Lego Saucer

What is the Lego Saucer? Why is it the flagship of the Lego federation's battle fleet? Why is it Square? What is its secret weapon? These are all good questions that most ask from just looking at it. First it is sqaure because when I first built it I didn't have enough lego's to make it, well, less sqaure. The Lego Saucer is an answer to the need the fleet had of having a captaining fighter ship. This would be the ship that would lead the fleet into battle if necessary. In its day it was the fastest, most maneuverable, and best-armed fighter in the entire fleet. Especially when you considered its ever-changing secret weapon.


However, before I get into the specifics lets spend some time telling the story of the Lego Saucer. The story begins when a young scientist named Dr. Esnet Bordos discovered communications from a hostile race from another part of the galaxy. These communications suggested that they were planning a take over of our solar system. He immediately contacted the government only to be rejected as a lunatic. You see, at that time no one had ever proven the existence of life beyond our solar system. His response was to publish his discoveries and after thousands of other scientists reviewed his work, most of them came to the same conclusion. It was only then that the government listened to Dr. Bordos and formed the Lego Federation. Its first task was to defend the solar system from invaders. Every scientist immediately went to work designing new technologies for defense. The Lego Saucer was created out of this effort. They had created other space faring ships before but they had only been policing and transportation vessels. So, having never created a space fighter before they embarked upon a mission to defend the solar system. They created several accompanying fighters but the Lego Saucer was the greatest and most effective.

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So what is this Secret Weapon I keep mentioning. Well, it's not as simple as it might seem because there are three different evolutions of it. This is because enemies would constantly develop technologies to defeat it or render it useless. The first version is basically similar to a tractor beam on Star Trek except that it could be used over long distances and was virtually impossible to break free from. This would be used to actually move your opponent's fighter in between you and another opponent. Thus using your enemy to block shots from another enemy. The downside to this weapon is that it doesn't work to well on ships that have electromagnetic shielding. However, once the Lego Saucer has you in its grips, it's nearly impossible to raise your shields. That is unless you happen to have the latest generation of shields. This weapon alone saved the solar system from the threat that Dr. Bordos warned of because a hostile race didn't have electromagnetic shielding technology. The Lego Saucer would literally throw the enemy ships into moons and asteroid fields. It was quite a spectacle. This supremacy did not last however because there would be more enemies to defend against.


At this point the federation grew as contact with other Lego races soared. Many joined forces to defend their home worlds against hostile forces. They shared technologies and prosperity. However, there were still those who would prefer to rule rather than cooperate and share. By this time the federation had developed quite a hierarchy and even had an under cover unit. This unit was called the Federation Intelligence Center. FIC discovered hundreds of races with its long-range sensors and was even able to strike some semi-stable peace treaties with some of the nearer ones.


Once the federation realized that the first edition fo the secret weapon had lost it's edge due to an new abundance electromagnetic shielding. It decided to create a second edition or revision of it. This second edition was essentially like a tractor beam in the sense that it could maneuver fighter ships around except it got around the electromagnetic shield limitation of the first edition by creating a bubble of sorts around the ship and moving all matter inside of this bubble out of phase with the current universe. Meaning that though barely visible to the naked eye, your opponent was in another dimension. The Lego Saucer would then guide its opponents ship so that it occupied the same space as another ship and turn off the secret weapon. This would effectively force both ships to compete for the same space at the same time as the original ship came back into phase with it's native universe. However, it would occur at the atomic and molecular level so the ships would be destroyed as the atoms pushed each other apart. This was a very effective weapon until the technology to stabilize your dimensional status became available. This is when the third and final rendition of the Secret Weapon was developed.


By this time the weapons and shields were incredibly powerful. In fact, the weapons were so powerful that without the shields to absorb and deflect the impact your ship would likely be destroyed with just a few quick shots. That is when the idea for a shield reverser was developed. What makes an electromagnetic shield so powerful is that your ammunition can pass through
the shield but it blocks everyone else's from passing through. Thus creating a shield that doesn't block your ability to fire upon your enemy. This works by ensuring that your energy based weapons (Disc lasers, Antennae lasers, Photon Cannons, etc) are operating on the same wave length as your shields. What the third edition of the secret weapon literally does is forcibly adjust the wavelength of an opponent's shield. Thus allowing its, and eventually everyone else's, weapons to pass through your opponents shields but not your opponents weapons. When your opponent fires his weapons, it literally weakens his shields. But given the raw power of current weaponry, most ships didn't stand a chance. Especially once the Lego Saucer was given control to synchronize its shields, though briefly, with all of its ally's ships. This allowed for multiple ships to attack one incredibly weakened ship. The final upgrade was the multi-release functionality that allowed the Lego Saucer to adjust the wavelength of up to 32 opponents ships at once. Effectively rendering an entire fleet defenseless. The Lego Saucer retained the ability to perform all three variants of the Secret Weapon at all times.


With The Lego Saucer also became the commander fighter in times of war. It would organize all the other fighters to ensure effective use of all of there unique abilities. this structure and with the common grade of fighters that the rest of the federation maintained, the federation developed quite a fighting force. I would like to say that they were invincible but as you read about other ships and there unique battles. You will see that there were always challenges to the fleet. After all, an invincible fleet wouldn't be very much fun would it?