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Paragon-class Personal Energy Shield
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Intent: To create a new type of personal shielding for military use
Development Thread:
Model: Mk1
Affiliation: ArmaTech Combat Systems
Modularity: Limited
Production: Minor
Material: Personal Energy Shield Components, Power Cell
Special Features:
The Paragon-class Personal Energy Shield is exactly what its name implies, the paragon of personal shielding. Utilizing powerful Molecular shields combined with Particle Shielding, the Paragon-class provides unrivaled protection against energy weapons of all types, and it is capable of siphoning off that power into attached weapon systems or battery packs, recharging them or allowing them to be fired with additional power. The Particle shield simply rounds the systems basis, providing equal protection from solid projectiles without the ability to siphon energy. Such a combination provides the wearer with a highly defensive protection, capable of surviving powerful energy blasts and providing a way to increase the wearer’s own damage output. Each type of shield is roughly as resilient as the Military Mobility Shield, able to survive a great number of heavy blaster bolts or slugs or prolonged contact with a lightsaber, which rapidly reduces the shield in seconds. Like the Icon-class the Paragon-class can be used in three different modes, powering both shields simultaneously, or doubling the effectiveness of one shield and making the other inactive at the user’s discretion.
The potential of the Paragon-class provides elite soldiers and officers unparalleled defense in the field, turning their opponents own weapons against them by siphoning the energy from their strikes into weapon output. This comes with the added drawback of increasing the chance of the weapon overheating, and shouldn’t be overcharged too drastically. Weapons of higher quality have a lower risk of overheating than lower quality weapons, often meaning common stock weapons overheat very easily when attempting to boost their power output. Safe levels are about a twenty five percent increase in damage output, anything more is risky, and one hundred percent increase would almost guarantee a serious malfunction. Another weakness is that the shield, while able to recharge attached powercells, cannot recharge itself in this way. Finally the Molecular shield must have somewhere to store the incoming energy and disperse it or it will critically overload. Overload can occur after sustained fire if the wearer runs out of weapons or powercells to charge. The risk of critical failure increases the longer the shield is unable to siphon the energy off while under sustained fire. A critical overload will destroy the system and may cause serious injury to the user.
Image: Here
Image Source: Here
Intent: To create a new type of personal shielding for military use
Development Thread:
- http://starwarsrp.net/topic/58661-defense-and-offense-open-to-republic-only/
- http://starwarsrp.net/topic/61868-more-than-matter/
Model: Mk1
Affiliation: ArmaTech Combat Systems
Modularity: Limited
Production: Minor
Material: Personal Energy Shield Components, Power Cell
Special Features:
- Molecular Shield: Blocks Energy Projectiles, siphons power into attached weapon or battery pack
- Particle Shield: Blocks Solid Projectiles
- Three modes: Both, Molecular, or Particle (The latter two doubling the effectiveness of the active one, removing the inactive one completely)
The Paragon-class Personal Energy Shield is exactly what its name implies, the paragon of personal shielding. Utilizing powerful Molecular shields combined with Particle Shielding, the Paragon-class provides unrivaled protection against energy weapons of all types, and it is capable of siphoning off that power into attached weapon systems or battery packs, recharging them or allowing them to be fired with additional power. The Particle shield simply rounds the systems basis, providing equal protection from solid projectiles without the ability to siphon energy. Such a combination provides the wearer with a highly defensive protection, capable of surviving powerful energy blasts and providing a way to increase the wearer’s own damage output. Each type of shield is roughly as resilient as the Military Mobility Shield, able to survive a great number of heavy blaster bolts or slugs or prolonged contact with a lightsaber, which rapidly reduces the shield in seconds. Like the Icon-class the Paragon-class can be used in three different modes, powering both shields simultaneously, or doubling the effectiveness of one shield and making the other inactive at the user’s discretion.
The potential of the Paragon-class provides elite soldiers and officers unparalleled defense in the field, turning their opponents own weapons against them by siphoning the energy from their strikes into weapon output. This comes with the added drawback of increasing the chance of the weapon overheating, and shouldn’t be overcharged too drastically. Weapons of higher quality have a lower risk of overheating than lower quality weapons, often meaning common stock weapons overheat very easily when attempting to boost their power output. Safe levels are about a twenty five percent increase in damage output, anything more is risky, and one hundred percent increase would almost guarantee a serious malfunction. Another weakness is that the shield, while able to recharge attached powercells, cannot recharge itself in this way. Finally the Molecular shield must have somewhere to store the incoming energy and disperse it or it will critically overload. Overload can occur after sustained fire if the wearer runs out of weapons or powercells to charge. The risk of critical failure increases the longer the shield is unable to siphon the energy off while under sustained fire. A critical overload will destroy the system and may cause serious injury to the user.
