Shadow Technology is the name given to a type of Organic Technology developed and used by the ancient race known only as the Shadows.
After they departed the galaxy in 2261, a large amount of their tech ended up in the hands of the younger races, either through salvaging ancient artefacts and ships scattered across hundreds of worlds or as a result of a previous alliance with the shadows.
Devices
Carolyn Sanderson fitted with Cyberweb Implants.
- Bio-Genetic Nanovirus: A highly adaptive artificial plague capable of targeting specific species and capable of wiping out entire races.
- Cyberweb Implants: Highly adaptive cybernetic devices that are grafted into the nervous system of living sentient beings, allowing them to merge with almost any system. These are used to convert living beings to serve as CPUs for Shadow Vessels.[1][2]
- Death Cloud: The most powerful weapons known to be used by the Shadows, they were capable of reducing thriving planets into lifeless husks.
- Dreamweaver: A special offshoot breed of keeper, used to create and implant dreams while a subject sleeps.[3]
- "The Egg": The nickname given to a large artefact found on the surface of Alpha Omega III by the crew of the Icarus.[4]
- Keeper: A sentient parasitic organism that can maintain a telepathic link between it's bonded Drakh that can subvert it's host's will.
- "The Mouse": The nickname given to a small artefact found on Theta Omega II by IPX. Like most Shadow Tech, the devise is semi-organic and can be telepathically activated. Several more identical devices were found in a cave on Alpha Omega III by the crew of the Icarus.[4]
- Remote Control Device: An organic device used to remotely pilot a starship without the need for a crew. Just one or two of these hooked into the control systems are sufficient to run even a large warship like the Vorchan class medium warship and successfully engage in combat manoeuvres. The Drakh acquired a large number of these devices when they evacuated Z'ha'dum and in 2262 used them to frame the Centauri Republic for a series of attacks on Alliance shipping lanes. A few years prior, the Psi Corps discovered one such device. [5]
- Shadow "Temporal Rift" device: A single jet-black sphere, approximately the same size as a Starfury, with eight long, pulsing tendrils. In 2259 one such device was used by the Shadows in an attempt to seal the temporal rift in Sector 14, before being destroyed by three Minbari/Vorlon Prototype Hybrid Fighters, lead by Entil'Zha Sinclair.[6]
Ships
- Shadow Vessel: The most prominent weapon used by the Shadows in their wars of chaos. A large number of these were seeded on remote planets and moons across the galaxy, to be retrieved when the time for them to move again was right.
- Shadow Fighter: Small fighter sized craft, often carried aboard Shadow Vessels.
- Shadow Scout: A medium sized vessel used for scouting areas ahead of the main fleet.
- Shadow Hybrid: A hybrid vessel built by a black-ops faction within Earthforce, based on the study of Shadow Vessels found beneath the surface of Mars. One of these was responsible for the destruction of the EAS Cerberus.[8]