Unlike other types of armour in-game, ablative armour is quite cheap to purchase (since it is so easily destroyed). Ablative armour may have additional properties such as added resistance to heat- or laser-based weaponry if special ablative armour is destroyed, it loses those additional properties. If the ablative armour is struck, it is destroyed (after the damage caused by the attack is reduced accordingly). In the tabletop RPG Inquisitor, ablative armour may be layered on top of other armour.
#Deep space armor mass effect Pc
In the console and PC game Mass Effect there are several variants of armor for all species referred to as ablative. The rate at which the armor gets depleted depends on the types of damage incurred to the armor and the armor's resistance value against each particular type of damage.Īrmor plating is usually considered strong against electromagnetic and thermal damage, and weak against kinetic energy penetrators and bombardment of subatomic particles (explosive), although a few exceptions exist. Depending on the ship's loadout configuration, a ship can continuously repair incoming damage on the armor, fit additional armor plates to sustain large amounts of damage in the short term, or remotely repair friendly ships' armor using specialized modules. In the online game EVE-Online, ablative armor plating is utilized as a secondary defensive layer that protects the relatively fragile internal systems. When one of the elevators is partially destroyed, purging these plates require the technical crew to jettison the counterweight at the orbital end in order to avoid the now-unbalanced elevator's complete collapse. In the Anno Domini time line, the Earth's three space elevators are covered by ablative armor plates to protect their structures from damage. Selected spacecraft are also able to deploy ablative gel for high-velocity atmospheric reentries.
In the Cosmic Era time line, the ablative armor concept is applied in similar capacity to the anti-beam coating and laminated armor technologies utilised by mobile suits as a form of protection against beam and laser weaponry. In the Universal Century time line of the Gundam series, ablative coatings are used to minimize the effect of beam weapons, called beam resistive coating and a later improved version, Anti-beam coating.
In the online game DarkSpace, ablative armor is utilized to counter projectile-based damage while making the ship more vulnerable to lasers and energy-based weapons.
Regenerative ablative armor is powered armor that can restore the ablated material. The boil-off rate creates a particle cloud that is dense enough to disperse the incoming beam's energy.
#Deep space armor mass effect manual
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual explains that ablative armor works in two stages: When the shields are hit by an energy or particle weapon, thermal energy from the ship is dissipated across the hull. Having been introduced in the year 2371, it features on starships including the USS Defiant, USS Prometheus, and an upgraded USS Voyager. Ablative hull armor appears frequently in the Star Trek universe.