Decuma Ship

The **Decuma Ship** are the spaceships used by the Decuma on *Another Life*.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 2

In *Never Gonna Give You Up*, a Decuma ship approaches the stranded back half of the *Salvare*. Although Niko Breckinridge and Richard Ncube initially think that it's an Achaian Ring, they quickly realize that the ship is of an unfamiliar design just before it captures them.

In *Just a Rat in a Cage*, the Decuma experiments upon Niko and Richard aboard its ship. Niko is later sent to a frozen planet to retrieve a power core from a second crashed Decuma ship. Niko locates the power core and a partially-mutated Paula Carbone who reveals that a week after the *Salvare's* departure, the Decuma ship attacked the colony planet, killing most of the colonists and experimenting upon the remainder, eventually leaving only Paula alive. The ship was attacked by another Decuma ship looking for the power core, causing its crash. Paula warns Nico of the biometric lock on the ship's controls and that she needs to remove her Decuma wristband in order to stop Niko and Richard from mutating. After recovering the power core, Niko experiments with the ship's interface, managing to unlock it using a severed Decuma hand and figuring out some of the controls. In a compartment in the ship's lab, Niko finds a tool capable of removing the wristbands and recovers a weapon as well.

Niko returns to the orbiting Decuma ship where she discovers that Richard has begun to mutate. Removing the wristbands and destroying the cameras, Niko taunts the Decuma out of hiding and has Richard freeze it using one of the ship's controls, having learned from Paula that the Decuma are vulnerable to cold. Taking control of the ship for themselves thanks to the severed Decuma hand, the two cut off Richard's mutated arm and then regenerate it using the lab. However, the two discover that while they can locate Earth on the ship's star map, it is far outside of the ship's range and they can't use the Decuma ship to get home. Instead, Nico decides to take the Decuma ship to a nearby planet with an Artifact on it so that they can convince the Achaia to return them to Earth instead.

In *What's Bourne / What's Left Behind*, the Decuma ship travels to the planet in hyperspeed. Niko lands the ship on the planet and then uses the ship's sensors to scan the terrain. After the air proves to be thin but breathable, Niko and Richard abandon ship for good.

In *D-Day*, the events on the Decuma ship appears in the ending montage.

## Technology

The ship has highly advanced technology that is utilized by the Decuma to experiment upon other races. The Decuma are able to use it to cut into beings, bring them to the point of death and then regenerate the damage without any sign of a scar. They also have camera systems that allows the Decuma to remotely monitor their test subjects.

The ship uses a biometric interface, meaning that only the biosigns of a Decuma can unlock the controls. However, this lock can be fooled using the severed hand of a dead Decuma. Once the controls are unlocked, the interface is fairly easy to manipulate and control.

The ships are shown to be capable of landing on planets. They also have smaller one man pods that can be launched from orbit and returned to the ship for smaller missions.

The ships are powered by energy cores that are in short supply, resulting in the Decuma attacking each other for them.

Unlike the *Salvare* which uses an FTL drive that warps space in order to travel, and the Achaia who use wormholes to travel from point to point instantly , the Decuma ships possess hyperspeed engines, accelerate the ship to superluminal speed in normal space, that can cross a few light years in just a short period of time. However, their range is far more limited than that of even the *Salvare*. For example, the back half of the *Salvare* gets stranded approximately 87 light years from Earth. According to the Decuma interface, that distance is far outside of the ship's range of travel.

## Appearances

**Season Two (4/10)**

* *Never Gonna Give You Up*
* *Just a Rat in a Cage*
* *What's Bourne / What's Left Behind*
* *D-Day*