OCA:Live Free or Die/Free ship

Free ship
x = 9, y = 6, rule = B2/S0 o4bo$3b2obo$8bo$8bo$3b2obo$o4bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ AUTOSTART ]] #C [[ WIDTH 750 HEIGHT 500 TRACKLOOP 6 1 0 X -0.5 THUMBSIZE 3 ZOOM 32 GPS 2 ]]
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Pattern type	Spaceship
Number of cells	4
Bounding box	10 × 5
Direction	Orthogonal
Period	6 (mod: 6)
Speed	6c/6 | c
Heat	32
Kinetic symmetry	-e
Discovered by	Luke Bradford
Year of discovery	Unknown
Rules Outer-totalistic rules B2/S0 – B2567/S08 # of rules 24 = 16 Isotropic rules B2-n/S0 – B23c4-acn567/S08
Pattern files RLE freeship.rle
Identifiers apgcode xq6_1owo1z128821/b2s0

Free ship is a common period-6 photon in Live Free or Die which has a large tail spark, and can be turned into puffers. Two of them emerge from the domino sequence. There is a shorter variant of the free ship called the short free ship, but it is rarer due to not evolving from the domino.

x = 8, y = 6, rule = B2/S0 o4bo$3b2obo$7bo$7bo$3b2obo$o4bo! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 WIDTH 750 AUTOSTART GPS 2 TRACKLOOP 6 1 0 ]]

Short free ship (click above to open LifeViewer) Catagolue: here

The free ship was initially discovered by Luke Bradford, the creator of Live Free or Die, and was one of the patterns that initially interested him in the rule.

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x = 11, y = 17, rule = B2/S0 2bo4bo$5b2obo$10bo$10bo$5b2obo$2bo4bo6$o4bo$3b2obo$8bo$8bo$3b2obo$o4b o! #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 THEME 6 GRID GRIDMAJOR 0 SUPPRESS THUMBLAUNCH ]] #C [[ THUMBSIZE 2 WIDTH 750 HEIGHT 400 ]]

A dot puffer consisting of two free ships (click above to open LifeViewer)