Mother Ship or Ha'tak?

[Mr Prophet]

Funny... you never know with the Funk Master!

He was big on the Mothership Connection, wasn't he? That might be why big alien ships are always motherships.

[Mr Prophet]

Yes--Interdictor Cruisers

Which are smaller than star destroyers, despite the fact that destroyers are smaller than cruisers. I suppose star destroyers would have to be bigger than torpedo boat destroyers, though.

[GeneralJackO'Neill]

Wish I could give a link to what the Interdictor Cruiser may looks like from the New Essential Guide to Vessels and Vehicles.

[spg_1983]

Wish I could give a link to what the Interdictor Cruiser may looks like from the New Essential Guide to Vessels and Vehicles.

http://www.jedinights.com/studio/SFS/interdictor.html
thats an ok picture of an interdictor. i was always under the impression that the interdictors were still star destroyers. there is victory class, interdictor class, imperial class, and super class, but they are all star destroyers

[GeneralJackO'Neill]

yeah, but...if you put a picture of a Star Destroyer and the interdictor, they still dont' look quite the same.

[spg_1983]

yeah, but...if you put a picture of a Star Destroyer and the interdictor, they still dont' look quite the same.

well no, the interdictor has the big gravity well generators but they stull have the triangular shape of a star destroyer, they are just different classes

[Mr Prophet]

The Interdictor gets called a cruiser, I'm sure.

Are the super star destroyers (they destroy superstars; Mel Gibson beware) the Executor class or was the Executor not the class vessel? And why Executor? What does it do, enforce inheritance disputes?

[BruTak]

If I might offer a theory...

I've always been under the impression that the Goa'uld pyramid ships were Ha'Tak-class vessels.

Anyone care to agree/disagree?

[Mr Prophet]

I don't think you'll get much argument. The real issue - from which we have drifted somewhat - is whether or not 'mothership' is an accurate and apposite term for a ha'tak.

[spg_1983]

The Interdictor gets called a cruiser, I'm sure.

Are the super star destroyers (they destroy superstars; Mel Gibson beware) the Executor class or was the Executor not the class vessel? And why Executor? What does it do, enforce inheritance disputes?

Executor was the name of the vessel. its class was Super Class Imperial Star Destroyer. The name means some one that executes someone. as in the guy with the black leather mask that would chop peoples heads off or pull the lever to drop the floor under people being hung. I want to know what Lusankya means. ive tried looking it up and cant find a definition. why would the emperor name his Super star destroyer that?

[Mr Prophet]

Executor was the name of the vessel. its class was Super Class Imperial Star Destroyer. The name means some one that executes someone. as in the guy with the black leather mask that would chop peoples heads off or pull the lever to drop the floor under people being hung. I want to know what Lusankya means. ive tried looking it up and cant find a definition. why would the emperor name his Super star destroyer that?

Hmm. Learned opinion seems equally split between Super-class and Executor-class. I'd lean towards the Executor-class, since the Imperials are also so veyr British and RN protocols name the class after its first exponent. I flatly refuse to believe that the Empire launched a star destroyer called the SSD Super (no doubt the sister ship of the SSD Lovely).

Lusankya sounds like a name or something. And an executor is someone who oversees the fulfilment of the terms of a will; the guy who cuts of heads is an executioner. To use the one for the other is obsolete and then some.

[rmbeast]

I to have thought about how the Ha'tak's are called motherships even though bigger ships exist. I came to the conclusion that the term Mothership is a lable given to which ever ship is in charge. To a glider a Ha'tak is it's Mothership.

[Erik Pasternak]

I to have thought about how the Ha'tak's are called motherships even though bigger ships exist. I came to the conclusion that the term Mothership is a lable given to which ever ship is in charge. To a glider a Ha'tak is it's Mothership.

But we are the ones who calll them motherships, I've never seen a death glider pilot call them anything.

[GeneralJackO'Neill]

The Interdictor gets called a cruiser, I'm sure.

Are the super star destroyers (they destroy superstars; Mel Gibson beware) the Executor class or was the Executor not the class vessel? And why Executor? What does it do, enforce inheritance disputes?

No, the Executor was the name of the Super Star Destroyer. Now, during Dark Empire the Clone Emperor has what he calls the Eclipse Super Star Destroyer. But, it was destroyed in the Clone Emperor's Force Storm. It came to be known as the Eclipse-class Super Star Destroyer.

Later on, they created the Eclispe II but R2-D2 set it on a collision course to the Clone Emperor's Galaxy Gun over the planet Byss.

[Lexx]

Hmm. Learned opinion seems equally split between Super-class and Executor-class. I'd lean towards the Executor-class, since the Imperials are also so veyr British and RN protocols name the class after its first exponent. I flatly refuse to believe that the Empire launched a star destroyer called the SSD Super (no doubt the sister ship of the SSD Lovely).

Everything I've read on the subject says that the class is "Super". So we've got the Eclipse, Super, Imperial and Victory classes. The Eclipse was double the length of the Super, and they get progressively smaller.

I think it's established canon that the first Super Star Destroyer made was the Executor, with the Lusankya was built at the same time but kept secret. As for the term "Super", meh. I don't think it's the best sounding class name, but this came from the guy who had Anakin Skywalker yell out, "Yipee!" and "Wizard!". George Lucas has a fantastic imagination, but his dialogue writing skills are somewhat lacking.