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this was the name given by Luke Skywalker to the unusual, mechano-organic starship he and Leia Organa encountered, shortly prior to the Battle of Hoth. They had been trying to escape an Imperial warship while running supplies to a remote Alliance base, and tried to flee into hyperspace with a damaged drive system. When they reverted to realspace, they found themselves in the starless gulf between galaxies. It was here that Ship first appeared to them. Resembling an immense, green blob of matter, Ship was the only surviving member of an ancient race that had been destroyed in a conflict eons before the Galactic Civil War. Over the millennia, the mind of the survivor had melded with the computer and the ship itself, creating the entity Luke described as simply "Ship." It then spent its time traveling between the galaxies, hoping to flee the reality of its own galaxy and the loss of its companions. Ship initially felt that Luke and Leia were invaders, and tried to eject them into the vacuum of space. However, their compassion and love for each other made Ship close itself up and try to return them to their own galaxy. They were attacked by the Imperial warship which had pursued Luke and Leia, and Ship had to release anti-matter pods to destroy the Imperials and save itself. Ship then released Luke and Leia to continue their mission, while fleeing back into the void to escape the reality of the Galactic Civil War.