Integrated Reform (Part 2)
The Durov-class Battlecruiser was fitted with a unique device—the Remote Shield Restoration Device.
This device could restore a certain amount of shielding to a target warship from a maximum distance of 10 light-seconds. The restored shield value was roughly equal to the capacity of one Group One shield capacitor.
The device sounded inconspicuous, but it was actually extremely difficult to achieve, because it represented an entirely different way of using energy.
When it came to energy, destruction was far easier than utilization. To destroy something, one merely had to project the energy directly outward. To make use of it, however, the energy had to be controlled and output at the appropriate power and frequency.
To achieve the Durov-class Battlecruiser's remote shield restoration effect, the first requirement was ensuring that the energy you sent over would not blow the other warship to pieces. Well, it was already up in the sky.
At the same time, that energy had to be delivered precisely into the shield capacitor rather than anywhere else.
As everyone knew, electrical energy could not be stored; it was generally generated only as needed. Although modern technology had long solved this problem, for example, Energy Planet Sarapin in the Core Worlds, which Sefrans Tann had once severely damaged, stored its energy in unique spacecraft before directly releasing it into the power grids of other planets.
Thus, those planets had no energy reserves. Once Sarapin stopped supplying power, those planets lost electricity as well.
The same applied to energy usage aboard a warship. When a warship's Deflector Shield came under attack, the shield system drew sufficient energy from the engines to negate or deflect that attack. The energy required in this process could not be transmitted directly. Given the level of energy required by a Deflector