Role: Flagship
Speed: 40
Attack: 120
Hit Points: 200,000
Armament:
12 x Hull
Defense Guns (gimbal mounts)
Makaan’s
Flagship is a massive vessel on the same scale as the Pride
of Hiigara. Housing the core found in the Hethlim Ice
Fields, it can Far Jump to remote systems, build, store, and
repair ships friendly to the fleet. Like the Pride of
Hiigara, it has ample slots available for the numerous
production and ability subsystems.
A
Vaygr crusade is entirely independent - the build capacity
of their Motherships combined with the resource harvesting
abilities of their individual craft enable them to live self
sufficiently in space.
"Despite
using different ship types, the Vaygr and Hiigaran ship
classes (Strike, Corvette, Frigate, and Capital) are more or
less equal. The Vaygr have faster ships in greater numbers
but they're fragile and highly specialized. They're very
good at what they do, but very bad at what they don't.
Favoring fighters and corvettes over frigates, Vaygr fleets
have more options in these classes compared to the
Hiigarans. ... Vaygr players will instead develop a system
that uses fixed hyperspace gates to allow extremely
inexpensive hyperspace travel between two fixed
points." - Geoff Thomas, Assistant Producer
In
a recent gameplay video, this massive Vaygr ship is identified
by cursor-rollover text as a Mothership. It appears to have multiple
docking ports, including a "bathtub" arrangement
up top, which looks large enough for construction of capital
ships.
In
the more recent RelicNews E3 video, the rollover indicates
"Vaygr Flagship."
This
may be a re-design of the earlier red "supercarrier."
According to the fiction on the
official site, the Vaygr have a number of independent
fleets, each with its own Mothership.
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