Name: Quick Deploy Hardlight Barricades, Q.D.H.B, ‘Cuties,’ ‘Lightstrips.’ Description: Quick Deploy Hardlight Barricades are most commonly designed as a long reinforced strip, between two and four feet in length. Inside, they house a bulky power cell and a photonic hardlight projector. . . Other varieties exist, such as half-dome shields projected out of a more round device. Abilities: - Hardlight Barricade: When deployed, generates a stationary shield of photonic hardlight. These shields are typically waist-high, as taller shields use more power to maintain, making them more fragile. - - They can stand up to a moderate amount of kinetic force, or a significantly larger amount of plasma before shattering. Lasers are the exception, as they penetrate through the shield without damaging it. Conditional Abilities: - Are you mad?: Replacing the projector’s power cell with a Dense Electron Battery will allow it to take more punishment, at the risk of it detonating if the projector is damaged. Limitations: - One-Use: Once the shield is destroyed, the lightstrip’s battery is spent. Outside of combat, the battery can be replaced easily. Inside combat it is a process that takes four turns. Conditional Limitations: - I See You: The shield isn’t entirely opaque, meaning it serves as poor visual cover. How does it work: Hardlight Barricades are a relatively mundane use of photonic hardlight, consisting of a single projector and a bulky power cell. Flavor text: Wherever there is technology, there is military technology. Militias all over the galaxy have been known to experiment with hardlight shields of all kinds. Referenced Technologies: Photonic Hardlight Attainability: Open Tags: [Civilian] Category: Tools
