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| - Nakai motherships are large, boxy vessels, similar in appearance to a three-dimensional trapezoid. The ship is mostly gray with red highlights. Hangar bays jut out from either side, and the engine mechanism dominates the rear of the ship. Its primary and only apparent weapon rests on the nose, identified by a large, red-orange dish. The mothership carries a large compliment of fighters, with which to board other vessels. Its main weapon fires a yellow energy pulse which is not very effective against the shields of the Ancient vessel Destiny on its own, but can be far more dangerous in groups. Its firing rate is somewhat slow. The ship possesses shielding which was able to resist sustained fire from Destiny's main cannon; the damage caused, if any, is unknown. A mothership retreated from battle with Destiny after taking multiple hits, but Destiny itself would likely have been destroyed had it continued firing. Although this vessels use hyperdrive to travel, the apparent effect it produces when entering/exiting hyperspace is somewhat different compared to the hyperspace effects used by the other hyperspace capable races. The ship's hyperdrive is also powerful enough to allow the mothership to cross the intergalactic void, making it an intergalactic type of hyperdrive. However, the hyperdrive is likely slower than the Asgard hyperdrive on Tau'ri ships as it took the Nakai three weeks to catch up to Destiny in the void between galaxies even with the ship's location while a Daedalus-class ship can travel from Earth to Atlantis in that amount of time. (SGU: "Space", "Sabotage", "Trial and Error", "Deliverance")
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