Talk:Ha'tak

Ha'taks and variants Ha'taks, as defined by the Goa'uld, don't follow our traditional naval classification. If anything, the class names which are attributed to ships in Stargate come from the Tau'ri (as we can see for the Auroras for examples, while we can be sure that the Aurora was not the first nor the last ship made by the Lantians). The "tak" suffix seems to refer to ship, and depending on the prefix, would either point to the type of ship (Ha'tak: mothership, pyramid ship) or a section of the ship (Pel'tak: bridge). It would fit well with Tel'tak, where we can suppose that "Tel" then refers to something as "scout". "Ha" in Ha'tak may refer to pyramid, and thus as a complete term, point to a class of assault mothership, used for combat.

I suggest that at some point, we rethink the Ha'tak page layout to make it general, and give a detailed description of each variants instead. Those variants/"classes" would be:


 * Ra's ships (dubbed Cheops-class in RPG material), used by Ra and Heru-ur.
 * Standard mothership as seen during the 4 first seasons of SG-1, and one last time in It's Good to be King.
 * Sokar's standard motherships, same design, but with extended weapon functions (homing PD weapons and cloak).
 * Anubis' standard Ha'taks, which for ages I refered to as mark II, before newer canon material would reveal that all pyramid ships are Ha'taks, which makes it hard to know which one is older than the other. Still, the design differences on Anubis' ships are glaring, from structure to defences, and they deserve their own page.
 * Apophis' aborted flagship - destroyed by SG-1 on "oomph" mode.
 * Apophis' supership, possibly borrowed from Sokar.
 * Anubis' superships.

Mister Oragahn 14:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)