Talk:The Systems Alliance Navy/@comment-11135771-20130807190544

Report: We currently are experimenting with a new technology to better protect our smaller vessels: the damage mitigation field. This device uses a thin plasma barrier to instantly vaporize the first projectile which hits a given area on the shield. However, the plasma is consumed in the process, leaving a hole in the field where the projectile impacts. Naturally, larger missiles will use up a larger portion of the plasma field. This technology can only be used on cruisers or smaller ships, as the energy requirements to project a larger field exceed the capabilities of even our best reactors, but this should drastically increase the survivability of our smaller vessels against much larger enemy ships.

The following are some progress shots of the first ship that this technology is being tested on. The generator is not fully completed as of yet, and as such it does not produce the full dome that it will when completed.