“All alone in a godless universe, and out of Shake ‘n’ Vac…”

But alone for how long? They’re three million years out, they shouldn’t meet anyone, right? So with what frequency does it happen?

All of Series I – perfect. Alone. Absolutely alone, with only hallucinations, a second hologram disc and an ancient cat priest to worry about.

Series II. Kryten on the Nova 5. It’s insane he was that far out into deep space. And with a crew who’d presumably travelled most (?) of the way while still alive…?
Better than Life – the mail pod finally arrives. Feasible, if it had been tracking them and was only just behind them the whole time.

Stasis Leak – a magic door.

Parallel Universe does allow them to meet people through a Magic Box. More of this later.

But other than ‘Kryten’, yes, all alone.
Score: 1 Human Spaceship made it out this far.

Series III.

Backwards. Another magic door.

Marooned. Perfect. Literally all alone.

Polymorph. Our first (?) GELF. Three million years out into deep space. First Monster of The Week?
Bodyswap. Out first bit of Kryten ‘finding some tech and using it’. Still technically alone, though…

Timeslides. Kryten finds some tech again. Less alone this time. Old Tech and a Magic Door this time.

The Last Day. Essentially another ‘postal pod catching up with us’ story. Somehow it hadn’t headed to the Nova 5.

Score: 1 Human Spaceship made it out this far.

Season IV.

Camille. Another GELF. Also 3 million years out from Earth. On a spaceship of their own. This is, I think, our first ‘space ship’ that’s travelled out this far.

DNA. And this is our second space ship that’s travelled out this far. Yes, everyone’s dead, but the ship is intact.

Justice. And now, it’s not just a spaceship, it’s a Droid in a box, but also…our first human habitation out in Deep Space. How long have the Dwarfers been travelling at this point? Either way, the Justice Prison is at the edge of known human expansion. We’re back in Human Space, clearly.

White Hole. Sort of ‘found some tech’.

Dimension Jump. Another Magic Door.

Meltdown. Another Magic Door. And Old tech.

Score: 2 Human Spaceships made it out this far. And so did 1 Human Habitation Area.

Series 5.

Holoship – fair enough, I suppose. Holograms can travel faster than light? Ok, that’s vaguely believeable.

Inquisitor – Immortal robots can travel throughout time. Ok, you’ve sort of explained it.

Terrorform. A psy-moon, apparently. Magic Thing.

Quarantine. Our second Human Habitation story. Yes they’re all dead again, but they definitely lived out this far.
Demons and Angels. “Found some old tech…”
Back to Reality. Despair Squid, ok. But also there’s a crashed spaceship on the ocean moon, isn’t there? So again, humans have been out here.

Score: 3 Human Spaceships made it out this far. And so did 2 Human Habitation Area.

Series 6:

Psirens: More space-ships than you can count. Anyone care to do a count of the models used? Psirens are GELFs again, I think?
Legion: More Human Habitation.
Gunmen: Simulants. But also there’s more human spaceships, I think?
Emohawk: GELFs.

Rimmerworld: Simulants.

Out of Time: All alone in medieval space.

Score: More Human Spaceships made it out this far than we can count. And so did 3 Human Habitation Areas.

There’s more than this, but this has taken longer than I’d thought…!