Banner of the Stars, hyperspace is literally two-dimensional, with important strategic and tactical consequences. Though the spaceships create bubbles of regular time-space around themselves to navigate in this 2D hyperspace, and when two of those intersect the fight is locally tridimensional.
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2-D Space / int_3d22c14b	comment	The giant mobile armor Alvatore from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has 27 beam guns, of which zero are capable of firing downward. That glaring design flaw was not exploited by the heroes when they fought it. This is not a particularly uncommon occurrence; even when spaceships and mobile armors (it's not usually an issue with the humanoid mobile suits, since their hand-carried weapons are pretty easy to aim in any direction) do have bottom-mounted weapons, they're almost always much less numerous and less powerful than those mounted on the top and sides. Given that "up" and "down" are completely arbitrary distinctions in space, this is clearly a dumb way to design a warship, yet it rarely if ever presents a problem. It should be noted, that in many cases spaceships in Gundam's are designed to takeoff (and sometimes, land) on planetary surface or water, and placing big turrets on the bottom - which also serves as heat shield during re-entry - is just not practical.
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2-D Space / int_42c17ca1	comment	Power Rangers in Space had at least one instance of the Astro Megaship rising from behind a couple of Velocifighters to blast them to bits. Another episode had an aversion with an energy web that wrapped around the entire ship in all directions to prevent it from moving. That said, most of their space battles in Megazord mode tended to adhere to this (more as a side-effect of the Japanese footage using models akin to Trek, and the fact that the source material wasn't even space-themed to start). Power Rangers Lost Galaxy generally did the same thing. It did avert it when the Scorpion Stinger attacked Terra Venture, which saw the Stinger blast the large engines on the underside of the ship and then attack the domes from above.
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2-D Space / int_42cf6299	comment	Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids: After the pirate raid on Ceres, Captain Aton manages to avoid getting his ship photographed by the observatory by going up along the polar rather than along the elliptical. Most ships travel along the 2-d ecliptic plane of the solar system to maintain communication contact. With a twelve-hour head start in the chase, Captain Aton would be in the asteroid belt rather than risk a confrontation with the Terrestrial government before he had delivered his message.
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2-D Space / int_459ca4de	comment	In the Galaxy Angel gameverse, you can't plan your attacks in three dimensions, but at least when they're executed they work that way.
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2-D Space / int_467773a6	comment	It went back to Empire levels in Rogue One, in which the climactic space battle sees a rebel ramming itself into a Star Destroyer in order to force it into the orbital shield generator.
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2-D Space / int_467c89f7	comment	Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Robotech was pretty guilty of this as well; ships would usually travel more or less on the same plane, with only the occasional "stack" of ships; even then, ships would always be orientated in the same direction. Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles avoided this to a degree.
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2-D Space / int_4937d0d9	comment	Sins of a Solar Empire tries to avoid this trope, having ships that will occasionally go up and down and be above or below others, and planets that are (slightly) above or below others. But basically it's still 2D — each planet is fixed in space, the 'phase lanes' that link planets always basically go parallel to this plane, and because of this most combat takes place on the plane. You can still move the viewpoint around in 3D, but it doesn't change anything.
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2-D Space / int_4e910a46	comment	On the other hand, Star Trek: Bridge Commander actually forces the player to turn and tilt the ship to get the best firing/shielded angle to the target.
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2-D Space / int_50e2e357	comment	Lampshaded in an Esurance Star Trek (2009) parody. When an alien ship hits the Enterprise, the Kirk stand-in quips that they're in space and he could have just gone around.
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2-D Space / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars, due to how many of its episodes feature space battles or blockade running, suffers from this constantly. It is exceedingly rare for anyone (even Anakin, supposedly one of the greatest pilots alive) to ever do more than slight vertical bobbing and weaving to avoid threats, or in the case of a blockade, approaching from a polar trajectory instead of an equatorial one. A particularly egregious example is when Republic forces attempt to flee the Seperatist fleet-killer Malevolence; even though its weapon's blast radius only covers a defined, and relatively small area, most craft try to outpace it instead of flying up, down, or to either side. The series also treats banking up like something that would put a strain on your fighter and could even make your fighter stall if damaged, unfortunately for Matchstick, though his ship was already damaged.
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2-D Space / int_5fc0e68d	comment	Last Exile both plays this trope straight and averts it in the first episode. At first, the airship fleets attack each other on a 2-D plane, according to the regulations of warfare (oxymoron much?), but soon after their "chivalrous" exchange of fire, a mysterious fleet appears from above them and proceeds to "blow shit up" as the colloquial goes.
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2-D Space / int_61de95d6	comment	In Freelancer, everything, that is, everything, lies in the same two-dimensional plane: planets, bases, trade lanes, jump holes, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The player, however, can move along the vertical axis, allowing for some really intense space battles. Since gameplay would certainly be harder if the game followed the actual three-dimensional structure of the space, this is part of the many Acceptable Breaks from Reality that can be seen on video games. Due to the fact that planets tend to be almost exactly in a horizontal plane around their local star, that's not so bad — if the planets are on that plane, the lanes joining them would be as well, and since the axis of rotation also tends to be perpendicular to that same plane, geostationary satellites would be on it- so any stations orbiting the planet could well be in the same plane to make it easier to set up ground-based logistics. Granted, the jump holes and the stations not associated with any particular planet have no reason to be in that plane (except, perhaps, ease of mapping...). Granted, it is possible to place everything over and under the same plane. In many mods new objects, space stations, jumpholes etc. ARE over and under the classical 2D plane, making it sometimes much harder to find. Of course, the in-game map is also in 2D.
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2-D Space / int_62aa95a6	comment	In The Lost Fleet, The ships, formations and combat tactics are fully 3D, however battles are fought in solar systems using the plane and star as a reference guide. Movement is up and down through the plane and port and starboard to the star. This "standard" is entirely to help the crews understand the complex movements involved. On top of that, Captain Geary, due to his Human Popsicle status, is probably the only person left alive who understands how to set up and maneuver fleets in this manner.
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2-D Space / int_6453ec07	comment	In X: Rebirth, solar systems, sectors, and zones all vary on the Z-plane, which is most noticeable in Omicron Lyrae, where one superhighway takes you down to right above the atmosphere of a planet. However, all stations within a sector are aligned to the same plane.
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2-D Space / int_64ddf294	comment	Ships move and attack three-dimensionally in space MMORPG EVE Online, but stationary ships pitch parallel to the ecliptic plane for no explained reason. Also, there's always a sense of where "up" and "down" are, because the camera can't vertically rotate past top and bottom positions. There is also a tactical view, which superimposes a set of horizontal circles around your ship, no matter what direction your ship is facing. As noted in the comments (and illustrated in the pictures) for this article major EVE spacebattles look like big tangled balls of light, with attacks coming and going in all directions.
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2-D Space / int_68c8e9ad	comment	The Super Robot Wars series is an interesting example, where space is actually more two-dimensional than any other type of map. In game everything takes place on a two dimensional grid but missions that take place on earth have at least three "levels", ground, air and underwater and occasionally underground. Space levels don't have this distinction.
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2-D Space / int_6d5b7408	comment	Each sector in the 1970s Star Trek Text Game is a 2-dimensional grid, and the Galaxy is a two-dimensional grid of sectors.
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2-D Space / int_6e0e351	comment	The shareware game Escape Velocity is limited to a 2D plane, allowing it to use very simple controls for combat, akin to Asteroids or Star Control's HyperMelee. This also makes it far easier to flood the screen with weapons fire.
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2-D Space / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	Played with in Myth-ing Persons, when levitating Skeeve chases winged Vic through the air above the city rooftops. Vic's wings aren't that strong and he mostly circles and banks two-dimensionally like an Acrophobic Bird, whereas Skeeve has freedom to move in all three dimensions and jinks side to side and up and down, trying to catch Vic off guard and intercept him.
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2-D Space / int_72b6933f	comment	All fleet battles that occur in Heroic Age involve shooting in every direction at one point or another. Iron Tribe ships have rotary guns that allow them to shoot in every direction, particularly important when their enemy is usually the Bronze Tribe.
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2-D Space / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: There was an interesting case of the "tilted derelict" principle in "Empok Nor". The eponymous derelict space station was constantly being shown as tilted. Of course, this was for the benefit of the viewer, so that a viewer can tell it apart from its sister space station, Terok Nor (a.k.a. Deep Space 9), since they're the same class of station and visually identical. Another episode concerned a Klingon plot to place mines around the Bajoran system. Near the end of the episode the minefield is detonated, and they are shown to have been placed in a shallow ring around the system. Aside from the scale problem, neither the Klingons nor the DS9 crew seem to realize that it would've been easy enough just to fly over or under the mines. It's explained that because the Dominion views their soldiers as expendable, their energy shields are disproportionately focused on the sides of the ship that would face the enemy when they're attacking. Think of the old 2D army example of enemy units that only have armor on their front, because they're not supposed to retreat - and they're also meant to be used in blitz attacks that win on the first strike, so they're not well-prepared for being overwhelmed from every side. The issue is that in three-dimensional space, there are six "sides" (forward, rear, left, right, and also top and bottom), and Dominion ships are also troop carriers that deploy soldiers into combat zones, so their bottom shielding is pretty strong too. Examining a captured Jem'Hadar ship, however, Starfleet realizes the top-side shields on Dominion ships are incredibly under-powered, compared to the other five sides. This is exploited during the battle to retake Deep Space 9 at the beginning of Season 6: just as the Federation fleet is being overwhelmed, Klingon reinforcements suddenly arrive, making a Z-axis strike from "above" the plane of the battle, hitting many Dominion ships on their weakest side, and evening the balance of the battle.
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2-D Space / int_75149ccd	comment	The X-Wing Series also frequently has large ships being attacked from only one side spin as their shields on that side take a beating, letting them bring an undamaged and fully shielded flank to bear. Reinforcements and snubfighters will often then try and get at the damaged side, but they have to contend with the damaged ships' own reinforcements and snubfighters. And that same series also has Rogue Squadron sneaking into a planet's atmosphere from one of the poles, where it's sparsely populated. This is partly due to X-Wing's origins as being a novelization of the video game series, where the correct attack vector meant the difference between casually firing until the ship is dead and suicidal strafing runs. Furthermore, since the 2nd game, capital ships have had destructible gun emplacements, so attacking from only one side and focusing fire on the guns facing you a requirement to not get killed.
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2-D Space / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars features a main map in complete 3D, requiring the player to pivot and zoom in order to get the full perspective. The expansion even adds the Real Space template for galaxy generation, which is just what it sounds like. In combat, however, player-controllable Z-axis movement is only possible through keyboard hotkeys, as opposed to the normal mouse-commands. Otherwise, the player can only issue orders in 2D, though ships will pathfind in 3D and move "up" or "down" as necessary. The sequel will implement limited controllable 3D combat maneuvering. Specifically, the sequel adds two more 2D planes. The ship can be moved to any of the three planes and can even be rotated along the axis to present a weapon or an undamaged armored section.
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2-D Space / int_79e4edd2	comment	In Crying Suns, space combat takes place on a two-dimensional hex grid. Your squadrons can fly around obstacles and enemy units, but cannot fly over or under them.
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2-D Space / int_7a4a668c	comment	Beautifully subverted in the manga version of Captain Harlock: in one of the first encounters with the Mazone fleet Harlock gives orders to rotate the Arcadia 180Â° to face the flotilla of Mazone attack ships that were chasing him, resulting in the Arcadia being upside-down while Harlock remarks that such a thing wouldn't be possible if they were on the sea.
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2-D Space / int_7de8951a	comment	According to Traveller, the 2D maps are feigned to be a simplistic projection of 3D space for normal usage. Which falls apart when considering all ordinary 3D-space navigation ever portrayed in the game (the tactical space combat rules, STL colony ships, radio communication between systems, misjumping, the Sword World exodus, the Darrian Maghiz, et al.) only work if every point in the universe is on a 2D plane.
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2-D Space / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek Star Trek Encounters depicts space as having three discrete "levels": a ship can fly normally, ascend to the "high" position, or descend to the "low" position. Only very large objects such as planets can occupy more than one level at the same time. The original 1980's Star Trek arcade game takes place in space, which is completely 2D. On the other hand, Star Trek: Bridge Commander actually forces the player to turn and tilt the ship to get the best firing/shielded angle to the target. One of the biggest complaints about Starfleet Command was its 2-D space, by being a port of Star Fleet Battles, as seen in Tabletop Games. In Star Trek: Armada, the player is limited in how high above/below the plane they could get, and 3D maneuvering offered little benefit beyond going to the bottom of the plane to minimize the ship's size on the other player's screen. Each sector in the 1970s Star Trek Text Game is a 2-dimensional grid, and the Galaxy is a two-dimensional grid of sectors. Star Trek Online has an interesting mix of 2D and 3D. On the one hand, there is a universal "up", ships only have 4 shields (front/back, port/starboard), and ships can only travel 45 degrees up or down. On the other hand, the combat space is entirely three-dimensional, allowing ships to pass over or under each other, come at each other from top or bottom (well, at a 45-degree angle) and be in or out of weapons range in a full sphere around a target.
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2-D Space / int_83135233	comment	Rebel Galaxy space is mostly 2D. Rubble and small strike craft can go slightly above and below you, but everything significant is floating on the same plane firing broadsides at each other. Just run with it.
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2-D Space / int_85b855e2	comment	In the very first modern EU book, Heir to the Empire; Thrawn's Establishing Character Moment has him ordering his ship to to rotate flat to an invader's vector, pointing the superstructure — the tower bit that sticks up out of the wedge of the Star Destroyer — at them, and then launching TIE fighters in an unstructured attack profile. The Elomin trying to fight him simply cannot handle that, because they are constrained in how they think about space combat.
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2-D Space / int_85b998b	comment	Conquest: Frontier Wars seems to ignore the fact you should be able go around various space obstacles.
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2-D Space / int_86aff994	comment	Power Rangers Lost Galaxy generally did the same thing. It did avert it when the Scorpion Stinger attacked Terra Venture, which saw the Stinger blast the large engines on the underside of the ship and then attack the domes from above.
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2-D Space / int_86dd1433	comment	In one issue of Knights of the Old Republic the Republic Navy prepares to prevent an invasion of Coruscant by forming a ring of ships above the planets equator.◊ This is supposed to keep any ships from reaching the planet. A possible justification would be that the equator holds significance for launch, landing, and orbit physics — real world launch sites like Cape Canaveral are located as close to equatorial regions as possible, and any space elevators or space fountains would also be located along the equator. Protecting this line would then be protecting these critical areas.
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2-D Space / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "The Stars at Night", The USS Aledo is flanked by various California-class ships protecting the USS Cerritos in a perimeter. Being controlled by a homicidal AI with a massive hard-on for killing his "creator", the Aledo doesn't bother trying to fly straight up and instead just tries to shoot down the Cerritos in a Taking You with Me stunt.
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2-D Space / int_90e2f673	comment	All space charts in the BattleTech game are two-dimensional, even the maps of the Inner Sphere. Some of the authors prove that they did the research when writing battle scenes between aircraft or starships; one captain explicitly says that the 'threat zone' of an enemy warship is best thought of as a sphere constantly moving in three dimensions. He goes on to demonstrate just how this works: his warship is oriented perpendicular and rotated 90 degrees off on its long axis above an enemy warship. This lets him order a staggered broadside as they pass 'above' their enemy, which has each battery on one side of their ship striking the exact same targeted area as it passes to 'break the spine' of the enemy ship. That said, even the largest spacecraft in the game have various 'left' and 'right' to-hit and armor locations and firing arcs, but no 'top' or 'bottom' ones as such...even orbital bombardment is done with the attacking vessel's rear guns.
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2-D Space / int_91cf7917	comment	Foundation Series' "The General (Foundation)": General Riose is averting the two-dimensional concept of space by organizing his ships into an "Inclosure", a 3D sphere of ships where the enemy cannot escape. As the Inclosure tightens, he advances through the Foundation's territory and maintains a supply line for his fleet.
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2-D Space / int_971e8e24	comment	RedLetterMedia: In one of their Star Trek: Discovery Re:View episodes, Rich Evans complains about this trope and expresses how glad he is to finally see two ships meet at weird angles.
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2-D Space / int_988629da	comment	Exploited in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Kirk and his Enterprise, battling Khan in a sensor-jamming nebula, manage to duck under Khan's Reliant and then rise to deliver the fatal shots. However, for all the implications that his "two-dimensional thinking" was a critical flaw in Khan's strategic prowess (he's never fought a space battle before, because almost all of the time he's been in space was as a Human Popsicle), this is one of perhaps two times in the franchise's entire history that anyone tries anything like this. There's also the fact that the Enterprise has to "rise up" behind the Reliant before firing on it. While this is certainly dramatic, realistically there's no reason why the ship couldn't fire on the Reliant while still under it. Even if the weapon systems were all forward facing, all they would have to do is rotate the Enterprise until it was pointed directly at the Reliant's underside.
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2-D Space / int_9a7088bc	comment	The "barrier at the edge of the galaxy" in the second pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", looked to be no more than dozen miles or so tall — but a starship capable of travelling light years in a day couldn't go over it — or, for that matter, straight up, which relative to the plane of the ecliptic is one of the two fastest ways to get out of any galaxy. (The other being, of course, straight down.) Several EU novels build on the idea of the Galactic Barrier and reveal that it is in fact a spherical shell which encompasses the entire galaxy. The fact the we can see out of the galaxy would imply that this shell only takes on the Cloud-of-Death look when in close proximity; have to be able to show something visual on TV after all.
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2-D Space / int_9b1333a5	comment	An atmospheric example comes from Top Gun, and indeed most movies involving modern close-range air combat. Here, fighters will never use the vertical dimension, despite the fact that very significant advantages can be gained from doing so. In fact, the Top Gun course was established to teach exactly these tactics when US F-4 Phantom fighters were being shot down by Vietnamese MiG-17s, which were slower but more maneuverable in the level plane...
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2-D Space / int_a0bfcecb	comment	Haegemonia: Legions of Iron has 3D space, but all planets and objects are roughly in the same plane, so there's no real reason to use all the space.
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2-D Space / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama Parodied when a bunch of protesters surround the show's equivalent of an oil tanker. It just goes up and flies over the human barrier. Likewise, the producers (several of whom have advanced degrees) explain in commentaries that they would have liked to do things like show the ship flying upside down or at odd angles, but ran out of time/money to do so. Though, in the previously referenced episode, the ship actually DID fly upside down, due to Bender flying it sober. Later averted by Leo Wong, who, in order to protect his huge miniature golf course from ecoterrorists, intends to put a 3 dimensional fence around his property during 'Into The Wild Green Yonder.'
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2-D Space / int_a46565f7	comment	While the game Cortex Command is a side-scroller which takes place mostly on the ground, in the opening cinematic it shows a flat view of a planet, and orbiting the planet exactly perpendicular to our view, is a Trade Star. So, apparently, the space station is orbiting around the poles for some reason, despite most of the action taking place closer to the equator. In the game itself, everything is completely 2D, to the point where it's impossible for even friendly entities to squeeze past each other.
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2-D Space / int_a50ae25d	comment	In The Final Reflection by John M. Ford, Krenn notices that a group of Romulan ships his ship is fighting move in a plane, then recognises the patterns in their movements and infers that their commander is visualising the battle as if it were a game of latrunculo, the Romulan equivalent of chess.
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2-D Space / int_a6ece007	comment	Applies in the spin-off game Battlefleet Gothic which, naturally, is fought across a flat table top. In the designer's notes, the game's author acknowledges that space is 3D, but it would be logistically difficult to actually make a game that worked that way and also, because there's no gravity in space, making things 3D would just amount to being a range-modifier. Instead, the movement of the ships (much like their size compared to celestial phenomena) is assumed to be an abstraction for the sake of playability.
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2-D Space / int_a825da3e	comment	The flavor text of a Magic: The Gathering card proves that this trope isn't limited to space:
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2-D Space / int_af9c5667	comment	Tytania plays this straight for the most part. Some of the tactical formations shown on the command screens were 3 dimensional. Alas, most of the actual fleet battle scenes consisted of opposing walls of ships shooting in straight lines at each other, shared horizon et al.
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2-D Space / int_afc86b0a	comment	In Ender's Game, it's implied that Ender's ability to think in three dimensions (which he sees as common sense) sets him apart from 99.9% of the human race, complete with rival schoolmates who don't get how he does it. Taken even further in Ender's Shadow. Bean is smarter and much less trusting than Ender, and rarely assumes that something is true just because it was taught to him. This is best demonstrated in the scene where Bean comes to the conclusion that none of the solar system defenses are practical, because the Buggers could just fly around them. He realizes that the only defensive strategy that makes any sense is a preemptive attack against the enemy's planet. He decides that Earth's attacking force must have been sent decades ago, and would be arriving within the next few years.
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2-D Space / int_b633b466	comment	In Space Quest V: The Next Mutation, when Roger Wilco has to rescue his chief engineer Cliffy in the SCS Eureka's EVA pod, you locate him using a radar and navigate space as if it was the ocean, with no changes in any vertical direction. The second use of the pod is a little more lenient, when you use it to sneak aboard Captain Quirk's warship, the SCS Goliath by locating a section of one of the vertical decks.
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2-D Space / int_b6cb9396	comment	An episode of Lost in Space once had the Jupiter II in great danger because a navigation error put the ship on a direct course to Earth — with the sun in the way. And apparently the sun was too large an object for an interstellar craft to go around. 1-D Space?
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2-D Space / int_b8df7667	comment	The Mount & Blade Game Mod Star Wars Conquest has a world map which is a two-dimensional representation of the Galaxy, with the space vacuum instead of Calradian land, and several kind of planets and space stations instead of the villages, castles, and towns.
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2-D Space / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 Applies in the spin-off game Battlefleet Gothic which, naturally, is fought across a flat table top. In the designer's notes, the game's author acknowledges that space is 3D, but it would be logistically difficult to actually make a game that worked that way and also, because there's no gravity in space, making things 3D would just amount to being a range-modifier. Instead, the movement of the ships (much like their size compared to celestial phenomena) is assumed to be an abstraction for the sake of playability. The 2-D space problem also pops up in the background material about the Tyranids. The Imperium, accustomed to strategic planning across a flat-ish galaxy, is perplexed when Tyranid swarms start popping up deep "behind" their defensive lines, rather than approaching from the edge of the galaxy like the others. Then it dawns on them that this new Hive Fleet is making a flanking action of sorts and attacking "upward" from "beneath" the galaxy. To be fair, the humans haven't had to deal with extra-galactic threats until this point.
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2-D Space / int_bd41836e	comment	In StarCraft, the maps in Space take place on man-made orbital platforms and the space between them is like the water on other maps, so they are functionally no different from the maps that are on the surfaces of planets. So guardians, air units that can only attack ground, still can't attack other air units even with the freedom of space, and the siege tanks' attacks are still restricted to the surface of the platform, though they would presumably be able to hit air units in the low gravity conditions. And none of the aerial or space-faring units can fly over the enemy defences.
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2-D Space / int_bfdbdd8e	comment	Empire at War restricts space combat to the 2D plane. Ships of different classes are higher "up" or lower "down" on the plane, for example Corvettes are higher "up" than battleships, and fighters, when engaged in dogfights, go all over the place, but there is no gameplay effect of this.
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2-D Space / int_c2463c55	comment	While not in space, Final Fantasy X has Blitzball, which takes place in a giant sphere of water. Everybody plays on the same plane, though it's definitely due to simplifying the interface. The cutscenes have them play the game in three dimensions.
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2-D Space / int_c2e08381	comment	In Uchuu Senkan Yamato, Captain Okita (Captain Avatar in the English dub) shocks the bridge crew by commanding the helmsman to maneuver safely through a cluster of space mines by tilting the ship five degrees, a concept which shouldn't surprise anyone trained to fly in three-dimensional space. This trope was played with many many times in the series and movies, as Space Is an Ocean ruled almost every moment. You get the usual 2-D Space issues: horizontal-only blockades, a spaceship which was retooled from a naval vessel so that it still has an underside bereft of weaponry or defense, and gravity that holds people to the tops of ships (Just the tops..) Averted once in the third series when the Yamato orients itself with the Z-axis (in comparison to the enemy fleet surrounding it on the X-Y plane), rotating along the Z-axis to allow the guns which are only on the topside to sweep around in all directions. You'd think after awhile it would have just been easier to put guns on the underside as well.
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2-D Space / int_c377b086	comment	Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn: Lucky tries to sneak the Shooting Starr back to Saturn without the Sirians knowing, so he goes "below" the normal elliptical orbits of the planets, where they wouldn't normally be watching. That's also where he picks up the message capsule that Agent X left in orbit around Saturn.
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2-D Space / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7. In "Star One", a space minefield blocks a potential invasion route between our galaxy and Andromeda. Minefields are only effective when they guard chokepoints. In this case the invasion fleet could simply maneuver around it. They fail to do so for Rule of Drama so the Liberator can Hold the Line for the season finale cliffhanger.
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2-D Space / int_c9c09a21	comment	While the starfighters in Star Wars: Battlefront II are allowed to fly in three dimensions, capital ships are often right across from each other in most of the space maps. The only exceptions are Space Mygeeto and Space Coruscant, where rival ships, while still aligned along the same plane, are arranged in three dimensions and can move and navigate on their own. And the bombers' proton bombs always fall 'down' relative to the plane the capital ships are oriented in, no matter if that is actually up relative to the planet (such as Space Tatooine always having the planet in question above the capital ships).
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2-D Space / int_cb2db091	comment	Mentioned in Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny realizes when he sees Kirsty fly just how badly everyone else flew — they moved like they were playing a computer game, while Kirsty's ship pirouetted.
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2-D Space / int_cb46ce36	comment	The New Rebellion has General Antilles on the bridge of his fleet's flagship, looking out through the viewport and thinking he likes the design of this ship. It reminds him of being a fighter pilot, with only a thin barrier between him and the vastness of space.
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2-D Space / int_cc69e03e	comment	VGA Planets is another 2-D take-over-the-galaxy game.
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2-D Space / int_cd2a0a83	comment	Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus: The Irken Armada only travels and conquers in a straight line because, according to the Almighty Tallest, turning is boring.
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2-D Space / int_d38fe19f	comment	This was reinforced by the 2003 Clone Wars series. When CIS ships exited hyperspace around Coruscant, they came in at odd angles, turning their cruisers into battering rams, smashing into the disorganized Republic destroyers.
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2-D Space / int_d4f11a60	comment	The Elite remake Oolite both averts this (you can maneuver three-dimensionally, and pretty much have to in order to do much of anything) and takes it to an extreme: the large-scale structure of space is one-dimensional, with everything of interest lying roughly on a line connecting a solar system's jumpgate with its space station (asteroid fields, stars, moons, and some space stations excepted). Most of the objects of interest are manmade, and were placed there because it's the route most traders take from the jump-in point to the planet.
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2-D Space / int_d5505073	comment	Alluded to in David Brin's Uplift series. Most space-faring species (humans included) are descended from terrestrial creatures and 2-dimensional thinking dominates their naturally evolved spatial reasoning capabilities, making most of them mediocre space pilots. Dolphins on the other hand, having descended from an aquatic species, had evolved superior 3-dimensional spatial reasoning, making them superior space ship pilots.
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2-D Space / int_d578ee98	comment	In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Great Barrier appears more like a wall that can be flown over rather than something that is barring approach from all directions.
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2-D Space / int_d5b84b32	comment	In Spore, the star-chart is completely 3D, which can make it difficult to find the star you want. However, solar systems are completely flat and are all completely parallel, your own ship never has to roll at all to land on the planets or to interact with ships, in fact, every ship is also on the same plane as you. However, it's entirely possible to design a ship specifically so that it can move and attack in all directions, though this has no effect on gameplay. And every plane and boat are also on the same level; no matter how air-tight the vehicle, it cannot function as a submarine, and no matter how many engines, the planes are completely incapable of going up or down.
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2-D Space / int_d930a4c7	comment	In Spelljammer, a Space Opera Meets Fantasy AD&D setting, ships carried their own "gravity plane" with them. However, if docking or otherwise directly interacting with a bigger ship, the bigger ship's gravity would override the smaller one's. Space etiquette thus required that ships intending peaceful interaction line themselves up so all the gravity planes were on the same 2D plane. (The way gravity worked in Spelljammer, you could bring your ship in on another ship's gravity plane, but flipped "upside down". This was the easiest way of identifying your captain as a smartass.)
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2-D Space / int_dbbf2001	comment	The Prince Roger series makes the human tendency to do this a plot point when an Admiral notes that an opposing Admiral is from a watery planet, and thus much more likely to go "up" rather than "down" since as a swimmer his instinct is to head for the surface.
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2-D Space / int_dc63428c	comment	Imperium Galactica has 2-D space in both the galactic and battle mode. The sequel adds 3D visuals to the battle mode, but the galaxy is still 2-D. The only things not on the plane during battles in the second game are ground-based weapons. The only effect this has is that only capital ships are able to attack them (and vice versa).
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2-D Space / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris is played totally on a 2D field. Ships might barely appear to maneuver a bit over or under the plane of operations, but are still tied to it. Functionally, there is not much difference from the map of Europa Universalis, with provinces being replaced by star systems.
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2-D Space / int_e2fa7287	comment	Touhou: All battles are fought in 2D, regardless of a lot of them occurring high above the ground. This is very much a playability consideration, as the games are difficult enough without adding an entire extra dimension; this Reimu vs Utsuho Fan Vid is one fan's interpretation of what a 3D Spell Card duel would look like, and it is nuts. There is also this fangame that is basically Touhou in 3D. That fanvid also has a subtle lampshading of this trope at one point: when Reimu dodges upward to get away from a pattern that doesn't work in 3D, Utsuho simply tilts plane the attacks are on to keep up. Lampshaded in Perfect Cherry Blossom, after Marisa defeats the Stage 4 boss at the Gate to the Netherworld, and asks the boss how to open it. The boss responds that they just fly over the thing. Marisa has a "Oh, well, duh!" moment.
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2-D Space / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis While this spinoff tends to ignore orbital mechanics and such (in one case having a spaceship make a hyperspace jump from a planet's surface into space, where it miraculously begins orbiting), in the season four opener Atlantis, traveling through space, hits an asteroid field, but is saved by skimming only the top edge (giving the chance for an Asteroids-like shooting sequence). While allied fleets typically face the same direction, battles may include any number of complicated spatial maneuvers. The space battle in the episode "The Lost Tribe" also features brief scenes of a Traveler and an Asgard ship, battling in vertical position around another. In the episode "The Last Man", Michael's Hive attacks two warring Wraith ships from above, which were already damaged.
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2-D Space / int_e4bb413b	comment	Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator has a 2D map (100 by 100 kilometers) and no provision to change the ship's pitch, limiting you to flying the ship in only two dimensions. This leads to the Captain ordering Helm to come about to "course xxx", instead of "course xxx mark xx".
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2-D Space / int_e5fd2cef	comment	In the Lensman series by E. E. "Doc" Smith, on the one hand, space fleets move in three dimensional formations, such as cones and cylinders, and englobement is a common tactic. On the other hand, in "Second Stage Lensen", the Patrol defends Earth by turning the asteroid belt into a huge solar array, focusing sunlight on the invading fleet — a defense that could have been avoided if the Boskonian fleet was not in the plane of the solar system (in fairness, though, Boskone did not know the weapon existed).
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2-D Space / int_e6267766	comment	The old Expanded Universe justified this with Interdictor-class Star Destroyers being used at the battle, thus keeping the Rebels locked in the system due to their gravity wells preventing hyperspace jumps, and they came round the planet so that a jump into the system was not necessary, thus a cloud of Star Destroyers on the same plane (albeit with a bit of vertical and horizontal variance), all pointed at the Rebel fleet. The present Expanded Universe does feature Interdictor-class Star Destroyers (notably in Star Wars Rebels), but no mention has yet been made of them being used in the battle to prevent escape.
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2-D Space / int_e68decb8	comment	The first Star Control had a 3D starmap in 1990, but it was really simple-looking and confusing. In the manual, Star Control II attempts to justify its two-dimensionality by explaining it as an unusual property of hyperspace... but this doesn't explain the equally two-dimensional non-hyperspace combat. Star Control 3 reverted to 3D starmap. It was considerably more difficult to remember where anything was and a good deal less pretty — for a start it lacked the "spheres of influence" from SC2. Of course, "circles of influence" would have been a more accurate term.
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2-D Space / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly. Lampshaded hilariously in one episode when Wash tries to lose a pursuing spaceship by flying into a narrow canyon. After some fancy maneuvering and bragging on Wash's part, a pan out reveals their pursuer simply flying over the canyon and proceeding to bomb the crap out of them from above.
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2-D Space / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam and its kin primarily take place in the "Earth Sphere", the immediate neighborhood of Earth consisting of the moon and the five Lagrange Points. Lagrange Points are points of zero net gravity relative to any large two-body system, and are often used as the location for colonies. These five points all fall within the plane of rotation of the Moon around the Earth, which provides a natural 2D "landscape" for space. The giant mobile armor Alvatore from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has 27 beam guns, of which zero are capable of firing downward. That glaring design flaw was not exploited by the heroes when they fought it. This is not a particularly uncommon occurrence; even when spaceships and mobile armors (it's not usually an issue with the humanoid mobile suits, since their hand-carried weapons are pretty easy to aim in any direction) do have bottom-mounted weapons, they're almost always much less numerous and less powerful than those mounted on the top and sides. Given that "up" and "down" are completely arbitrary distinctions in space, this is clearly a dumb way to design a warship, yet it rarely if ever presents a problem. It should be noted, that in many cases spaceships in Gundam's are designed to takeoff (and sometimes, land) on planetary surface or water, and placing big turrets on the bottom - which also serves as heat shield during re-entry - is just not practical. Towards the end of Gundam 00's first season, Lockon initially attacks the enemy ships from "above" then for no clear reason moves and attacks them head on. As in the direction that ALL their guns seem to be facing. A more glaring issue is with the design of the mecha themselves. Their defenses and offenses are based entirely upon 2D combat, with absolutely no defenses from below or above (or heck, behind even). Why not just attack from the legs, which are just needlessly large landing platforms in the first place? Amazingly this issue never seems to come up in tactics or strategy. It is an even more glaring issue with the ships, which seem to factor one direction of the 3rd dimension (directly above), where an attack in the opposite direction (directly underneath) would be nearly unstoppable... much like a naval ship.
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2-D Space / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy references this trope in its The Empire Strikes Back parody: "We're evacuating into outer space where we have literally infinite directions to flee. However, we have decided that we'll fly directly towards the fleet of star destroyers."
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2-D Space / int_ea64cef3	comment	X-Wing Miniatures game uses 2D combat, but that's because the game is played on a 2D tabletop and the creators found that rules for three dimensions added unnecessary complexity that were not well received in playtesting. The Imperial Raider, the only ship designed specifically for the game instead of drawn from existing canon, has all of its guns mounted on the "top". In the context of the game this is not an issue, but in actual space it would be defenseless against attacks from below.
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2-D Space / int_ed0803a7	comment	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Chang takes glorious glee in pummeling the Enterprise all over the place with his modified Bird of Prey, both on top and on the bottom. The most devastating blow in this attack comes from the bottom, which tears through the saucer section like wet paper. The only reason Kirk or Sulu couldn't fight back initially is because they weren't able to see the damn thing in the first place and only fire away once the specially modified torpedo locks on.
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2-D Space / int_ee76546c	comment	Multi-beam Frigates in Cataclysm did this in the un-modded game, and also didn't bother with the orientation convention. In-universe they were designed for this role from the ground up, with weapon placements allowing them to engage at any angle.
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2-D Space / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager In "Twisted", Voyager gets trapped in some kind of space anomaly. When asked to try to fly out of the anomaly, the helmsman states he can't, because the anomaly surrounds the ship "like a ring". "The Swarm" had the ship confronted with a vast swath of hostile territory that would take too long to go around lengthwise, so they shoot straight through the narrowest point and hope no-one notices. Simply going around it on the z axis at said narrow point is never considered. The vast Astrometrics display was at least an attempt to bring some three-dimensionality to space; certainly an improvement on the flat-display star charts. And "The Darkling" has an alien using a cylindrical star chart to suggest a possible course for Voyager.
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2-D Space / int_f349915b	comment	A non-space example of sorts occurs in the Dragonlance novel The Legend of Huma, where a group of dragons trying to avoid being spotted by the scrying spells of an enemy wizard ahead simply take advantage of the overcast sky to go above the clouds — where the wizard indeed hasn't thought to extend his magic yet because with the weather being what it is his notion of "sky" stops at the cloud cover. (They still hurry because they're all too aware that he could realize his mistake at any moment, but they do get past.)
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2-D Space / int_f4313238	comment	Taken even further in Ender's Shadow. Bean is smarter and much less trusting than Ender, and rarely assumes that something is true just because it was taught to him. This is best demonstrated in the scene where Bean comes to the conclusion that none of the solar system defenses are practical, because the Buggers could just fly around them. He realizes that the only defensive strategy that makes any sense is a preemptive attack against the enemy's planet. He decides that Earth's attacking force must have been sent decades ago, and would be arriving within the next few years.
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2-D Space / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 is pretty good that way, at least in the early seasons. From about the middle of the third season ("Severed Dreams" and on), space battles became rather more 2-D than they had been (likely due to increased scale of opposing forces). Still, there's at least one example of a Narn ship being bushwacked by a Shadow ship from directly below; the attacker even flies right through the space where the Narn was before it got blown to pieces. There are also multiple shots of Starfuries (the human fightercraft) spinning around their centers of gravity to get a shot, without changing the speed or direction of their travel.
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2-D Space / int_fa46743e	comment	Star Trek: Nemesis depicts the final battle between the Enterprise and the Scimitar with both ships utilizing full directional advantage. After taking substantial damage to a particular side of the Deflector Shield, the Enterprise would rotate less damaged sections away from the line of sight of the Scimitar to offer more time for repairs, which involves the image of turning sideways or upside down. Previously, and most of the time afterward, even combat against large cruisers played out more like an Old-School Dogfight, some twist and turns but largely staying on the same relative plane as the opponent. (This likely had to do with this being the first theatrical battle after the franchise switched to CGI.)
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2-D Space / int_fb86ff73	comment	The DCU setting is established as having an enormous wall known as The Source Wall encircling the entire multiverse, seemingly made of the petrified bodies of beings that have tried to breach it; failing certain cataclysmic events, it's supposed to be impenetrable. However, it's shown to be very much a wall in every respect, with a top giving way to a starscape above (and presumably no ground beneath either), so it's not clear why nobody's tried to just fly over it. Unless some strange metaphysics or non-euclidean geometries prevent this.
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2-D Space / int_fd281c4b	comment	In Star Trek: Armada, the player is limited in how high above/below the plane they could get, and 3D maneuvering offered little benefit beyond going to the bottom of the plane to minimize the ship's size on the other player's screen.
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2-D Space / int_fe5b0fe	comment	In Jovian Chronicles the space combat rules allowed for vertical movement and distance between units; however, those rules were "optional" and could be disregarded to speed gameplay. The artwork and fiction would frequently show ships and craft moving on different planes to each other.
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2-D Space / int_ff5835e3	type	2-D Space
2-D Space / int_ff5835e3	comment	Exploited in Fractured (SovereignGFC) and its sequel, Origins, â€“ anyone who plays this trope straight ends up losing because someone else thought in three dimensions. For example... Three Star Destroyers take on a Reaper. They approach from head-on, below, and above. The Reaper's weapons all tend to aim forward or down—so the ship attacking from "overhead" relative to the Reaper gets to fire without being retaliated against (not that Reaper beams do any good against Star Destroyer shields...) In a bit of Lampshade Hanging, Admiral Allison Nimitz is commended for "creative thinking" early in her career...because everyone else is so used to thinking with this trope that defying it is actually noteworthy. Defenders surrounding a planet with orbital battle stations defy the trope since they know people could just "go around" if said stations are merely arranged in a ring. Instead, they're arranged in a sphere around the whole planet.
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2-D Space / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation was extremely fond of the "starship standoff" posture, to the point of being nose-to-nose with hostile vessels. On the other hand, the Grand Finale stupendously averted this trope: "Admiral" Riker's customised Enterprise-D not only destroys three Klingon warships in the space of about five seconds, but then flies straight through the resulting debris straight along the Z-axis. (a.k.a. the vertical one in 3-D space).
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