Kyyrk
Vylmira's Wrath
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To sub a new component for the Resolve Super Star Destroyer
- Image Source: X
- Canon Link: Particle Shield
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Vylmiran Technological Industries
- Affiliation: Confederacy of Independent Systems
- Model: Guillotine Shield
- Modularity: No
Production: Unique
- Material: Shield Generator Components
- Kinetic Shield Projector
- Magnetic Field Induction Emitters
- Kinetic Shields: The Shield passively provides stellar defense against Kinetic weaponry.
- Magnetic Field: The Guillotine Shield earned its name by use of the Magnetic Field. The module sends two opposing polarity magnetic waves through the field, drawn to the hulls of other ships in contact with the kinetic field, and effectively squeezing the shield closed around the ship, which can potentially expel the ship from the shield bubble, or slice the ship in two, provided it is small enough.
- EMP: While not designed for such, the Magnetic fields are fully capable of inducing an EMP field against insufficiently shielded ships.
- Active Threat: The Magnetic Field is not a passive effect, and must be activated to function. Additionally, this requires a large power draw.
- Magnetic Fields: While the ship is properly insulated against the Magnetic effect, damage to the other components can and will compromise this shielding, potentially resulting in catastrophic failures across the ship if this module is activated when the ship has sustained heavy damage
- Kinetic Shields: While the shield offers stellar kinetic defenses, it does little against ramming attacks, or energy based weaponry.
After the Battle of Tanaab, and an attempt to cause an extinction level event on the planet below by ramming destroyers into an object ten killometers long and drive it into the surface, Voph found it prudent to invest in technology allowing him to better combat such assaults in the future. Consulting with the technicians at his disposal, and his long time friend and ally John Locke, Voph began work on the Guillotine Shield.
Embracing Voph's ideologies that the best defense is a good offence, the shield doubles as a weapon, where magnetic fields are injected into the Shield Bubble, moving towards the hulls of other ships straddling the bubble, and attempting to pull the shield closed. While smaller models of ships such as corvettes have shown this technology is fully capable of slicing through smaller vessels. Larger models such as Star Destroyers and Battleships will typically be repelled from the shield's sphere of influence, if any effect is had at all, rather than succumb to destruction at the hands of the magnetic field.
The module requires a considerable amount of energy to function, and runs the risk of EMPing the ship it is mounted on should the internal shielding become damaged enough. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. War is now upon the Confederacy, and Voph aims to win it by whatever means necessary...
