* Symbol of the Imperium ( Warhammer 40, 000 ) in the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* Marienburg ( Warhammer ), a fictional city in the Warhammer Fantasy world

* Norsca ( Warhammer ), a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting

In contrast to many other fictional FTL technologies, such as a " jump drive " or the Infinite Improbability Drive, the warp drive does not permit instantaneous travel between two points ; instead, warp drive technology creates an artificial " bubble " of normal space-time that surrounds the spacecraft ( as opposed to entering a separate realm or dimension like hyperspace, as is used in the Star Wars, Stargate franchise, Warhammer 40, 000, Babylon 5 and Andromeda universes ).

Warhammer 40, 000s space-fantasy setting spans a vast fictional universe set in the far future of the forty-first millennium.

The Eldar are a race of elf like beings who inhabit the fictional universe of the game Warhammer 40, 000, a 1987 tabletop miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop, set in a dystopian science-fantasy universe.

* Eldar ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), ancient race of elf-like aliens in the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe

The Tyranids are a fictional race from the Warhammer 40, 000 tabletop game and its spin-off media.

* Stormtroopers, elite soldiers in the fictional Imperial Guard of Warhammer 40, 000

* Ork ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional species in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000 created by Games Workshop, Space Marines are genetically modified superhuman soldiers, the elite warriors of the Imperium of Man.

* Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000

* Cypher ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a character from the fictional Warhammer 40, 000 universe

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 fictional universe, the Eldar race live and travel aboard interstellar arks, Craftworlds

* Space Marines ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a fictional army in Warhammer 40, 000

* Eisenstein ( spacecraft ), a fictional spacecraft, featured in Flight of the Eisenstein, a 2007 novel by James Swallow for the Horus Heresy series of Warhammer 40, 000.

In the fictional universe of Warhammer 40, 000, the Dark Eldar are a Kindred of the Eldar, an ancient and advanced race of elf-like humanoids.

While many cases an alien language is but an element of fictional reality, in a number of science fiction works the core of the plot are linguistic and psychological problems of communication between various alien races.

Like many other fictional elf races, they are excellent archers.

Traditional MUDs implement a role-playing video game set in a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters, with players choosing classes in order to gain specific skills or powers.

Two of the metahuman races have fictional languages.

However, sentient fictional races are usually not referred to as monsters.

* Blood of the Mantis, a 2009 Fantasy novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky ( and set in a fictional universe where different human races are modeled on different insects ) is dedicated to Fabre.

* List of fictional assimilating races

The Xindi is the collective term for six fictional races in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

In author J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Arda, the Black Númenóreans are mentioned briefly at several points in both his published and unpublished writings, as one of many peoples and races inhabiting his Middle-Earth setting.

* Trill ( Star Trek ), two symbiotic races of aliens in the fictional Star Trek universe

The Covenant are a fictional theocratic military alliance of alien races who serve as the main antagonists in the first trilogy of the Halo video game series.

Apocalypse has fourteen fictional races of alien beings.

This page is a listing of articles about fictional races in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its extended universe.

Humans are one of the many races in the fictional Babylon 5 universe.

During the season 3 episode, " Messages From Earth ", it had been revealed that humans had taken samples from a recently discovered inactive Battle Crab, ( an organic vessel used by the Shadows, one of the highly advanced and fictional ancient races that were collectively known as the First Ones ) for study.

Some of the people described in early accounts of the ' El Dorobo ' are imaginary, or fictional accounts of 20th century savages such as " races of bearded men " as described by Charles Hobley.

The White Martians are one of three fictional extraterrestrial races native to Mars in the DC Comics ' shared universe.

This category is for individual fictional characters who are werewolves and for fictional races ( or species ) of werewolves or werewolf-like beings.

There are four fictional racing teams available, each one managed by a different character who briefs the player between races.

In its ' pages, the fictional Cook's love of smoking is referred to again, along with abiding passions for betting on horse races, heavy drinking and voicing her hatred for other TV personalities.

In the fictional Forgotten Realms setting, the intelligent species are classified into groups known as " races ", which, in this context, generally refers to an intelligent species, such as humanity, elves or goblins.

In the fictional universe of Stargate, a number of technologically advanced races and societies have produced a variety of highly advanced weapons, tools, and spacecraft.

The science fiction role-playing game Fading Suns features the fictional extraterrestrial races of the Ur-Obun and the Ur-Ukar, which are essentially science fiction renditions of elves and dark elves ( somewhat akin to the Eldar and the Dark Eldar in the setting of Warhammer 40000 mentioned above ).

For many years, the events described in " The Curse of Akkad " were thought, like the details of Sargon's birth, to be purely fictional.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

Too, the act of dramatizing real or fictional events injects a degree of falseness or contrived efforts which media savvy people today can identify easily.

In comic books, continuity has also come to mean a set of contiguous events, sometimes said to be " set in the same universe " ( see fictional crossover and fictional universe ) or " separate universes " ( see intercompany crossover ).

Another similarity to Jane Eyre was the use of aspects from her own life as inspiration for fictional events, in particular reworking the time she spent at the pensionnat in Brussels into Lucy teaching at the boarding school, and falling in love with Constantin Heger into Lucy falling in love with ' Paul Emanuel '.

* Dozens of fictional footnotes referencing events, books of magical scholarship, and biographies in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, the debut novel by Susanna Clarke.

* Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars is a work of fiction in the form of three fictional encyclopedias, which incorporate viewpoints that provide inconsistent descriptions of the events they describe.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

One of George R. R. Martin's aims with the Ice and Fire series was to retell the history of the fictional world, since he feels that past events from dozens or even thousands of years ago still influence the present.

Still believing the situation is fictional, Jason orders the Thermians to fire upon Sarris's spaceship and then insists on returning home, but when they send him through space to Earth, he finally realizes the events were real.

23, a German film adaption with fictional elements, shows the events from the attackers ' perspective.

In an interview in the March 28, 2000 issue of the Assembly of God magazine Pentecostal evangel, he insists that " Left Behind is the first fictional portrayal of events that are true to the literal interpretation of Bible prophecy.

The essay is written in the first-person by a fictional historical narrator in 2034, and interweaves history from the politics of pre-and post-war Britain with those of fictional future events in the short ( 1960 onward ) and long term ( 2020 onward ).

This is usually justified as a second hand account of events as told to credited authors Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley although the general public continues to believe them as fictional.

Game themes are heavily varied, and may range from those based on historical or real events to those taking place in alternate or fictional worlds.

The actions of the character should be considered fictional events, wholly separate from the life of the performer.

In the Star Trek franchise, the books The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volumes 1 & 2 ), by Greg Cox, detail the fictional Eugenics Wars of the early 1990s – still many years into the future when first mentioned in the episode " Space Seed " in 1967 – giving alternative explanations for real world events such as the Indian nuclear test of 1974 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, presenting them as small parts of a single wider conflict.

The series was noteworthy for being both partially improvised and each episode being produced in the 5 days prior to airing to take advantage of topical events that could be worked into the fictional narrative.

Noteworthy examples of the journalistic style and successful integration of fictional characters with historical events were the politico – military novels The Day of the Jackal ( 1971 ) by Frederick Forsyth and Eye of the Needle ( 1978 ) by Ken Follett.

The Onions articles comment on current events, both real and fictional.

* Marcus Clarke used historical events as the basis for his fictional For the Term of His Natural Life ( 1870 ), the story of a gentleman, falsely convicted of murder, who is transported to Van Diemen's Land.