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[[File:Gauld sheld.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Lord]] [[Yu|Yu's]] fleet attacks the ship]] |
[[File:Gauld sheld.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Lord]] [[Yu|Yu's]] fleet attacks the ship]] |
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Revision as of 08:30, 3 July 2011
- "Holy crap! Look at that thing. It's huge!"
- ―Jack O'Neill
Anubis' mothership was a new mothership built to serve as the flagship of the Goa'uld System Lord Anubis.
Overview
Anubis' superweapon
Anubis had two motherships built. The base design of the motherships was a massive disc-shaped vessel with numerous spikes protruding from the edges of the vessel. Unlike the Ha'tak class vessel, this mothership did not contain a pyramid on its top but instead had a dome-shaped structure present. The dome contained a powerful plasma superweapon which was built into the vessel. When activated, the dome rose and extended into a flower pattern which served as the emitters for the superweapon. (SG1: "Full Circle")
In case of an emergency or ship destruction, the top part of the dome also contained an escape vessel allowing the commanding Goa'uld to escape. (SG1: "Homecoming")
The motherships also contained over fifty Death Gliders and were capable of carrying a large number of ground troops for deployment on other worlds. (SG1: "Fallen")
Technological features
Weapon systems
A turret aiming at a F-302.
The ship contained numerous emplacements where standard Goa'uld weapons were situated on turrets. These weapons contained two large cannons that fire Staff cannon-like bolts which were used as its standard weapons and also served as a point defense weapon against enemy fighters.
The primary weapon of the vessel, however, was its superweapon. This was a massive device that was built into the dome of the mothership and required the Eyes of the Goa'uld to activate. Once attached, the weapon extended and fired yellow bolts of energy that was capable of extending across space and striking any enemy vessels nearby. These bolts were easily capable of destroying multiple Ha'tak vessels. (SG1: "Full Circle", "Fallen")
Defensive systems
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Weapons fire impacts the shields.
Like a number of Goa'uld starships, Anubis' motherships employed a powerful shield to protect the vessel from enemy weapon fire. Weapons fire that struck the shield resulted in an orange energy field extending across the craft protecting the hull from damage.
However, the shields on the Anubis' motherships were so powerful that they once withstood an entire Goa'uld fleet attacking them. The only way Goa'uld fleet was able to defeat the shields was when the mothership entered the atmosphere of Langara. One weakness of the shield system was that its performance was severely degraded when the mothership was within the atmosphere of a planet. The shield strength was reduced to only 40% effectiveness when exposed to atmosphere, severely compromising the defense capabilities of the mothership. (SG1: "Homecoming") Another time that the shields were penetrated was during a dangerous manuver where a F-302 jumped past the shield though hyperspace. The only weapon that was capable of easily bypassing the shields were the Drone weapons; however, drone weapons are so powerful that they tend to go through any shield. (SG1: "Lost City, Part 2")
Power systems
The power core.
The base model of the ship contained a reactor system which powered the ship systems such as standard weapons, shields and hyperdrive.
The full weight of the crafts power came from the special energy core which was used to harness the power of the Eyes of the Goa'uld. With these gems present, the ships capabilities were greatly increased allowing it to survive the assault from a fleet of Ha'tak motherships as well as power the ships built-in superweapon. (SG1: "Full Circle")
After the destruction of the Eyes, attempts were made at using Naquadria as a power source to substitute that of the Eyes. Despite initial experimentation, an overload occurred which damaged the craft. (SG1: "Homecoming")
Other systems
Like most Goa'uld starships, Anubis's mothership contained a hyperdrive allowing for faster-than-light travel within the Milky Way galaxy. (SG1: "Full Circle")
In addition to this, the vessel contained the Transportation rings system allowing for the deployment of troops onto a planet which contained another receiving set of rings. (SG1: "Fallen")
Locations
Bridge
The Peltak of Anubis Mothership was large: it had 2 computer outlets, one sitting by the window, the other computer built like a table which the first prime would stand at. The main entrance had statues of Anubis; there was a platform adjacent to the larger window, which contained Anubis's Throne.
Computer room
The computer control room had a seat and a computer outlet one could sit at. It worked partly through hologram technology.
Interrogation chamber
The interrogation chamber was built so that one could strap down prisoners and interrogate them.
History
The vessel was created at an unknown time but was fielded by the fallen System Lord Anubis who used it as his flagship in his attempt at dominating the High Council of System Lords in order to become the overall leader of the Goa'uld Empire. To that end, he took his massive starship to the planet Abydos in his continued search for the Eyes of the Goa'uld which he wanted to use as a power source for his motherships superweapon.
During a standoff against SG-1, his ship was surrounded by Ha'tak motherships belonging to Lord Yu who demanded his surrender. However, Anubis managed to trick the Ascended Daniel Jackson into giving him the Eye of Ra. With that accomplished, he unleashed the power of the superweapon against Yu's fleet which were decimated with the survivors retreating. With that complete, Anubis used the weapon to destroy the planet Abydos. (SG1: "Full Circle").
Anubis later took his flagship to the planet Vis Uban after learning from Ancient records of a city there. This was because Anubis was looking for the Lost City of the Ancients in order to secure his dominion over the galaxy. Once in orbit around the planet, he deployed his soldiers to find details on the Lost City but found out it was a trick orchestrated by the Tau'ri who infiltrated his mothership and used one of their fighters to attack a weak point in the flagships power core which destroyed the power source. (SG1: "Fallen")
This resulted in the loss of Anubis's chief advantage over the other Goa'uld but he managed to learn from a captured Jonas Quinn of a powerful variation of Naquadah that was located on his homeworld. To that end, Anubis traveled to the Human world in order to conquer it and use the planet's ore to refuel his motherships superweapon. However, he was thwarted in his attempts at securing Thanos's research by SG-1 who managed to convince Lord Ba'al to attack Anubis's mothership whilst it was in the atmosphere of Kelowna. His mothership was destroyed but not before Anubis managed to retreat in his escape craft. (SG1: "Homecoming")
Anubis' second mothership is destroyed by Drone weapons
Despite the loss of his flagship, Anubis returned in command of a rebuilt mothership which led a fleet to the planet Earth in order to claim the Lost City of the Ancients. After arriving in the system, he probed the planet's defenses and attempted to lay claim to the facility in the worlds South Pole. However, he was thwarted in his goal by Colonel Jack O'Neill who activated the chair weapon platform in the Antarctic outpost thus sending a massive swarm of Ancient drone weapons that destroyed Anubis's flagship as well as his fleet. (SG1: "Lost City, Part 2")
Alternate timelines
In an alternate timeline where the Stargate program never existed, this massive mothership was in the service of the Sovereign Ba'al who used it as his flagship. Taking his armada of vessels he traveled to Earth in order to bring it within his empire. After Ba'al's death at the hands of Qetesh and Cronus the ship fell to her command and was later used to transport her to the planet Praxyon while her fleet bombarded Earth.(SG1: "Continuum")
Gallery
References and notes
External links
- GateWorld's article on Anubis's mothership in The Stargate Omnipedia
