In game, the players are able to create their own ships, or view and use other players ships.

Unlike creatures in the Creature Stage, players are capable of using any accessible spaceship in the Sporepedia; creatures cant be picked out in-game, and have to be created by the player (unless they use evoadvantage).

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 crashed spaceships can still be found on the planet in space stage but scanning them gives no result.

If in Tribal stage, the UFO will abduct up to two and usually one of the domesticated animals in the village.

A 5-being crew is likely due to the ship needing a pilot to beam the captain and way-team back up, but such functions could be remote.

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.

All these classes are different sized models of that empires ship.

Cruisers are incapable of this, relying on their fighters to defend themselves while they launch Pulses at their target city.

Merchant ships can be seen trading goods back and forth between two systems when a trade route is established.

If the players 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 systems trade partner.

Occasionally players will see civilian ships with the same model as the players ship travelling in their empire from one star system to another.

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