Darvic Shipbuilding Characteristics:

It’s become apparent in recent days that the Darvish shipwrights held firm to a philosophy of quality over quantity, perhaps a philosophy which ultimately led to their demise. Many of the examples brought over from the old shipyard have proven to be much more sophisticated than even our own ships of the time, I’ve been told that the Darvish people aided us in shipbuilding during the time of the great expansion but it seems as though they might have been our primary source of knowledge on the subject, the heat management and energy deflection systems are lightyears ahead of anything we even have now, it appears as though the Darvic race were masters of defensive strategy. This revelation had led me to wonder about the nature of their downfall, I was always told that it was the war with the Urci that led to their demise but from the information I have here the Urci wouldn’t have had anything that could come close to even putting a dent in these ships, granted, the ships we have here were likely still years away from completion, suggesting that perhaps the Darvish wrights simply couldn’t keep up with demand for new ships. Regardless, the history books are starting to look just a bit more suspect in my eyes. Obviously I can never let anyone know that I think this but perhaps I can find the truth amongst all this rubble without raising the suspicions of High Command.

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With regards to my current mission I’ve found what I believe to be the secret of the Darvic manufacturing process, graphene layered hulls. In some of their texts there are references to a large graphene foundry called “Thinstone”. Apparently they use this foundry to produce a ship hull made of multiple layers of graphene and some currently unknown alloy appearing to consist largely of nickel; I'll likely spend the next few weeks analyzing this alloy. These layered alloy hulls are then brought to a shipyard to be fitted with whatever systems are necessary for the role the hull was designated for, apparently they used a modular design in order to use the same hull for any role they wished, perhaps another limiting factor in their doctrine but I’m not a military analyst so that’s not exactly my place to say. Regardless, their focus on raw strength and durability is admirable and it remains obvious that there is much to learn from these long deceased shipbuilding masters. I will return to the library soon to compare the methods of shipbuilding to the documentation found about our own ships that we had built by them. Perhaps there could even be some documentation about the alliance between our peoples hidden in there somewhere to sate my curiosity.