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Shield Conversion - Front

Common Hullmod

7,000¢

Description

Locks the ship's omni-directional shield emitter to a front-facing position and extends its arc by 100%. As with all frontal emitters, the shield will also deploy twice as quickly.

S-mod bonus

Reduces the amount of damage taken by shields by 5%.

Short description

Converts omni shield to front, extends arc.

OP cost
Frigate	Destroyer	Cruiser	Capital
3	5	8	12

Game data

ID

frontemitter

Tier

Overview

Shield Conversion - Front is a hullmod that can be installed on any ship that has shields.

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Tips and strategies

The following section contains user-submitted suggestions, these may be inaccurate or outdated.

This hullmod can serve as a way of achieving an effect similar to both Accelerated Shields & Extended Shields, while being cheaper.
This is useful for ships that wants full shield coverage such as the Monitor, or for ships that will generally be facing its opponents head-on, such as the Paragon or Aurora, in the latter case also providing full shield coverage.

Hullmods

Standard	Accelerated Shields Adaptive Phase Coils Advanced Optics Advanced Turret Gyros Armored Weapon Mounts Automated Repair Unit Auxiliary Thrusters Ballistic Rangefinder Blast Doors Converted Hangar Dedicated Targeting Core Defensive Targeting Array ECCM Package ECM Package Escort Package Expanded Deck Crew Expanded Magazines Expanded Missile Racks Extended Shields Flux Coil Adjunct Flux Distributor Hardened Shields Hardened Subsystems Heavy Armor High Scatter Amplifier Integrated Point Defense AI Integrated Targeting Unit Makeshift Shield Generator Missile Autoloader Nav Relay Operations Center Phase Anchor Recovery Shuttles Reinforced Bulkheads Resistant Flux Conduits Safety Overrides Shield Conversion - Front Shield Conversion - Omni Shield Shunt Stabilized Shields Unstable Injector

Logistics	Additional Berthing Augmented Drive Field Auxiliary Fuel Tanks Converted Fighter Bay Efficiency Overhaul Expanded Cargo Holds High Resolution Sensors Insulated Engine Assembly Militarized Subsystems Solar Shielding Surveying Equipment

Skill only	Neural Integrator Neural Interface

Built-in only	Ablative Armor Advanced Ground Support Advanced Targeting Core B-Deck Civilian-grade Hull Converted Cargo Bay Delicate Machinery Design Compromises Distributed Fire Control Drive Field Stabilizer Energy Bolt Coherer Experimental Phase Coils Flux Shunt Ground Support Package Heavy Ballistics Integration High Maintenance Phase Field Missile Autoforge Rugged Construction Salvage Gantry Shielded Cargo Holds Vast Hangar

Damage	Compromised Armor Compromised Hull Compromised Storage Damaged Flight Deck Defective Manufactory Degraded Drive Field Degraded Engines Degraded Life Support Degraded Shields Damaged Weapon Mounts Erratic Fuel Injector Faulty Automated Systems Faulty Power Grid Glitched Sensor Array Increased Maintenance Malfunctioning Comms Phase Coil Instability Structural Damage Unreliable Subsystems

Faction	Automated Ship Fourteenth Battlegroup Ill-Advised Modifications Special Modifications

Station	Always Detaches Axial Rotation Fighter Chassis Storage Never Detaches Reduced Explosion Shared Flux Sink Stealth Minefield Targeting Supercomputer Vast Bulk

Fighter	No Weapon Flux Terminator Core

Unused/removed	Assault Package Destroyed Weapon Mounts Militarized Hegemony Auxiliary Monofilament Tow Cable

Hidden hullmods

Threat	Fragment Swarm Fragment Coordinator Secondary Fabricator Threat Hull

Shrouded Dweller	Shrouded Lens Shrouded Mantle Shrouded Thunderhead

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