Defender Ion Shields
Ion shields are standard ray shields reconfigured to stop ion cannons. Unfortunatelt this makes them useless against laser cannons, turbolasers or any particle weapon.The research and developement section of the military base on Farquak Junior decided to reduce the effectiveness of ion cannons. They developed an ion shield that projects outside of the normal ray shields. This can be used in conjunction with normal ray shields and particle shields. To prevent massive power failures, or the reactor going critical, the ion shield is only half the strength of the ships normal ray shield. Galactic Coalition High Command approved the tech, and started building new ships with ion shields and started to add onto the old ships.
NOTE: This is canon, but in canon it takes hours to reconfigure your normal ray shields. Since most ships only have one ray shield generating array, you couldn't have normal and ion ray shields at one time.
Limitations:
Only ships over 100m gets the Defender Ion Shields.
It is equivelent of half of the power of the shi[s normal ray shields.
5 extra days R&D time.
All new ships come with it, the 5 extra day R&D time upgrades the old ships.
R&D Time:
20 days(under 400m)
5 Days to upgrade old ships
Total: 25 Days
Comments
#19 12:57am 07/02/04
APPROVED
#18 12:06am 07/02/04
All right then. Once you have rules on how to upgrade ships, please inform me.
And can you add your approval?
#17 6:11pm 06/02/04
yes
#16 1:20am 06/02/04
Since Gue mentioned not being able to upgrade all ships, but approved it, I assume after the 20 day R&D time, all ships started after that date get the ion shields, but not previously built ships?
#15 7:11pm 05/02/04
That looks alright to me.
blasted ezboard, just logged me out.
#14 1:48am 05/02/04
Fine, I'll change it to just percentages, but I want the 15% ray shield and 35% particle shield ratio to stay.
So Revised:
The Ion Shields are half as powerful as a ships normal shields. Unfortunately this causes the ship's ray shields to drop by 15% and the particle shieleds drop by 35%.
#13 6:59pm 04/02/04
Jan, I believe simply a hard percentage will do. The stronger you want these ION shields to be the more the other shields will suffer. Example:
A 3000-meter ship, with shield strength of 9000 SBD and 9000 RU receives this upgrade. 20% shield energy is routed to these shields.
20% of 9000 is 1800. The ION shields get 3600 RU while the Particle and Ray shields loose 1800 each. The totals are:
Ray: 8200
Particle: 8200
ION: 3200
#12 11:20am 04/02/04
And for fighters without washrooms...
#11 7:36am 04/02/04
and ships without fighters...
#10 4:29am 04/02/04
And for fighters, and ships under a hundred meters?
#9 4:06am 04/02/04
Bump. And to Heir's comment, yes I realize that. This was designed to only be used against ion shields.
#8 4:34am 31/01/04
Ships from 100m-1000m lose 6 fighters
Ships from 1001m-2000m lose 12 fighters
Ships from 2001m-3000m lose 18 fighters
Ships from 3001m-4000m lose 24 fighters
Ships from 4001m-5000m lose 30 fighters
Ships from 5001m-6000m lose 36 fighters
Ships from 6001m-7000m lose 42 fighters
Ships from 7001m-8000m lose 48 fighters
Sovereign and Eclipse Star Destroyers lose 144 fighters
Death Stars lose 600 fighters
Ships with not enough fighters lose no fighters, but lose 35% of their particle shields, and 15% of their normal ray shields.
#7 1:11am 30/01/04
You're adding a separate additional shield system here, there's got to be some sort of power loss somewhere for that. That's a whole new set of generators, power generators, projectors, etc.
#6 11:47pm 29/01/04
Take out the part about upgrading all old ships for now, as its under discussion right now.
But APPROVED
As long as you realize that it will only effect Ion type weapons...
#5 7:09pm 29/01/04
Page 84 of the Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology.
Section: Ion Cannons, 3rd Paragraph
Quote:
Since ion blast are unimpaired by energy shields, ships have no defense against them short of reconfiguring their shuekds-and this would make the shields useless for absorbing standard laser blasts.
End Quote.
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