Revenge (G1)
- The Decepticon mothership is a starship from the Generation 1 continuity family.
The Decepticon mothership is a mighty warship granted to Galvatron by Unicron. It has a pretty good success rate of blowing up Autobot shuttles.
Fiction
Generation 1 cartoon
The mothership was given to Galvatron by Unicron shortly after the former was reformatted from the broken body of Megatron. The mothership ferried Galvatron back to Cybertron, where he seized the reins of Decepticon command from the treacherous Starscream. After the Decepticons attacked Autobot City on Earth for the second time, the mothership pursued two fleeing Autobot shuttles commanded by Ultra Magnus and Kup, successfully forcing one shuttle to crash on a strange, twisted world and apparently destroying Magnus's shuttle.
When Galvatron dared challenge Unicron with the Matrix of Leadership, the Chaos Bringer attacked Cybertron. The mothership was crushed by Unicron in the subsequent battle. The Transformers: The Movie
In 2006, the mothership scored another victory against the Autobots by blasting Rodimus Prime's shuttle and forcing the crew to make an emergency landing at the Autobot Mausoleum. Dark Awakening
In the year 2007, the mothership was used during Galvatron's attack on Autobot City after the end of the short-lived truce between the two factions. After the key to the Plasma Energy Chamber was secured, the Decepticons made their getaway in the mothership. The Rebirth, Part 1 After the devastating attack on Cybertron, the mothership was used by Scourge, Cyclonus, and a squad of Decepticons to pursue some wayward Autobots to the planet Nebulos. While parked there, it was destroyed by the newly created Autobot Headmasters. The Rebirth, Part 2
Notes
- The ship is never given a name in the show, but Galvatron does refer to it as "the mothership" at the start of "The Rebirth, Part 1" episode.
- We do not actually see the ship created; it slips out of an opening near the equatorial section of Unicron.
- It is consistent with other Decepticon ships in the Generation 1 cartoon, in that it is completely purple and has a purple afterburner.
- Among its arsenal are torpedoes, multiple cannons (presumably lasers), and moleculon missiles.
- Although the mothership is drawn with its normal model during the attack on Autobot City and its subsequent sojourn to Cybertron in the first part of The Rebirth, it looks entirely different once it lands on Nebulos. It's possible Cyclonus and friends used some other Decepticon ship to make the trip, but the mothership is never seen again after this ship's destruction...
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