Mothership

The Gudersnipe Mothership-class of warship is a rarely-deployed, fully-mobile base. They are described as being the size of a large Mercury Ship, but lack the characteristic thick armor and single, powerful weapon.

Instead, the mothership is filled with hangers large enough to acomodate dozens of capital ships, hundreds of support ships, and thousands of fighters. Each mothership has decks of machine shops, countless holds full of supplies and raw materials, and all the equipment neccessary to preform any kind of repair. In addition to bases, each mothership is a mobile shipyard, with all the supplies onboard needed to produce an entire battlegroup.

Secrecy

Despite their emence size, motherships are relatively lightly armed, and provide a very inviting target for attack. For that reason, they are kept highly secret.

Motherships are rarely deployed to a specific location, rather kept in reserve at strategic points around the verse. Whenever possible, conventiall bases and shops are used.

There are known to be as many as ten motherships in existence, however they are not presently on the official registry. This suggests one of two options: either the Foundation is in violation of the space commission's regulations, or the motherships pre-date the modern registry, making them a part of the original fleet used by the Gudersnipe Army. If the latter is true, it would mean the Gudersnipe Army was much larger than typically estimated.