Motherships

Overview

Motherships are part of the class of ships known as Super Capitals and are currently the 2nd largest class of ships in EVE.

Technically, a mothership is carrier class vessel which is however many time larger and much more expensive to build.

In comparison to a typical carrier, a mothership has the following features:

• Has larger cargo, hanger and drone bays
• Cannot be built in, or docked in stations
• Can equip a Clone Vat Bay
• Deploys 3 additional Fighter Drones per level compared to 1
• Immune to all forms of Electronic Warfare (e.g. ECM, Conventional Warp Disruptors, Stasis Webifers, etc)
• Can only be prevented from jump/going into warp by Interdictor Bubbles, Mobile Warp Disruptors, and focused warp disruption generators used by Heavy Interdictors
• Has six high slots instead of five
• Able to fit Remote ECM Burst I
• Allowed to use one warfare link per racial carrier skill level, instead of just one regardless of level.

There are 4 types of Mothership, 1 for each of the 4 races

• Amarr - Aeon
• Caldari - Wyvern
• Gallente - Nyx
• Minmatar - Hel

Roles

Although all motherships mainly provide logistical and support roles, the bonuses each of the 4 race motherships allow different areas of specialization.

• Aeons have armor resistance bonuses which allow them to field heavy armor tanks
• Wyverns have shield resistance bonuses which allow them to field heavy shield tanks
• Nyxs have deployed fighter bonuses allowing them provide more firepower to offensive operations while fielding a moderate armor tank
• Hels motherships have their strength as a logistic platform with bonuses to shield/armor remote repair amounts. They are also extremely flexible and are able to field either a modest shield or armor tank