IMPERIAL PRAETORIAN SHIELD
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Creating an advanced combat shield for the First Order.
- Image Source: Here, recolored by me.
- Canon Link: Blast Shield
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Blast Shield, Knights of Zakuul
- Manufacturer: The First Order
- Affiliation: The First Order
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: Imperial Praetorian Shield
- Modularity: No
- Production: Minor
- Material: Matrix Armor, Phrik, Deflector Components
- Classification: Multipurpose
- Weight: Average
- Resistances:
- Energy: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Lightsabers: High
- Environmental: Average
- Sonic: Very Low
- Ion/EMP: Very Low
- Force: Average (None)
- Corrosive: Very Low
- Disruptor: High
- Deflector-Shield Generator
- Simple Design
- Very Good Protection against common Damage
- High resistance to lightsabers
- Big Shield
- Only covers and protects what is covered
With strong inspiration taken from the ancient Eternal Empire and its Knights of Zakuul, the First Order's Central Command issued the demand for combat shields for its Praetorian Units. A voluntary addition to their equipment but an addition nontheless, the shields became quite an asset especially in open battles where there is little cover and allowed both for Praetorian Guards as well as Knights to support their troops by advancing alongside them and offering support from within mobile cover.