An example of a spaceship.
The spaceship, also known as a UFO, is a vehicle in the Spore franchise that allows the lifeform to traverse planets, stars, and the galaxy.
Spore[]
The spaceship is a type of vehicle that can used for flight through the planet, traversing planets within the star system, and interstellar drive between stars in the galaxy. Spaceships are equipped with tools that can be used for a variety of things like socially and destructively, but also alter the planet/lifeforms for habitation or cosmetically. Every spaceship is created in the Spaceship Creator. In contrast to other vehicles in creators, every part of the spaceship is cosmetic and won't affect its attributes.
Creature Stage[]
A Spacecraft (Grox Spaceship) in the creature stage.
Occurring in the middle of the gameplay, a spaceship will temporarily appear in the sky, fly around, and randomly abduct other creatures, who will run in panic while the ship is nearby. A crashed spaceship, especially being a Grox Spaceship, can also be found and remains on the player's home planet throughout the game.
Tribal Stage[]
Functionally similar to the Creature Stage, the spaceship may abduct up to two and usually one of the pets in the tribe's pen.
Civilization Stage[]
Spaceships do not appear in this stage, but after completing the stage and advancing to the Space Stage, the species develops technology to build the spaceship and prompts to the Spaceship Creator to create the spaceship. Once completed, the spaceship takes off from the city in a small workshop, with the cheering city below.
Space Stage[]
The spaceship becomes the unit that the player controls throughout the whole stage.
The spaceship comes with a large variety of tools which let the player do things from firing fireworks to blowing up planets. When the player first unlocks the interplanetary drive, they will be allowed to zoom out and view the star system. Once they have developed the interstellar drive, they can zoom out further and view the part of the Spore Galaxy they are currently in, or even the entire galaxy. The spaceship has a number of uses, including, but not necessarily limited to:
- Abduction and relocation of creatures and flora.
- Scanning of creatures
- Allowing the player to traverse the galaxy.
- Allowing the player to terraform and edit planets.
- Allowing the player to destroy worlds
- Both military and diplomatic missions
- Creating/Tweaking new creatures
- For playing a broad set of meta-games
Spore Creatures[]
Spore Hero Arena[]
Trivia[]
- NPC naval ships come in 3 varieties. Patrol ships defend planets and are medium sized. Fighters are spawned in groups of 5 from cruisers. Cruisers are the biggest and slowest of ships which are only used in planetary assault. They can be seen from the galactic view travelling to the enemy system. The health and firepower of the ship depends on the size. All these classes are different sized models of that empire's ship.
- Patrol ships and fighters will fight other ships by orbiting them and firing a constant barrage of short-range laser attacks. Cruisers are incapable of this, relying on their fighters to defend themselves while they launch Pulses at their target city.
- Civilian ships are visible in galactic and star system view. Merchant ships can be seen trading goods back and forth between two systems when a trade route is established. If the player's ship visits one of the star systems involved in the trade route they will, sometimes see merchant ships fly into the system. These ships will fly around the planet then curve back in the direction of the system's trade partner. Occasionally players will see civilian ships with the same model as the player's ship travelling in their empire from one star system to another.
- The spaceship's speed relies on the distance of each travel between stars (or visitable items), as farther is a visitable item faster will be it's movement. It has a maximum mean speed of 5 parsec/second for the biggest distance traveable (20 parsecs, in 4 seconds) and a top speed of 10 parsec/second taking into account the ship accelerates until half journey and decelerate the another half.