Observer R&D 4: Shield/ Aquatic module
Model: Observer sheild and aquatic modualType: External Gungan type energy field generator
Scale: star fighter
Length: 13 meters (Extends to 14 meters)
Shield: 150 SBD (Energy) 10 SBD (Solid/ Torps)
Hull: 18 RU
Components: 2 gungan energy dischargers (One on each side of the cockpit)
1 Gungan energy syphone (At the nose of the ship)
4 under water ballast with stored oxygen.
Weapons: 2 under water perpeller powered torpedos.
There is a 25% Speed reduction with the use of the shield.
Normal: 110 MGLT
adjustment with Module:
In space: 88.5 MGLT
In water: 60 MGLT
(The two energy dischargers are 5 meters in length and 5 meters in width Stuck towards the back of the craft near the engines.
The Shield discharger is 5 meters in length and has a width of 4 meters.
That fits the 13 meter length for the module and it makes it pratical to use.)
The Sheild module takes advantage of the Gungan organic shield Technology that can take a significantly larger amount of energy type damage before over-loading. The draw back ot the gungan sheilds is that they do relatively little to stop solid objects from passing through it.
The shield works by firing energy through a syphon that bubbles around the ship. The electro static field would seem to have an fatal flaw in the fact that it would take far to much power to use pratically on a fighter craft. Well that problem was rather easiely solved. Gungans already use their electro-static field generators on smaller scales for the smaller bubble compartments of Otta gunga. The shield prevents fluid matter from entering the city. Well all that the larger troop shield generator needed to be properally used is a way to maximise the out put. By useing two sepparate energy dischargers the shield can be created by combining the energys from the two generators to reach the proper output to generate the force field.
In order to use the shield with out larger energy drawbacks that would be too much more then a conventional fighter shielding there was a limit put on how much out put the shield can maintain. With the amount that it is alotted the gungan shield can only stop energy weapons but not concusive energies or torpedos. The field is strong enough to withstand fluid matter giving the shield generator a duel purpose.
Because of the nature of the shield that was developed originally to regulate under water pressure. The shield can be used for the secondary purpose of turning the Aethersprite-7 into a submersable craft. The shield regulating pressure so that the fighter can travel in the air or in the sea.
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Notes:
The Official Info from the Starwars data bank stats as follows.
"For defensive purposes, the Gungans have adapted their hydrostatic bubble technology to form hand-held personal shields. These ovoid frames project a defensive screen of shield energy capable of deflecting blaster bolts back at the firer."
www.starwars.com/databank...nweaponry/
The Technology is used in all of their tech such as: The Shields of their under water cities, Their underwater vehicles, and lastly in their weaponry.
Bongo information:
www.rpg-domain.de/TPM/page19.html
Detailed shield information:
www.rpg-domain.de/TPM/page20.html
Gungan shields can be adapted for smaller uses becuase of the following:
" The Gungans cut down on the amount of power needed for effective shielding by limiting the shield's penetration threshhold to a level that stops coherent energy (such as blaster bolts or energy-sheathed projectiles), but not solid matter; or, in the case of Otoh Gunga, the shields will stop fluids from entering, but not solid bodies (one has to wonder why the city isn't full of wayward fish that accidentally swim through, though...perhaps the city's shields will only admit bodies of a mass roughly equivalent to that of the average Gungan). By limiting a shield thusly, its effectiveness is diminished in one way, but since it uses so much less power than normal, its generator can be kept to a manageable size, making it viable for ground combat applications."
By limiting the amount of energy used I can maintain a shield that can stop large amounts of energy and fluid matter like water. But not large amounts of concusive energy or solid matter such as Torpedos.
Comments
#22 2:06pm 29/05/03
He makes a good case...
Besides, wether Gungans are alive or dead, their technology did exist, and would be catolagued...
#21 6:49pm 27/05/03
Also in the computer game 'Star Wars: Episode I: The Gungan Frontier' (which I personally hated I might add) you were in control of a new gungan city that was setting up on one of the moons of Naboo...they were the only inhabitants of the planet although you got to take other creatures from the planet Naboo with you...so it was basically like Naboo without the Humans...
#20 6:36pm 27/05/03
That and the fact that you guys never killed me. I was kidnapped by the Aing-Tii. The gungans lived peacefully with the human Nubians after words so I would not be surprised if in that time of peace that they shared their technology with the Nubians or sold their devices to others in the galaxy at large.
Additional info I cite is that in one of the recent comics. (I forget the issue but it has the clone trooper that was trained by Jango fett in it.) That the gungans colonized one of the nubian moons. All of those gungans were killed but it shows that they founded other settlements then otta gunga.
In episode two the gungans also traveled from Otta gunga more. In the backround, when Anikan and padme are in the city, you would note that there were several Gungans walking around in official looking robes. It appeared to me that some had come to live on the land again just as they had in the past. The only reason that they hid under water was fear of the Nubians. When peace was achieved in Ep. 1 the fear was gone and they became a more open and intergalatic race.
Jar-jar was their representative in the senate. Representation implies that they wanted some say in galactic politics. So it is wholy posible that many were off planet as well. I can cite any number of possibilities in this reguard.
#19 6:41am 27/05/03
That's up to the non-involved Staffers to descide. My approval stands unless revoked with reason by the higher-ups. I personally have no problems with this R&D.
#18 4:43am 27/05/03
I question the use of anything gungan simply by the fact that when me and Chikami killed you Vonta, we also eliminated the last gungan city in existance anywhere in the galaxy.
Hence the fact that few gungans remain alive would limit the use of gungan nature technology to the few very scared remaining gungans in the galaxy.
#17 6:00am 24/05/03
APPROVED
#16 6:57pm 23/05/03
That leave one more to go.
#15 3:07am 23/05/03
APPROVED... Without color or giant letters.
#14 2:24am 23/05/03
done
#13 1:58am 23/05/03
Drop the Energy resistance to 150.
Add a hull rating..
Do these and she'll be good to go.
#12 1:54am 23/05/03
I rather got that point the length has been modified for length and I added the dimensions.
This module, like all others I am R&Ding, are just that. Namely modules. They are meant to be build sepparately from the Modular fighter. Well Dimensions are listed and I have filled in your need for more source material and further detail on the craft itself.
So anything further that I need to work over good people.
#11 1:37am 23/05/03
Depends on location... 13+ or +13.
I didn't mean to sound as if I was attacking you, I was simply using an exaggerated example. Always follow the longest dimension of the ship for build-times, or list the various size dimensions if you like (general to anyone).
#10 12:50am 23/05/03
I never said that the thing is 500 meters wide...
I said that the technology was down sized for fighter craft use.
The two energy dischargers are 5 meters in length and meters in width Stuck towars the back of the craft near the eingines.
The Shield discharger is 5 meters in length and has a width of 4 meters.
That fits the 13 meter length for the module and it makes it pratical in use.
Sorry, my mistake.
All I saw was the addition sign and thirteen normally it means plus what is there already.
Modules are just that, module's. They are designed to be built sepparately from the fighter.
#9 12:37am 23/05/03
Not 7+13...
Gue asked that you make the project at least 13, if not more, meters long. I agree.
Also, measure along the longest length... You can't get off with a construction time of 10m, becuase that is how long the ship is, neglecting to mention that it's 500m wide.
As well, are you going to build your fighters and the modulation seperate? Or will you be compounding your moduals into the build?
#8 12:32am 23/05/03
20 meters?
Seems a bit large for something that is designed for an 8 foot craft. This is an Exo-skeleton so every thing well be placed around the craft itself so there should be more then enough room for this equipment to extend only slightly past the cockpit. And as is stated in the R&D I shrank down the technology for fighter use this increase would make it far too large for many reasons.
Most of all this would make it larger then my carrier ship I designed can handle as well.
I did not make the modules to be quite that large. At that size it is almost impractical for fighter use. The Bubble would then increase the size by a good 20 percent. Making the fighter a 25 meter diameter target. Having so much area is also detrimental becuase any stray fragments could punch right through it.
There is that fact and the more shield that there is to creat the more power that would be necessitated. At that size it would take what I would estimate to be 40 to 50 percent of the ships power to maintain. Bringing another problem to bear.
Perhaps an increase to 12 meters would be more appropriate.
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