Better Future Flat Shield

2 Better Future Flat Shield
ID:  ??? Prefab Name: BF_Shield_Flat_111
Rarity: Rare Corporation: Better Future License Grade: 2
Crafting
Rugged Fiblar x2 Ion Pulse Cell x1 Hard Light Drive x1
Purchase Value 5280 ฿฿ Scrap Value 1760 ฿฿
What do these stats mean?: Health Points: 300 (Shield) Mass: 2 Energy used per damage blocked: 0.82 Passive energy usage: 120
Description
Usually used in conjunction with other directional shield to create a protective barrier exactly where you need it. This shield projector provides your tech with excellent directional focused defences at a moderate passive power consumption rate. This one is flat to fill the gaps in your defences.

The Better Future Flat Shield is a grade 2 Power block manufactured by Better Future. Like all Better Future blocks, it can be crafted with a Better Future Fabricator.

It has 5 attachment point(s) and takes up 1 cell(s).

The Better Future Flat shield is a power block. Once powered up, this shield will protect you from enemy attack as long as you have the energy to power it. This shield only points straight ahead at all times leaving you venerable in other directions.

Functionality

This shield has a projection of 4 blocks and a width and height of 5 blocks

The shield will protect the blocks behind from being hit by any enemy fire. Thus this Shield is very energy-economical and can be used to protect particularly hard to shield areas, however the nature of the projection renders it particularly vulnerable to angled attacks like mortars.

The shield takes an initial power load to start up, then drains power gradually as it is up. It will drain more power when the shield is attacked.

Explosions pass though shields, completely ignoring them, the only way to reduce explosion damage is to increase the distance between the impact point of the explosive and the craft, making bigger shields more useful against explosions.

This shield has the second lowest passive energy draw only surpassed by the Venture Projected Tracking Shield. However these shields share the lowest energy used/damage absorbed of all shields as of version 1.4.8.2.