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."

Long version

This problem first presented itself during World War I, when dutch aircraft designer Anton D. Fokker devised an interruptor that allowed bullets to be fired through the open spaces between propeller blades.

In modern, space-faring times, control of a volume of warped space depends on more complex mechanisms. There are two basic methods for allowing fire-through:

• You see, your adversary doesn't: Vectored Spatial Distortion. Basically, the projected field of a shield can be assembled as a 'one-way door', allowing selective passage of energy/matter depending on their vector.
• Timed creation of 'holes': Shields are very complex to produce and cannot be controlled manually, requiring vast computational power to coax the emitters into assembling volumetric fields. Using additional algorithms, the field can be shaped to not to compress/expand space in the trajectory of the energy, projectile or missile.

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