Technology
The Shi'ar possess technologies common to most Marvel alien races, including:
- faster than light capable starships
- energy-based weapons in their ships and in their handheld weapons
- force fields
- faster than light communication
- teleportation technology
The Shi'ar also possess technologies fairly unique to them, including:
- Hologram technology: which is used by the X-Men in their Danger Room.
- Cloaking technology: rendering a craft completely invisible, used by the X-Men on their Blackbird aircraft.
- Stargates: Devices in a network system. They are used for travel to faraway distances including instantaneous travel between galaxies. There are planet-based Stargates (used for personal travel to other solar systems and galaxies) and enormous space-based versions (used for starships to travel through).
- Starcracker technology: This is the Shi'ar ultimate weapon. The Starcracker causes stars to go supernova.
According to a statement by Emma Frost in The Astonishing X-Men #9, most if not all Shi'ar technology is sentient.
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