During the earliest armed confrontations with Iconian and Herald forces, many allies proposed seizing their advanced technology in order to turn it back against these powerful aggressors. Undertaking these efforts came at the price of vast resources and manpower, but thankfully resulted in much of the Heralds' advanced technology now being reverse-engineered sufficiently to be used by the allied forces of the Milky Way, even if many of their underlying scientific principles are still beyond the…