Subspace Chroniton Field

posted on December 13th, 2010, 7:42 pm

I thought it was temporal shields that protected against croniton weapons and the only way that one ship was invincible was because it was out of phase

posted on December 13th, 2010, 7:52 pm

The Krenim one was out of phase, this one uses different tech though.

posted on December 13th, 2010, 8:23 pm

How about a 10% chance of failure for the first few seconds, but the chance of failure increases with extended use?  Use it too long, and the ship is destroyed by the subspace chroniton field collapsing in on the vessel.

That seems reasonable

posted on December 13th, 2010, 9:29 pm

The temporal shields only protect you as long as your temporal variance matches that of the weapon that's being fired at you.  If the weapon being fired upon you modulates constantly, multiple shield layers or high-density shields are the best way to stop them.  If you don't have those shield technologies, armor is the way to go.

Pulling your ship slightly out of the space time continuum would protect you against everything and would be more reliable, but you couldn't counter it with anything!

posted on December 14th, 2010, 11:29 am

hm, the idea of shield frequencies is rapid polarization of particels, repulling a warhead, ions or whatever. So a weapon with the same frequency as a shield would just pass through (that's what the duras for example got from Geordi and even an ancient BoP became a threat).

Your Chroniton's might act a lot different, though It just seems to be the common case in Star Trek that same frequency means "ups!"