Organic technology.
Organic technology.
This is still an emerging field of research and very little is
understood about life which can survive in space without difficulty.
Only the Vaipen and Ovaska appear to have mastered organic spacecraft
and the appear to follow more or less the same trend; the smaller ships
look very similar to the larger ones, and there have been some
suggestions that that is exactly the case; the smaller ships are just
younger relations of the larger ships. Organic technology has many
advantages over normal technology, not least in that it repairs itself
and can reproduce (although no-one knows how... the Vaipen and Ovaska
are very secretive and no-one who has even come close to finding out
much about them has ever been seen again). What is known is that these
ships have a symbiotic relationship with the pilot (although this link
can be broken) and, in the case of the Vaipen and probably the Ovaska,
they are part of a single, race wide, hive mind.
Vaipen Small Fighter
This is one of the few pictures of a Vapien Fighter that have been recorded. It
was recorded by an Earth ship that ventured too close too Vapien space. Several
of these fighters appeared and ordered the ship to turn around and not attempt
to enter their space again. Refusal to obey them would result in them opening
fire. Naturally they thought turning back was the safer option. Notice the four
mounted cannons on the front of the ship. They appear to be part of the ship and
not addons.