Like most Shadow Technology, these ships require a living component to operate. They have even been known to capture and take on board small non-Shadow craft such as an Earth Alliance Starfury. Auxiliary crafts Īside from their role as front-line warships, Shadow Vessels also act as mother ships to a number of smaller craft including transports and a complement of fighters.
When fired into an active hyperspace vortex it causes the formed jump point to quickly collapse, which leads to a massive shockwave that will destroy any ships caught in the blast radius. The Shadow vessel also possesses a weapon capable of destabilizing jump points. A direct hit from this weapon is under normal circumstances sufficient to destroy almost any known ship and a fully operational Shadow Vessel never misses. An extremely powerful war machine, its primary beam weapon has an energy output on par with a controlled thermonuclear reaction and can effortlessly cut through even a four-mile-wide space station from a range of around a dozen miles.
