Because they’re way more like ships than they are planes – Planes don’t stay in the air indefinitely or take long voyages, have large crews, etc – They often treat the fighter pilot space ship people like AF though – Like if I have a ‘carrier’ with a bunch of smaller ships on it

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You get stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner and the same movie/media coming out over and over again