Fear is the Mind Killer
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION:
- Intent:
- To create a new type of shielding for the purpose of other apps.
- Image Source:
- Canon Link:
- N/A
- Permissions:
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer:
- Affiliation:
- Market Status:
- Closed Market
- Model:
- House Aquila Reactive Counter-force Hybrid Shield Emitter
- Modularity:
- Can be Calibrated to favor Ray or Particle Shielding.
- Production:
- Minor
- Material:
- Shield Generator Components:
- Phrik - B Plating
- Ionite-A Insulation
- Charric Technology
- Electronics
- Hybrid Shielding:
The shield technology widely implemented by house Aquila uses both Ray Shield and Particle Shield components to provide maximum effectiveness to those who use it. - Impact Pulse:
Reactive armour plating by its nature, when impacted detonates a charge to counter the resonant force of an impact, protecting the surrounding material at the cost of itself. This shield uses a layered mesh of smaller, unstable shields which let out a mono-directional explosion of energy when impacted. Allowing them to protect against much larger impacts than some other shields. - Overload Safe:
The integrated high quality materials ensure that while an Ion Blast or intense damage would certainly break the shielding of these shield, but seldom will they overload the circuits due to their insulation and high quality surge protectors. - Regenerating:
All Aquilan Reactive shields regenerate at an alarmingly quick rate compared to other shields, as they do not require maximum efficiency to create each possible layer. - Versatile Implementation:
House Aquilas shields are versatile enough to be implemented in personal shield technologies as well as vehicles and even capitol class ships. - Diagnostic Array:
Unless removed, all Aquilan Reactive Shield units are able to connect to most standard Heads up Displays integrated into armour or into the displays of most ships terminals. Diagnostic Some of the subjects of the array include; structural integrity, energy bleed, how many shield layers are active / in reserve and predictive rate of loss of shield layers.
- Reactive Energy Shield:
This shield, rather than diffusing the damage from an attack across a wide surface, instead presents a false surface for an object to hit. The unique hexagonal lattice of the shield consists of many tightly packed overlapping sheets of stored energy held together via an energy field. When a projectile or object hits one of the shield's plates at sufficient velocity the unstable energy goes critical, exploding away from the flat plate behind it and instead towards the direction of the attack that impacted it. This allows the shield to take blows from significantly stronger sources than standard energy shields. It's made to take Singular, big hits. - Fore Diverting:
The explosive pulse of the reactive shielding diverts excessive force around the user rather than soaking it into the shield, meaning that its incredibly effective at preventing damage from the likes of explosives which could normally wrap around a held shield. - Rapid Shield Regrowth:
Reactive shielding can only create so many layers at once in order to be practical, so, when a layer is lost, the system attempts to regenerate another layer behind all current active layers to reinforce itself. This rate differs from unit to unit based on quality, size etc. But rather than being knocked out and going down requiring reboot or repair, the shield is built to accept that its layers will be destroyed and simply replaces them with more as quickly as it can until its power pack runs out. - Overload Insulated:
Ionite-A reinforcing the system against Ion and EMP based attacks, as well as high quality resistors and circuit breakers in place, the shield system is relatively safe from having its systems overloaded. In fact, it is made with that in mind as the shield 'wants' the layers of its shield to be expended under stress rather than struggling to maintain them, putting much less pressure on the system per impact. - Hybrid:
Whether the incoming source of damage is kinetic or energy based, the repulse of the shield is calibrated with both kinetic and wave motions in mind allowing it to repel both, although the shield can be calibrated to favor even exclusively one or the other if required.
- Death by 1000 Cuts:
Aquilan Reactive shielding is best used as a defense against artillery, heavy weapons, explosions and other singular massive impacts, and is incredibly effective at doing so. However, rapid fire weapons although it may take more than one shot to hammer through a layer, are incredibly effective at hewing through multiple layers of shield at a time potentially leaving the user defenseless. - Grand Finale:
The final layer in any reactive shield generator of this kind, due to the nature of their formation does not have a bracing layer behind it to support a unidirectional detonation of force in the return of the direction of the attack that triggered it. Instead, the concussive force is omnidirectional, potentially knocking into the user also. - Power Supply:
These shields are in fact power intensive, though each individual layer is far less power intensive than a whole standard shield unit, and maintaining them against assault is less draining, as it has to create them frequently, they can eat massive amounts of power if under constant use leaving the power cell dry, and the shield inoperable.
The Quartermasters were inspired with the shielding that was created by groups such as Locke and Key as well as Freebird industries, having gotten a hold of their technologies individually at one point or another, they compared their shielding technology to the reactive armour plating they were in the process of designing for their star-ships and ballistic plating. However, after analyzing the wavelengths of shield technology, they discovered that with the creation of a charric technology, an energy field by using alternate EM wave frequencies for its energy to afford it a physical component which most Ray shields would not attain on their own.
Development of this shield technology scrapped House Aquilas armour project in favor of these powerful regenerating shields, pouring money into their research and development with Felix working hand in hand with the R&D team personally to ensure that their creation went smoothly, also with his unique insight into the workings of the UV radiation spectrum, he was able to give some insight to the scientists about alternate outside the box applications to how the emitters could bend their constructs.
Testing was exceedingly difficult, and damaging... Attaining the perfect ratio of power to effectiveness to destructive force was not an easy one, several researchers were harmed by the initial detonations of the unstable energy constructs before more stringent safety precautions were put in place, costing House Aquila a fortune, and forcing them to run their company at cost for some time due to setbacks.
After 3 years of round the clock development with some of the most skilled engineers and photo-physicists in the galaxy, they were finally successful in creating their first wearable prototype, the T-22 Thunderbird Talon Personal Shield System. The work then became reverse engineering it, making it simpler, smaller safer and more available to the market until eventually the Aquilan Patented Reactive Shielding technology hit the market, making quite a splash. Though far less capable at protecting a structure over a short engagement, it outshone the competition when it came to dealing with singular massive impacts like that from capitol class weapons and projectile explosives.
To date, this system is one of the shining glories of the Quatermasters' guild... and rightfully so.
Development of this shield technology scrapped House Aquilas armour project in favor of these powerful regenerating shields, pouring money into their research and development with Felix working hand in hand with the R&D team personally to ensure that their creation went smoothly, also with his unique insight into the workings of the UV radiation spectrum, he was able to give some insight to the scientists about alternate outside the box applications to how the emitters could bend their constructs.
Testing was exceedingly difficult, and damaging... Attaining the perfect ratio of power to effectiveness to destructive force was not an easy one, several researchers were harmed by the initial detonations of the unstable energy constructs before more stringent safety precautions were put in place, costing House Aquila a fortune, and forcing them to run their company at cost for some time due to setbacks.
After 3 years of round the clock development with some of the most skilled engineers and photo-physicists in the galaxy, they were finally successful in creating their first wearable prototype, the T-22 Thunderbird Talon Personal Shield System. The work then became reverse engineering it, making it simpler, smaller safer and more available to the market until eventually the Aquilan Patented Reactive Shielding technology hit the market, making quite a splash. Though far less capable at protecting a structure over a short engagement, it outshone the competition when it came to dealing with singular massive impacts like that from capitol class weapons and projectile explosives.
To date, this system is one of the shining glories of the Quatermasters' guild... and rightfully so.
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