Helium Voidflyer

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The Helium Voidflyer is a light warship constructed and operated by the Shaltari Tribes. Before encountering the Helium, UCM naval planners considered the Shaltari gate network to be limited to battlefield-sized constructs, allowing them to draw up strategies without needing to consider such possibilities. However, the Helium has since proven that assumption incorrect - it is capable of leveraging existing voidgates to teleport about the battlefield instantaneously.

For the UCM and its allies, this is a worrisome trend, as the Helium is several orders of magnitude larger than anything previously know to have the ability. It is still unclear whether this represents a shift in tactics by the Shaltari, or a technological advancement - either way, any naval commander in combat with the Shaltari will need to contend with entire starships blinking out of existence at will.