One new technology created shortly after the [Quirel Encounter]? was the Amorphan Defence Drive. The light distorting chemichals in Amorphians were synthesised and bonded with the hulls of starships, giving them an appearance similar to an oily spill in water. When a small electric charge (like the chamoflage reflex in Amorphians) is passed through it, the chemical distorts light enough for the starship to become see through. This also makes energy weapons (such as lasers) useless against it, and even plasma had its usefullness reduced (as radiated heat would go around it, so only heat transfered through convection from the actual plasma, causing only a reletively small hole). To hit a ship and damage it (as its rough location could be deduced from radiated energy) a new type of weapon, [Shard Torpedoes]?, were invented to hit it despite the actual location being unknown.
|