Good Progress:

Our setback last week turned out to be not so bad, after calling in a few favors with some friends we were able to finish the translations of the Darvic documents in just under a week, days before the ships arrived. With a few days head start of analysis on the documents I was able to get a better understanding of the ships that were sent to us before they even arrived. Unfortunately for us, many of the materials needed to make their ships so tough are made in very specialized forges that were designed to be operated by the Darvish people, the difference in stature and muscle density between our species would prove to be a major roadblock in the manufacturing process. So naturally someone is going to have to try to redesign the Darvic forges to be used by human hands, likely adding seemingly unnecessary complexity to cope with humanity's naturally weaker frames.

Despite yet another setback such as this we’ve made great strides in our understanding of Darvish technology and manufacturing as a whole, many of the pieces of this puzzle are starting to come together and perhaps there is a glimmer of light at the end of this tunnel. In the short time that I’ve had with the ships I’ve noticed some interesting quirks about Darvish designs that I’d like to incorporate into my own. First off they seem to use the entire hull of the ship as a heat sink rather than having a dedicated heat sink within the ship, on larger ships such as the ones I’m tasked with refitting this hull design would add an exponential increase in effectiveness against energy weapons, the kind of weaponry that many of our enemies currently employ. Another feature that I’ve noticed is that the ships appear to be built in a modular manner, having a shipyard for each module could speed up construction times but retrofitting this means of manufacturing onto the frames of our current ship would be next to impossible; I know high command will want me to try anyway because they have no understanding of how this kind of thing actually works but perhaps we can use this for some future ship designs, say some kind of new ship class to support our dreadnaughts in battle.

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I’ve just barely scratched the surface of the wealth of knowledge the Darvic people had on the subject of ship construction and manufacturing but my spirits have been lifted just from having access to readable forms of their documents, their shorthand is beginning to make more sense and I even feel as if I’m beginning to understand their thought process and design philosophy in relation to shipbuilding to some extent, I hope this trend continues.