The Dead God
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To expand on Jaeger Solutions numerous designs, and expand into the starship market more wholeheartedly.
- Image Source: Apes and Angels (OG Post could not be found, but source material is listed.)
- Canon Link: N/A
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: Force-Dome │ Molecular Shielding │ Delphus.2 Class Shield
- Manufacturer: Jaeger Solutions
- Model: SG-1113 "The Aegis" Class Shield Generator
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Modularity: Can be downscaled, or upscaled, to fit ships from 10km to 100m, but smaller require seperate shielding types.
Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Quadanium Plating w/ Reactive Durasteel Plates │ Shield Generator Components │ Synthetic Crystalline Structures │ Dallorian Alloy Cooling Pipes │ Military Grade Capacitor Banks
- Armored Shield Generators
- Military Grade Protection
Deflector Shields - Atmospheric-Friction Shield
- Ion Shield
- Particle Shield
- Molecular Shielding Overlay (54.67% Efficiency)
- Feedback Shield (39.66% Efficiency)
- Double Front Capacity (Dynamic Shielding)
[*]Gap-Compensators (Micropoles)
[*]Gap-Enablers
[*]Redundant Capacitor Banks
Strengths:
- Full Fortress -
"The Aegis", a product meant to save lives rather than take them. In this it does its job well, with a very exceptional ability to resist projectile weapons with ease, and a number of back up systems to prove more than adequate protection from more energy based assaults. With the ability to shrug most damage for the sake of the hull it protects, this is a go to choice for ship producers of the modern era and more.
[*]Many Layers -
- Just as many modern shields, technology was taken from historic accounts of Molecular Shielding use by forces such as those used by the X-1 Viper Droids. More importantly, Jaeger has made an overlaying energy exclusive barrier to intelligently resist more energetic particles while kinetic pass through to the shielding more orientated for that defensive measure. Overall, this allows a very high efficiency rate of the shields to send power back to the ships systems; however this is where the system finds a major difference. While most molecular shielding would choose to send cannons and more into overdrive, "The Aegis" looks to send it back into a series of capacitor banks fully capable of holding the charge, only sending the excess to the next row when completely done. This allows for a series of backups should the original fall, and although this isn't at all a perfect system, it allows many ships to produce 'Zombie Shields', or shields that seem to come back time and time again.
[*]Thread The Needle -
- Unlike most modern shields, "The Aegis" requires potent computer systems to constantly calculate the range, speed, and velocity of rounds coming towards it. This means both inside and outside, but this highly advanced system works two fold; to not only reduce power to exterior shields that would otherwise be useless against a certain barrage, but to also allow small openings for firing back. This is a result of polar toggle micropoles, something Jaeger threw into the shields designs for the exclusive purpose of keeping shields up, while weapons continued their barrage.
[*]Stop Hitting Yourself -
- Another design added to the shield was the inclusion of a 'Feedback' layer, or often called by the troops as 'The Retribution Layer'; something originally designed by the Mandalorian Clan Deshra almost a century before the Galactic War. Although very weak in itself, the shield helps to absorb incoming enemy fire that is not taken in by the molecular shielding on the outside, and send back basic energy charges capable of harming whatever ship was to fire on it in the first place. This helps to ensure a strong defense, but one that must absorb most of the damage to actively respond to it, quickly forcing the shield to go down while active.
Weaknesses:
- Ion... Why is it always Ion... -
While the shield boasts a powerful setup against most weapons, where it suffers is the conventional use of ion cannons. Perhaps some of the energy could be put back into the vessel itself for power the shields, but at the end of the day the one place that Jaeger skimped slightly, was in its ion defenses. Even the feedback layer is useless against such charges, even forcing a temporary stutter in the localized generators area that stops all responses from being made through the automated system.
[*]Overcharge -
- A pretty common issue amongst any molecular shielding set up is the fact that quick bursts of massive energy aborsbed into the shield before it can shut off could easily cause the military grade capacitor banks stored throughout a vessel to rupture and burst. This includes the use of proton beam cannons of massive scale, fleet grade assaults, and more; and while having backups enable within a ship send the overcharge to other pieces of the vessel are certainly possible, this will not stop wires from frying, and more. No matter the case, the shield and much of its components will suffer should it face a very serious assault at once.
[*]Who designed this? -
- The overtly complex nature of the design, from its numerous capacitor banks to its crystalline nexus structure, create for a system that isn't exactly technician friendly. That is to say, once something is burst, popped, decimated, or broken there is very little hope in fixing the resulting damage without a full shipyard and Jaeger approved technicians at your disposal. The technical know-how of the shield generator reserves its repairs to the renown and geniuses of the trade, not your average military grade engineer.
DESCRIPTION
--OVERVIEW--
It seemed to be only a matter of time before Jaeger turned away from its outsourcing of shields from companies like Mon Calamari Shipyards, and to more in house designs they personally had a stake in. This is to say, "The Aegis" is the first and best result they were able to come up with, after months and months of research and development, and numerous backroom deals for the best designs they could find; this was the end result. A shield meant for the Jaeger fleets that would soon swarm warzones across the galaxy, and with nothing but beauty and carnage left behind their wake.
Even if that didn't come true, at the very least the shields would serve extremely well in stopping their people from dying. Maybe even kill some of the enemy, while growing the pockets of numerous Jaeger Executives.
--DESIGN--
Given the designation of 'SG-1113' in all official reports, the so called "Aegis" Shield generator is more so a full system than just a singular generator. It is a very intracate set up, with various facilities and components all dedicated to maintaining the entire system from head to toe; and more importantly the ship beneath it. This protection exists in numerous levels, but the physical aspects are perhaps the most important to begin, starting with the shield array itself.
Each shield generator has a 100 meter radius with micropoles and compensators dotting every shield gap at fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred meters from the home generator. This allows each to send out a full encompassing shield despite a seemingly lack of range in individual nature; but that isn't where the focus of the design was. Infact, the actual design was more focused on housing numerous projector arrays in a single quadanium lined plate, starting with the outermost layer first and foremost.
On the outside, Molecular Shielding finds a quiet existence, unless energy weapons decide to meet its embrace. As all molecular shields, this outermost layer is capable of not only negating the energy taken in, but converting it to power for the rest of the vessel; essentially allowing an overclock of numerous systems and more. This however can come with a downside of overcharge, which can certainly happen should the shield take more than a few exajoules of energy at any given point. This 'overcharge' will result in a number of systems down the line being destroyed, even bringing down the entire shield through no action of their own. This does have a compensation method of a toggled kill switch, effectively allowing gaps of extreme enemy fire to pass through this would-be defensive perimeter with no resistance for the sake of saving the vessel down the road.
Most of the extra converted energy is rerouted to a series of capacitor banks made exclusively to discharge should the shields be overwhelmed and fall at any point. This Molecular Shielding to Capacitor bank design is not a new one, but to make each capacitor bank exclusive to the shield generators themselves is; a somewhat oddity considering the usefulness of it. To say this, each time the ship is shot, it actively looks to charge one of the various banks aboard the vessel; and once the relays begin to short out or overheat and the shield begins to falter, a redundant relay and circuity is activated to take the originals place while it recuperates. This drains the banks, but allows more and more defense against standard naval battles. This does have its limits though, as after the limit to each capacitor's relay intake is five, and once the shield goes down for the fifth time there simply isn't enough leftover to keep it going. That is to say, if the shields even collect enough charge to get that far.
Second comes the feedback layer; a thin layer meant to steal what energy it that was not otherwise absorbed by the molecular shielding, and bring push it back outwards. While imposing in theory, the practice of such a device results with a somewhat minimal response, but enough so to at least have some effect on a battlefield. This feedback is a dummy energy charge built up over a the short range result of an in coming blast, effectively bringing it from all parts of the shied's diaphragm to be sent back in the same order. This is an autonomous system, but requires extreme amounts of energy to handle should more than a few shots be coming in at once; and for most vessels it would do them well to shut this off unless under assault by small armed fighters and bombers, rather than other capital ships.
The last combat layer is the 'Force-Dome' Layer; one who's entire focus is on the outlying design of age old practices performed by The Galactic Republic. Effectively downsizing their original designs, each shield generator is capable of providing a eighty-eight meter hemisphere of protective energy. Its size is dependent on the amount of modulated power coming in, along with crystals used, but for the most part it is restricted internally to not overload the crystal settings inside. To overwrite this, and bring the shields to far larger areas would not only lessen their density (and therefor protection) but also overexert the crystal network inside; forcing each to explode from the exertion. This layer is mostly focused on projectile weapons the likes of which are seen in conventional battlefields, hyper velocity cannons and the like, whirl the layers outside of it deal with more energy based assaults.
Past this, the layers are less combative and more utility based. Designs found on nigh every shield; things like fine-comb deflector/particle shields, ray shields, ion shields, and more. All dedicated to conventional protection outside the use of Jaeger's cruel imaginations and more. Effectively, past the combat layers there is no serious defense to be mustered aboard the shield; and unless the capacitor systems engage there would be little hope of stopping continuous fire.
--SUMMARY--
Suffice to say, each 'Aegis' is designed to protect and respond to threats as any soldier; only in a highly automated shield that attacks for you. This is a design meant for capital grade vessels worthy of Jaeger's name, and it shall never be put on anything less. That is the way Jaeger does business, and that is the way Jaeger does war.
