Takajekarhi, the King Scarab
The personal vessel of Akadrāri, the Unbent.
This 30 m long metamorphic ship is often used by his owner to travel in and out of the Nijin-Laj Star System to locations unknown.
The being in charge of the ship, Cʰàir IB Takajekarhi, is coupled with the priest and occupies the ship's husk whenever they travel with it, leaving it once at the destination.
Even though the being left the ship, it will always be aware of the husk's conditions and surroundings, being instantly notified of intrusions or threats.
As with most precursor technologies, the ship's colours often change going from simple to very intricate patterns or flashing texts in Lithen or several human languages; in the image above it is shown in very basic patterns.
When the husk is not in use, it will fold itself in a smooth spheric shape, much like inactive Wormhole stations do.
It will morph into more complex shapes depending on the use, most of which very complex, as seen in most other precursor technologies.
The extremely light material the ship is made out of changes shape organically, resembling more a liquid metal than a true alloy.
Rare footage from inside the "cockpit" shows it is a garden-like environment with a tree and ground plants, Akadrāri sitting under the shade of the tree while speaking.
It's yet unclear if there's an actual garden inside the ship or if it was only a construct of the vehicle.
Whenever the vessel enters orbit and makes its way to the Deshivohai territories it is considered a joyful occasion as it often brings news about faraway planets and people, in the hope of discovering the truth behind the 2561 mass activation events of precursor technologies.
Power Generation
The ship harvests energy from the exomatter core located in the tail section.
The core itself is free from physical bounds when in open space, only kept in place by the arms surrounding it.
Although the free core is made out of inactive exomatter, the latter doesn't expand and consume like it was observed on Nijin-Konai, suggesting a security mechanism is harvesting safely from the free mass.
Propulsion
The ship seems to propel itself without an engine as no sound is audible when near it departing nor signatures attributable to any kind of known motor are detectable.
The vehicle seems to work on two different types of propulsion.
The standard propulsion method, although coming from two drastically different origins, is basically the same as humanity's, with the main difference being maneuverability, given the extremely light material the ship is made of.
The second method is comparable to the Wormhole used in the Wormhole stations.
The ship's tail will start spinning until the craft disappears into nothing, without leaving behind any trace of its presence, residual heat disappearing with it, as if the vehicle never was in the starting position to begin with.
Weapons & Armament
Humanity never observed any of these crafts opening fire so the true potential is unknown.
It's been speculated that, by creating a pulse of exomatter from the nucleus, the vehicle could potentially aborb or outright disintegrate potential aggressors.
Armor and defense
The material the ship is composed of is warm to the touch and can deform drastically to accomodate diffirent shapes of the ship or potentially avoid incoming fire.
As with armaments, the ship was never observed having to defend itself so much of its potential is speculation based on known Precursor technology.
Sensors
A very accurate array of sensors are outfitted on the ship, giving it the ability to accurately scan entire stretches of space even at great distances, how these sensors work and how they manage to have such large ranges is still unknown.
Famously used by Akadrāri to find and recover a human craft that went missing in a charting expedtions of near interstellar space, the ship was able to locate the missing vessel with incredible precision and reach it in record time, transforming a 5 year long journey in outer space in a few days long return for the crew.
Owner
Owning Organization
Rarity
Unique
Length
Around 30 m, shifting from morph to morph
Weight
Estimated to weight around 3-5 tons
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