An Andorian Officer takes delivery of a supply of Synthetic Dilithium crystals at the Top Secret Federation plant. A major breakthrough, the creation and production of Synthetic Dilithium is helping the Federation in its war against the Dominion. Although not as effective as natural Dilithium, ships can only sustain a speed of Warp 6 with a maximum of Warp 7 for a short time, its discovery came at a moment were natural supply was running extremely low due greatly to the capture of Dilithium rich systems and the destruction of two important recrystalization plants by the Enemy. An interesting chance discovery was made while fitting the SynDil crystals on a captured Romulan Bird of Prey when by an accidental rerouting of the power grid, the ship was able to fire its weapons while completely cloaked and completely undetected until the weapon's burst hit its target. Thus the Federation banking on this fortunate discovery was able to design in less than an earth year, the new Attack Corvettes being deployed as we speak: small and not very fast, they are built around a new cloaking device and shields and more important a new weapon system, a combination particle beam-torpedo that appears to fire from within a time bubble in the Warp field and explode upon contact with the enemy's ship gravitational field, so undetectable until the last. Again, having fun with the story. DAZ Studio 4.8, Photoshop for border. Thanks for looking, Dan