Oh and to clarity: there were two ships. A pirate ship, which
   was blown to pieces during a massive battle with Black Dog who
   turned out to be his Father that he had to kill for the sake of
   an uneasy peace between the two kingdoms, and a spaceship.

   The spaceship was a little weird though. It was powered by
   animals. I'm trying to remember as a lot of this was 2-3 years
   ago, but I remember there was cows who were hooked up to
   machines during the entire trip. They were willing participants
   for the most part, but thanks to brain surgery they didn't have
   much choice in their compliance. They also allowed themselves to
   be slaughtered for the sake of the Cat Empire in order to make
   cat food, but thankfully most cat food was generated by recycled
   poop of the cows, who were fed by an automated wheat-making
   facility which grew thanks to radiation from the ship's engines
   acting as artificial sun. The radiation came from compressed
   animal poop as well.

   The sheep were used as the forcefield for the ship, as sheep fur
   is a good protection against hyperspace travel, and voluntarily
   allowed themselves to be sheered. One young sheep didn't,
   however and caused a temporary mutiny and freedom of the sheep
   but he was surprised that most of them wanted to stay and be
   useful, rather than start off on their own planet.

   Nobody cared about the cows though as long as they kept doing
   what they do. Such is the Universe of Cat.