'First Steps to the Stars' Series - Homo Sapiens
History of the Kraken Revolution
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Admiral Bastian's words echoed across the huge construction quay, "In this facility you see the latest warship design by Doctor Humphrey. He's a bit of a military historian and calls that miracle of science sitting there a frigate. I believe it is much more." Though it retained the overall energy-conserving shape of a slightly flattened sphere, there was nothing soft or mundane in this warbird's appearance. Like a great frigate bird, its surface was of long sharp ridges to reduce gravitic wave distortion and therefore detection. Humphrey's brilliance developed a gravitic wavelength algorithm that precisely calculated the ship's long-to-short axis diameter ratio, finely adjusting it to optimize linkage to the great gravity waves of deep space. A novel concept allowing the warbird to achieve greater velocities than any other known starship. Even deactivated, the ship was difficult to focus upon because of its electromagnetic adsorbing surface.