Energy Shields

Energy Shields

            Shields work on the principle of creating an envelope of charged plasma contained within an Electro-Magnetic Field surrounding the body to repel/disipate certain types of attacks. Shields can only withstand a certain amount of damage before collapsing. Shields recharge a point of shield rating after a certain period of time.

Most military and law enforcement armors have an intergrated shield system.

Shields subtract a certain amount of damage from energy and ballistic attacks melee  and thrown attacks are not impeded by the plasma field. Every time the shield intercepts an attack the penalty to damage goes down by one. For example a Heavy Combat Hard-Suit has a shield rating of 6, this means that the first time the armor is struck shield would -6 from the damage dealt, any hits after that the amount subtracted would be one less until the shield collapses. (-5, -4 and so on)

Example Shields

Shirow-Tech Personal Defense Shield

Cost: 1500 cr

Shield Rating: 2

Recharge Rate: 3 rounds

Another innovation from Shirow Technologies the PDS is an affordable and reliable personal shield, and is popular in the civilian and private security sectors. Designed to worn with cloths and light armor

ST Cloaking Shield

Cost: Military

SR: 2

Recharge: 4

The product of the Colonial Security Services R&D, the Cloaking Shield overcomes the interference problem of using a cloaking field in conjunction with a PDS. This was attained by modulating the frequency of the charged plasma. The Cloaking Shield provides the protection of a standard PDS but partially bends light around the user, the stealth function is not separate from the Shield protection. Designed to worn with clothing or light armor

Notes:

While the shield is active you gain a +4 to stealth rolls.

Light Combat Hard-Suit

Cost: 2000

AR: +4

SR: 2

Recharge: 3

A staple among military, and security, the LCHS is a reliable armor designed to handle numerous types of hazards from environmental to weapon based. The LCHS integrates a mesh of Tungsten Alloy Superconducting Matrix into the underlayer of the armor generating a low level shield..

Notes:

+2 vs Environmental Hazards