Ships can be fitted with a shield generator. When powered, these generators form a field around the ship that absorbs attacks and converts them into harmless light. Each time a shield is struck, its field’s bond is weakened.
Given time without attack, power is drawn from the ship to strengthen the bond. If enough successive hits are scored on a shield, it temporarily breaks. A broken shield causes the shield generator to reset.
Once this completes, the generator will begin to internally reform the shield. Once the shield bond reaches fifty percent of its maximum strength the shield is expanded to cover the ship once more, where given time and power, it will continue to recover until its bond is at maximum strength.
Shields are represented in the Pilot’s Interface as concentric blue circles around a schematic. When a shield is broken, the concentric rings are replaced by a warning element that also counts up whilst the shield is internally reforming
Shields are in general, more effective at absorbing kinetic-based attacks from projectiles and less able to resist thermal-based attacks from lasers.
