New FT Ideas: The Kraelj Dampening Field.

Hello All:
	I've been coming up with a new race for my own personal FT
Universe. 
One alien power for my background is the Kraelj Community: A theocratic
society made up of an insectile race who abhor violence.  Their small
ships are armed with needle beams and equipped with high thrust drives. 
One device that I am dreaming up is their Dampening Field:  An energy
field that drains power from nearby ships, preventing them firing or
maneuvering and protects it from fighters and missiles..

Rules:

	MASS: 10	COST:  30

Against Ships:

	The dampening field generates affects ships within a six inch
radius of
the generating vessel.	Any ship that ends it's movement in a field can
not fire during the combat phase nor can it use any thrust during the
movement plotting phase in the next turn. (The ship will continue to
drift along on it's current heading and velocity.)  It will remain this
way until the ship drifts outside of the field or the field is
deactivated (either it is turned off or destroyed in a threshold
check).  There is a  downside to the field:   Although it is insulated
from the field's effects, it draws so much power that it also prevents
the generating ship from using other weapons and/or maneuvering.  The
generating ship must note that the field is activated in their orders.	

Against Fighters:

	Any fighter group that ends up in a dampening field can not
attack or
move until it has somehow left the influence of the field.

Against missiles:
	
	SMB's can not attack ships that have an active dampening field.  

Well, what do you guys think?	Any comments or critiques?

-- 
Later,
Mark A. Siefert

E-MAIL: cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu		WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu
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