Peacekeeper Upgrade Module: Lockdown Shield

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This module is available upon researching Advanced Weapons Technology

Upon upgrading the peace-keeper cyborg with the module, they get a different shield from the Kinetic Dampener.


Upon shield activation:
Virtually bolts the cyborg in place, and they cannot be dragged or moved.
Drains the cyborg's battery at 2,000 charge per tick (or 1,000 per second).


Shield Characteristics:

The shield's color is a dark purple to differentiate between the normal shield
The shield has a radius of 1, so 3x3 square centered on the borg.
The shield prevents ALL types of damage to those within the shield, including the peacekeeper cyborg.
The shield prevents mobs that have density (so excluding ethereal threats like wraith constructs and revenants) from moving across the shield boundary.
The shield stops ALL projectiles that come into contact with it

The cyborg will sound a custom alarm, and the shield will de-activate after 2 seconds and drain 20,000 units of energy from the cyborg IF the following conditions are met:
A SINGLE proc of damage equaling more than 140 (insta-crit weapons) is blocked by the shield.
The shield area is hit by the 'gibbing' or 'heavy' damage radius of an explosion
An ion round of ANY type is fired at the shield, this includes not just the ion rifle, but the ion carbine, exosuit ion weaponry, etc.



Benefits and balances of the module:
Peacekeeper cyborg can become INCREDIBLY useful and robust during fire-fights, battles and in general human harm, but at the EXTREMELY expensive battery cost.
Good for medical cyborg cohesion as well as medical in general.
Keep in mind that bluespace power cells only have 40k capacity, and a yellow slime core's regeneration is only 500 units, so you will still run out of power VERY quickly.
You can't 'block' big explosions with this, you can only prevent the damage, after which your shield will basically break and drain your battery.