Pool ship

Pool ship
Alias(es)	Yeerk Mother Ship
Creator(s)	Yeerk Empire
Owner	Yeerk Empire
Users	Edriss 562 † Esplin 9466 Erek King
Passengers	Edriss 562 Esplin 9466 Tom's Yeerk † Jake Tobias Cassie Marco Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill † Erek King
Prisoners	Jake Rachel † Tobias Cassie Marco
Weapons	Dracon assault cannons
Status	Inactive
Appearances
First Appearance	The Invasion (mentioned) The Predator
Last Appearance	The Beginning

"The Pool ship looked like a fat, swollen, three-legged spider. I'd seen it before, up in orbit, high above planet Earth. The Pool ship: home of the Yeerk invasion force, base of the Bug fighters. It was a space-going Yeerk pool, well-defended, dangerous, but essentially a portable barracks, a giant mess hall that served up hearty doses of Kandrona rays, the sustenance that a Yeerk must have every three days or die. The Bug fighters rose to greet their mother, swarming around the Pool ship, bristling, daring anyone to attack."

―Jake

The Yeerk Pool ship, also known as the Yeerk mother ship, was the primary vessel of the Yeerk Empire, administered by whoever held the rank of Visser One. When the Animorphs destroyed the ground-based California Yeerk pool, the Pool ship was forced to land in California to provide their troops with Kandrona rays, allowing the Animorphs to infiltrate it. They successfully seized the ship, earning them a surrender from the Yeerk Empire and ending the Andalite-Human-Yeerk War.

Layout

The Pool ship a large Yeerk Pool as well as its own Kandrona source (which can only emit Kandrona rays to the pool onboard the ship). It is gigantic in size and resembles a black spider, with a fat spherical body and a flattened bottom, three leg-like engines, and several small tendrils on the bottom that act as sensors. The side of the ship has a docking port, which is an opening where smaller ships enter the body of the ship, that is so large Bug fighters are dwarfed by it.  The Pool Ship orbits high above Earth, cloaked from detection by human radar.

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History

General Usage

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Esplin eventually returned to the Pool ship, where he received visions of an Andalite, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, asking for help. As Aximili was using a mirrorwave call to specifically send his visions to other nearby Andalites, Esplin was able to receive this visions as he had an Andalite host body. While on the Pool ship, he received another vision. Upon regaining his composure, he was bothered by a Hork-Bajir-Controller, prompting Esplin to kill the Hork-Bajir and its Yeerk by shoving them out of the airlock to die in space.

Escape of the Animorphs

"The mother ship. It was a gigantic, three-legged insect. The center was a single, bloated sphere. The sphere was flatter on the bottom, and from the bottom hung a weird, mismatched series of tendrils. Like the tendrils of a jellyfish. Each one must have been a quarter-mile long. Around the sphere were three legs, bent up, then back down, exactly like a spider's legs."

―Marco

In an attempt to steal a Bug fighter, Ax created a Yeerk Distress Beacon which would alert the Yeerk Empire that one of its members required assistance; this in turn would cause the Yeerk Empire to send a Bug fighter to investigate the location the signal was sent from. However, as he had used an outdated frequency, specifically a frequency that the Andalites had already used in the past to trick the them, the Yeerk Empire quickly realized it was a trap. Setting their own trap, Esplin 9466 had the Animorphs surrounded by a hundred Hork-Bajir-Controllers armed with Dracon beams and forced the Animorphs onto his Blade ship. Wanting to show them off to Edriss 562, who was Visser One and was currently paying a visit to the Pool ship, Esplin 9466 had the Blade ship depart from Earth and into space, where the Pool ship remained in orbit.

The Pool ship's cloaking system was turned off to allow the Animorphs to see the Pool ship before the Blade ship docked within it. Following his presentation to Edriss, Esplin ordered his guards to confine the Animorphs to a holding cell on the Pool ship. However, Edriss 562 had her guards kill or knock out Esplin's guards before aiding the Animorphs in their escape, as she did not want to risk losing her title to Esplin. The Animorphs then ran out of their holding cell and fought a handful of Esplin 9466's Hork-Bajir-Controllers before making their way to a dropshaft and emerging onto the floor with an escape pods. One of the escape pods had its autopilot pre-programmed on Edriss' command to return to the location that the Animorphs were taken from, therefore allowing the Animorphs to jump into the escape pod and successfully leave the Pool ship and return back home.

Feeding Controllers on Earth

When the Animorphs destroy the Earth-based Kandrona, the Yeerks are temporarily weakened because they must rely on the pool ship Kandrona for three weeks, until a replacement Kandrona arrives.

Seized by the Animorphs

"It was a monstrous thing. Bigger than an aircraft carrier. More powerful than all the forces of humankind combined and multiplied a hundredfold. The Dracon cannon on the Pool ship could burn a hole through an asteroid. But it was a sledgehammer, a great, lumbering beast designed for war in the weightlessness of space. And, anyway, if we succeeded it would be our sledgehammer."

―Jake

Near the end of the war, after the Animorphs had destroyed the Yeerk pool, Visser Three, who had recently been promoted to the rank of Visser One), temporarily transferred his headquarters onto the Pool ship and ordered it to land on Earth. The visser also ordered the complete obliteration of the Animorphs' hometown in order to create a sort of dead zone around the ship. The ship was to provide nourishment for ground-based Yeerks until a new pool could be created. The Animorphs captured the Pool ship and Visser One, with the help of the military, the Auxiliary Animorphs, Toby's Hork-Bajir, a group of Taxxons led by Arbron, and a split faction of Yeerks led by Tom who wanted to create their own Empire.

Appearances

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Books

• The Invasion (mentioned)
• The Visitor (mentioned)
• The Encounter (mentioned)
• The Message (mentioned)
• The Predator
• The Answer
• The Beginning

TV Series

• The Leader (Part 1)
• The Leader (Part 1)

Gallery

"Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool." The image gallery for Pool ship may be viewed here