Shield Matrixes

[The Devil's Advocate]

A shield Matrix is a group of shields that, essentially, occupy the same location without interfering with one another. If done properly they all support one another. The entire Matrix can be given programing as well as parts of it.

I have my shred and absorb shield, my empathy shield, my Astral shield, and my telepathy shield as the core of my matrix. (There are more, but I'm not going to give away all my little secrets. )

The matrix over all has a purpose to block any unpleasant energy, and notify me of attacks.

Anyone else use this technique? Or have questions about it?

~The Devil's Advocate

[confuded92]

Yea! Me! I have a question! Dont you just do a bunch of shields?!

[innerfire]

So, wait, instead of layering it the shields are all in the exact same space?

[The Devil's Advocate]

Inner fire: Yes. Cullen's thread shields do a similar task, but I haven't had a chance to talk with him in depth on the mechanics of how what he calls thread shields and what I call thread shields work. He programes the individual threads of the shield as completely separate constructs. Mine occupy the same rough space. If you get down to the psionic equivilent of the molecular level, they are still distinct from one another and do not occupy exactly the same space, but as far as the bulk of the shield goes, they are occupying the same space.

Confuded: This is a denser pattern. it also conserves space so you don't wind up with people physically inside the area of your shields, which rather defeats their purpose.

~The Devil's Advocate

[confuded92]

WoW !!! You mean you have a big thread-shield and certain amount of threads do one function, others other functions and all of them are tied up in one Thread-shield?! Wow!!! Nice shielding DA !!!

P.S. How long do you spend on making all of your shields as Matrix shield?

[The Devil's Advocate]

If it takes more than 20 seconds for me to reconstruct the entire thing from scratch I am doing something VERY wrong. And mine are more merged. Cullens are the ones where each thread uses different programing. Mine is more along the lines of a crystal matrix.

~The Devil's Advocate

[confuded92]

WoW! Amazing!

[Cullen]

Yah, that shield style sounds pritty cool. Basically, as far as I can tell, it is a lot of programming into a single shield, giving it lots of functionality. but you are still programming all the energy. The way thread-shields work, is by putting all the programming in the small centralized threads, and having them programed to project or overlay that programming onto raw energy around them. By weaving several different programmed threads into a large shield, they all project onto only 'raw' energy. (so that they do not try to overwrite the programming in the other threads.) anyway, by doing it in this way you can ramp up the power in your shield quickly, without having to program everything you put in.

[confuded92]

I didnt realy get the part with raw energy...

[Cullen]

Raw energy would be concentrated psi with no taint of coding or residual signatures. (though faint signatures of the person who created it won't hurt anything, and can be harder to get rid of. But basically the strings overlay their own code onto this 'raw' unprogrammed energy.

~Hope that clears it up, if not, try reading the article on thread-con.

[wolfdancer]

DA and Cullen: The two sound really similar in fuction to me and seem to just be different patterns and methods or reaching the same end. Am I missing something? DA's shields do seem to me to have seperate identities though they are tightly 'woven'/merged together. But then for some reason it is a little easier for me to identify purposes and programming in some shields than others. Cullen, yours has always been more of a challenge to even identify that there are multiple types of programming (though I haven't looked at your shields in quite a while now). I wonder if it has something to do with the style of programming or approach used. So many things to ponder. Anyway, I had better close my mouth before I derail this topic too far.

[loganfynne]

This is very interesting... I have never tried a thread shield or a shield matrix. I always stuck to shields and constructs...