it's a hriss. it's pretty much an upgraded version of the jalthi, which came up in one of the secret missions.
as for the firing effects, we will have beam weapons. most notably the lasers, but also the kilrathis proton accelerator and possibly the tachyon cannon(tachyons fly AT LEAST the speed of light, after all)
mass drivers, neutrons, mesons and plasmas etc use bolts.