Ha'tak

The **Ha'tak** is a Goa'uld spaceship and the mainstay of their fleet. It serves a dual role as a mothership and a heavy attack vessel.

## Overview

The Ha'tak is one of the most powerful ships in the Free Jaffa and Lucian Alliance fleets, only second to their larger and more powerful flagships, as well as the flagships used by the Free Jaffa. However, compared to other capital vessels such as those of the Asgard, Ancients, Ori, Asgard-upgraded Tau'ri fleet, and the Red Faction, they are clearly inferior.

### Pel'tak

The Pel'tak is the bridge of Ha'tak vessels, where weapons and helm are controlled from.  It can be sealed from the inside, preventing access from intruders.

### Propulsion

Ha'taks use an advanced form of propulsion which circumvents the need for chemical rockets or ion thrusters of any sort, allowing them to achieve great accelerations. These invisible systems, apparently able to manipulate inertia along given vectors, can easily take a Ha'tak to 5% of lightspeed and velocities where planets come in and out of view within a few minutes, and are most likely the system used to keep them at a stable altitude within gravitational fields. These engines are also used to slow the ship down when exiting hyperspace.

### Engine room

The Engine room contains the mothership's Naquadah reactor, hyperdrive, sublight drive, and all of the neccessary control crystals for critical systems.

### Glider Bays

There are two Death Glider bays on standard Ha'tak vessels, each holding up to 35 Gliders or 6 Al'kesh

## Variants

There are three versions of Ha'tak motherships in the galaxy.

### Old Ha'tak

The old Ha'tak variants were the most common before the 21st century and the subsequent rise of power for Apophis, Anubis, and later Ba'al. These motherships had a maximum hyperdrive speed of 32,000.

### Apophis' Ha'taks

When Apophis took control over Sokar's fleet, he also acquired the upgraded Ha'tak motherships, which had upgraded weapon systems as well as the capability to cloak. These motherships were all destroyed when Vorash's sun expanded.

#### Weapons

Instead of being the standard Heavy Staff Cannons, these ships were equipped with Enhanced Staff Cannons, which had a much higher damage output (four times more powerful) although at a slower rate of fire (slightly less than half).  It was these weapons which destroyed Heru'ur's Ha'tak in only a few shots.

### New Ha'tak

The new Ha'tak variants were created by Anubis using his Ascended knowledge.  They boast new types of weapons as well as a much stronger shield.

#### Weapons

The weapons, as opposed to the Heavy or Enhanced Staff Cannons, were Heavy Plasma Turrets.  These turrets boasted a x12 damage output compared to the Heavy Staff Cannons, while having a rate of fire decrease of two-thirds.  It was these weapons which destroyed Thor's Bilskirnir-class mothership with relative ease.

#### Shields

The shielding on these new Ha'taks were much more powerful and could withstand the firepower from Asgard older-model Ion Guns and suffer no damage.

#### Hyperdrive

These types of Ha'tak are most prevalent in the present day, and are capable of speeds of 450,000(c), making it roughly 14 times faster than the old models.