Asgardian Skiff

The Asgardian Skiffs were a type of hovercraft ship used by the Asgardians for transportation. They are armed with rapid-firing rotary plasma cannons and missiles.

History[]

Asgard[]

Dark Elf Conflicts[]

Loki at the helm — Loki piloting an Asgardian Skiff out of Asgard

The Skiffs were used by the Asgardians as a method of transportation through Asgard as well as military aircraft used in war. During the First Dark Elf Conflict they were used to counter the Dark Elf Harrows. During the Second Dark Elf Conflict a pair of them were used to defend Asgard against attack by the Dark Elves, but both were destroyed even after managing to destroy one ship with missiles. After the Dark Elf attack, Fandral commandeered one to assist Thor and Loki in removing Jane Foster from Asgard. Fandral abandoned the Skiff to buy his companions time, with Loki taking the skiff's controls and directing it through a dimensional tear that transported it to Svartalfheim.^[1]

Siege of Asgard[]

In 2017, during the Siege of Asgard, the Skiffs were used against Hela. However, Hela was so powerful that she managed to destroy all of them.^[2]

New Asgard[]

New Asgard Tours[]

By 2025, the Skiffs had been rebuilt in New Asgard, Norway on Earth. They were repurposed and redecorated to be used for the New Asgard Tours as tourist boats as well as party boats.^[3]

Capabilities[]

The skiffs were armed with a quartet of "gun pods." While they probably discharged some sort of energy, they operated somewhat like real world gatling guns.

Asgandian Skiffs can be transported to a planet other than Asgard using Bifrost technology. As is the case with the First Battle of Svartalfheim, where the Asgardians used those ships in their campaign to stop the Dark Elves from reshaping the universe in their image and turning it back into a pit of darkness eternally.

The skiffs were also equipped with missiles capable of destroying a Dark Elf Harrow with a single burst.