Glory Device

The glory device is the main and most effective weapon of the Shofixiti.

As we all know, the Shofixiti were uplifted by the Yehat when the furry marsupials were still living in mud castles. It should be not a big suprise that the Shofixiti didn't posess any advanced technology, including starships. The Yehat game them their old scout design, but since it was close to harmless in combat (unless we are talking of laughing the enemy to death... or taking a group of a 1000 scouts and trying to ram the enemy into a planet that is...), it wasn't used much more than a scout would be - for scouting.

The fervor and willpower of the shofixiti was great. They were honourable creatures and wanted to fight. They have asked the Chenjesu to create a powerful Glody Device - a bomb which could destroy a crippled Ur-Quan and completly vauporise smaller vessels. The Chenjesu agreed, but later on were deeply shocked when they were asked to mount every such device on a scout vessel. Although the Yehat refused at first, everyone knew deep inside that it was an ultimate sacrafice and act of honor; they Shofixiti insisted and so it became - every Scout was fitted with the bomb.

The brave Shofixiti detonated themselfes without showing even a sign of fear, dodging fusion blasts and ripping the immense Dreadnought battlecruisers apart. The Glory Device was definitly a gruesome and dreadful weapon for the Kzer-Za, as they could not break the morale of the suicide pilots. Fighting fiercly, it was ironically the Shofixiti, the technologically least advanced race in the leauge, who destroyed over one third of the Ur-Quan fleet.

From the techical point of view, one shofixiti Scout can kill a Trader, Guardian or Mauler but not from a blast alone. Killing four or five people with the main gun and evading the shots and *then*, when the batteries are empty should a shofixiti detonate - for it doesn't matter how much crew the ship has during detonaton. Two shofixities can kill a Dreadnought, however if you would want to kill the opponents with the Glory Device only, those numbers increase by one, that is 2 for a Trader and 3 for a Dreadnought.

The downside is that the Glory Device needs to be activated manually in order to explode - quite much like a nuclear bomb - when the Scout is killed before he gets a chance to activate, the bomb is destroyed, the advanced fireing mechanism doesn't work, and the bomb doesn't explode.

Summary: A good shofixiti pilot may create chaos&destruction wherever he goes, killing ships much larger than himself, but this chaos is one-time only.