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* ''[[Fading Suns]]'' has loosely ''Dune''-inspired shields that don't kick in unless an attack does a specified minimum amount of damage. Nobles use them when dueling, the trick is to strike hard enough to hurt your opponent but not so hard their shield activates. Fortunately energy weapons just have a chance of "bleeding through" the shield.
* ''[[BattleTech]]'' has the Blue Shield Particle Field Damper system, which is a personal shield for [[Humongous Mecha]]. However, the shield only has one purpose - reducing the impact of [[Lightning Gun|particle projectile cannon blasts]]. The Blue Shield only reduces their damage by half, and it's completely useless at protecting against other weapons. It also causes dust to cling onto the mech, [[Awesome but Impractical|completely blinding the pilot after a few minutes of operation]]. Being a [[Lost Technology|recent innovation based on lost technology]], it's also rarely seen.
* ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' got personal defences of this sort, mechanically they are counted as normal armor, and where available at all<ref>they are all [[Tech Level|TL5]], "common" industry is TL4, allowing cheap fusion power, basic [[Artificial Gravity]]/Repulsor/[[Tractor Beam]]s and interstellar travel — and most colonies [[After the End|struggled hard to restore or retain]] even these capabilities</ref>, in order of improving protection the mass-produced types are Force Pavis — a forcefield, well, ''shield'', i.e. single hand-held emitter (10k Cr), Deflector Array — a grid of forcefield generators that can be worn under clothes (30k Cr) and Field Emitter Panoply — beefed-up relative of the latter, with the field glowing constantly while active, immune to handheld TL3<ref>i.e. late ⅩⅩ-early ⅩⅩⅠ century</ref> weapons up to
** There's deflection field for vehicles, and even on TL4, but they only somewhat deflect projectiles, there are no universal damper fields, even for tanks.
** There are no defences of this sort at all scaled up to spaceship size, or at least, none ever were common enough to warrant a mention even as rare artifact equipment (there was one mention of "omen shields" used on late warships of the long-dead human empire,
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