Alternative to "manned" when referring to an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
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00:00 Alternative To &Quot;Manned&Quot; When Referring To An Extraterrestrial Spacecraft?
00:27 Answer 1 Score 42
00:45 Accepted Answer Score 123
01:08 Answer 3 Score 0
01:49 Answer 4 Score 3
02:04 Thank you
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 123
Consider crewed, which means:
Provide (a craft or vehicle) with a group of people to operate it:
'normally the boat is crewed by 5 people'.
It works perfectly in a sci-fi context. For example,
The ship was crewed primarily by Vulcans and cyborgs.
ANSWER 2
Score 42
Piloted would seem to fit nicely, although it does have to connotation of having a pilot rather than just a passenger.
Staffed could also work if you didn't want to talk about a specific pilot rôle.
Operated would also take out the species element of the word, focusing on the job.
ANSWER 3
Score 3
Occupied would do the job:
One of the meanings of occupied is:
Being used by someone; with someone in it.
The craft was occupied.
ANSWER 4
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In order to properly leave anthropocentrism behind, you have to think outside of the...ugly bags of mostly water. Otherwise you are making assumptions that are echoes of that anthropocentrism.
The Greebbllaapp vessel originally consisted of several semi-sentient modules that wandered desultorily around the galaxy extracting iridium, but its frighteningly malign intelligence did not fully emerge until the assembly became infested with quintillions of mutated nanomachines.
Whether or not the greebllaapp can be considered 'living species' or not is debatable...But if you must talk about a 'major interstellar war' going on between biologicals, then one of the combatants might well say their enemy's ships are 'infested'.