Terminology:Shields

Terminology

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Shields

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FIXME WRITEME (general description)

Technology

Combining heavy local space warping via gravitic effects with magnetic deflection for lighter charged particles, a vessel is protected from external sources of injury by what are colloquially known as "shields"

Firing through

You may now ask

"If the shield protects me from external damage, how can i still fire through it?"

Short version

"You know how space has been locally warped - an adversary will not.
You can time the creation of holes and thin points in your own shields."

Available shield systems

The systems below are build in the ship when it's procuded, so changing between them isn't an option.

Note that the 'sphere' mentioned here sometimes is not really a sphere in the existing shield systems. It's just the common term to describe the shield-bubble build up by the shield emitters.
In real life the manufacurers try to make the shields form-fitting with the ships hull.

Standard double shields

Double- or 2 Emitter-shields

This shield system uses only two shield emitters to build up the shild. This is a necessity because of the huge space required for the emitters and therefore this system is perfect for smaller ships.
They normally are located at the front and the back of the ship. They each cover up one half (front/back) of the shield-'sphere'.

Standard quad shields

Quad- or 4 Emitter-shields

Bigger ships have more space available and therefore they can have the quad shild system build in. They normally are located on the left,right front and back of the ship.
They each cover up approximately a quarter of the shield-'sphere' around the ship.

See also

• forum post by Silverain