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Forlorn Hope
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To create a new technology for VisTech to be used in future submissions and role-playing.
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PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Manufacturer: VisTech Diversified Industries, LLC
Affiliation: Closed-Market
Model: Forlorn Hope Shield Disruptor Module
Modularity: None
Production: Limited
Material(s):
- Electronic Components
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Built-in safety protocols and speed governors help to ensure users can safely pass through high-integrity shields while aboard the small vessels using this module.
- Enables small vessels to pass through most standard and common shield types easily.
STRENGTHS:
- Able to allow small vessels to penetrate and pass through most standard shield types, including energy/ray shielding, particle shields, standard defector shields, Gungan hydrostatic shields, Kerts-Bhrg shields, pretty much anything except molecular and Xythan-type shielding.
WEAKNESSES:
- Can only work on VisTech Diversified Industries, LLC’s custom starships, due to proprietary systems integration.
- Cannot be added after-market to existing vessels as per an upgrade, modification, etc.
- Only works with vessels 50m and below in size.
- Negates other stealth capabilities while in use, leaving ships momentarily open for detection, tracking, and targeting due to automatic shutdown initiated by the module, meaning those systems will have to fully reboot to be used again.
- Only works with ships traveling in realspace at moderate or lower speeds, meaning ships must slow to a moderate speed for the system to work, thus taking a 50m ship several seconds’ time to completely pass through a shield. (This would be <3s for 30m and below, <5s for 40m, and <6s for 50m ships.).
- Ships using this system will experience turbulence proportionate to relative mass and density, which may cause some damage or disabling to other systems in use.
- Existing shields employed by ships using this system will be automatically shut down for the duration of its use, leaving the ship vulnerable until the vessel has passed through the shield completely and can fully reboot its shields.
- If passing through a planetary shield, as per entering a planet’s atmosphere inside, something akin to a sonic boom will be made, which can be audibly detected and potentially tracked or targeted.
- Won’t pass through molecular or Xythan-type shielding.
DESCRIPTION:
Getting out a tough situation is always hard, and one rarely ever does so without a scratch. But if you have ever been running like hell from security forces and find that your worthy opponents have closed a planetary shield to prevent your escape, you know and understand the feeling of hopelessness that presents itself in such a moment. Years back, Visanj found herself in this situation and she swore she would never, ever, get penned in like that again. It is from this experience that the Forlorn Hope was created (and named).
Now, one shouldn’t just use this module recklessly, in fact, doing so is just plain dumb. The kinda dumb most people never get to live to regret. If you tried to bypass the safety protocols that disable stealth technologies and shields and push through a shield using the module anyway, the very moment contact is made between those different fields (i.e. cloaking fields, shields, etc.) is the very moment an explosion is made that will light up the sky for half a system. In one split-second flash of light, you and your ship will be vaporized. Look, we here at VisTech don’t make the rules, but you have been warned. Secondly, if you don’t slow down and take the 3-6 seconds’ time to pass through completely, you will be moving too fast for the field enveloping your vessel to move with you and allow you to pass. You wanna think about how that ends? Yeah, didn’t think so.
So, using this means temporarily slowing down, losing all stealth and shields (at least for a few seconds), and in the case of those pesky planetary shields, it’s gonna be heard before it is seen, at least by those on the planet below. So yes, there’s risk. There’s a lot of risk. There’s an awful lot of risk. But, do it right, and you can slip free the ties that bind and escape into the black. Or, if you’re the angry penetrative type, do it right and you can get into places others don’t want you to be in. Ray shields, particle shields, Gungan hydrostatic shields, standard deflector shields, they all fall down, even military-grade shields. Molecular and Xythan-type shields, yeah, no, not so much. Plan your infiltrations and ex-filtrations carefully. Pick the time, the spot, and make the slip, and when you’re through, kick in the engines and go. Let your systems reboot and you’re back to whole and in business!
Yes, one more thing, this only works on our ships, and only those which order this little module to be integrated from the start. No after-market add-ons, sorry. Yes, it’s proprietary. Yes, we are greed-riddled capitalist scum, in fact it says that on the sign in the foyer. Cope. Now, going through a shield isn’t a smooth ride, in fact it’s pretty bumpy, so make sure you have working inertial compensators and so forth, because you do get jostled about quite emphatically. Hey, no one said it would be gentle, we only promised that you’d get through.
A moment of risk for a lifetime of stories. It’s a fair trade. But it sure beats being caged up or locked out. Nope, never again.
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