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DZ-28 Shield Emitter System
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To make a new shield unit for a future submission and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: VisTech Diversified Industries, LLC
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: DZ-28 Shield Emitter System
Modularity: None
Production: Limited
Material(s): Micronized Electronics / Shield Components, Air Scrubber, Reinforced Duraplast Casing.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Classification: Deflector / Environmental Shield
Weight: Very Light
Resistances:
- Energy Weapons (Non-Disruptor-type): Very High
- Disruptor-type Weapons: None
- Lightsaber-type Weapons: Very High
- Kinetic: Very High
- Sonic (Including “Hard Sound”): None
- Radiation (Including EMP/Ion): Very High
- Pressure: None
- Biological: Very High
- Thermal: Very High
- Cryonic: None
- Acid (And other corrosive substances): None
- Force Abilities: Very High
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Installed on the UT-75-SRP Speeder Bike, the DZ-28 (The “DZ” stands for “Danger Zone”) shield generator offers tremendous levels of protections against many various types of damage and other potential threats.
- Unique ray shielding also provides protection against Force-based attacks and effects.
- Protects riders against radiation (including EMP/Ion), thermal energy, biological threats (including insects and other pests as well as airborne pathogens and germs), kinetic damage (including dust, debris, as well as projectile weapons such as slugthrowers and dart guns), energy weapons, and even lightsaber-type weapons.
- Modified atmospheric shielding included allows riders to enjoy a small localized ‘bubble’ of breathable air, eliminating the necessity of relying on breath masks or similar systems while these shields are engaged.
- Small size and weight make the addition of this system to the “Archer” bikes easy and unencumbering, and micronized systems are surprisingly low-powered allowing a fully charged unit able to operate for up to 24 standard hours without engaging the bike’s power system to recharge.
- Can be removed and set up as a portable shield system – as around an overnight shelter – for ‘position safety’ measures.
STRENGTHS:
- Removable micro-shield emitter can be used to provide shield benefits at a location, such as a campsite, affording the same degree and scope of protection as when installed on the UT-75-SRP Speeder Bike with a battery lasting (when fully-charged) up to 24 hours.
- Offers very high protection against energy weapons, at least small arms fire, as well as kinetic and lightsaber-type weapons, it can take a lot of punishment before it begins to buckle.
- Ray shielding enables, especially in this design, a protection against Force-based attacks – at least for a while.
- Allows users to operate inside of hostile environments, blocking dangerous and toxic atmospheres, harmful radiation (including intense thermal energy and UV radiation), airborne pathogens, dust, debris, smoke, pollen/allergens, and keep insects, vermin, and even dangerous beasts away. Ideal for scouts, explorers, and anyone working on distant, alien, and often hostile worlds.
WEAKNESSES:
- The system can be removed and used, as by a campsite, however it will need recharging after 24 hours’ use, and it cannot be used to enclose an area where open flame is being used, such as cooking fires, as it will rapidly deplete the air pocket inside. Likewise, release of concentrated gases, such as grenades, inside of the ‘bubble’ will overtax the air scrubber.
- Excessive barrages of powerful crew-served, explosives, or larger weapons will tax the system and eventually overwhelm it, lowering its durability and sustainability greatly under these conditions.
- Low-level radiation shields are not designed for environments where radiation exceeds what might be described as ‘proceed with caution’. If the location is so irradiated it cannot support life, it will be too much for the DZ to handle it.
- The unit doesn’t heat the shielded area inside, and thus cannot be relied upon to preserve life and safety in freezing temperatures and some other, non-flame method of heating must be used (e.g. clothing, chemical heaters, etc.) to achieve survivability in these conditions.
- Offers no protection against Disruptor-type weapons.
- Offers no protection against Sonic weapons.
- Offers no protection against Pressures.
- Offers no protection against Cryonic weapons.
- Offers no protection against Acid weapons or gases.
- Only contains a 24 standard hour maximum use time (when fully-charged) before requiring recharging. Further, if the unit’s power levels are depleted to 0%, the unit will not work again for a minimum of 15 minutes before it can be reactivated, leaving users vulnerable during this time.
- Protective envelope, i.e. the ‘bubble’ is only 5m in diameter, and does not offer protection beyond this limit. This prevents it from being used to safeguard large numbers of people inside. In fact, more than four (4) people inside of the ‘bubble’ begins to strain the air scrubber also, lowering the quality of breathable air inside and taxing the system, thereby shortening the battery life and usability time.
DESCRIPTION:
Across the galaxy, scouts are thought of as synonymous with speeder and swoop bikes. For centuries, this has been the way. Well, when Vis wanted to build a swoop/speeder bike for scouting, reconnaissance, and patrolling, she knew she needed to go all out with a shield system that would enable those scouts to do their jobs and do them well. Thus, we headed into the “Danger Zone”.
The “Danger Zone” was Vis’ term for those hostile environments, alien worlds far on the fringes of known space and beyond, where conditions change fast and dangers of every kind seem to lurk behind every rock and tree. Vis remembered back to her old days as a ‘procurement specialist’, the fancy term for slicer, thief, bounty hunter, and all-around mercenary getter of things that are hard to be gotten. Good living, if you don’t die doing it. She recalled being out ‘there’, on the fringe, shivering alone in the midst of some jungle and watching the eyes of the planet’s bestiary surround her in the night. She remembered swarms of insects; thin, toxic atmospheres; irradiated deserts with no respite from burning suns and sweltering heat. She recalled primitive tribes, armed with antiquated laser rifles left behind in some long-forgotten war, chasing her through the ruins of some should-have-been-forgotten temple. She recalled driving rains and sandstorms, strange Force cults, ridiculous intrigues and hellish planetscapes, and then – then she remembered why she quit that line of work, first of all. But those experiences informed the creation of the DZ-28 Shield Emitter System – a go-anywhere, come-what-may kind of shield system that was meant to give an advantage to those who go places where any advantage can be a Godsend.
First, she micronized the emitter and made it a surprisingly low-powered unit, endowed with a twenty-four-hour battery life, capable of creating a 5m ‘bubble’ of protection above and around the bike. Able to deflect small arms fire from energy weapons and slug-throwers alike, even to turn away blows from a lightsaber. It was your standard deflector shield at first. However, upon testing, Vis found that the calibration and energy signature from the included ray shielding performed even better against Force-based attacks than usual ray shielding. It’s not impervious to it, but it will take a hit or two of Force Lightning before it begins to strain! Further, she found that if one really beat the porg-sauce out of it with heavy crew-served weapons, strafing it with starfighter cannons, or hurling decadent amounts of explosives at it, the shield would only last a very short time before becoming overwhelmed and going down. It’s the few seconds needed to run away and live to fight another day, but if there’s nowhere to run to, today starts looking awful final quick, fast, and in a hurry!
Behind this, Vis engineered a combination of osmotic, atmospheric, and radiation-dampening shielding and integrated a micronized air scrubber. This would give a pocket of breathable air inside of the ‘bubble’ when needed, allowing users to breathe inside without the need for breath masks or similar equipment while the shield is engaged. Up to four adult humanoids can be inside for twenty-four hours’ time and safely breathe a type I generated atmosphere there. There is a catch however, the ‘bubble’ isn’t heated and using open flames inside quickly depletes this pocket. So, it’s important to use other types of heating methods, or else it’s going to be a very cold night.
The osmotic portion of our shield goes even further, keeping out airborne pathogens, toxins, and noxious gases as well as preventing insects, vermin, and other dangerous beasts from coming inside. Now, a very angry and very large animal might be able to suffer through it, but the average Corellian Sand Panther is going to take the path of least resistance and seek her meal somewhere else. And who is gonna be bothered by the lack of mosquitoes and flies buzzing about?
Low-grade radiation shielding won’t keep you alive in a recently nuked wasteland, but against harmful UV rays and thermal radiation, or on worlds where low-grade irradiation is present, the shields work just fine. Together with the awesome protective power of the shield, the DZ-28 can mean all the difference between getting the job done and coming home alive and well or becoming a sad toast in someone else’s night out.
Now, the best part is that it can be removed from the bike and used to grant that same level of protection to a campsite, blind, observation point, etc. The size of the protective field remains the same, and apart from its docking port on the bike, the unit only lasts for a single days’ time. Letting it run out of power completely carries additional worries too, as once fully depleted it will require some time to recharge before it can be used again. Now in the docking port, where it connects to the bike’s power system, run times are indefinite, provided the shields are not overwhelmed and the unit remains unharmed.
In all, this is the kind of survival gadgets that scouts go Wookiee-fodder over: Tough, versatile, sleek, and portable. Exactly what Vis wished she had all those years back. Instead, she was just left to rely on herself: A psychopath with a dream….oh well.
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