Jairus Starvald
Eidoloclast
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Submit cap drains for smaller and more personal-sized items.
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: Cap drains
- Restricted Missions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: Czerka Mining & Industrial
- Model: CMI-CAP 'Capacity' Drain
- Affiliation: Closed-Market
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Durasteel, electronics, standard materials.
- Provides extensive protection against EMP, electrical and stun discharges.
The CMI-CAP drain is a smaller sized cap drain that has been designed to work with equipment that is several orders smaller than capital or sub-capital ships. Instead it focuses on armor, armament, vehicles like air-speeders, generators and other small-scope products that have space for the component.
Strengths:
- Exceptional protection against EMP, ionic, stun, electric and similar discharges.
- Smaller in scope than their larger siblings and can only funnel so much discharges, before it burns through.
- If it has to process too much there is a chance the miniature capacitors could explode, causing the equipment to malfunction at best and at worst cause a chain-reaction that could cause bodily harm to the wielder.
There is a long history of cap drains being used to protect (sub)-capital ships from pirates and more natural space anomalies, but only recently did people decide to take a serious look at other applications of this (now) ancient technology.
Czerka noticed that its engineers had a tendency to work in dangerous environments: from derelict stations, where electrical currents have a tendency to run wild, to having to deal with stun gun-wielding maniacs assaulting them. The CMI-CAP Drain is the logical answer to these varied problems. A scaled-down version of its larger brothers, the CAP shifts its focus away from the protection of large starships and instead shelters smaller products (from armor to droids to vehicles) from ionic discharges and similar effects.
As mentioned before the system can be scaled to a moderate degree. It's not difficult or complicated to install the module to a system, unless said system is complicated, small or simply isn't compatible with adding compontents to it.