Son of Triam
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Although less interested in the Work Group's mission to counter the infamous Ysalamiri and their counter against force abilities, Triam decided to play along when tapped to assist in the research group. More interested in counteracting the force itself, Triam looked into various sources that handled with the detainment of force sensitives, as well as electromagnetic anomalies that might be useful in neurally scrambling not only force users, by any biological creature. Unexpectedly, her research fields seemed to converge in one particular case: the Universal Energy Cage.
These Cages saw great use after the Jedi Purge of the Galactic Empire era, in detaining Jedi. Utilizing some type of energetic discharge to disrupt a force users ability to influence things beyond it, and stunning them on contact with the bars while floating them in a repulsorfield. It seemed to be an incredibly effective technological cage that could theoretically hold basically anything inside of it. She supposed that's why they tagged on "Universal" to its name, she imagined very few things if anything could reasonably escape from such a prison without outside assistance.
That is what spawned the idea of her experiment, and what forced Triam to create a prototype for. If one used the same principles of a Universal Energy Cage (that is, a Superconductive Energy Feedback system), but applied it in the form of a barrier instead of a prison, one could reasonably construct a purely technological counter to just about anything thrown at it. Blasters, electricity, heat-weapons, sonic/kinetic weapons, the force, there was very little limit to what such a barrier could protect against, except perhaps chemical acids or the other assortments of purely physical damage.
To appease the one's who called on her for research, she designed an experiment involving such a barrier within the influence of a Ysalamiri, and a force sensitive on the other side of the barrier. With a barrier large enough, she hypothesized that the force sensitive (who would ordinarily be in the influence sphere of the Ysalamiri) would be able to continue their use of the force, as the "force neutral" field of the Ysalamiri would be preventing from extending beyond the barrier. Though she did not conduct the experiment herself, having no access to Ysalamiri, she built a prototype barrier which she tested for other variables.
Utilizing Ultrachrome as the superconductive element in the prototype, the robust barrier was capable reflecting or halting almost all forms of attack she could think of and replicate in a lab setting... or as close to a lab setting as her interstellar Workshop could be, that is. She had little doubts the Ysalamiri's abilities would not be an exception to this rule.
Of course, there was the issue of simply going around the barrier, which made the prospect of turning this new innovative use of technology into something functionally practical still a prospect farther in the future than present.
- Intent: To create an experimental type of barrier capable of reflecting all force abilities acting on it, or attempting to access through it, in addition to any other energy types of attack (a la, blasters, lightsabers, etc.).
- Image Source: N/a
- Canon Link: N/a
- Primary Source:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Universal_Energy_Cage - http://starwarsrp.net/topic/130852-the-working-group-second-session/(Thread where Triam first hypothesized the user of a barrier of this type)
- http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Retribution_feedback_shield
- http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ray_Shield
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Relentless Akovin Workshop
- Affiliation: Triam Akovin
- Model: Superconductive Energy Feedback Barrier Prototype
- Modularity: Can be modulated lightly for experimental purposes
Production: Unique (Only One Character)
- Material: Ultrachrome
- Capable of reflecting a great variety of energy types, including (curiously) abilities of the force, through a superconductive energy feedback system.
- Proportionate Retribution - Attempting to attack the barrier, or act on something beyond the barrier through the barrier using any type of energy (electricity, thermal, kinetic, sonic, magnetic, lightsabers, the force, etc.) will reflect off of it in most cases, and halt it in others. This is partially due to the Ultrachrome Superconductor Layers naturally reflecting blaster, and projectile energy away, but also due to an integrated Retribution feedback shield included in its feedback systems, expanding its ability to "reflect" energy attacks to include even offensive force abilities through an energy discharge collected from the attack itself. This defensive barrier also includes a minor defensive measure against "passive" force abilities that reach beyond the user, such as the one found in a Ysalamiri, by blocking out force energy and its influence attempting to cross it in a manner similar to a Ray shield. Therefore when a barrier of this type enters their sphere of influence, it will prevent their field from progressing beyond it so long it is large enough to block its whole effective radius (the obvious counter here, is simply having more Ysalamiri to grow their field of influence beyond the barrier's capabilities).
- Maginot Line - As a barrier (and not a cage), in order to circumvent its wrath, one need only direct energy around it. So, for example, an arc of electricity could go around the barrier without being effected by the presence of the barrier, and a force user could potentially "originate" their abilities in the force around or beyond the scope of the barrier without much difficulty. For a Ysalamiri, the same could be true if the barrier is not large enough to deflect their whole sphere of influence, as if the barrier is too small, the sphere of influence could reach around to the other side of the barrier, circumventing it entirely.
- Massive Power Supply - A barrier of any significant size will require its own dedicated power generator to maintain the feedback systems, which severely limits the practicality of use as anything other than a very well defended wall. It could theoretically be applied to a vehicle, but the power demands would be quite significant to uphold. To scale it down to armor would take a stroke of engineering genius to find a powerful enough and small enough power supply that could be carried and utilized at a personnel level, but not theoretically impossible. The number of armors using such a system would be prohibited by the expense of making it, as Ultrachome isn't cheap or as easily available, and using less impressive superconductors would likely yield less impressive results. It may be possible in armors that would use this unique effect in short bursts, so that it is only reflective upon activation for a limited amount of time, but again, even that would require quite the engineer to construct.
- Star Destroyer > Barrier - The barrier's ability to reflect energy back to sender does have limits, and does not have infinite reflective potential. Pour down something like a turbolaser barrage from orbit, and so much energy will be poured into the barrier, that the ultrachrome won't be able to disperse its heat/energy fast enough before it uniformly melts and destroys the barrier. While some energy might be reflected somewhere as its destroyed, it will not be even half strength before the barrier is totaled and melted into slag.
- Unsustainable Reflection - A sustained outpouring of energy into the barrier will strain the system as it attempts to cycle all energy into a responsive discharge, and if the source of energy is undetered by the discharged reflection, eventually the Retribution Shield system will fail to discharge energy quickly enough before the Ultrachrome begins to melt uniformly, destroying the barrier in the process. The only factor in this case, would be that it would take a rather monumental amount of time and energy to cause such a failure, but the failure still exists all the same.
Although less interested in the Work Group's mission to counter the infamous Ysalamiri and their counter against force abilities, Triam decided to play along when tapped to assist in the research group. More interested in counteracting the force itself, Triam looked into various sources that handled with the detainment of force sensitives, as well as electromagnetic anomalies that might be useful in neurally scrambling not only force users, by any biological creature. Unexpectedly, her research fields seemed to converge in one particular case: the Universal Energy Cage.
These Cages saw great use after the Jedi Purge of the Galactic Empire era, in detaining Jedi. Utilizing some type of energetic discharge to disrupt a force users ability to influence things beyond it, and stunning them on contact with the bars while floating them in a repulsorfield. It seemed to be an incredibly effective technological cage that could theoretically hold basically anything inside of it. She supposed that's why they tagged on "Universal" to its name, she imagined very few things if anything could reasonably escape from such a prison without outside assistance.
That is what spawned the idea of her experiment, and what forced Triam to create a prototype for. If one used the same principles of a Universal Energy Cage (that is, a Superconductive Energy Feedback system), but applied it in the form of a barrier instead of a prison, one could reasonably construct a purely technological counter to just about anything thrown at it. Blasters, electricity, heat-weapons, sonic/kinetic weapons, the force, there was very little limit to what such a barrier could protect against, except perhaps chemical acids or the other assortments of purely physical damage.
To appease the one's who called on her for research, she designed an experiment involving such a barrier within the influence of a Ysalamiri, and a force sensitive on the other side of the barrier. With a barrier large enough, she hypothesized that the force sensitive (who would ordinarily be in the influence sphere of the Ysalamiri) would be able to continue their use of the force, as the "force neutral" field of the Ysalamiri would be preventing from extending beyond the barrier. Though she did not conduct the experiment herself, having no access to Ysalamiri, she built a prototype barrier which she tested for other variables.
Utilizing Ultrachrome as the superconductive element in the prototype, the robust barrier was capable reflecting or halting almost all forms of attack she could think of and replicate in a lab setting... or as close to a lab setting as her interstellar Workshop could be, that is. She had little doubts the Ysalamiri's abilities would not be an exception to this rule.
Of course, there was the issue of simply going around the barrier, which made the prospect of turning this new innovative use of technology into something functionally practical still a prospect farther in the future than present.
