T'Qar Tech

The alien race, known as the T'Qar, have interesting technology, namely their vehicles which are of a unique design. Their small craft are often made up of a spherical cockpit with two prongs extending out to the front and their capital ships (known as "Hives") are incredibly large craft with massive hangers and a huge fighter compliment. If you would like to read more about T'Qar ships, go to the starships page.

This page will detail the more general technology that has been discovered in T'Qar wreckages and elsewhere.

Biomechanical engineering
One thing that is known of the T'Qar is that their small craft are actually made up of a mixture of biological and mechanical components. The brain of a T'Qar slicer, for instance, is actually a physical brain with computer components graphed to its different parts to make it do different things. Biomechanical engineering is believed to be what the T'Qar use to create a form of Artificial Intelligence, though technically it's just intelligence. Based off of the skeletons and other body parts that Titan Atomics biologists have got their hands on, the T'Qar use biomechanical engineering to modify themselves in ways that may increase their strength or speed, though there is no visual proof of this. However these augmentations may be what make the T'Qar so formidable and why few Arskodian troops have escaped a head to head encounter with a T'Qar footsoldier.

Personal Transporters
There are many unusual things that survivors of T'Qar sightings have described, one of which is their ability to "Disappear from one place and reappear in another" and based off the fact that there are no apparent entrances for pilots on any T'Qar slicer, Scientists believe that the T'Qar may have small scale personal transporters that allow them to teleport short distances. As there is no recorded footage of a living T'Qar, let alone one teleporting; these theories cannot be confirmed.

Small Craft Slipspace Drives
The main form of Faster Than Light travel, Slipspace, required a whole network of systems to function properly (in non-T'Qar ships) known as a Slipspace Drive. However, it appears that the T'Qar have developed Slipspace Drives that work onboard their fighters that aren't even 10 metres in length and unlike the personal transporters that the aliens may have, it's a regular occurrence to spot a T'Qar slicer leaving a Slipspace Wake only slightly larger than the fighter itself.