A shield protects the wielder from attack. It does this by surrounding them in an icosahedron made up of twelve tiny drone anchors at each vertex of the icosahedron, which can, on a moment’s notice, connect to two other anchors to form a solid plane of special matter between them. The planes block or reflect any particles or energy attempting to move through it. Shields generally appear like a semi-translucent mirror surface and can be used to push or even ram targets. Shields block light and matter from both inside and outside, but usually are set to flicker at nanosecond intervals, allowing sufficient light to enter and exit to allow partial transparency without allowing attacks to penetrate. Thus, from the inside, the world appears noticeably darker and often greyish. Constant attack from Lensers can prevent the shield from flickering and lock down a shield wielder until either side runs out of energy. Specific facets of the shield can be deactivated, creating a window to the outside that a wielder can fire weapons through.

Sometimes referred to as hyperreality fields or pocket dimensions, this is when time is stopped for everyone but those inside the field.

Linear direct fire energy weapons known as lensers are popular, as they can quickly toggle between functionality as a camera and a gamma ray laser weapon.  This allows among other tricks, being able to fire from cover without exposing oneself as much as with a regular firearm.  In space, good lensers are nearly undetectable as they lack a muzzle flash or sound. However, in an atmosphere, thermal blooming will create a visible and audible beam of superheated plasma along the path of the lenser’s gamma ray stream. This makes them vulnerable to counter fire.

Indirect drone devices often carried as grenades or launched as missiles are known as seekers and are semi-autonomous, homing in on targets as directed by their controllers before attacking with lensers, kinetic ramming, or detonating explosively with their onboard antimatter battery or micro black hole.  Seekers can be cloaked and/or carry shields. A common tactic with seekers is to accelerate towards a target and then switch on shields to allow a powerful kinetic ramming attack that the seeker can survive and repeat.

A shield protects the wielder from attack. It does this by surrounding them in an icosahedron made up of twelve tiny drone anchors at each vertex of the icosahedron, which can, on a moment’s notice, connect to two other anchors to form a solid plane of special matter between them. The planes block or reflect any particles or energy attempting to move through it. Shields generally appear like a semi-translucent mirror surface and can be used to push or even ram targets. Shields block light and matter from both inside and outside, but usually are set to flicker at nanosecond intervals, allowing sufficient light to enter and exit to allow partial transparency without allowing attacks to penetrate. Thus, from the inside, the world appears noticeably darker and often greyish. Constant attack from Lensers can prevent the shield from flickering and lock down a shield wielder until either side runs out of energy.

Linear direct fire energy weapons known as lensers are popular, as they can quickly toggle between functionality as a camera and a gamma ray laser weapon.  This allows among other tricks, being able to fire from cover without exposing oneself as much as with a regular firearm.  In space, good lensers are nearly undetectable as they lack a muzzle flash or sound. However, in an atmosphere, thermal blooming will create a visible and audible beam of superheated plasma along the path of the lenser’s gamma ray stream.

Indirect drone grenades known as seekers are semi-autonomous when launched or released, and home in on targets as directed by their controllers before attacking with lensers, kinetic ramming, or detonating explosively with their onboard antimatter battery or micro black hole.  Seekers can be cloaked and/or carry shields.

Historical armour was eventually replaced by camouflage, and the eventual development stemming from that is that standard infantry of the future are equipped with cloaking devices that can effectively conceal both sight and sound.  A particularly advanced implementation is based on phasing, which allows avoidance of even weight-based traps.

A shield immobilizes most particles moving through it, filtering away most of the mass or energy of an attack, and leaving trace amounts to allow for instance, partial transparency that allows sight.  This does however mean that shields can be penetrated by localized reality control fields.

Indirect drone grenades known as seekers are semi-autonomous when launched or released, and home in on targets as directed by their controllers before attacking or detonating explosively with their onboard antimatter battery or micro black hole.  Seekers can be cloaked and/or carry shields.

Indirect drone grenades known as seekers are semi-autonomous when launched or released, and home in on targets as directed by their controllers before attacking or detonating explosively with their onboard antimatter battery.  Seekers can be cloaked and/or carry shields.

Linear direct fire energy weapons known as lensers are popular, as they can quickly toggle between functionality as a camera and a laser weapon.  This allows among other tricks, being able to fire from cover without exposing oneself as much as with a regular firearm.  In practice, good lensers are nearly undetectable as they lack a muzzle flash or sound.

Indirect drone grenades known as seekers are semi-autonomous when launched or released, and home in on targets as directed by their controllers before attacking or detonating explosively.  Seekers can be cloaked and/or carry shields.

Historical armour was eventually replaced by camouflage, and the eventual development stemming from that is that standard infantry of the future are equipped with cloaking devices that can effectively conceal both sight and sound.  A particularly advanced implementation is based on phasing, which allows avoidance of even weight based traps.