Ships & Tech
Topology shield
A defensive system that works on the local shape of space rather than on the incoming round.
In full
Paired with the energy lance and recovered from the same source; between them the only such systems of their era. How it actually works is not stated in canon — the novels name it, use it, and decline to explain it, which is consistent with a crew operating salvaged technology they did not design.
Key facts
- Paired with the energy lance; same provenance.
- The only systems of their kind in their era.
- Its mechanism is deliberately never stated.
- Operated, not understood.