Consul-class aircraft carrier
In fact, Matt Hona had come here primarily to collect real-time combat data—the combat data of the Swarm Drones.
The Swarm Drones were controlled by the pale-skinned Zabrak woman before them, Shaak Ti's apprentice, Maris Brood.
The Protoss had indeed handed the technology for the Swarm Drones over to the Fourth Civilization. However, the technological systems of humans and Protoss were simply too far apart. Even with detailed technical data—data that had already been interpreted by the Protoss—it still could not be directly applied.
Therefore, only after countless calculations and selections did the Fourth Civilization's Chief Engineer, the Salarian Arroyo Barlow, preliminarily settle on a platform for the Swarm Drones—the Consul-class aircraft carrier.
First of all, there were many technologies aboard Protoss drone carriers that even the Shelak Tribe had yet to regain mastery of. And even if they had mastered them, building a drone carrier at the capital-ship level with the Fourth Civilization's current technological capabilities would still have been nearly impossible.
So they could only settle for the next best thing.
Looking at the Consul-class aircraft carrier, nearly all aircraft carriers in the EVE Online technology tree were drone carriers. Such a platform naturally possessed excellent compatibility. As a drone carrier, the Consul-class aircraft carrier had a powerful command system and distributed Flight Control System, capable of efficiently handling the calculations required for tens of thousands of drones to fight simultaneously.
At the same time, the Consul-class aircraft carrier also had a remote-control platform, allowing operators to manually control the drones. In effect, it had two parallel command systems—AI and human control—which also made the drones more flexible in combat.
Finally, the Consul-class aircraft carrier had sufficient space and ample room for modification. The greatest advantage of EVE Online spacecraft was their modularity, which made