[Lady Hawk]

Ships can have as many Shields as they have mounts

Light - c 100 x1 sheild mount

Medium - c 500 x 2 sheild mount

Heavy - c 1000 x 3 sheild mounts

Neutron Shields - c500 - this is a breakthrough in shield design technology - they are light shields that provide adequate protection against most weapons - 2 to 1 shield mount - but must have the either of the Advanced Computer upgrades

Plasma Sheilds - c 2000 - resists most energy weapons but once down takes a long time to reactivate and can be used as a weapon - x 2 shield mounts

Medium Plasma Sheilds - c 3000 - resists most energy weapons but once down takes a long time to reactivate and can be used as a weapon - x 2 shield mounts

Kinetic Sheilds - c 2000 - good against missiles and other solid missiles - x 1 shield mount

Energy Sheilds - c 5000 - resists all energey weapons and redirects some of the weapons fired back to the ship - these tens to be standard amongst starfaring races. - x 4 shield mounts

Phase Shields - c 6000 - the best allround sheilds - x 2 sheild mounts

Meta Shielding - c 6000 - not so much a shield but more of an add on they boost sheild effeciency by 20% - ship needs some kind of shielding and any of the Advanced Computer upgrades - costs 1 shield mount or 1 additional mount

Meta-Phasic Shields -c 10000 - resists energy weapons and missile weapons - Plasma weapons are only 50% effective - Highly experimental - 75% that they will work - Allows the ship to operate in nebulas at full sheild effecincy and allows the ship to hide for a period of time in the corona of a sun - x6 shield mounts

Cloaking Shield - c 20000 - this is a MANTIS design - it is a shield that prevents sensors from penetrating and also allows a limited cloak that prevents it from being seen by some locking weapons - it also incorporates the very best of energy shielding and Kinetic shielding - costs 4 shield mounts and 1 additional mount - needs any of the advanced ships computer upgrades

Electromagnetic Shields - c 50000 - again a breakthrough in Andromeda House Tech. these sheilds use gravity and Electricty to difuse energy weapons and missiles. they are extremely effective. but they use a seperate Ion Drive to power them - 2 shield mounts +1 ion drive

Gravometeric Defence Grid - c 95000 - this is the latest in sheild tech, this uses gravity to create a barrier against missiles, and photon torps, also most energy weapons only do minimal damage. - tiese need 4 fusion generators to power them. - 10 shield mounts + 4 fusin drives

Vorlon Shields - c175000 - these are the shields that are incorporated in some of the older more powerful ships of the so called "elder" races. they cut damage done to them by upto 75%, and whats more they can be "knocked down" but they cannot be destroyed, they recharge themselves after a period of time. they also can be used with cloaking technology as well. - 10 shield mounts

the following is only available to Inspectre.

Chrono Shields - c175000- as phase shields - no other shields can be used with this upgrade - again protects as phase shields but also effective against Chrono Weapons - 6 turret mounts