Mothership

A mothership is the name given to any kind of carrier ship that houses smaller crafts that also fill a command role. 
== Overview ==
A mothership is a large ship that leads, serves, or carries other smaller crafts or ships. A mother ship may be a watership, landship, or airship. 
The terms mothership used to be reserved for capital Dalmer ships, but with the advent of hostile Extra Weltians, it also refers to the commanding flagship of a large alien army.
Since the mothership has a leadership role of watching over its soldiers and scouts, it is the primary target of any engagement with the other races.
== Other race Motherships ==
Destroying a mothership can render the multitudes invaders leaderless and taking it down will spell an automatic victory for its opponents. Motherships commonly overarmed and overshielded, to the point that the normal arsenal of weapons won't break its superior shields (and will only prompt a swift response from its many, many weapons).
== Dalmer motherships ==
Motherships can also build carriers that function like mini-motherships in their own right, in case the Mothership gets destroyed or gets critically damaged.
=== Removed features ===
Motherships were designed to house clone vat bays, but this was discontinued due to the hazards clones present. Motherships also have larger maintenance hangers in order to service entire carriers, but the feature is often dropped before they enter service. 
== Weapon systems ==
=== Drones ===
Being carrier units, motherships can deploy vast numbers of combat drones as its primary offensive weapon.
=== Crafts ===
Motherships also house crafts to supplement its already vast firepower. the advantage of this is that crafts generally have greater autonomy than drones. 
=== Weapons ===
Motherships, unlike regular carrier units have point defense turrets and weapons to protect themselves.
== Technology ==
Unlike the carrier, the Motherships leadership role makes it more of a support unit rather than an offensive one, as such it has a plethora of technologies to help it in this function.
=== Cloaking field ===
The mothership projects a countermeasure field in a wide arc underneath itself. While underneath the mothership, any other units are cloaked from visual and radar detection. 
=== Strategic Mass Warp ===
The mothership can summon all units in a target 200 meter square area to the mothership's location. 
=== Air thickener ===
Slows time by forcibly increasing the gravity within the target area for 15 seconds. Enemy units within the field are slowed and have their speed reduced by.
=== Gravity well ===
The Mothership launches a barrage of warp charges that warp the targets in the area somewhere else where they are no longer a threat.
== Leadership role ==
Motherships are by default the flagship of a fleet. A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of ships, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed ship. 
In common use, the term flagship is a temporary designation; the flagship is wherever the admiral is. However, Flagships always have additional facilities, including a meeting room large enough to hold all the captains of the fleet and a place for the admiral's staff to make plans and draw up orders. 
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