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Ablative
Armor Systems
The ablative armor system was
developed by Starfleet R&D, Tokyo , and the various factors that
delayed the deployment onto frontline vessels has been solved.
This armor is the second generation of deployed by Starfleet. The
armor is still 2cm thick, providing a honeycomb strata of
destructible material that reacts violently when exposed to
high-end, directed phased energy beams such as phasers, disrupters
or polaron beams. The armor melts away in a endothermic reaction,
creating a cloud of diffuse molten metal that scatters the
coherence of the incoming beam, further enhanced over the
Generation I material by the inclusion of gamma-developed Thorium,
known for its phased energy reflection properties.
The Akira-Class
starship has the Ablative Armor placed around the bridge, nacelle
mounts, and aft-sail torpedo mount.
The armor works in two stages;
in the event of a shield disruption, phaser or energy EM is first
dissipated over the hull armor surface, when the classified
threshold is achieved, the molecular matrix bakes off, causing it
to boil at a controlled rate. The boiling off carries away a large
fraction of the energy directed at the vessel, with the rest
deflected by the resulting cloud of armor shards. In most cases,
the boil-off cloud continues to disperse the incoming beam,
negating the higher damage harmonics.
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