A ship from the Babylon 5 universe
The EAS Hyperion was one of the earliest of the Hyperion class, as hinted by its name, possibly the first. One of the few of its class to survive the Earth-Minbari War, the EAS Hyperion, was a member of the task force that initiated first contact with the Minbari, along with the EAS Prometheus and th...

Universe
A series of four books (and a less widely known novella) by writer Dan Simmons. It includes Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and Rise of Endymion. The first two books describe the events and history surrounding the pilgrimage of 7 people to a grouping of myseterious alien constructs (called the Time Tombs) on the planet Hyperion, which...

A vehicle/ship class from the Babylon 5 universe
The Hyperion Class of Heavy Cruiser is an older vessel that was once the mainstay of the Earth Alliance fleet but is now slowly disappearing from service, though it is likely to stay around in some role for some time yet. The Hyperions had entered service during the Dilgar war and were regarded as excellent combat vessels des...

A ship from the StarCraft universe
The Hyperion is the flagship of the Terran forces under Jim Raynor. Having rebelled against Arcturus Mengsk's rebellion against the Terran Confederacy (which they themselves participated in), this force is little more than a rag-tag militia, and the Hyperion is one of their most powerful combat assets - as well as the command-and-control center of ...

A technology from the Lensman universe
Originally developed by the Boskonians, the Hyper-Spatial tube is a tunnel through space, allowing speeds far in excess of even those used by inertialess drives. There is a peculiar gut-wrenching sensation as you enter the tube which nobody seems to be able to get used to.Normally powered by a fixed base station, Hyper-Spatial tubes can be col...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
The mighty ISD is one of the most recognizable capital ships in the Imperial Navy. Designed by Lira Wessex of Kuat Drive Yards (who also designed the Executor-class Star Dreadnought or 'Super Star Destroyer') and measuring a mile long (1600 meters), a typical ISD often maintains a crew of more than 37,000.  These imposing wedge-shaped ship...

A group from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe

A group from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
The Imperial Guard is the primary military force of the Imperium of Man. It constitutes the standard army in contrast to the special combat force of the Adeptus Astartes (Space Marines). The Imperial Guard is composed of billions of soldiers and other personnel from any of the many thousands of worlds in the Imperium. Each world is requi...

A group from the Dune universe
The Imperium has ruled since the defeat of the thinking machines during the Butlarian Jihad. House Corrino rules from the Lion Throne on planet Kaitain, with the Sadaukar used to keep the peace. The galaxy is ruled by three groups in a precarious balance: House Corrino, the Spacing Guild, and the Bene Gesserit.

A group from the Warhammer 40,000 universe
The Imperium of Man is a large spacefaring civilization of the Milky Way. Comprised wholly of a wide diversity of humans, the Imperium is engaged in a perpetual struggle against horrendous threats, which has been raging for many millennia. The modern Imperium is a degenerate version of the glory it once displayed. Trapped in a period of ...

A technology from the Lensman universe
Although the Nevians had managed to achieve partial inertia with their allotropic iron-based drives, the true inertialess drive was invented by three Tellurian scientists: Rodebush, Cleveland and Bergenholm, in the time of Virgil Samms. Rodebush and Cleveland were at a dead end on the device, when Nels Bergenholm - actually a form of flesh 'energis...

An episode from the Babylon 5 universe
An old friend of Doctor Franklin's secretly brings some unknown alien technology onto the station. After inadvertantly activating the device, his assistant turns into an eight-foot-tall killing machine, and goes on a rampage through the station. This has the distinction of being the first episode of Babylon 5 to have been filmed since th...

A creature from the StarCraft universe
The Zerg assaulted the Terran worlds of the Koprulu Sector with the intent of assimilating enough human genetic material to gain hyper-evolutionary control over the latent psionic powers possessed by Koprulu Terrans. While they do not appear to have succeeded in this goal, they did 'infest' (infect with symbiotic Zerg cells) a significant number of...

A technology from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe
The infinite Improbability drive allows ships to move almost instantly from point A to Point B. During the Process the ship passes through every other point in the universe, including points f, h y, and 3.14.  The drive is contained in a gold box the size of a Cricket bail. It is also the golden bail for the Krikket gate. Note: An...

A technology from the Bolo universe
Infinite repeaters are any secondary anti-armor weapon mounted in multiple banks on a Bolo. They first started out as gatling railguns, then advanced to gattling lasers and then to ion bolt repeaters which proved more effective than lasers. Eventually these were phased out in favor of 20 cm Hellbores.

A group from the Metroid universe
The Ing were a race of hostile alien organisms capable of some degree of shape-shifting. They were created when an asteroid containing a large quantity of Phazon slammed into their homeworld, Aether, and created a dimensional rift between a 'light' Aether and a 'dark' Aether. Light Aether was essentially Aether in its original form, while Dark Aeth...

Group
The Inner Sphere encompasses the area covered by several major Successor States as well as some smaller politicial entities. The main States are:  Lyran CommonwealthRuled over by House Steiner. Later with the political marriage of First Prince Hanse Davion to Melissa Steiner, the Lyran Commonwealth and t...

A vehicle/ship class from the Star Wars universe
Interdictor cruisers, officially called Immobilizer 418 heavy cruisers, are special warfare vessels designed around a single purpose: preventing the escape of enemy ships into hyperspace. While some related variants - such as the Vindicator cruiser - are suited to front-line combat, the Interdictor is poorly armed for a ship of 600 meters....

A group from the Thunderbirds universe
International Rescue is the name given to the high speed disaster response team founded by Ex-Astronaut Jeff Tracy. His five sons John, Virgil, Scott, Alan and Gordon each have their own parts to play in this organisation. Scott Tracy pilots Thunderbird 1, the high speed response vehicle which is always sent in first to assess the situati...

An episode from the Babylon 5 universe
Sheridan confronts Morden about his connection with the Icarus mission which killed his wife.