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HESS
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a utilitarian shield system for future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: Visanj T’shkali
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Hostile Environmental Shield System (HESS)
Modularity: None
Production: Mass-Produced
Material(s):
- Field emitter components
- Creates a protective bubble around a starship (or other vehicle, person/group of persons, small buildings, etc.) which blocks harmful radiation, moisture, contagions/toxins, dust and debris, and simultaneously permits a comfortable environment and breathable air pocket inside. Useful for emergency landings/field repairs inside hostile atmospheres and environs.
- Low power use places minimal demands on power supplies and can be powered by portable generators.
- Can be installed on starships and vehicles.
- Creates a safe, breathable, and comfortable environment inside a maximum 200m bubble, enabling individuals to survive, work, and operate inside of hostile environments by blocking toxins/contagions, blowing dust/debris/sand, harmful radiation (including heat/cold), and even torrential precipitation such as rain, hail, snow, and sleet, without requiring excessive personal protective equipment.
- Not suitable as a combat shield, owing to its low-power effects. If struck by powerful direct weapons fire or intensive barrages of less-powerful weapons, the shield will quickly become overpowered and place that which is inside of it at great risk and vulnerability.
- Maximum enclosure space does not exceed a 200m diameter bubble when at maximum strength, and therefore cannot be used to house larger ships, buildings, or entire settlements.
Ever find yourself making an emergency landing on an unfamiliar world, surrounded by dust storms or torrential downpours, excessive heat, toxic environments, swarms of insects, or other serious threats? Have you ever had to go outside to make repairs or complete your mission and just the thought of putting on all that gear made a bad situation worse? What about finding whatever tasks you needed to do made so much harder because you had to contend with the elements and conditions all around? Well that is exactly what the HESS was made for!
After an unfortunate landing to make needed repairs where Visanj found herself amid a sandstorm on a small world with a toxic atmosphere and blistering heat, the usefulness of something like the HESS at that moment fueled the creation of this technology. Functioning at once like a combined particle, hydrostatic, atmospheric, radiation, and medical-grade osmotic shield, the HESS generates a 200m-diameter bubble-shaped enclosure which contains a pocket of breathable air and comfortable environment inside.
While able to keep out sandstorms, precipitation, harmful radiation, toxic gases and airborne contagions, and more, the HESS is not able to withstand an actual military assault. Serious weapons fire or sustained barrages by small arms will quickly overpower the shield and force it to recharge before it can be activated again.
