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The Mothership
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })It might be shiny, or a little more gritty, or just plain cool, but however it's built, it obviously looks very important. And it's got a lot of Mooks in tow. It's the commanding flagship of a large alien army, keeping tabs over its soldiers and scouts, and thus is one of a kind in its army. Blowing it up can render the multitudes of the once superior invaders leaderless and rid the universe of the Macguffin kept inside it. There's no mistaking that taking it down will win an automatic victory for the good guys. But if the mothership is also a big fat battleship, the normal arsenal of weapons won't break its superior Deflector Shields (and will only prompt a response with its own Wave-Motion Gun), so our heroes are probably going to have to resort to some Zany Scheme to topple it. The fact that bringing it down might cause problems of its own is usually Handwaved. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A variant has a mothership in charge of a bunch of exploration scouts, one of which will inevitably get left on Earth and needs one Earthling's help to rendezvous with it. See also: Standard Sci-Fi Fleet, Flying Saucer. If its purpose is to colonize a new planet, it's also a Colony Ship. Might overlap with The Battlestar if it doesn't already harbor dozens of Battlestars inside it. Not to be confused with the other kind of ship. Also not to be confused with The Mothership. |
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The Katina stage in Star Fox 64 has an enemy version as well, explicitly called a mothership and acting very much like one. Then again, that ship was just an expy of the Independence Day city-killer ships: it launched countless fighter craft, and was capable of shooting a giant laser beam levelling anything on the ground beneath it. |
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Magic User's Club has the unknown alien vessel that invades Earth called "The Bell". | |
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One of the finest videogame examples is Homeworld, in which the only real entity that can be called a character is the Mothership. The Mothership can also build carriers that function like mini-motherships in their own right, in case the Mothership gets destroyed or gets critically damaged. This is continued with the Kuun-Lan command ship in Homeworld: Cataclysm (albeit smaller in size but more combat-capable) and the Pride of Hiigara mothership in Homeworld 2. |
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The Empire Strikes Back features the Super Star Destroyer Executor, a nineteen kilometre long command ship and Darth Vader's private headquarters. | |
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V (1983) features multiple alien Motherships throughout the show. The V (2009) reboot continues this trend and heavily featured them in the show's advertising. | |
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In the later Honor Harrington books, the CLACsnote Carrier, Light Attack Craft were developed, allowing a hyper-capable fleet to carry hundreds of the small ships to serve as a screening force (or to harass enemy formations, or to intercept enemy LACs when they attempted to do the same...). While the CLAC is a direct analogue to the "Wet Navy" aircraft carrier, the LACs themselves are more akin to Torpedo Boats. Manticoran CLACs tend to be dreadnoughts, as their LAC doctrine favors using them for attack. Meanwhile, Havenite CLACs are superdreadnoughts, as their primary goal is to protect the fleet from enemy LACs, which requires a larger number of LACs to provide greater coverage. | |
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Pixar Shorts: "Thanks, Mrs. UFO!" | |
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There are various in the X-Universe series: In X: Beyond the Frontier, a the generic-named Xenon M0 is a giant spinny thing that must be destroyed as part of the plot. In X2: The Threat, the Kha'ak get one (which spins too, like all Kha'ak capital ships after all), armed with a Planet Destroyer laser. It is destroyed during the plot as well. The Xenon/Terraformer CPU-ship #deca in X3: Terran Conflict. The CPU ships are sentient and control nearby Xenon fighter craft. They can dock up to 50 fighters internally, are massive, and have a very menacing appearance.◊ A later patch added a mission featuring #efaa, and #cafe, One sentient, the other having a glitch in its attempt to gain sentience, helped along by the already sentient one. As an aversion to the past examples though, none of them is required to be destroyed. Still from Terran Conflict, there's the Aran, a Big Dumb Object capable of bringing around with itself another capital ship, in addition to 30 corvettes and/or fighters. Differently from the other examples, it is made especially for player use. Too bad he only way to find it is by Blind Jump. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has the Trinity Mothership. | |
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In Calvin's imagination, when Susie is a hostile alien out of a mothership, said mothership will be impersonated by... his mother. | |
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The giant rusted-out ship that serves as a "smoker colony" in Waterworld, home base of the story's villains the Smokers (who use ancient oil-based motor vessels), and which turns out to be (at least in that universe) the former Exxon Valdez. | |
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Sins of a Solar Empire have this class of ships, though they have different roles and capabilities which depend on the faction that built it. | |
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Star Fox has a hero's example, the Great Fox. The Katina stage in Star Fox 64 has an enemy version as well, explicitly called a mothership and acting very much like one. Then again, that ship was just an expy of the Independence Day city-killer ships: it launched countless fighter craft, and was capable of shooting a giant laser beam levelling anything on the ground beneath it. |
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In Earth: Final Conflict, the race known as the Taelons came to Earth in a glowing purple mothership made of living tissue, and ship remains in orbit for duration of the series. Unlike many examples on this page, the Taelons came in peace. | |
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The arcade game Xain'd Sleena features as a space boss midway through the game a ship of this type, so big that cannot fit in the screen and scrolls through it. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Ships that carry fleets are quite common; Battleplates in particular are for all intents and purposes extremely well-armed mobile cities. At one point, the Toughs meet people with a ship literally named Mothership. | |
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Every evil race ever in the Stargate-verse. The Ha'tak vessels and their larger counterparts in Stargate SG-1, followed by the Ori motherships. The Hive ships in Stargate Atlantis, holding thousand of Wraith, and able to deployed the small darts. The catfish aliens in Stargate Universe also have motherships, though they're rather puny by comparison to Destiny (more like carriers, really). |
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The Titan ships, again, from EVE Online. All in excess of 15km, and all ridiculously costly to build. Super-carriers were originally called motherships in the game before they switched to the current name. This is probably because they were originally advertised as having clone vat bays and larger maintenance hangers (which would have allowed them to fit this trope), but had that feature dropped before they were added. It could also be because there is a type of Jovian craft in the lore known as the mothership. They are reportedly the in universe inspiration for titans, though they are much deadlier than them. |
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Earth Defense Force 2017. | |
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Mothership Zeta in Fallout 3. | |
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Scrin Motherships from Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars, which are armed with catalyst cannons similar to the city-killer ships from Independence Day. | |
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The Ha'tak vessels and their larger counterparts in Stargate SG-1, followed by the Ori motherships. | |
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Dune's Guild Heighliners might count as a variation. They're designed to transport hundreds of smaller ships over interstellar distances, but the smaller ships don't belong to the Heighliners as such. | |
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High Charity in the Halo series is actually more of a mobile space station and serves as the Covenants "Homeworld". But as the goal of the Great Journey gets very close, and the Covenant is starting to break apart at the edges, the Prophet of Truth also uses it as his flagship. | |
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Sovereign, from Mass Effect which is actually sentient, and one of the frighteningly powerful Reapers. As well as Sovereign, each race in Mass Effect has dreadnoughts that are extremely few in number compared to other ships in the various fleets. They're similar in size to a human carrier, but otherwise are much bigger than the ships around them. They also carry kinetic weapons capable of impacting in the multiple-dozen-kiloton range, which is what makes them so special. The stand out example is the asari super-dreadnought Destiny Ascension, a unique ship that is also the single largest and most powerful warship in the galaxy (Reapers excluded). Human carriers are the straghtest example, trading the heavy gun for a higher fighter capacity; this allows them to bypass arms treaties limiting dreadnaught numbers. According to background information this is a big part of why humans (a newly spacefaring race with only a few undeveloped colonies) punch so far above their weight. |
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Destroy All Humans! has this for the Furons, Cryto and Pox in particular. | |
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As well as Sovereign, each race in Mass Effect has dreadnoughts that are extremely few in number compared to other ships in the various fleets. They're similar in size to a human carrier, but otherwise are much bigger than the ships around them. They also carry kinetic weapons capable of impacting in the multiple-dozen-kiloton range, which is what makes them so special. The stand out example is the asari super-dreadnought Destiny Ascension, a unique ship that is also the single largest and most powerful warship in the galaxy (Reapers excluded). Human carriers are the straghtest example, trading the heavy gun for a higher fighter capacity; this allows them to bypass arms treaties limiting dreadnaught numbers. According to background information this is a big part of why humans (a newly spacefaring race with only a few undeveloped colonies) punch so far above their weight. | |
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Freespace has the SD Lucifer. Killing it wasn't an instant-win for the good guys; the war lasted several more months as they had to clean up the remaining Shivan fleet, but background information says that the Shivans became disorganized and confused after the Lucifer's destruction. The SJ Sathanas in the sequel is set up to look like a mothership as well, but it is just one of nearly one hundred the Shivans possess, in that one fleet alone. | |
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The Star Trek novel Final Frontier showcases the Romulan "swarm," a military unit of six ships, each carrying a full crew. Eventually, after the as-yet-unnamed Enterprise manages to defeat these, a much larger ship comes, bearing hundreds of these little ships. Fortunately for the ship and crew, including Robert April, Sarah Poole (later April), and George Samuel Kirk (father of everyone's favorite Large Ham Captain and family), the Romulans have never heard of Transporter technology. 1 bomb + 1 power core = Oh, Crap! moment for the Romulans. | |
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The Harvester ships in Vandread. | |
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The Protoss Mothership in Starcraft II comes with quite a bit of special abilities. However, the name is a bit misleading since it doesn't harbor any other spacecraft. The Carrier does that instead. The Hyperion and Leviathan serve as mobile bases for the player in Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm, effectively filling this role. Legacy of the Void has the Spear of Adun, the game's equivalent of the Hyperion and Leviathan. But not only it can carry most of the protoss army inside of it, it can also carry the protoss fleet, including several Carriers and Motherships. |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has the Trinity Mothership. The Ptolemaios and its successor, the Ptolemaios Kai, function as this for the heroes, and the Innovators have the Celestial Being, a 15-kilometer-long armed-to-the-teeth asteroid-ship. In The Movie, the ELS have their moon-sized planetoid which had been hiding in Jupiter for a while. |
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In Animorphs, while the (human) Animorphs refer to the main Yeerk ship as the Mothership, the Yeerks and Andalites refer to it as the Pool Ship. It acts as a command, heavy transport, and supply ship in contrast to the Blade Ship (a ship of war). | |
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Alien mothership in Pixels, which produces the pixel characters and coordinates the attacks. | |
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Disney's The Cat from Outer Space creatively calls its mothership "Mother". | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Ytirflirks were an alien race that enslaved the aliens known as gremlins for their mechanics and went about making war on other planets until the gremlins revolted and stole their mothership, crashing it on earth and killing/wreaking their enslaver's chain of command. | |
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The Warstar faction from Tensou Sentai Goseiger has the Indevader as its mothership. This ship is able to suck out the oxygen from whatever planet it's invading. In a last ditch effort against the rangers, the alien leader Mons Drake plans to collide the ship with earth to cause an enormous oxygen explosion. Power Rangers Megaforce averts this trope, as the Warstar aliens are merely a scouting force send by the much larger Armada. | |
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A gigantic disc-shaped automated mothership is encountered in one of The History of the Galaxy novels. It was created long ago by one of the Precursor races as an exploration and terraforming craft. Due to most of the galaxy being unknown to the race, they equipped the ship with powerful weapons and defenses, as well as the capability to manufacture and launch fighter drones. When the ship returned centuries later, it discovered many other ships in the systems occupied by the race. These were later models that were not designed for combat. Treating them as hostile, the ship started a war and eventually wiped them out by using its built-in ability to replicate itself given enough resources. When first encountered, the humans have trouble defeating the ship. Understandably, they're horrified to learn that there are hundreds more just like that. | |
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The giant enemy space ship in the final wave of the 1980 Phoenix arcade game. This may also qualify as the first instance of a "boss level" in a video game. | |
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Then again, that ship was just an expy of the Independence Day city-killer ships: it launched countless fighter craft, and was capable of shooting a giant laser beam levelling anything on the ground beneath it. | |
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Ender's Game has at least one mothership that is hidden among the other ships, but destroying it severs the Hive Mind. The film keeps this but undermines itself by making the mothership into a carrier ship many times larger than its drone swarms, thus making it the obvious target. | |
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The Zangyack Empire from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger head their invasion force from the Gigant Horse, which looks like a giant carriage drawn by two horses. Contrary to how Sentai usually depicts this trope, the Gigant Horse is accompanied by a massive fleet of smaller ships. The Gigant Horse is able to enlarge monsters using a special laserbeam. This ship also appears in Power Rangers Super Megaforce as part of the aforementioned Armada. | |
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Area 51: Along with the flying saucers (bouncers) the US government long ago found a carrier ship for them, which they call the "alien mothership". For decades they couldn't even get inside due to its hull being utterly impenetrable with their tools. Eventually though they managed to on the basis of new information, with the idea of turning its engine on (they theorized it had interstellar FTL capabilities). Stopping this because it might result in a disaster makes up part of the first book. | |
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The Massive from Invader Zim. | |
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Colony Wars introduced a ~2000 metre-long titan-class ship, and then later the final boss, a ~4000M Super Titan. | |
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Metroid: Zero Mission introduces a "Space Pirate Mothership" for its final gameplay segment. It's a very sizable vessel, including an internal hangar bay for a squadron of Pirate fighters. Another Mothership appears in the intro of Metroid: Samus Returns when illustrating the Pirate hijacking of the Federation freighter carrying a Metroid (it may even be the same vessel, since this occurs before the events of Zero Mission), and shows a Mothership can carry two dozen fighters, making it a powerful force projector. | |
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This trope appears from time to time in Super Sentai and its adaptation ''Power Rangers, whenever the villains of the show are of alien origin. Strangely enough, most of these motherships are the only ships ever appearing during their respective invasions, but are still regarded as such in supplemental material. The Gozma from Dengeki Sentai Changeman plan their invasion from earth from their Mothership Gozmard. The Warstar faction from Tensou Sentai Goseiger has the Indevader as its mothership. This ship is able to suck out the oxygen from whatever planet it's invading. In a last ditch effort against the rangers, the alien leader Mons Drake plans to collide the ship with earth to cause an enormous oxygen explosion. Power Rangers Megaforce averts this trope, as the Warstar aliens are merely a scouting force send by the much larger Armada. The Zangyack Empire from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger head their invasion force from the Gigant Horse, which looks like a giant carriage drawn by two horses. Contrary to how Sentai usually depicts this trope, the Gigant Horse is accompanied by a massive fleet of smaller ships. The Gigant Horse is able to enlarge monsters using a special laserbeam. This ship also appears in Power Rangers Super Megaforce as part of the aforementioned Armada. |
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The catfish aliens in Stargate Universe also have motherships, though they're rather puny by comparison to Destiny (more like carriers, really). | |
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A Chitauri mothership appears at the climax of The Avengers. Iron Man steers a nuke into it. | |
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes has many on both sides. The Free Planets Alliance mass-produces its own (five types have been observed: the phased-out Hard Luck type, the more recent but mostly phased out Hyperion type, the standard Ajax-class, the prototype Triglav, and the experimental ship Airget Lamh, the last of which was supposed to be dismantled after the testing of the new technologies was completed but was pressed into fleet service due the losses at Astarte), while the Galactic Empire mostly produces single ships with state-of-the-art technology that are gifted by the emperor to individual admirals (the closest thing to flagship mass-production are the Forseti, produced in three exemplars (with the second and the third having some light differences from the class leader), and the three-ships Wilhelmina-class (with the Berlin modified with superior shielding, weaker weapons and large entertainment facilities due its owner being a nobleman too stupid to do anything but waste away, let alone actually fighting a war). | |
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Resolute, Resolute II, and the rest of the exocarriers in Exo Squad. And let's not forget the Neosapien flagships Olympus Mons and Olympus Mons II. |
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The Hive ships in Stargate Atlantis, holding thousand of Wraith, and able to deployed the small darts. | |
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In X: Beyond the Frontier, a the generic-named Xenon M0 is a giant spinny thing that must be destroyed as part of the plot. | |
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The Gozma from Dengeki Sentai Changeman plan their invasion from earth from their Mothership Gozmard. | |
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The Skaarj Mothership from Unreal Tournament 2004. | |
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The Ko-Dan Command Ship in The Last Starfighter. (Since it controlled several fighter squadrons, it may also qualify as The Battlestar.) | |
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