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Oddly enough, an example from Star Wars of all places also pops to mind. The Ithorians had a culture that included deep reverence for the forests of their homeworld Ithor, and had a very communal society, so when they got technological they built huge "Herdships" that were basically flying cities. Initially they just hovered in the sky over their planet so as to not disturb the forests on the surface, but they eventually became spaceborne and became self-sufficient arks travelling the galaxy.
They still regularly returned to their homeworld, though. Until the Yuuzhan Vong destroyed it. The Herdships were unaffected, though and basically became nomads.
I recall a thread over on Reddit where I speculated at length about what the Star Wars galaxy would be like in the aftermath of the Rise of Skywalker and the fact that the tech now exists to build Star-Destroyer-sized planet-killer weapons and it apparently is pretty cheap to do so made me think that the galaxy might be forced to go post-planetary. A planet is basically indefensible but something like an Ithorian Herdship can just jump to hyperspace the moment a Xyston-class ship shows up in the neighborhood. It's hard to speculate with much confidence given the shoddy worldbuilding, though. Hyperspace tracking is apparently quite easy now too, so if someone really has it in for a particular Herdship it might still be screwed.