Faster than the moment: the 8 fastest spaceships in science fiction

By Joshua Tyler | Published 7 seconds ago

If you travel through space, you will need a ship. For now, the only ships that we are able to make are the slow and thick rockets that throw fire. Science fiction travels much faster.

While some stories are better when things move slowly, science fiction is often more fun when things move at deformation speed. But what space fiction spacecraft is the fastest?

It depends on what you are asking. For example, a combat ship is probably faster than a capital ship in normal space, but a capital ship capable of entering hyperspace is an easy winner. So, for the purposes of this list, we are measuring our ships exclusively how fast the point to point B can reach.

These are the fastest space saves of science fiction.

8. LXX (LXX)

He Loxx It is a biomechanical spacecraft capable of traveling faster than light. Lexx moves through the universe through a biologically driven propulsion system. This organic impulse allows the ship to travel through galaxies and even between universes at speeds that are never quantified precisely, but are far superior to most conventional spacecraft in their universe.

Although it lacks complex navigation systems typical of the mechanical spacecraft, its biological design compensates with a natural affinity for movement through space. Its ability to cross intergalactic and interdimensional limits implies a highly advanced and possibly alien understanding of spatial physics encoded in its organic systems.

Despite its incomparable speed, Lexx often requires guidance of its crew to determine destinations, since it lacks cognitive capacity for strategic decision making. The combination of organic propulsion and intuitive navigation positions Lexx as one of the most extraordinary ships of science fiction, even if it is ugly.

7. Ascending Andromeda (Andromeda)

He Ascendant of Andromeda It is a glorious heavy cruise of the heritage class designed as part of the high guard fleet in the Systems Commonwealth. With the fall of the Commonwealth, Andromeda is the only one left.

The propulsion of Andromeda is based on Slipstream Drive, a technology that allows a faster trip than the light through a network of natural routes called Slipstream routes. Unlike traditional FTL systems, Slipstream navigation requires an intuitive pilot to draw courses through these unstable routes. The precise calculations are impossible due to the chaotic nature of sliding physics.

Andromeda’s AI must collaborate with human pilots to navigate this complex system effectively and quickly.

6. Planet Express Boat (Futurama)

He Express Planet boat It is an avant -garde spacecraft designed by the brilliant but eccentric Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth.

The ship works with a dark matter engine, which provides almost infinite fuel efficiency and operates by moving the universe around the ship instead of the ship that moves through the universe. This unique propulsion system allows the Express Planet ship to reach an effectively infinite speed in relation to itself, allowing an instant or almost instant interstellar trip.

The ship’s engine is fed by dark matter, a refined substance from the excrement of Nibblonian species, which makes it as strange as efficient.

5. Horizon de Event (Event horizon)

He Event horizonFrom the 1997 science fiction horror film of the same name, it is an experimental spacecraft designed to test a revolutionary propulsion system known as the unit of gravity. This unit allows a faster trip than the light creating an artificial black hole, folding the spatial time so that two points are connected instantly.

The core of the unit of gravity uses exotic matter and manipulation of advanced energy to generate a singularity, collapsing the distance between the locations in space. In doing so, the event horizon does not travel in the traditional sense; Instead, it “jumps” from one point to another by overlooking the intermediate space completely. The impulse of gravity is found in a specialized and very spooky chamber in the back of the ship, surrounded by containment fields and reinforced structures to handle extreme energy and gravitational forces it generates.

All of that sounds good and well, except that there is a horrible side effect. To obtain between two points, the horizon of the event must first go through what is basically hell. As you imagine, that is not going well.

Even so, the horizon of the event can lead you where you are going very fast. You will probably be crazy or dead when I get there.

4. Discovery (Star Trek: Discovery)

He USS Discovery (NCC-1031) in Star Trek: Discovery It is one of the two cross -class spaces built by Starfleet. Both were equipped with an experimental propulsion system called Spore Drive, but only the discovery made it work.

This experimental unit uses the mycelial network, a subspacial domain composed of a vast network of spores that covers the entire galaxy. Yes, basically it flies with spatial fungi.

The biologically improved system of the spore unit integrates an organic similar to a supercomputer Interface with a living browser, especially the creature rally similar to tardigrade or later, Commander Paul Stamets, who uses injected spores to link with the network. When accessing this mycelial network, the discovery can “jump” instantly to any location of the universe, without going through the traditional urdimbre speed limitations and enabling tactical capacities and incomparable exploratory.

The mechanics of the spore unit is based on advanced technobble, where the ship essentially repositions through microscopic ducts in spatial time instead of crossing the intermediate space. While the normal Warp Star Trek impulses depend on the manipulation of the space hour through the reaction of the matter and the dilitio crystals, the spore unit works completely out of this paradigm, offering instantaneous trips without time dilation effects.

3. Guild ship (Dune)

Guild ships in Dune They are the colossal spacecraft used by the Guild of Spaces for Interesting Travel, an cornerstone of the economy and governance of the Empire.

These ships use space folding technology, made possible by the use of the psychoactive spices merance. This ability gives guild browsers the prophetic ability to draw safe paths through folded space. The process, known as space folding driven by the Holtzman unit, collapses the great distances between two points, effectively eliminating the travel time.

Guild ships are operated by mutated human browsers, who, after prolonged exposure to spices, develop superhuman cognitive skills and physical deformities. These skills allow them to perceive the complex and changing paths of bent space and avoid fatal collisions with heavenly objects.

These immense cylindrical ships can transport entire fleets or large amounts of load, which makes them indispensable for commerce, war and governance.

2. Tardis (Doctor Who)

TARDIS It represents time and relative dimension in space. The doctor’s trip made his inaugural trip long before the events we see on the screen at Doctor Who. The incredibly old vehicle is a type 40 time capsule built by the Lords time on the planet Gallifrey.

The late is alive and incredibly intelligent. It exists in multiple dimensions simultaneously, so it is larger inside. This multidimensional nature allows you to avoid normal limitations of both time and space.

When the doctor establishes the coordinates for a new location in time or space, the TARDIS dematerializes from its current location, travels through the “Vortex of Time” and then is rematerialized in the destination. The process is almost instantaneous. The vortex of time can be considered as a road that instantly connects different points through the space-time continuum, regardless of its distance or temporal separation in the “normal” universe.

1. Heart of Gold (Autoestopist Guide for Galaxy)

The space is large. You will simply not believe how great, enormously, amazingly large. I mean, you can think that it is a long way to the road to the chemist, but that is only peanut to space.

So, if you are going to travel in space, you will need something fast. There is nothing faster than the Gold heart. Informably, it is number one on our list.

This is because the heart of gold works with an infinite improbability, a new wonderful method to cross vast distances in less than a second without all tedious mocking in hyperspace.

The impulse takes advantage of the natural chaos of the universe when passing through all the conceivable points in each almost simultaneously conceivable universe. While their typical science fiction engines could fight with the inclination of the laws of physics, infinite improbability throws them out the window and drinks tea with the resulting chaos. It is unlikely, which is the point.

The heart of the origins of gold is as extraordinary and chaotic as the container itself. The ship was designed and built on the planet Damograph, where it would be launched with a large fanfare in a ceremony attended by the president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox. Unfortunately, in a totally unlikely movement, Zaphod stole the heart of gold and transported to unknown regions.

Zaphod stole it because he knows what you know now. If you are a Hoopy Frood who knows where his towel is, then there is no faster way to travel through the universe than aboard the heart of gold.