Ablative Hull
2
Defense — common
Ablative Plating 2. Damage reduced by 2 before hitting HP.
Designed to lose itself quietly so the pilot can keep going loudly.
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Adaptive Hull
3
Defense — common
Ablative Plating 2. Damage reduced by 2 before hitting HP.
Learns the shape of the threat and becomes the wrong shape for it.
Aegis Barrier
4
Defense — common
Ablative Plating 3. Damage reduced by 3 before hitting HP.
Written in layers. Each one a small promise to the next.
Aegis Fortress
5
Defense — common
Ablative Plating 4. Damage reduced by 4 before hitting HP.
Four layers of slow refusal, bolted together by someone who had seen enough.
Armor Strip
1
Defense — common
A simple reinforced plating strip.
Paint it once, expect it scratched, remember it saved your life.
Auxiliary Bulkhead
3
Defense — common
A redundant structural bulkhead.
Installed after the first time. Never removed after the second.
Basic Deflector
0
Defense — common
Reactive. Play only when your ship is attacked. Enters with 3 defense.
Every pilot learns the deflector sigil before they learn their name.
Battle Bulwark
5
Defense — common
Interceptor. Enemy must attack this unit first.
Stands at the gap. Fills the gap. Dies in the gap. Paid in full.
Capital Bulwark
6
Defense — common
Interceptor. Enemy must attack this unit first.
Mounted on ships whose captains had stopped believing in retreat.
Citadel Plating
6
Defense — common
Fortress-grade hull plating.
Named by the shipyards. Named again, quieter, by the pilots who came home.
Cloaked Barrier
2
Defense — common
Cloaked Entry. Cannot be attacked the turn it is deployed.
Appears after the aim, never before, never on time.
Combat Shield
1
Defense — common
A shield with a small return-fire coil.
Bite built into the bulwark. Sometimes that is the trade.
Countermeasure Array
4
Defense — common
Countermeasure 2. Opponent pays +2 energy to target this.
Takes the enemy's good ideas and turns them into accounting entries.
Countermeasure Grid
2
Defense — common
Countermeasure 1. Opponent pays +1 energy to target this.
Not invincible. Just expensive to shoot at, and that is frequently enough.
Cover Panel
1
Defense — common
A mobile plating panel.
Field-removable, field-regrettable, and still bolted when the ship returns.
Defense Drone Turret
2
Defense — common
A fixed defensive turret with a return-fire coil.
A shield that forgot it was a shield, but remembered how to bite.
Defense Drone Wall
2
Defense — common
Interceptor. Enemy must attack this unit first.
A row of small bodies waiting politely for the large one.
Deflector Dome
3
Defense — common
A wide deflector dome with a small return-fire coil.
Round, mirrored, silent, until the targeting locks and then louder.
Deflector Plate
1
Defense — common
Ablative Plating 1. Damage reduced by 1 before hitting HP.
Thin, angled, replaceable, and mostly unremembered on the paperwork afterward.
Dodge Field
3
Defense — common
Evade 40%. 40% chance to negate incoming damage.
The ship is the dice. You are the thrower, and you are tired.