What is "motherships"

Usage examples of "motherships".

But then, shortly thereafter, their motherships had begun to exit the system.

They streamed into existence as the gunboats they represented separated from their motherships, and a solid wall of hostiles flowed across the plot towards TF 71.

And the rapidly widening gulf between them and their motherships meant even less, for theirs were one-way missions.

But if they were held on the racks and in the bays of their motherships, only the number which the mobile units had the capacity to support would be available.

They identified only eight of the attack craft motherships, and the laser buoys must have done better than projected, for many enemy superdreadnoughts streamed atmosphere in proof of heavy hull breaching.

There was still no sign of his warships - the attack craft had vanished aboard their cloaked motherships - but it was likely the escorts were waiting somewhere between the gunboats and their prey.

Its sensors showed a horde of attack craft sweeping back from the warp point, disappearing as they rejoined their motherships to rearm, but no enemy starship had emerged from cloak.

The motherships are the fastest of our fleet, their officers our most experienced.

Those livecrewed fighters and bombers who managed to make it back to their motherships were able to give pretty accurate coordinates of where they had left the enemy.

Meaning they had to go around a large cloud of gas or dust to get back to their own motherships and the attackers.

And observe that for whatever reason their motherships did not abandon their landing machines.

There wasn't much left before the planet blew itself to atoms, but, even before that could happen, he knew the other Cylon motherships, positioned around the planet, would join these basestars in the battle.

By now most of the tugs had put out to sea, and the small skiffs that would transport passengers across the shallow harbor waters were already making their way tbward their motherships, whose vast sails and steady turbines stood ready to tame the dangerous eastern waters.