Dark Energy

Dark Energy is a cosmological energy which effects the entire universe, with approximately 68.3% of the entire universe being made up of it, the rest being other components and structuring of the universe.

Weaponry, Engine and Shielding usage
Dark Energy is used most prominently on Aquiritian Starships, Ground Weapons, Vehicles, and Shield Generators in the form of blasts and shields that are entirely made of it. The blasts and energy shields normally tend to have a dark blue color to them. The dark energy is gathered upon by a reactor built into the 4 main usages of it, and casted out in a blast to damage targets, or to wrap around in a bubble-like shape to defend from oncoming attacks as energy shields.

In weaponized forms, if the yield of the attack is strong enough to kill or destroy a target or targets - they will not vaporize, disintegrate, fall down dead, have a blast / burn mark, become decapitated, or anything else - and will simply be gone. This is due to the fact that it will erase the target and remove them from reality if it's actually enough to kill them.

In the use of Engines for starships and vehicles, the dark energy is used to accelerate massively above it's normal speed and go several times faster then light, in a similar effect to how the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to dark energy - but for speed, maneuverability, general movability, and the like. It achieves movement by moving the very Fabric of Reality that surrounds them while simulatenously locking everything else that they touch or are in the vincinity of that'd normally be effected from such event where it should be as to not inflict unwanted damage or displacement. Quintessentially, they move the Universe around the ship as is necessary while keeping all other material the universe is made of where it's rightfully at (regardless of what it is), instead of moving the ship across the universe.

In shield-based usage, it is used to counter attacks (Including Weaponized Dark Energy Blasts) and block off damage. This effect is done by the dark energy shields pinpointing the attack, and teleporting dark energy into it to erase it from reality and may stop damage before it happens, with how effective the shielding is depending on how powerful the attack's yield is, and how powerful the shield is. The stronger the shield's power range is, the more it can withstand attacks. In the case of shield failure, the Dark Energy can warp Time itself inside out in order to bring the shields back, possibly even the entire starship if it's enough to bring it back (assuming the starship was destroyed) - working as a safeguard. However, depending on the power of the attack compared to the shield's capability, a attack might still damage the ship or the shields even if it gets erased by said shields, as a "bleed-through" effect, but fortunately very rarely occurs.

In all the above usages, the reactors simply store the dark energy, and are intended to simply communicate with the dark energy and tell it to what to do, as the dark energy generates itself to manifest into what the usages are.

Types of Dark Energy Attacks
All the Various types of Dark Energy. Shields that are made of Dark Energy are indifferent about the various types of Dark Energy attacks, ignoring the difference of what a Dark Energy attack is made of and continuing to do what has already been described of the Shields, only difference being what happens when the bleed-through effect or other damage occurs.

Fusion-Based
The Fusion Variation of Dark Energy Blasts is a very commonly chosen form of the Attack, chosen for being one of the most powerful and deadly variations to come across, in that they fuse with the surrounding dark energy upon being shot, sucking them in to increase the amount of Dark Energy (depending on the actual amount of Dark Energy plus what was taken), until it eventually hits the Target, wherein it will attempt to also add the shields' dark energy (if the shield is any usage of the technology), while also preforming it's existence erasing abilities on non-dark energy based targets / shields and on dark energy that it cannot take over.

Binding
These are different from Fusion-Based Dark Energy blasts in that they, instead of basically eating up all the dark energy, actually cut through all other dark energy until it reaches the target, wherein it will bind itself and merge with the target, trapping them in place to the point only their mind can do anything (if they have so), and when they are connected throwing out the parts of the universe that they are made up of, afterwards the target being removed from this reality. In the case of conflict between a fusion-based attack and a binding attack, it will depend on the actual power and strength of the beams themselves and how long they hold before dissipating, aswell as how much the binding attack can cut through the fusion-based attack and how much of the Dark Energy the fusion-based attack can take from the binding attack, ultimately deciding the victor of such a Beam Struggle.

Interestingly, these kind of weaponry are more common on smaller starcraft.