Refined Hardlight Shield

Armor Profile

Class: Shields
AC: +4
Grade: II · Refined
Rarity: Uncommon
Tier: IV · Spacefaring
Training: Shields
Cost: 2700
Weight: 2 lb

Without training in shields, you have disadvantage on every attack, check and save that uses Strength or Dexterity, your speed drops by 10 feet, and you cannot channel while it is on. Proficiency

To make: 1,350 gm of materials and 10 days of work, at a fabricator: a starport yard, an industrial district or a ship's machine shop, by a crafter with Rift Affinity 2, finished with a DC 13 check. To repair: 338 gm and 3 days. Downtime

Properties

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shieldHeld in the off hand for a flat bonus to armor class.
shieldHeld in the off hand. One shield at a time, and it needs a free hand.
power-cellRuns on a charged cell. Flat, it reverts to whatever it is without power.

A projector worn on the forearm that throws a plane of coherent light. It grants a +1 bonus to Armor Class beyond the shield's own. The emitter re-seated and the field re-tuned, so the plane forms faster and holds flatter under a hit.

Rules

Raising or lowering the field is a bonus action. It runs for 8 minutes on a cell. While down, the shield grants no bonus to Armor Class and weighs 2 lb.

Grades

The same object, worked to a better standard. The grade is the rung; the bonus is what the rung is worth at the table.