Long ago, well before any Arek among the living were born, The Old Harmony, the Arek did many many things differently before the Aldokk arrived on the galaxy, especially involving warfare. The Era before the Twilight War is indeed the era when Arek armies went to war using tools so powerful that they often took decades to produce and master. The Aru'Shni fought with swords, shields, bows and arrows, and other weapons that were more antiquated in design than those of their neighbors. Despite their equipment's potency however, the Arek initially fell short in certain fighting matters, sometimes monumentally. In order to maintain a military edge, the Arek craftsmen and scientists realized that the mechanical aspects of warfare simply couldn't be ignored, in particular their flying machines. The Arek perfected the construction and operation of great warships whose might would remain uneclipsed until the early days of the Twilight War, but before even the first prototypes of great warships were imagined, like all other races, when they began to enter aviation, the Arek started small.