Red Dwarf (spaceship)

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In the television show Red Dwarf, the spaceship Red Dwarf is an enormous (five miles long, according to the novels) mining vessel owned by the Jupiter Mining Corporation and commanded by Captain Frank Hollister. All of Red Dwarf's systems are controlled by the computer Holly. Red Dwarf has a large compliment of shuttles, including Starbugs, Blue Midgets and at least one (mentioned but never seen) White Midget. It is powered by a ramscoop and can, theoretically, keep going forever. It has so far been travelling for roughly 3,000,000 years. The crew size varies between 169, 1,169 and 11,169. In the book the figure is given as 11,169. In the programme, Lister quotes his rank number being RD 169 DL (he was the lowest ranking member of the team) and Rimmer was found guilty of the second degree murder of 1,167 people (Lister was in stasis and Rimmer couldn't be charged with his own death).

The ship was the main setting for the first five seasons of the programme, but was apparently lost 200 years before the first episode of Season Six. It was later discovered that a collective of rogue nanobots belonging to the mechanoid Kryten dismantled Red Dwarf and created their own nano-version of the ship. The crew chased this nano version of the ship in Starbug 1 and eventually convinced the nanobots to rebuild the ship. As well as rebuilding the ship they also revived the dead crew. The rebuilt ship was based on the original specifications, meaning it was even bigger, with a quark-level matter/anti-matter generator and a karaoke bar. The ship was again destroyed by a corrosive chemical but all of the crew (bar Arnold Rimmer) managed to escape in the Starbugs and Blue Midgets.

Notable areas of the ship include:

• Rimmer and Lister's original sleeping quarters - The main setting for the first two seasons. A grey room with bunk beds built into the wall, a table, two lockers, a sink with a mirror that also acts as a computer screen and a voice activated toilet. It made a reappearance in the first episode of Series Eight.
• Rimmer and Lister's second sleeping quarters - In season three, they relocated to a room in the unused Officer's Block; substantially larger, with a white colour scheme and en suite shower.
• The Tank - A two-hundred cell prison on the top-secret Floor Thirteen. Contained four hundred and thirty hardened criminals on their way to a penal colony on Adelphi 12. And, in season 8, the main cast.
• The Drive Room - The control centre of the ship. Where Kristine Kochanski used to work. Also contains the Navicomp, the ship's navigational computer.
• White Corridor 159 - The initial site of the accident that wiped out the crew.
• Parrot's Bar - A wine bar on G Deck, apparently named purely for a Casablanca gag. ("We'll always have Parrot's.")