![]() One large hangar was built in the center of the ship, accessible by two sides. The design went through at least two stages before the Mothership was completed, but the basic idea held and the design was never changed significantly. From these shattered remains, strong metal alloys were made to build the Mothership's hull. There, processed by the Phased Disassembler Arrays and broken down into their base atomic substances, Kharak's debris fields became part of the pride and joy of the Kushan people. Several asteroid fields had to be cleared in order for the Mothership to be constructed, and their resources were towed to the Scaffold's refineries. Kushans merely altered its containment unit. According to this new version, Khar-Toba contained the second Far-Jump Hyperspace Core, and it was this device that served as the mothership's drive. (Upon this module, they engraved the names those 2,357 people who gave their lives bringing the mothership into being.) The maximum range of the module is 2500 light years. It is twelve times bigger than the one found in Khar-Toba. In the original Homeworld, the Kushan manufacture the mothership's primary mean of travel from the scratch: The Hyperspace Module. Within the Scaffold's clutches, the Mothership was born. This scaffold became the only moon that Kharak had ever known, easily visible in the night sky, traveling across the surface of the planet in the outer orbit. ![]() Its construction first required the building of an immense space station (which itself took 20 years to build) and shipyard known simply as the Scaffold. The Mothership was constructed over a period of 100 years, starting around 1150 KDS, 40 years after the discovery of Khar-Toba. The construction of the Mothership was a grand undertaking, unlike anything before in the history of Kharak. It would be capable of carrying as many as 600,000 cryogenically frozen Kushan in storage as well as a large crew of 50,000 to maintain the Cryo Trays and man the ship's various systems, including ship construction and mineral refinement, designed to supply the crew and to build or repair ships in case the Mothership Fleet was damaged. The intention was to colonize the world and to establish a permanent settlement there, so the Mothership was not only designed to serve as an exploratory vessel, but as a colony ship. The Mothership was envisioned to use the map found on the Guidestone as a star chart, finding its way across the galaxy to the primordial home of the Kushan people, Hiigara. ![]() Furthermore, the Khar-Toba contained the Guidestone, which provided the Kushan with the final proof that they were not natives to their world. The Khar-Toba's power plant, after being reverse-engineered, provided "another generation of breakthroughs in power and material sciences." But the real treasure, that catapulted Kushan science 500 years forward was "a solid state hyperspace induction module" attached to the power plant. ![]() Khar-Toba was a significant discovery, proving the existence of spaceships on Kharak's surface in prehistoric times (the existence of ships in the system had already been discovered in the form of debris fields). The Mothership was built in the years following the discovery of the first city of Khar-Toba in 1110 KDS, the first colony founded by the Kushan in the wake of their Exile from the world of Hiigara by the Taiidan Empire. This makes a mobile shipyard very useful on the battlefield, constantly replenishing vessels lost in battle, reconstructing an entire squadron of fighters or a frigate in a very short amount of time. While vessels of this magnitude do not have particularly practical applications in regular space warfare, the invention of the hyperdrive makes the mobility of a large stationary object like the Mothership possible and the advances made in engineering allow capital ships to be produced in mere weeks. While the Mothership was initially designed to be a Colony Ship and general base of operations, the additional roles of flagship and mobile shipyard were forced upon it due to the power and hostility of races it encountered soon after departing from Kharak. ![]()
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