Dai Mother

Dai Mother

Dai Than Culture

Dai Mothers are huge space ship based colonies and are the center of a Dai Tribe. These ships are often many millenia old and have been expanded and upgraded by simply adding structure to the base frame. Generations of Clan chiefs have added systems and more room, more factory bubbles, more food vats and high yield hydro cultures to their tribe Colony ships. This is why no Dai Mother looks alike and they vary greatly in size, sophistication, equipment and armament. Depending on the age and wealth of the Tribe. They share an an organic, asymmetric look and some Terran space farers compare them to cancer growth. Sizes range from a few kilometers in length to huge Mothers of fifty and sixty kilometers in length. Dai Mothers carry everything the Clan needs, Administration and Palace of the Tribes Clan Chief, factories, ship docks, gardens, food farms, villages and cities. Schools and Universities everything that a civilization needs can be found aboard a Dai Mother. While some very large clans utilize three or four mother sized and Dai Mother looking ships, only one is called the Mother. The loss of the mother is equal to the Clans death. Survives may find homes in other clans and are often welcome, but the Clan name and the clan dies and even if the Clan chief survives, his Clan name is no longer spoken. One of the oldest and biggest clans is the Hi clan and its Mother is the largest known Dai Ship, with over 89 kilometers in length, it is bigger than the USS Dominator. However Dai Mothers are pure space ships and can not make planet fall and the Hi Mother is very slow even though it carries the biggest engines the Dai can make, they are too small to accelerate the lumbering mass with more than 90 km/sec2

The Dai Mothers of Union Dai are currently refurbished with new shields and modern Union tech and they are all in Orbit around Nanatashoo, a red star with only a few small rock worlds left. A new artificial world is currently built, based on 10 Gigamon combined, it will become the new home of the Union Dai and will be a planet and a ship at the same time. This new Dai Mother (Mother of all Dai) will be mobile according to Dai traditions and allow them to live “aboard” ship and not Dirt-side or in a in-mobile station.