Lesser Force Shield
Effect
This power allows the Force user to surround his body with a Force-generated shield. The shield can be used to repel energy and physical matter away from the Force user’s body, down to the molecular level. Once activated by the Force user, this shield is almost invisible save for a faint shimmer of white, crystal-like energy.
Like all Force shields, the Lesser Force Shield may not be used as a reaction skill. This is a Force power that provides a light layer of Force-generated armor for the user, and only the user, of this power. It must already be active before the Force generated armor may be used.
Side/Secondary Effects
Overall, this energy shield provides armor to all forms fo energy and physical attacks made against the Force user. This includes any non-directional attacks such as gas clouds and grenade blasts since the Force shield surrounds the user. Defense fields generated by this power are not particularly strong, but are strong enough to protect the Force user from serious injury.
The amount this shield can protect the Force user depends on the discipline of the user. The most common practitioners are listed here:
Mathematics +1D or STR +1D for armor. Note that Mentats are the primary uses of this power and the ones who discovered this method in altering the Force. Other disciplines adapted it from them.
Willpower +1D or STR + 1D for armor
Persuasion +1D or STR +1D armor
Manifestation
Manifesting a Lesser Force Shield requires two rolls:
Roll Sense versus an Easy difficulty.
Roll Alter versus a Moderate difficulty.
If both are successful, then the Force user is surrounded by a faint shimmer of white, crystal-like energy.
Note: Remember to withhold dice for using 2 skills, plus whatever else is being done this initiative.
Discovery
The technique of blending psionic energy absorption with telekinesis to maintain a uniform surrounding bubble was invented long ago by the Mentat Order. After a few centuries of perfecting the art, they turned their imagination to certain engineering principles that use non-psionic energy sources, thus devising such protective equipment for non-Mentats as the Magnaforce Security Shield and, eventually, the Tapani Vor shield belt.
Related Organizations
Related Discipline
Absorb/Dissipate, Concentrate, Magnify Senses, Telekinesis
Related School
Sense, Alter
Effect Duration
This power may be "kept up" for as long as the Force user wishes to maintain it.
Effect Casting Time
Instantaneous
Applied Restriction
To learn this Force skill, a user must already be skilled in Absorb/Dissipate Energy, Concentrate, Magnify Senses, and Telekinesis.
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