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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9210584" data-attributes="member: 1125">Look at examples like Fading Suns or Crawfords Stars Without Number both have a similar spacefaring civilisation suddenly wrecked but now recovering. Both are space opera/sci fi but I dont consider them apocalyptic and really if theres enough tech to juryrig and fuel a rocket plane is there really post-apocalyptic scarcity?Cowboy Bebops an interesting example too since although Earth faced an apocalypse its surviving underground societies are doing okay due to trade with off world colonies. Which is my point about interplanetary travel removing the burden of survival level scarcity.As to the abandoned mars colony - have you seen the Dr Who episode “Smile”? The Tardis lands on an off-world Earth colony which is empty except for millions of nanobots that maintain it, along with robotic avatars that interact with the pair via emojis. They also discover human bones …(I’ll leave it there incase spoilers)Anyway its a good episode with a mystery to be investigated and all the standard tropes of Dr Who including space travel,but despite having all the features described in your example its not post-apocalyptic.really Metamorphisis Alpha maybe the only example of post apocalyptic space ship listed so far, but even then, as far as the inhabitants know its a proper world, so in that regards its kinda like The Dragonriders of Pern which initially presents as a fantasy until you discover the twistanyway thats just my opinion,,I’m happy if others have different opinions of what makes it into their post apocalyptic setting</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 9210584, member: 1125"] Look at examples like Fading Suns or Crawfords Stars Without Number both have a similar spacefaring civilisation suddenly wrecked but now recovering. Both are space opera/sci fi but I dont consider them apocalyptic and really if theres enough tech to juryrig and fuel a rocket plane is there really post-apocalyptic scarcity? Cowboy Bebops an interesting example too since although Earth faced an apocalypse its surviving underground societies are doing okay due to trade with off world colonies. Which is my point about interplanetary travel removing the burden of survival level scarcity. As to the abandoned mars colony - have you seen the Dr Who episode “Smile”? The Tardis lands on an off-world Earth colony which is empty except for millions of nanobots that maintain it, along with robotic avatars that interact with the pair via emojis. They also discover human bones …(I’ll leave it there incase spoilers) Anyway its a good episode with a mystery to be investigated and all the standard tropes of Dr Who including space travel,but despite having all the features described in your example its not post-apocalyptic. really Metamorphisis Alpha maybe the only example of post apocalyptic space ship listed so far, but even then, as far as the inhabitants know its a proper world, so in that regards its kinda like The Dragonriders of Pern which initially presents as a fantasy until you discover the twist anyway thats just my opinion,,I’m happy if others have different opinions of what makes it into their post apocalyptic setting [/QUOTE]

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