10 Biggest & Largest Motherships Ever Seen in Fiction

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• KW

  @kwisatzHaderash · 4 days ago

  Magog world ship from Andromeda was huge

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• HU

  @hudsonball4702 · 4 days ago

  What!? No Sidonia from Knights of Sidonia? The Sidonia is roughly 29 km (~18 miles) long, 5–6 km (~3–4 miles) wide, and about 7–10 km (~4–6 miles) tall, making it an enormous octagonal prism-shaped vessel.  Its outer shell is encased in a ~500 m (~0.3 mile) thick layer of ice for protection, and it has an attached asteroid at the stern for raw materials. It houses several transport ships and smaller frigates and mission specific ships within it's docking bays.

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• US

  @USIJNCommander · 4 days ago

  Since Homeworld 3 released, the biggest Ship in there was the Gate Control Ship from the Incarned Queen (yes it is a Ship)

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• LO

  @LoneTiger · 4 days ago

  Honorable mother ship mentions:<br>+ Red Eye (74km diameter) and Iceberg (230km long) ships from Starblade arcade game.<br>+ The Beast planet from Shadow Raiders.

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• CA

  @Carchomatic · 4 days ago

  If you&apos;re referencing Homeworld, you gotta go with the HW1 Kushan Mothership, which is something like 40km tall

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• Z2

  @z2514 · 4 days ago

  Would love the idea of a mothership being the only ship that makes wrap gates for fleets to come out of.

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• EX

  @Exaris79 · 4 days ago (edited)

  There&apos;s Macross/Robotech Dolza&apos;s Mobile Command Carrier(size of Japan), and nearly double in size with the Zentran/Meltrandi Mobile Command Carriers, and the updated dimensions of the Marduk Mobile Command Carrier(nearly the size of Japan) from Macross_II. &nbsp;The StellarRepublic/Robotech Factory Satellites are over triple in size of Japan&amp;mobile but they don&apos;t go to combat zones. &nbsp;Macross do have factory moons/worlds similar to Halo/Forerunner&apos;s Shield Worlds. &nbsp;In Rai from Valiant 90s&amp;2010s comics, Japan turned into a giant mecha ZILLA(1998 Godzilla) that ended up stranded in space after fighting off the Spider-Alien invasion fleet.

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• TH

  @TheJadeJester · 4 days ago

  Don&apos;t forget, in the Craftworld category, the Phalanx, the Imperial Fists original vessel. The original version is Craftworld sized, sublight only, and always in interstellar gulfs. Not like the modified Ramilies star fort it was turned into.

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• AD

  @adamrusyaidi · 4 days ago

  Again you impressed us with your information searching about these types of ships Mr nutbug, thank you for being the most entertaining size comparison and ship sci-fi explainer on YouTube for us.

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  @j.e.schoon4339 · 4 days ago

  One might be surprised how close mankind already is to building things this size. Just get a bunch of ion drives to an asteroid and gradually move it to near Earth orbit. Then you can send construction material to make a base out of it.

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• BA

  @bartlester591 · 2 days ago

  Do not forget that SDF1 also had an entire city inside as well

• IG

  @igorianmusic · 3 days ago

  I hoped you&apos;ve included the Durandal, or at least the Dammerung from Xenosaga on PS2, anyway thanks for this video

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