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Side Sim - New Shield System Tag CE

Posted Nov. 23, 2018, 6:24 p.m. by Lieutenant Tenzing Trainor (Chief Operations Officer) (Ray Branch)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Tiglath Ashur (Chief Of Security) in Side Sim - New Shield System Tag CE

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Chris Emmitt (Chief Engineer) in Side Sim - New Shield System Tag CE

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Chris studied the design and nodded as Tiglath explained about it. Theoretically it was possible, but he could quite wrap his head around it at the moment. “Hmm …” He took a seat at one of the chairs in front of his desk and tapped the padd against the bottom of his chin. “So the shield matrix gets overloaded before any charging can actually occur.. We don’t quite have the storage necessary for activating a shield system this large..” He thought for a moment. One solution was to just raise the shields before they were needed before going into combat, but it’s not like any of the crew were clairvoyant so there’s no way to predict a fight and to raise them well enough beforehand.

The other was to alter the shield matrix to allow for this compensation, but it would be too much of an initial draw for the system to handle. “All power would need to go to shields until they came up to include auxiliary power along with the shutdown of all non-essential equipment in order for the charge to come back quickly enough .. but that would leave us without teeth and would be useless against physical weapons or torpedoes ..” He bit his lip and frowned a bit. “I don’t think a ship this size cou-” He stopped mid sentence and his expression became neutral as if staring off into space. “Capacitors..? What if we install capacitors into the shield matrix to hold a portion of the charge prior to the shields going up? They’d be able to charge slowly overtime during normal ship use and would be able to be activated in conjunction with raising the shield system. It would be a little rough at the start, but with the capacitors feeding the shield matrix, it would drastically decrease the vulnerability window until the shields could sustain themselves.” He looked down at the padd again to think of where they could be installed throughout the matrix. “Though they would need a few days to charge back up .. so we can’t really hop into one fight after another. Thoughts?”

Lt. (jg) Chris Emmitt (CE)

Tiglath nodded. “The general idea behind this shield system is that,” He paused considering how to word it. ” Lets say we have two different types of weapons hitting the shield, both are 100 watts blasts for the sake of easy numbers. The first one does it’s damage over 4 seconds, at 25 watts/sec and the second one it’s all it’s power in the first second. This shield, when first raised would only be able to absorb 50 watts a second, increasing the more energy that hits it. So the first attack, the shields would be able to absorb it easily, while the second attack it would take a few hits to strengthen it to the point where it would be able to absorb it all.” He explained

“Tactical would be able to use any excess power from the shields for critical systems on the ship. It looks like the downside is, as you say, capacitors. What do we do with the excess energy? How do we store it and, if the battle concludes, what do we do with the excess energy that we no longer need?” He asked, He had dozens of more questions that he didn’t have the answers to.

-CTO

OOC: Gonna try to revive this one this week! My LOA and work disruptions have been difficult to get used to, but I hope to continue on this one here shortly!

-Mike

OCC: No worries.

Chris thought for a moment. “As long as the shield were up they’d be able to hold the power for a while, but it would limit our capabilities since we wouldn’t be able to use sensors, transporters, etc.” They could synthesize some additional power packs that could be integrated into the matrix, but the only problem would be where to store them. They could install them in the empty spaces between the bulkheads, but even if attached to the capacitors to prevent surges if the hull were to be damaged in that area it could easily cause them to burst or surge and make the attached capacitor useless. The power packs didn’t instantly recharge either, they’d need to charge slowly or have a higher voltage and something that could sustain that. He looked back up at Tiglath. “Assuming we could install additional power packs attached to the capacitors, what about shunting the power back through auxiliary to charge them back up before discharging the shields? Granted we’d lose a bit of power in the process, but it would at least get the packs back to a partial charge to assist the capacitors in case the shields are needed again. Granted it would exponentially decrease in effectiveness if we did this back to back, but depending on how much energy we could get stored back up in combat .. it might not even decrease in effectiveness and we’d have a manageable way to reduce the impact on systems.”

Lt. (jg) Chris Emmitt (CE)

Tiglath thought for a moment, gently tapping his desk with a finger. “That could work,” he replied, thoughtfully, “Or we could use the excess power to host one massive dance party.” He joked, with a smile.
“I’m sure with some more research,” He continued, “we could get around the sensor and transporter blocks. I do see your point though, in a sustained firefight. We could end of destroying ourselves through energy overload. Ships capacitors may not be able to handle the excess energy and weapons fire may not be enough to dampen the energy supply. What about diverting the excess energy to something like the ship main defector dish? Venting the excess energy that way?” He suggested, looking back at the engineer.

-CTO

OOC: Resurrecting this post :D

IC: Chris thought for a moment on what he could do to safely discharge the excess energy. “The deflector dish could definitely vent the energy, but it would easily be burnt out if too much energy were to be forced through it in raw form or converged upon itself .. Maybe we can vent bits of it at a time as a tachyon pule from the main deflector dish as somewhat of a sonar against cloaking devices ..? Not sure how effective it would be and it would kind of be pointless if there were no hidden ships in the area or make us a glowing beacon if one were looking for tachyon emissions .., but we could then use the smaller deflector dishes around the saucer section to correlate the data and pinpoint any anomalies created by the pulse ..?” Chris scratched his head, it sort of made sense to him, but the way he phrased it didn’t sound quite right to him and wasn’t sure how to say it properly.

Lt. (jg) Chris Emmitt (CE)

Tiglath nodded in agreement. “The excess energy is a problem. What if, instead of trying to vent the energy, we use it? As the energy level grows, we reduce power output from the warp core and other generators, and use the energy to power the ship. As the power is used, we increase power output to compensate?” He asked thoughtfully. This idea was more of a shot in the dark then anything else.

-COS

He scratched his head, thinking for a moment. “That would take a lot of calculation to judge how much energy we’re currently using ship wide, how much energy we’re generating from a constant source like the warp core, and the unpredictable source coming from the regenerative shielding .. and making adjustments accordingly .. Though with the battery/capacitor system in place .. it could work? I’m fairly confident that myself or one of my senior engineers could take the task .. though we’d need to be dedicated for it to constantly be adjusting values. I wouldn’t be able to run the calculations alongside the computer if I had to deal with that and coordinating damage teams for the ship. Though that’s easily mitigated by separation of duties ..” He shook his head, mostly to clear it. “In short, we’d just need to have a dedicated person to monitor and adjust the power and we should be good. In emergency situations we could still shunt all the extra power through the main deflector for a rather nice beam of focused energy, though it’s guaranteed we’d be frying it and would need to get a new one.. no amount of repair could fix it and the EPS conduits that would be blown along with it.” He could already almost envision how it would work on the Ark Angel. “I kind of want to run this in a simulation on the holodeck .. I’d need to write the program first for it .. Thoughts on joining me for testing it?” A slow grin appeared on his face as his eagerness to test the new system was showing through.

Lt. (jg) Chris Emmitt (CE)

Tiglath nodded, deep in thought. “Power continues to be an issue.” He looked at the CE. “Let’s go test this thing, see what kind the true effects of this new design will be.” He turned to the computer and checked to see if a holodeck was available.

“It looks like Holodeck 4 is available. Shall we?”

-COS

OOC: Oooooo Get the COO involved ;) This sounds fun!

-Ray


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