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Goa'uld starships
The Goa'uld operate a variety of starships. The control systems of Goa'uld ships are based on crystals, a feature copied by the Earth ship Prometheus. Since the collapse of the Goa'uld order in "Reckoning", most of their fleet have fallen into the hands of the Free Jaffa Nation and the Lucian Alliance. Death glider
The Goa'uld death glider is a fast attack fighter capable of operating in an atmosphere, in space, and even underwater. Its shape resembles the symbolic winged scarab beetle of ancient Egypt. Death gliders first appear in the Stargate movie. Gliders lack hyperdrives and are usually carried by Ha'taks into battle; their wings can be folded for more compact storage. They are armed with two staff cannons. Different death glider variants have been depicted: some carry only one pilot while others have room for two. An especially large glider is seen in "Children of the Gods", fitted with a ring transporter. Earth's F-302 fighters are derived from the death glider design. Tel'tak
A Tel'tak taking off. The Tel'tak, also called a Goa'uld cargo ship or Goa'uld scoutship, is a versatile spacecraft first seen in "Deadman Switch". In Stargate SG-1, they are often used by the Tok'ra and the rebel Jaffa for missions into Goa'uld territory due to their unobtrusive nature;the SGC also makes use of Tel'taks in the earlier seasons, when Earth does not yet possess its own hyperspace-capable ships. The Tel'tak is equipped with shields and a hyperdrive. The configuration of the ship changes when in flight. It has two main sections: a cockpit in front and a cargo section in the back with a ring transporter. There are four escape pods that can be ejected from the bottom of the ship. Tel'taks are usually unarmed, though many are equipped with a cloaking device for protection. A heavily modified Tel'tak with hidden compartments, a pulse wave generator, and the ability to create sensor decoys appears in "The Ties That Bind". Another modified Tel'tak with two staff cannons is seen in "Bounty". Al'kesh
An Al'kesh over P3X-116. An Al'kesh is a Goa'uld medium-range bomber used for ground support and as scouts. Its armaments consist of paired staff cannons on a belly turret for ship-to-ship combat and explosive energy devices for ground bombardment. Al'kesh are equipped with hyperdrives, allowing independent operation, and are highly maneuverable. They do not have shields, except for one example in Stargate: Continuum. Some Al'kesh are equipped with cloaking devices and/or beaming technology. Al'kesh appear in several episodes supporting Goa'uld attacks. The Lucian Alliance has modified some Al'kesh into cargo haulers. Ha'tak A Ha'tak or Goa'uld mothership is a large starship used by the Goa'uld. In the series, it usually refers to a class of ship consisting of a superstructure with a large, golden tetrahedron at the center, first shown onscreen briefly in "Singularity". The word "ha'tak", first used in the episode "Exodus", literally means "pyramid ship", and so can also refer generically to all the types of Goa'uld motherships. Ha'taks are shaped to land on pyramids, although anything similar will suffice (on two occasions a Ha'tak lands on Cheyenne Mountain). Ha'taks are equipped with hyperdrives and can travel over 32,000 times the speed of light. The command center of a Ha'tak is known as the pel'tak. Along with carrying squadrons of death gliders and other support ships, as well as thousands of Jaffa troops, Ha'taks can also assault planets directly from orbit. They are armed with staff cannons scattered over the hull. In the episode "There But For the Grace of God", the attacking Ha'tak vessels bombard the East Coast of the United States with blasts equal to 200-megaton nuclear warheads. They are protected by powerful energy shields capable of repelling conventional, nuclear, and energy weapons. The shields can protect the ship's crew from the radiation of a blue giant star's corona for up to 10 hours. In "The Serpent's Venom", Apophis is shown to have devised a way to cloak an entire fleet of motherships. This technology has not been seen since. Several Goa'uld mothership variants have been encountered: Ra's mothership The first pyramid ship seen in Stargate, operated by Ra. When landed, the top of the ship can open to expose the interior to the atmosphere. In the film, the ship is destroyed by a nuclear device teleported to the ship by Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson using a ring transporter. Three similar ships are seen landed on Cimmeria in "Thor's Chariot" in the service of Heru-ur, Ra's son. Apophis' prototype mothership A ship seen under construction on PX9-757 in "Upgrades", with several enhancements over a standard Ha'tak. It is destroyed by SG-1, who overwhelm the defenses using Atanik armbands. Apophis' Flagship The flagship of Apophis, first seen in "The Serpent's Venom". Its weapons are capable of penetrating the shields of a standard Ha'tak at full power.[58] The ship escapes the supernova of Vorash's sun in "Exodus" but is hurled into another galaxy. It is attacked and infested by Replicators, and soon self-destructs. Anubis' flagship A mothership with advanced technology used by Anubis. Its centerpiece is a superweapon powered by the six Eyes, powerful enough to destroy multiple Ha'taks or obliterate land masses with a single shot. The ship is destroyed by the combined fleet of the System Lords in "Homecoming" in the atmosphere of Langara, where its shields are only 40% effective. As the ship breaks apart, it releases an escape ship that enters hyperspace. A reconstructed version of the ship leads Anubis' attack on Earth in "Lost City", and is destroyed by Ancient drone weapons fired from Antarctica. A version of this ship appears as Ba'al's flagship in Stargate Continuum. Minor ships
"Escape ship" An interstellar vessel seen under construction in "Nightwalkers". It is being built by the townspeople of Steveston, Oregon, who have been implanted with cloned Goa'uld symbiotes by the NID, who hope to claim the ship once it's finished. "Needle threader" An old type of fighter designed to fit through the Stargate, a maneuver known as "threading the needle". The design was abandoned because few pilots could master it. Master Bra'tac hid one on Chulak "some hundred years ago". In "Into the Fire", General Hammond and Teal'c use the fighter to attack Hathor's defenses on a mission to rescue SG-1. The ship is equipped with two large staff weapons. "Osiris' ship" A ship with a large extensible spike on the bottom, hidden near the temple where Osiris and Isis were imprisoned. It is used by Osiris to escape Earth in "The Curse". Troop transport A large vessel designed to carry Jaffa ground troops into battle. It is heavily armored and can shrug off a direct strike from a FIM-92 Stinger missile. Troop transports have only been seen amongst Anubis' forces; they first appear in "Summit", in Zipacna's attack on the main Tok'ra base at Revanna. They are also seen in "Redemption" on Anubis' planet, in "Full Circle" landing troops on Abydos, and in "Lost City" transporting Anubis to P3X-449 |