Best Energy Shields in Science Fiction
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- We take a look at some of the best designed energy shields in science fiction.
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You forgot to mention that the Mjolnir suits also carried an orchestra conducted by Martin O'Donnell and Micheal Salvatori.
Boosts offensive and defensive capabilities.
Katarn suits carried a Mando'a choir. Checkmate.
@@VGLounge i love mando chants but I'm sorry, our Lords and Saviors Marty and Michael take the cake.
@@nuclearjanitors also increases endurance and boosts mental stability and longevity on extended missions. Also serves as a calming agent during high intensity combat periods
That's what hardens the armour. Got nothing to do with the energy shield.
"When in doubt, reverse the polarity" should be a creed of every engineer in science fiction.
I still don’t know what that means
Also works on clogged toilets
We’re confusing the polarity!
“The few victories that humanity did win were all carried out by the Spartan-IIs.”
*Admiral Cole, Admiral Whitcomb, Vice Admiral Stanforth, Captain Keyes, and Alpha and Beta companies want to know your location.*
*Sad Lord Hood noises*
Don't forget about the Marines, and every one who sacrificed their lives for those victories.
Don't forget spartan 3s and sergeant johnson
@@kostakatsoulis2922 sergeant johnson was a spartan 1 so ya (he was one of the two or 3 oens that survived the procedure)
@@Antimatter_ray ok spartan ones then would also like to know your location.
The shields in Borderlands are pretty good. They're cheap enough that you can buy them from vending machines and so simple to use that every other psycho on Pandora has one. Plus by the end of the game they're so strong that lower level enemies can't even hurt you and you can survive going up against giant kaiju and building sized mechs.
When talking about the personal shields in Dune, you said that their vibrations were what attracted sandworms. While they can be attracted by vibrations, the specific presence of a Holtzmann field drives worms into a berserk rage, attracting many more than something like a thumper. Thus, suspensors will also attract worms as well as shields, as seen in the first chapter of Dune: House Harkonnen.
I remember reading that too in some of the novels, the repulsors and shield emitters had a high sub-sonic frequency they emitted when active. And sand being almost as conductive with sound as water in a way just drove everything within 3k nuts. Hence it was almost safer to use mechs or even wheeled vehicles since they could stop in their tracks and the worms would eventually loose interest, or try to get to the nearest rock outcropping to wait it out since the worms couldn't burrow through that. Or even traveling on foot, fremen had a system in place much like Tusken Dune Raiders. March in single file and in step to limit the vibrations emitted from walking in the desert.
@@danielbeck2739 makes me wonder if there are giant worms in some sections of the Dune Sea on Tatooine
@@Grounders10 Not to my knowledge, there are sarlac pits but they are stationary. They mainly marched in single file and in step to better hide their numbers, so that any would be retaliation might find themselves either facing a small group to a massive raiding party if they were to try to track them down. This also made it easier for people to lose their tracks if winds blew over and covered them. In mass or even walking in pairs there was a higher probability to find some hint, single file had the potential to be covered over with wind and storms. So any natural way of tracking would be null and void and would require some kind of tech to look for any signs of said tracks. That would mean tracking pheromones, possibly biological signals like blood, or some kind of radiation of some sort. Thermals would be next to useless unless it was the middle of the night with the suns down since the sand would be hot enough to mask any thermal readings of a foot print. If you saw the Mandalorain series there is a perfect example of this shown in an episode. I won't go into details as to not spoil it, but suffice to say the reasoning is justifiable.
The plating was about to fail, there's viscosity throughout the gel layer. Optics? Totally fried, and lets not even talk about the power supply. You know how expensive this gear is, son?
Tell that to the Covenant.
@@hartianx1698 Well it was all obsolete anyway. Your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Songnam this morning. Try and take it easy till you get used to the upgrades. Okay, let's test your targeting, first thing. Please look at the top light.
@@darkbooger Good. Now look at the bottom light.
@@avatariroh0543 Alright. Look at the top light again.
DarkBooger That’s it. Now the bottom one. Okay. Everything checks out. Standby, I’m gonna offline the inhibitors. Move around a little. Get a feel for it. When you’re ready, come meet me by the Zapper.
The sound of a Mjolnir shield recharging is superb. You can almost feel the energy dispensed by the generators to rebuild and recharge the personal shield. Also, the in-built alert of shield loss feels grounded in reality, you must know you are no longer safe, you must go and take cover!
In the same time, I like how Mass Effect shields react to incoming projectiles (they look like they ionize the air around them to disperse the sudden energy burst) and the effect of the shield recharging itself completely (the blue line rising up from the feet like saying: OK, now you're completely safe, again).
Apparently those suits are more expensive than some of the UNSC spacecraft
@@gameseeker6307 I can see that. Between limited runs, experimental technology, and incredibly rare materials for said experimental technology, the price would have ballooned quite quickly.
@@gameseeker6307 Oh definitely, but you can already see with the spartan-IV's how they're beginning to be able to mass produce suits at more cost effective rates. The prototypes (first Mk.V) would be insanely expensive, with most of the expense going to R&D costs. Future generations already have the technology, so it's just streamlining and optimizing it, plus the cost of materials. Would love to see how they looked in a hundred years.
Mark Jones spartan 4s are actually in super weaker armor and when i say weaker i mean it and there were thousands of spartan 3s and about 5k spartan 4s
@@gameseeker6307 that's largely thanks to their ability to house a smart AI. Artificial intelligence infrastructure is so incredibly expensive that the UNSC could only afford to install them on the flag ships of some of their fleets. that feature combined with the shield tech made a single suit of gen 5 Mjolnir armor value in the same neighborhood as a frigate. it's stated that the Spartan II project cost as much as a full battlegroup which would include numerous cruisers, frigates, destroyers and possibly a carrier. For context, there were only 33 Spartan IIs that received Mjolnir armor.
A old sci-fi franchise that never got the film treatment, *Issac Asimov's Foundation* series, contains some seriously powerful personal shields [HBO may be working on a adaption].
In fact it may be the sci fi origins of the personal force shield.
It's an atomic shield that's worn as a belt and surrounds the wearer with a faint glow that is hard to notice at first.
It can however stop a atomic blaster at point blank range. And to give you the idea of the power of a atomic blaster, it can disintegrate the upper half of a human and create a hole in the wall behind it in one shot - which the atomic shield wearing character did after the Empire official shot him on Trantor - a planet that makes Corescant look rural.
I prefer plot armor, lol! Just kidding, the armor wore by Spartans from Halo looks like the most practical one I had ever seen.
Probably the largest leap in tech that would be required besides the shields is the power source. If we had micro fusion reactors we could probably make atleast mark 4 which didn't have shields.
@@Raeinok maybe
@@Raeinok I mean... It did take us 5 centuries to get to that point.
the command and control systems need some work too. there can be a personell bottleneck when your bad ass armor can only be worn by mega roided trans humans. I think MJOLNIR is the most potent armor on this list but the clone commando armor is the most practical since any soldier can wear it.
40k Space Marines don't get shields to make it fair for everyone else lol. Thats why the eldar got them.
The best personal shield is the *Rey Shield.*
A form of _plot armour_ introduced in The Force Awakens, it also works offensively - in fact many fans have found it somewhat offensive.
Lol so true thou!
Good that only one person has it.
Nice
Oh you... *sitcom laugh track plays*
If I was a Marine or ODST in Halo I try to steal a Jackal Shield.
Jackal shield with a Halo 1 magnum
Thats covenant contraband..........
@@Sp00kyV0id I think thd UNSC wanted contraband for study.
@@Sp00kyV0id Unlike the Imperium of Man in 40k, the UNSC actually embraced xenos technology and wanted to reverse engineer it.
Has anyone in the halo universe the books even try to steal a jackal shield
Ima keep it real
Garrus has earned a no kill xeno pass
Best buddy in a Space Opera video game
Honorary human status is but rarely afforded to non-humans, but Garrus definitely qualifies. Not only does he fight to protect human lives, but he offers great inspirational pep talks to Sheppard.
As the Epic Voice Guy said in the Mass Effect honest trailer, Garrus is the best alien bro since Chewbacca
Plus, he has great reach
@@TheRewasder97 Though not so much flexibility...
- Talks about Mass Effect
- Shows "Andromeda" footage
What heresy is this?
Preferred he used Mass Effect 3 /s
Worst of all, Tali doesn't appear once
Andromeda has no shields
Doom: *_Laughs in Marauder_*
Laughs in preator suit
Or the annoying shields that the zombie soldiers have. They are so annoying
GIN Elite Laughs in the icons of sins armour
*LAUGHS IN THE ABILITY TO BREAK ALL OF THESE SHIELDS*
Shadow Paradox Laughs in plot armor
I do prefer the Mjolnir suits from Halo. It's one of my favorite science fiction exosuits.
Na man it's all about that Grey Knight Terminator armor with rosarius and iron halo. Chief could wail on that all day until he gets tired of running around, comes in for the melee and get bitch slapped so hard Khorne pops a massive chain axe boner
I agree with that. But it's a personal opinion.
The Best Energy Shield is the one you have on you when the bolts start flying.
The Personal shield emitter from Stargate Atlantis. It basically make you immune to everything while active, can be controlled with your mind, and comes in two forms (One that anyone can use when activated, and one that imprints on the first user_
This would be my choice...
Minor side effect that it can't be turned off in the user feels any sense of danger. In a unknown place, surrounded by bad guys, have fun eating anything.
@@TheBntimmins MaKay learned to use it far better, being able to turn it on and off at will.
@@TheBntimmins to be fair that is something you can get around by training, or simply don't have such a long list of phobia.
@@TheBntimmins I'm not sure that's true... It was true for McKay, but he's a nut, lol.
I really liked the personal protection shield from Stargate: Atlantis. Yeah, you could suffocate if you were buried alive or submerged under water but aside from that you were invincible.
I don’t mean any disrespect, but you guys TOTALLY forgot about the Borg!
the borg shields are the best in science fiction because it negates all damage from a source after a little bit of time.
@@jamoecw except for kinetic damage
@@smallmoe maybe, in lore it even does that. of course we never see it because nothing in the trek universe does kinetic damage except the odd battlith (or similar). picard in the holodeck fired miniature force fields at the borg that looked like bullets. frankly the lack of kinetic weapons in trek is a whole weakness in their infantry.
@@jamoecw There is the TR116b from the DS9 series but I don't remember if it ever saw use against the borg. I agree, you really can't go wrong with a good slugthrower.
@@smallmoe in the episode they say it lost out in the dev cycle to self re-modulating phaser weapons.
The strongest, toughest and meaniest of sields, is actually used by an enemy
I will never forget that epic bossfight
yes, I'm looking at you marauder shields, oh final boss of Mass Effect
Woah woah woah, did you say the only victories for humanity where done by the spartans. You forget the sacrifice of one halo Admiral Preston Cole.
What about the ODST's?
*screams in Spirit Of Fire*
Warhammer: We just yeet bullets and bombs straight into Hell...atleast when we run out of meat shields.
Titans and warships have void shields, but I will concede that the primary defense is the wall of guns known as the Imperial Guard.
Though to be fair the Imperium does quite a nice spectrum of non-Void Shield personal energy shield technologies too, such as Conversion and Displacement fields.
iron halo storm shield rosarius
With all respect I fight hell on my own and you need an army.
@@doomslayer2290 a space marine would wreck you in a fight.
Honorable mention for the Sentients shields of the Warfreme universe.
A shield that assimilates the technology that attacks it making it not only evolve, but also makes other Sentients technologies more advanced in the process.
I liked the shields in Dune.
Makes warfare go back to some sweet sweet melee combat in a sci-fi setting.
Glad to see your stuff going strong, remember your first video. Hope to see many more.
I use to think "reverse the polarity" sounded cool. Then....I became an electrician. Now, hearing that just pisses me off.
Indeed. It's the most cheap and boring thing you could think of.
Guy #1: "Quick quick, reverse the polarity!"
Guy #2: "Why are you trying to break my shield while simultaneously killing me? Why would you even suggest that?"
Guy #1: "But...but PLOT armor!"
Mjolnir armor has a nuclear reactor so why do I need to wait for the damn flashlight to recharge
Simple answer-> gameplay reasons.
Lore answer-> No idea, if anything I feel like we should've been able to freaking blind an entire mountain-side with our flashlights considering we've got a nuclear reactor in our armor haha.
The shield might be an energy field with no di-electric, but if the flashlight battery is just a chemical battery, you have to wait longer to avoid exploding batteries.
It should have just been on a circuit for continuous power, but...
*mutters something about the government, and the lowest bidder*
It's purely a gameplay mechanic. Though in actual lore Flashlight does not need to recharge.
@@mrweirdguy5249 spartans don't even need that, they can see in the dark
Nice, another generation tech upload.
I love this channel!
5:00 is by far the funniest thing I've ever heard on the Generation family of channels, well done Alan.
If it was in game I'd prefer the mass effect shields because of how fast they recharge and their durable as long as your not in the middle of a battle
Toss up between Mjolnir shields and Katarn shields. The fast recharge of the Mjolnir and high toughness of it is good, while being able to tank a railgun on steroids from point blank range is a point towards Katarn shields.
haha Doom: Laughs in Marauder and the Slayer argent energy shield
*laughs in space marine and emperor class titan void shields"
pepe did 7/11 question, can those shields break?
@@gmaninatrashcan7144 laughs in praetor suit.
@@gmaninatrashcan7144 Laughts in vin diesel plot shield
Dune, and star wars. My favorite sci fi movies. I love it. Thanks.
What about the BORG?
You missed a few personal shields. For instance Star Trek had a few examples of personal shields. The most basic wasn't for combat but exploration and was seen mostly in the cartoon. The other is in Star Trek online. Also there are more too. Make a sequel for this video please. So much more out there.
Always remember to angle your personal shields so that they are reflecting, not stopping, incoming weapons fire. They last longer that way.
Talking about Mass Effect and not mentioning the famous Marauder Shields?
WH40K: *Laughs in human wave*
You forgot the holy rosarius brother
@@DCPTF2 Yes, thank you for reminding me, honourable battle brother. The Emperor Protects.
@@Irmarinen The Emperor Protects
@@DCPTF2 Those things are very rare. So rare that most imperial soldiers don't even know it existed.
???????? Are you spreading HERESY?
Just had my covid jab and I feel a bit low, Alan just cheered me up :)
You should do more comparisons like this
I love the concept of the dune personal shield, that fight scene at the beginning of the Dune movie in the 80s was mind boggling.
Allen, post Return of the Jedi Purge Troopers have shields that block energy, physical ballistic projectiles, lightsabers, and even force powers. The only way to get through the shields was with Ion Disruptor weapons and the effects were not permanent.
The Marauder from Doom Eternal has a shield that can block both The Unmaker and BFG I say that's fuckin impressive
Well, no, the shields in Mass Effect DID protect against energy weapons, it just did better against kinetic attacks, there are many times in game when the shields protect you against energy damage, often very very intense energy damage.
Whyd the thumbnail image have to include the N7 Paladin? I FINALLY moved on from that game and now I wanna play it again
What about the Borg shields? They were adaptable to almost anything thrown at them!
Only really great if you are the 5th person to be hit. The fact that you often need multiple hits before they adapt to a new or slightly modified weapons fire disqualifies it as a personal shield in my opinion.
Of course loosing a couple of drones is not really a problem for the Borg but for a person that is concerned with self preservation not so great.
@@victorselve8349 hell that's the stormtrooper/ cloner trooper doctrine. There is always more to take your place. The Borg Queens and the Collective really push the needs of the many, out way the needs of the few. I think the war with Species 8472 lost sectors of cubes.... that has got to be in the billions or trillions
@@tomcat124us yes.
And would you want to be a Strom trooper?
No.
If I'm talking my personal protection there are simply better options
(Also last time I kept track of canon storm trooper armor would often reduce blaster hits to non lethal knockouts although I'm no sure if that still holds true in the Disney canon)
A Lasgun hitting a Holtzman shield does not only destroy the target but also the gunner, because both shield and lasgun explode in a massive nuclear reaction. And that's the main reason they stopped using lasguns.
Indeed if it was just the shield that went nuclear then you could just shot them from outside the blast radius.
Get British Ben in here to talk about the Borg personal shields.
1. Meat shields to collect attack data.
2. Analyze energy that bypassed shields.
3. Update shield suite.
4. Commence assimilation.
Astartes best energy shield is the imperial Guard meat shield
Not a lot of people know about the Katarn Class Troopers, you would think the more visible reference you would have used was the Droideka seeing as it was in the Films.
N7 Paladin shield was nuts back in its day
6:05 🤣 I love it
I prefure 40K's Convershion Field generator.
It converts and disperses Kenetic and energey impacts across its surfaceand converts soild projectiles into heat and light, the harder you hit it the more affective it is. the one draw back to the field is that since kenetic rounds are vaporised in the contact resulting in a photonic flash and shockwave. so when the shield is hit by a mass driver round the indevidule is turned into a masive flash bang grenade.
Useful if you're wearing sunglasses.
@@KillerOrca yep connonaly in game anyone whoo fails there save when using one is not actualy dead,.... just blind for a bit... hopfuly
Honestly the mass effect shielding is my numbee 1 then halo, then star wars specifically old republic
same
The Borg ;)
What about the personal shields worn by the Foundation in Asimov's Foundation series?
It might be a small mention but could have talked about the Star Gate Atlantis Personal Body shield that Rodney found in Atlantis...
Show us the quarantine hair!
You seem to have forgotten the gen3 mjolnirs literally impenetrable shields
Borderlands 2: Laughs in 94% Sham
Of the 4 mentioned in this video I personally prefer the kinetic barriers. The Mjolnir shields do beat out kinetic barriers in terms of raw defensive strength, I'm not denying that. But I would prefer kinetic barriers because of one thing. They are more user friendly. In the books when the Master Chief first uses them in a combat sim he complains that the shields on the bottom of his boots make it feel like he's trying to walk on ice and the shields on his hands feel like when he's trying to hold something it's covered in oil, it's slippery and difficult to handle. His solution is to weaken the shield power in those areas. It works but makes those spots vulnerable. Kinetic barriers don't suffer from that drawback. They work by detecting incoming threats via a virtual intelligence and intercepting them with a mass effect field. Better still they are adaptable. In ME2 you can get what's called a "Shield Harness" that increases shield strength by 10%. It's basically just a belt with a built in kinetic barrier generator. Mjolinr systems are still somewhat new in the Halo universe where as if you read the lore kinetic barriers have been around for a long time. any tech that's new will always have kinks and bugs to iron out. Plus defensive tech is always designed based on what threats it's facing. Take IRL Kevlar vest and ballistic plates for example. Good against bullets and shrapnel, bad against swords and large blades. my point is Kinetic barriers are more widely usable then Mjolinr, not has hazardous and personal deflector shields, and not as quarky as the shields from Dune. But that's just my opinion.
phantasy star online had shileds, so did xenosaga, as did warframe and so many others..... but not a bad list, just..... expected a bit more variety. the Dune part was a great addition to your usual star wars, halo, mass effect list.
Dude, we could spend all week talking about all the sci-fi MMORPGs' energy shields. Hell, why don't we bring up all the Power Ranger ones while we're at it?? -_-
All units in the Protoss faction in Starcraft has their own energy shield that can block all forms of attack even physical attacks that can act as an auto parry when is blade combat.
Why you didn't include the agent Kruger's shield from District 9 movie?
why is this channel not bigger
In the new canon, the Chiss didn’t have shields of any kind until Thrawn managed to obtain a Republic shield generator from a planet at the edge of the Unknown Regions. All Unknown Regions races instead used the far weaker electrostatic barriers. But, presumably, as soon as the Chiss started using shields, the other powers soon either found their own Republic samples or built their own using the scans of Chiss ships
Wow
The clone commandos were more independent not aggressive. They were also trained with their squad from birth.
Dam clone lives would suck with the speeded up lives.
Shields up.
Star Trek elite force hazard team armour is pretty mental
The way mass effect kinetic barriers worked was a soldier's hardsuit was covered in small immiters. If these immiters detected an object heading towards them above a cirtain velocity, they would then activate a series of rotating energy fields(called mass effect fields) which would collide with the object, stopping it in in its tracks or deflecting it
Like mentioned in the video kinetic barriers only block projectiles not toxins, radiation or extreams of temperature. They relied on armor for that. Projectiles are not completely useless against barriers however. Too many hard, fast shots at once could overwhelm the suits power core, causing the shields to temporarily shut down
The actual armor its self consisted of 3 layers. The first was a cellular type of material, the second consisted of multiple sheets of ablative ceramic in places that didn't require maneuverability. Due to high mass compaction, this armor was a hell of a lot harder than steel but also much lighter. These sheets were also designed boil away when heated, this meant that if the armor was hit by an energy based weapon, instead of absorbing the impact, it dispersed the heat over a larger area and ultimately reduce the damage. The third was the kinetic-barrier
For the mass effect shield section you should have separated it into two categories because there are shields and barriers in mass effect there not the same thing just sayin
Titanium beskar mjolnir armor with backta imports and you got yourself a unstoppable super soldier
The Katarn armor is essentially the Star Wars equivalent to the Mjolnir armor.
The goa'uld energy sheild is pretty decent
Plot shields beat energy weapons ever time.
Endeed
I just watched "Dune" and I was curious if you include it
Elysium (2013) Kruger's hand held portable shield generator.
And then there’s Warhammer 40k with the Void shield.
“Send the enemy’s attacks to hell!”
Chapter master Astartes and Primarchs has Void Shielding.
They literally created a bubble of matter dispersion around them, that would 'misplace' projectiles and make them bend around the user
So do Titans and some Knights. Anything big enough to house the generators for it, they get it.
It's not a void shield for Astartes and their Primarchs, but rather a type of conversion field (typically housed in an iron halo by the time you get to 40k's timeframe). Even the smallest void shield generators are too big to be practically carried in battle, even for a Primarch.
Mjolnir armor. Master Chief Tested. Master Chief Approved.
What about Green Lantern rings or anything from SG-1 or Atlantis
Lets not forget Vorlon personal shield from Babylon 5 and and the Arkonide personal shield from Perry Rhodan (Mission Stardust 1967).
Honestly I love halo 4 hardlight shield even if it's not practical. But it's still cool to me non the less.
I can't help but wonder the difference between dune shields and other shields... What would happen to a dune ship and shields should they meet and fire their las guns at say a star wars ship shields and quad laser cannon? Would both blow up because of the dune las gun, or would the dune ships shields explode alone because of laser bolts? OR would both essentially nullify each other? I could only really guess at what would happen with holts man shields vs other shields and weapons. What is the best guesses??
Edit: side note..... what would happen if some dune worms or the little dune trout worms ended up (dropped off) on the desert planet in star wars Tatooine ?? would they get eaten, or terraform the planet completely into a new spice planet dune 2? There was a lot of meat eaters in Tatooine... so i wonder what would eat and what would get eaten after some time.
Think my first encounter with personal shields was in The Courtship of Princess Leia.
Effective or not, I don't think I can forget seeing Patrick Stewart fighting someone in jelly.
What about the shields on Borg drones?
Welp, time to remake this video for the new Dune adaptation's shields
Katarn for the win
I mean, fancy badges made of fragments of a 10,000 year old suit of relic armour worn by a god sounds pretty good too. (Crux Terminatus - WH40k)
Do more Mass Effect plz
I term I'd like to use for an energy shielding system if I could invent one is "Direct energy armor."
I wanna see more dune content
I never understood why the Covenant even attacked humanity.
The Ancient's personal shield from stargate should have been in this. ;-)
What about mandalorian energy shields the wrist mounted ones
What about doctor Doom's armor or cap Captain America's replacement gauntlet
What about the protoss plasma shields?
Halo Spartan vs Star Wars clone commandos