Ves felt tempted to swallow the archeship and all of the spoils contained within alone.
The value of the vessel that was almost entirely made out of archemetal was obvious to everyone. Despite the relatively low-key and elusive conduct of the arche race, archetech had proven to be both powerful and ingenious due to how it developed technology in a substantially different direction than normal.
Most technological races such as humans and puelmers regarded their sophisticated products as collections of lots of little building blocks that fit quite well together.
The goal of most developers was to create a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts.
The arche approached their technological development from a substantially different angle. They took their own remarkable shells as the principal example of how their technology should work and tried to make everything into artificial adaptations of archeshells.
