We can see that inheritance allows us to easily extend our classes by reusing functionality that already exists within another class created earlier. You also need to be aware though that any changes to the SpaceShip class will be inherited, all the way up to the top-most derived class.
Inheritance is a very powerful feature of C# that allows developers to write less code, and reuse working and tested methods.
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