Your Atreides Shieldbelt is the mark of your allegiance and the source of significant protection in combat. It uses advanced Holtzmann field technology to manipulate potential and kinetic energy for both defense and offense.
Your shieldbelt's capabilities may be upgraded in the Atreides Headquarters.
Defensive Capabilities: Your shieldbelt has up to three defensive calibrations. Each reduces incoming damage in proportion to the potential energy stored in the shieldbelt, albiet at varying rates of efficiency. All mitigated damage is converted directly into kinetic energy and stored in the shieldbelt.
Basic Shields: Reduces incoming damage.
Reflective Shields: Offers lower possible damage mitigation than the basic shields, but instead hurts your opponent with a portion of their own attacks' damage.
Absorbing Shields: Offers greater damage reduction than other modes, but converts potential to kinetic energy at a much more rapid rate.
Offensive Capabilities: Your shieldbelt has up to three offensive capabilities. Each converts stored kinetic energy into an intermediate form which damages your opponent, and then finally converts back to potential energy. Using more energy has a compounding effect and drastically increases the possible damage done.
Burn: Your shieldbelt converts stored kinetic energy into a controlled burst of thermal energy. This does incredible damage to your opponent, but also does some damage to you.
Irradiate: Your shieldbelt converts stored kinetic energy into a pinpoint emission of gamma rays which damages your opponent. This does moderate damage, but completely ignores armour.
Shock: Your shieldbelt converts stored kinetic energy into multiple electro-magnetic waves which damage your opponent. This does moderate damage which cannot be evaded.