Darvic Shorthand:
Well, I finally got my hands on some Darvish documents related to the construction of our super dreadnaughts after weeks of digging through an old library on Darvac 4. Unfortunately the notes spread throughout the documents are practically indecipherable, everything is written in some form of shorthand, it would’ve been hard enough if it was written in plain Darvic Script but now I have to practically translate an entirely new language all on my own. Even our best linguists had no idea what they were looking at. I’m beginning to think my initial assessment of this plan as wildly idioctic was correct, not like High Command would admit it though, I’d probably be executed for even saying something like that about them.
On the bright side, however, I have an entire Darvish library at my disposal, maybe I can find some information related to the shorthand used in their documentation of ship designs. At the very least I should be able to gain some insight about how they designed ships, what techniques they used, how they made their materials, production flow, things of that nature. As much as I’d like to just bury my nose in the contents of this library it would seem that I must stay focused on the task given to me. With our enemies continuing to band together against us time seems to speed up, giving me less and less to make a difference. Time may not be on my side, but as of now information is; The Darvic people were the best shipwrights in the galaxy, going back to the dawn of our empire. I’d liked to have learned from them directly, unfortunately they were wiped out in the Second Urci War, or so I’m told, the books I’ve found here relating to the Urci all tell that by the time of the super dreadnaughts the Urci were far too weak to take on imperial fleets. I suspect High Command knows what really happened to the Darvic and is hiding the truth from everyone. I want to get to the bottom of this, so the Darvic can have their story told properly some day, but for now I must focus on the survival of my own people, the dead have time to spare whilst the living must grasp every second as if their life depends on it, truly an unfair deal.
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I’ve gathered a collection of roughly thirteen books about shipbuilding and drafting, if I am to learn anything about how the Darvic designed ships it’ll be contained in these surprisingly well preserved relics of an age long past. Then maybe, just maybe, I’ll be able to create a design worthy of being called an upgrade to the work of these master craftsmen.