Sure, but what about ships? If you&#x27;ve read any sci-fi, the term &quot;mothership&quot; should spring to your mind. Or &quot;motherboard&quot; in hardware.<p>The concept of &quot;some larger entity that spawns smaller entities&quot; seems to generally lend itself to the mother&#x2F;daughter terminology if you want to be poetic about it.<p>That said, whatever happened to artistic liberties?