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"When a timeship returns to the Vanishing Point after a mission, its CPU is updated from the temporal database, which, given my rogue status, we are unable to do."
—Rip Hunter[src]

A timeship is a vehicle used primarily to travel through time, via the temporal zone (a "limbo" between time), though it can also venture through outer space, through the original multiverse, & also underwater on Earth-1. Notable users of it include the Time Masters, time pirates and the Legends; who own a variant named the Waverider. Several timeships have a built-in artificial intelligence (A.I.), Gideon (and Gibert, Gary (AI), Godfrey, etc.) an example of one line of the Time Masters' ships. These vessels are one of the few ways to travel through time, along with a connection to the Speed Force and using a time sphere, to enter a temporal wormhole into the space-time continuum; created by someone with the former.

Two types of timeships, both owned by : , and an alternate .

Two types of timeships, both owned by Bishop: his own personal spaceship, and an alternate Waverider.

Features

Timeships are powered by "time drives"; which have to be manually fixed if the damage done is too severe for the onboard A.I. to repair; which can leak deadly temporal radiation if damaged. Additionally, close proximity to negative tachyons (that slow speedsters down) would cause the reaction would vaporize the ship, if the particles were to get anywhere near a timeship's "time drives". Timeships have specific compartments for it's occupants and passengers, the Waverider has 36 total compartments, including a hidden one (Rip Hunter's laboratory, from which 2056 Barry Allen/Savitar delivered his message); which can; include bedrooms, a first aid room and are equipped with highly advanced 22nd/23rd-century futuristic technology other than the A.I.; which; includes organ regeneration and Forcefields' cloaking technologies. Timeships also have the capabilities to go into deep outer space, through the multiverse, and even underwater, and can also resist extremely high temperatures such as stellar atmospheres, shown when Rip Hunter flew an Nth metal meteor into the Sun and dumped the Thanagarian artifact into the star. The ships also have an emergency fail-safe to scatter passengers across time, called the 'timescatter' function. They can even fly through deep outer space and even across the multiverse, when used as spaceships, and can also fly underwater like submarines.

The 's , which power the ship to travel through the .

The Waverider's time drives, which power the ship to travel through the temporal zone.

History

In January 2016, having recruited a team to help him stop Vandal Savage from taking over the world in 2166, former Time Master Rip Hunter unveils his previously-cloaked timeship, the Waverider in a parking lot outside Star City.

The , a timeship.

The Waverider, a timeship.

When Chronos & the Soviet Air Force attacks the Waverider in the Soviet Union of 1986, the Legends crash-land and are stranded in Star City of 2046. Rip and Sara proceed to break into an old Smoak Technologies warehouse to retrieve the technology needed to repair it, aided by Connor Hawke/Green Arrow.

The , flagship of the .

The Acheron, flagship of the Time Fleet.

Receiving a distress call from the Time Fleet's flagship timeship which was "marooned" in outer space, the Acheron, Rip and some members of his team board the ship to steal it's A.I. in order to update Gideon so they can track Savage's next location, only to discover that it's been raided by a group of time pirates led by Jon Valor. A delusional Mick Rory then betrays the team to the Time Pirates, to return to 2016 Star City (Earth-1) in exchange for helping them takeover a damaged Waverider as well. Ray Palmer manages to seal the hole in the Waverider, whilst Sara and Snart managed to stop Mick and the pirates. Meanwhile, Rip and his squad are quickly locked up with the vessel's captain, Eve Baxter; but subsequently manage to escape and stop the Time Pirates, as well as gain the software update for Gideon from Eve and the Acheron's A.I., Gilbert. [[File:Acheron approached by Waverider.png|thumb|200px|Two types of timeships in outer space, both owned by the Time Masters: the Time Fleet's Acheron, and Rip Hunter's Waverider. When the Waverider's time drive is damaged - leading to it being stranded in the temporal zone - the team's mechanic, Jefferson Jackson, is assigned to fix it, but in the process, is exposed to temporal radiation that threatens to kill him by rapid aging. Professor Martin Stein proceeds to send him off in a jump-ship back in time to 2016 Central City (Earth-1), in order to reverse the side-effects.

When Rip, Ray Palmer, Mick Rory and Stein are imprisoned by the Time Masters in the Vanishing Point, Sara Lance and Leonard Snart implanted devices that; shut down the A.I. system on many of the timeships owned by the Time Masters, in order to prevent them from pursuing upon their escape (a few had also flown away; they all look like the Waverider's model as well). The crew reunited, and flew out in the Waverider when the Time Masters' base at the Vanishing Point was destroyed along with the Oculus device.

In May 2016, when Rip Hunter and the returning members of his team (minus Kendra and Scythian/Carter, who left) prepared to board the Waverider once again in order to maintain the timeline, now that the Time Masters are gone, a future version of their timeship crash-landed, with a man named Rex Tyler; but he was accidentally erased after Eobard Thawne killed him at the JSA headquarters back in 1942. [[File:Philippe's timeship.png|thumb|220px|left|Abra Kadabra's timeship flying through 2017 Central City (Earth-1), towards a temporal disruption wormhole.]] As Abra Kadabra prepared to leave 2017 Central City (Earth-1) using "Abra Kadabra"'s timeship, he was pursued by Flash, Kid Flash, Gypsy and Vibe moving to cut off his escape attempts. He managed to open a temporal wormhole but before he could fly into it, Flash phased through the window of his ship and pulled him out and he watched in despair as the ship returned to the future without him through the time travelling portal.

The ' shield on , resisting 's torpedoes' attacks as the timeships fly through .

The forcefields' shield on Wellenreiter, resisting Waverider's torpedoes' attacks as the timeships fly through Central City (Earth-1).

Known timeships

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Chronos's timeship.

Known ship A.I.s

Gideon, the A.I

Gideon, the A.I. system for the Waverider.

Known users

The 's crew, the .

The Waverider's crew, the Legends.

Former users

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