"Unfortunately for the Great Serpent Empire…" Marcel Burton took a deep breath, as if gathering his thoughts before launching into another detailed explanation, "They were only ever granted blueprints for a single type of warship and one specific model of the transport vessel. These designs—handed down to them long ago were— the backbone of their entire fleet,
but they were severely limited in their adaptability. Later on, the Dwarves, with their renowned craftsmanship, attempted to modify these blueprints. They enlarged the warships slightly and they retrofitted the transport vessels, installing the side cannons.
But that was the extent of their innovation. The ships still lacked the necessary adaptability for asteroid mining or celestial body harvesting.
Even so—despite these shortcomings— they somehow amassed an astonishing volume of resources using just those two outdated vessel types."
