Sangoma wrote:Speaking about shields, Fel wrote somewhere that Karinnes shields can stop most other ship fire, but required so much energy when they spiked that the generators would quit. My question is why not create capacitor/ cell like devices to increase the shield duration.
For example you first make a standard, say, the largest ship weapon faey make requires so much energy to block. Then create the devices with as much minituarization as possible to make them small, then shove them into a bubble like the PPGs. I mean the bubble of a PPG is big enough to fill with a sun, then how much of these capacitors/batteries can you fit?
That way you made your capacitor/cell and they are rated to stop, e.g. 25 hits from the faeys most powerful weapon each and since they made like a PPG you can hook em to your singularity generator to keep recharging.
This would only work with a combination of the current technology, as the space warping wasn't as advanced back with the Karrines as it is now. And since the Karrines didn't need that tech to create their mini-suns for power generation - as they had something entirely different - they didn't truly bother to do that.
But it is something that can be considred.
However, at some point, even those capacitors would overload. The big problem would also be to discharge them somehow. At best, you could create a high energy output beam that (directed at the enemy maybe) could throw that energy back out. Still, too much power influx, and even that would overload. At worst, and this Fel indicated, it wouldn't be the incoming energy that was redirected/absorbed, but the energy output of the shields required to deflect the attack that caused those problems. At one point, the shield
generator would simply be unable to keep up the power flow and either force-shutdown, or blow.
Wingsolution wrote:hmm, the way fel has set this up, is telepathy can only be messed with by biologicals, so building a device to interfere is a no-go. however it may be possible to create a bactiria or virus that interfears, but that's illigal and dangerous...
The Karrines already have telepathic technology, and it just so happens to be based on organic material. Anything further is a different question. We know that they have the tech for normal Faey to send telpathically to an interface, and we know that the Generations are fully compatible with the tech. Because of those two things, and because the Karrines believed they would be furthering the Generations rather than trying to build something for the rest of them, that branch was never developed further.
With the background knowledge, it might or might not be possible to create a fully interactive transfer for any non-Gen, but to create telepathic jammers should be, comparatively at least, easy, as you don't have to understand anything specific, just blow noise.
Fiferguy wrote:I wonder though... A while back Fel wrote about an idea Jason had for shields against an MPAC round--using a magnetic field to reflect the magnetic envelope of an MPAC round instead of trying to reflect the plasma in the round. I wonder if it would be possible to combine that with the Tetryon armor of the Karinne scout ship. Fel said that the power drain on the Tetryon armor is immense, so I wonder if the magnetic field would help? Maybe not even reflect it, but slow it down enough so the power spike and strain on the Tetryon shielding isn't so bad... Just an idea.
The armor isn't a power drain, the shield is what could potentially be problematic, due to the overload. The armor itself though is most likely completely incompatible to using Jasons MPAC shields and stealth, unless it were layered on top of the actual armor. If you've ever seen the last 2 episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, then think of that armor buffer they used to block out the Borg weaponry, something in that regard, plopped out when necessary, would be a possible solution. Of course it could just be permanently mounted to the hull, but that has two flaws: the shield/stealth could easily be destroyed even though the armor itself would block any further damage and the wiring to keep it working properly would either have to be external, or have to be broken through the actual armor, making it pretty much worthless in that regard.
It should be possible to do though, if only as an overlapping layer of protection.