Re: Parin IV - Space Station Brilliance
He blinks for a moment. "Ah yes, the Ashotur. My people didn't have much chance to study them either. Truth be told, I had mixed feelings about that."
"Honestly, I'd say overall both races are about level footing. To my knowledge, the Telarin have never bothered utilizing cloaking technology, whereas my own people have been utilizing it for as long as I can remember. Countless centuries I think."
A small grin creeps into his features as he says, with a laugh, "truth be told I have no idea in your measurements of time how old I am. Never bothered to keep track. Regardless, a possible open line of communication between our respective people would be a bright spot."
They finally reached his ship, and Draven led her inside. For the size the ship appeared to be on the outside, the interior was much more spacious than what one might expect. Several consoles were semi-lit at the front of the ship, obviously the cockpit and flight controls, as well as sensors and weapons. Mara might realize that the ship was designed to be a single pilot ship, and as such, there wasn't much in the way of unneeded consoles or the like.
The sides of the ship seemed to be a greyish metal of some kind, and what was most interesting was that she could even see the core that HAD to be the power source of the ship. Interestingly enough, it wasn't much larger than the average sized human in height, and maybe half that in width. Yet it was unmistakably the power core of the ship.
Off to the other side of the ship was the largest console and screen in the whole ship. The screen itself took up a good thirty feet of wall space, and the consoles near it about half that. This was now displaying a strange symbol on it, and when Draven sat down, he input several commands. After a moment, all the information she had uploaded for him began to scroll across the screen, simply adding itself to what had to be a massive, yet hidden computer core.
"Welcome aboard, and try not to laugh at the name, but the ship itself is called The Deadly Mist. There is reason for this. When she decloaks, she seems to be see through for a moment before becoming solid, and then her weapons are not to be trifled with. Originally we didn't make offensive weapons, but events some time ago forced us to arm our ships with weapons capable of disabling, and even destroying hostile ships in relatively few shots. As I mentioned before, our weaponry is primarily made up of plasma weapons. I mentioned the plasma bombs, which are fairly self explanatory, and I believe I mentioned the plasma beams. The beams strengths lie in several key areas. First, they are capable of being fired at a faster pace than most laser type weapons are, and they don't require anywhere near as much power or charging time as others would. Rather, they charge fast, fire fast, and simply strike enemy shields so rapidly that they can't recover between blasts, and it simply collapses the already weakend part of the shield, punching through."
A moment as he splits the screen, running a quick simulation of how the plasma beams work, as was seen against a strange looking ship that had obviously attacked first. Only six shots were fired by the Ingrali ship, but those six completely pulverized the enemy ship. "This I regret to say was something that happened thirty thousand years ago, during the only war my people have ever been involved in. To this day, we still don't know why the enemy attacked us, I suppose we never will."
Another moment as he called up something else, and a device unlike anything the Telarin would likely have ever seen came up. "This here however is a new experimental device. We've named them, for lack of a better term, shield eaters. They are proto-types, and haven't been tested yet, so I can't say for certain if they will work as planned, but if they do then they would simply eat a hole in an enemy shield, leaving a gaping hole in their defenses. This would be large enough for a precision shot to get through, and simply disable a ships weapons, rendering them weaponless, and eliminating the need to destroy the ship."
