Ok. I concede the point.starstriker1 wrote:The only vessel in the system with a Wave-Loom device is Tempest, and she is far too large to be the 300m vessel that killed Bellarmine.
Also, in the bizarre scenario that that isn't enough evidence for you, descriptions of the Wave-Loom that I've seen (which aren't much, to be honest) described it as some type of hyper-long-range area of effect weapon... something that requires eating up ALL the energy reserves on the ship when fired, leaving the ship immobile temporarily. This makes it both inconsistent with the number of shots fired in a short time, as well as the face that there was anything left of Bellarmine after the first shot... an "area of effect beam weapon" would probably have shredded it, and we'd be short a protagonist. What we know of the pulse and plasma cannon weaponry so far paints it as MORE than enough to carve a Terran ship in half (the Umiak and Loroi were doing it to each other during the big battle).
"Ancient Conspiracy" time it is then:
Then perhaps the Historians? They and the Basram had each a ship present during the previous battle, no?