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The rather unconventional design of CBT vessels is owed to them being built around a Xen Core, a mysterious power source with an energy output much akin to a tiny sun. Xen Cores not only serve as the main power source for CBT vessels but also as a means of propulsion for the ships themselves, as they allow for immediate teleportation at a given distance. The Xen Core’s teleportation ability is also frequently used to instantly warp Cleaners onto a planet’s surface to fulfil their mission and later recall them just as fast once their job is done. Tapping onto the Xen Core is not without its risks however, as extensive use can render it unstable and eventually bring it to implosion, with teleportation being particularly power-intensive.


The Assessor-class Escort Vessel serves to either accompany bigger research ships or to teleport troops onto a planet’s surface for advanced hit-and-run strikes on vulnerable targets as well as acquiring new test subjects.


The Rectifier-class Research Vessel only sports few guns compared to other ships of comparable size, for its role is not in directly engaging the enemy. Rather than that, it contains several laboratories for CBT scientists to conduct their experiments and holding cells for test subjects. Furthermore, its Xen Core is big enough to be used as an improvised weapon by using its teleportation capabilities against the enemy: incoming warships can be teleported into the nearest asteroid field or nebula.

"Right, so where do we begin?"


"Well, I would guess by checking out the first entry! We'll start with something called, um, Dig-a-tail Dine-in-shows?"


"Waldorf you fool, that says Digital Dimensions! Did you lose your glasses again?" "No, I lent them to that bear so he can read his cue cards!" "Oh-ho-ho-ho!"


"Right! Well I suppose we better judge stuff."
STYLE
"I don't know, Statlor, it's interesting, but it looks like someone tried to carve one of my pills!" "At your age, everything looks like a pill." "You should know! You're kind of a pill, yourself!" "Anyway, they're different, with an unusual color scheme. I think we're going to call this about a 7. How does that sound?" "We're starting kind of low I think, these are pretty unusual." "Yeah, but there's a lot of entries in this year's Blarney Build, so I think we need to scale things a little differently. It's going to have to be pretty unusual to get a 10 this year." "Yeah, that makes sense. 7

SUBSTANCE
"For such a tiny build, there's some interesting detail in there." "Yeah, I know. Little guns, those weird claw-thingies that hold the glowing green thing in place." "That's apparently supposed to be something akin to a miniature sun." "Really? Huh." 8

PHOTO
"There's only three of them." "And they're really just resizes of the initial one." "Right." "I mean, it isn't a bad pic, and has a background for once." "Yeah, that's more than a lot of these contest entries tend to have, so that's something." "Still, would be nice to have different viewpoints." "True." 5

BOAST
"Boast? What's that?" "It's a new category this year, apparently." "Oh, like when we heckle Fozzie and the frog?" "No, that's a ROAST." "Ah. Well, I'm not seeing much of that here, just a basic layout of stuff." "So we're agreed?" "Yes, I think we are." 3

On to the neck heckle, er, judging!

Style: 10
Substance: 7
Photography: 8

Boast: gape/10

Style: 8 Again, great palette
Substance: 8 Love the cages
Photography: 7
Boast: 7