The Vritook are not a nice species. They have a right to be though--their once-masters wanted them to be a super soldier, and so genetically engineered them for that purpose. But when programming, the masters forgot one thing--the Vritook were also honourable, and they didn't like being told that they were just killing machines. Their masters died very quickly after that...

Vritook ships are slow. No, I mean slow. But they are manoeuvrable, and they have developed one of the best weapons in existence: the multibarrel ion blaster (or MIB for short). The precursor, the multibarrel ion cannon, is still used today by the Vritook. A MIB can, with luck, destroy a dreadnought with a single shot.

Which is just as well, for the Vritook only carry one MIB on each vessel. MICs are more numerous on ships that carry them, but their damage potential is reduced. There are six classes of vessel--two dreadnoughts, two heavy cruisers and two destroyers. Of these, only one destroyer is reasonably fast, and they are used as escorts.