The DDS have managed to get a hold of a top secret report by the Utrek military into transphasic weapon technologies as used by the DDS. The report is understood to have been discovered by Raegris agents working in the Utrek Federation and then passed to the DDS. The report details all the Utrek know about transphasic weapons, the possibility of producing their own weapons and how to neutralise the devastating effectiveness of the weapons such as the TPM which destroyed scores of Utrek warships in the Utrek War.
The Utrek are quick to discount any quick development of their own transphasic weapons with a stark admission that their research and knowledge in this area is years behind even the Clones. The emphasis is thus on trying to neutralise the advantage.
One idea seems to be to develop a new kind of warship to a cellular design. The ship would consist of multiple separated elements that worked together but the ship could still work with the loss of some of them. A TPM would be contained in one of the cells, destroying that cell but the rest of the ship would still work. The Utrek think this kind of ship would have too many disadvantages and be too expensive however.
Another idea the Utrek have is rapid micro-movement. The ships would be constantly making small lateral movements using a random pattern which could foil the TPM's terminal re-phasing mode so it either re-phases too early or too late to detonate inside the ship. It is thought that TPM-2 greatly reduces the time taken to re-phase and this should eliminate any advantage of micro-movements. Sensor spoofing is another possible strategy, again something TPM-2 should guard against. One interesting aspect of the report seems to be the Utrek have yet to appreciate the great improvement of TPM-2 over -1. "They may discover this when their fleets get wiped out again." an unnamed DDS source quipped.
