[@Sophrus] I was just thinking in my head: "How does an energy shield and an antimatter particle blaster relate to each other in a technological advancement way". In the end I have no answer, but if I had to decide between energy shields being more advanced or antimatter explosives, then I would say antimatter. Which is funny because I tried to set the tech level to a very basic space tech, so no shields and tachyon beam weapons. 

Now, antimatter would be hard to get in any way. Antimatter, in its core, is not only nothing, but in fact the opposite of existing matter, even thought it is still a visible and experiancable object. I don't think more needs to be said why it would be hard to make. Anyways, I rarely use antimatter, and EVE has plenty of shields, so lets abandon this concept. On the other hand I know just the wepaon which is readely avaible, incredibly destructive, and has pretty much the same effect. Meet le "neutronium rail accelerator". You should thank [@NecroKnight] for this, cause without him I would never even have thought this as a legit practice to be used in a space RP. Its basically a substance amde entirely of neutrons, and it would EXPLOSIVE. It is literally a nuke compressed into the space of a sand grain. It's not some fancy thing like antimatter, but I can imagine that this is MUCH easier to make than antimatter on a large scale. And it is an excellent kamikaze weapon if you have a shitton of them.

Alternatively, you could write ma a paragraph or two about how your species extracts antimatter, but I don't think would be an easy feat. So even if its just the name, for the sake of potential uses, I would prefer if you used neutronium as an explosive warhead.

[@Ozerath] I figured that shields would be a biggie for your race especially. I remember your post about your general looking out the flagship's bridge and seeing the massive flak fire bounce off the shields. But please make due with alternate ways to tackle this problem for now. (Or you could always ask the Mekhar Independance for their shield tecs, but I doubt that would work out too well.)

And yes, absolutely. Psionics will be something the Empire utilizes as well, so feel free to incorporate that into your design.