Some ideas

Here are some ideas my flat mate made up for hard shields and sand
casters

HARD SHIELDS

Mass:		3 (or 5% of ships mass if greater)
Points: 9 (or 3x mass if greater)

Hard Shields are an impenetrable electromagnetic wall of force used by a
few 
space craft in place of a physical heat shield, it also has the bonus 
ability in that it acts like a GRAV field which stops the craft from 
impacting on a planets surface.

The shield projects through a 90 degree arc from the ship, this is
usually 
the underside, but can be through the front for a bow first re-entry. 
In 
game terms this will give a ship a +3 modifier when entering a planets 
atmosphere.

In the game it may be employed as a defensive screen which will stop any

attack (this includes missiles and fighters), but it will also stop (not

allow) any attack from the defending ship until the next turn when the 
shields are shut down.

SAND CASTERS

Mass:		1
Points: 3

Sand Casters can be bought like armour, the player must declare that he
will 
fire them and how many he will fire before the attacker rolls any dice
but 
after weapon allocation.

Unlike armour sand caster are not lost when checking of damage, they are

crossed of when they are fired.

Each sand caster fired will reduce the number of dice rolled by the
attacker 
by one, it has no effect on fighters or missiles (this includes Kra'Vak 
railguns and scatter packs).

Another thought is that each sand caster fired will incur a -1 modifier
on 
only one dice, allocated by the defender.12/01/0012/01/00
i.e.: one sand caster will give a -1 on one dice, two on two

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