Spaceship flotilla

A flotilla (plural flotillae) is a spaceship composed of a number of smaller interacting spaceships. Often one or more of these is not a true spaceship (e.g. an overweight spaceship) and could not survive without the support of the others; those ships are said to be escorted by the true ships.

In addition to the XWSS-on-XWSS flotillae such as those described below, others involving sidecars, pushalongs, x66s and Coe ships have been found.

Example

In the following example, a long overweight spaceship is being escorted by two heavyweight escorts; most of the 10-bit spark that would make it unstable is suppressed by the HWSSes, except for two cells that dissipate harmlessly.

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Standard spaceship flotillae

There are 42 flotillae of two standard spaceships (lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight).

• 1 LWSS on LWSS
• 3 LWSS on MWSS
• 8 LWSS on HWSS
• 5 MWSS on MWSS
• 15 MWSS on HWSS
• 10 HWSS on HWSS

Note that this table currently makes no distinction between true flotillae and pseudo-spaceships.

name	type	commonness
LWSS on LWSS Catagolue: here	LWSS on LWSS
LWSS on MWSS 1 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Third most common spaceship flotilla and seventh most common spaceship overall
LWSS on MWSS 2 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Fourth most common spaceship flotilla and eighth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on MWSS 3 Catagolue: here	LWSS on MWSS	Sixth most common spaceship flotilla and tenth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Fifth most common spaceship flotilla and ninth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 2 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Ninth most common spaceship flotilla and thirteenth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 3 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Tenth most common spaceship flotilla and fourteenth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 4 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Fifteenth most common spaceship flotilla and nineteenth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 5 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Eleventh most common spaceship flotilla and Fifteenth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 6 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Seventeenth most common spaceship flotilla and twenty-first most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 7 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS	Eighth most common spaceship flotilla and twelfth most common spaceship overall
LWSS on HWSS 8 Catagolue: here	LWSS on HWSS
MWSS on MWSS 1 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Most common spaceship flotilla and fifth most common spaceship overall
MWSS on MWSS 2 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Thirteenth most common spaceship flotilla and seventeenth most common spaceship overall
MWSS on MWSS 3 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Fourteenth most common spaceship flotilla and eighteenth most common spaceship overall
MWSS on MWSS 4 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Seventh most common spaceship flotilla and eleventh most common spaceship overall
MWSS on MWSS 5 Catagolue: here	MWSS on MWSS	Twelveth most common spaceship flotilla and sixteenth most common spaceship overall
MWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 2 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS	Sixteenth most common spaceship flotilla and twentieth most common spaceship overall
MWSS on HWSS 3 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 4 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 5 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 6 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS	Nineteenth most common spaceship flotilla and twenty-third most common spaceship overall
MWSS on HWSS 7 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 8 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 9 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 10 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS	Eighteenth most common spaceship flotilla and twenty-second most common spaceship overall
MWSS on HWSS 11 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 12 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 13 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 14 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
MWSS on HWSS 15 Catagolue: here	MWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 1 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS	Second most common spaceship flotilla and sixth most common spaceship overall
HWSS on HWSS 2 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 3 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 4 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 5 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 6 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 7 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 8 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 9 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS
HWSS on HWSS 10 Catagolue: here	HWSS on HWSS

See also

• Growing/shrinking spaceship

External links

• Flotilla at the Life Lexicon

• The 47 two-spaceship flotillae at Mark D. Niemiec's Life Page