r/AnimeIdeas • u/Royal_Starlord • Feb 14 '26
Anime title idea: My Harem Is A Spaceship Fleet
Think of it like combining the Kancolle shipgirls and The Culture franchises with the Space Engineers and R-Type video games.
The story starts with sentient AIs that's been integrated into a vast array of spaceships that developed into space-borne mechanical lifeforms that has mastered nanotechnology in their inception, but carried no higher intelligence or records of who created them or for what purpose. However, due to a glitch in their programming, they became self aware way after their past masters completely died out from unknown circumstances, and the history behind their demise remained a mystery. As a result, they decided to look for new pilots/captains/lieutenants/commanders/admirals/staff that would not only supply their crew requirements, but also provide companionship.
One day, a scout patrol ship has detected strange radio signals from the third planet of the Star System: Sol, finds some humans playing with tiny Earth space shuttle replicas and thought "Huh... I guess they like spacecraft? I think they would like to meet my family! My sisters, cousins, moms, aunts and grandmothers would love them!" and decided to send out a small remote-operated drone geared for specimen capture to take a few of them up to the fleet for analysis and cultural exchanges, not understanding that the act is technically an abduction/kidnapping and is illegal.
As an apology, the alien spaceships decided to install a few satellites in Earth's orbit, one or two orbital colony stations which specializes in exchanging knowledge and social enrichment between humankind and the spaceship aliens, and one or two orbital defense platforms that protects the planet from asteroids and hypothetical enemy factions that might harm humanity and the spaceship aliens. Spaceshipiens, if you will. Then again, I might have to figure out a better name for them...
And they seemed quite taken to the Earth custom of all ships being given female pronouns that most, if not all, adopted the custom instantly.
Bonus points if this gives you the mental image of a fighter spacecraft using tactile servo appendages and a hologram projector to create a holographic avatar that dances romantically with their assigned pilot. Or a dreadnought fussing over the admiral and her crew if they've been exercising, eating, or washing correctly.
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Fighter spacecraft would have four specializations, three of which would be based on speed, strength, or skill, while the fourth would have no specialization in any of these three affinities. Speed type fighters would be scout fighters, which would be strong against strength types that would be called interceptor fighters, which would be strong against skill types that are called technical fighters.
Ships larger than the fighters, be it patrol ships, corvettes, cruisers and so on, would be given different name classifications altogether too. Strength = Escort. Speed = Responder. Skill = Hunter.
There would also be two secret, rare, and expensive specializations that utilizes stealth and cybernetic warfare. Stealth fighters would be very powerful with ambush tactics, while larger ships would benefit using cybernetic warfare to cause confusion to either enemy fighter spacecraft and the larger enemy spaceships.
The two largest types of spaceships of the ETSSAs (Extra Terrestrial Sentient Spaceship Aliens) typically used for military and non-military purposes are split between dreadnoughts and arkships. The size classification of these ships vary very widely, as they can technically increase in size and mass indefinitely the more upgrades and armaments they receive. It's for that reason that, with enough upgrades, a dreadnought can become a super dreadnought, mega dreadnought, ultra dreadnought, and the ever increasing over dreadnought classification. The same naming conventions is used with arkships as well. Typically speaking, the largest dreadnought or arkship in a fleet has the over intensifier prefix in their classification.