I'm not talking about an ill-named monster rocket booster, but honest-to-goodness STARSHIPS! As Wikipedia puts it:

A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems.^[1] The term is mostly found in science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship

I've certainly not got the resources to make such a vehicle... but what if you could build a really small spacecraft? Say, like this?

This was my inspiration to make a "Starship" on my NeoTrinkey - a simple spaceship program. My "ship on a chip" defines the decks of a ship and a set of potential destinations.

I've included it all in a github repo "Ship on a Chip"

• What IS a "starship?" :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship
• Inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-breakthrough-starshot-mission-to-alpha-centauri/
• trekdecks uses Enterprise deck as found at: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Constitution_class_decks
• Galaxy class decks: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy_class_decks
• Defiant class decks: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Defiant_class_decks
• Intrepid class decks: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Intrepid_class_decks
• trekdests Destinations used: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1378/top-10-star-trek-destinations-chosen-by-nasa-scientists/
• exodests from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_terrestrial_exoplanet_candidates
• sspythondecks created for a simple example

1. Copy the files wise.py, prt.py and shipchip.py (as code.py) to neotrinkey.
2. Copy a "dests" file (trekdests or exodests) to neotrinkey as "dests" (or create your own set of destinations)
3. Copy a "decks" file (trekdecks or sspythondecks) to neotrinkey as "decks" (Or create your own list of decks and dests.)

Change REPL=True to REPL=False if you want output to be "typed" via HID interface.

Change showdecks = False to showdecks = True if you want the decks to be listed on start.

Touch pad #1 to go "up" a deck and pad #2 to go down - holding both jumps to a random deck.

Files:

• shipchip.py - ship on a chip - copy to code.py

• prt.py - copy to neotrinkey

• wise.py - copy to neotrinkey

• exodests - rename to dests for use

• sspythondecks - rename to dests for use

• trekdecks - rename to decks for use

• trekdests - rename to dests for use

When run, you'll get a message "Welcome aboard" - and you begin on "deck 1" - usually the bridge. A random destination is chosen and after a random number of steps up and down in the turbolift you "arrive" and a new destination is chosen.

Looks like this:

Welcome aboard!

Ship destination is: Remus

You are on deck: 1 Bridge

You are on deck: 2 Science labs

You are on deck: 15 Deuterium fuel storage

You are on deck: 14 Engineering support, water storage

You are on deck: 13 Observation deck, dorsal interconnects

You are on deck: 14 Engineering support, water storage

You are on deck: 1 Bridge

Arrived at Remus

Ship new destination is: Nbiru

You are on deck: 2 Science labs

Make up your own ship with a list of decks in the "decks" file and destinations in the "dests" and you've got your own starship!