RIDE THE WAVE

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One of the most widely used pieces of tech in the Galaxy’s Edge universe is also one of the most incredible. 

The Repulsor.

Repulsor tech initially came during the age of expansion, when mankind had discovered the hyper-drive, colonizing the stars. Deriving from a combination of pulse emitted magnetism combined with shield technology, the repulsor acts like an energy thruster with a wide range of uses.

Originally used for repelling ships during boarding action, the repulsor was adapted as locomotion for ground-based vehicles over hostile terrain. Because the tech relied on an energy wave repulsed against a magnetic field, the repulsor array allowed for vehicles to tackle all sorts of terrain. From water to scorching deserts, or even over volcanic rock, the repulsor creates an energy field that allows for an object to defy gravity and hover over a given terrain.

But while locomotion in vehicles, bots, and even repulsor-chairs like those seen in Savage Wars: The Hundred, is the typical job for the tech, it is even more widely used.s. 

Repulsor catapults launch fighter starcraft from their carriers, providing an instant speed to engage enemy craft. Repulsor fields can act as redirecting field emitters for out-of-control ships heading into space station hangars. A shaped wave array can act like a slide to guide dangerous craft away from the station and into space where they can be recovered. 

The tech has even become miniaturized enough for some hand held weapon’s tech. The weapons fielded by the mercenary company, Black Leaf, involved repulsor tech in how it fired. A two-stage chamber fired the munitions by first pushing the six-point-five millimeter round through the chamber, where it receives an energy enhancing sheath and is pushed the rest of the way through the barrel by a repulsor field. The effect launches the round at two-thousand-five hundred miles per hour and produces incredible blast and kinetic results.

But for all its incredible uses, the repulsor isn’t fail proof. Certain magnetic fields disrupt repulsor arrays. In some places, like asteroid fields, this requires the use of old school thrusters to keep ships from being crushed. Some colonial planets on the edge also disrupt repulsor fields, requiring wheeled or track vehicles to negotiate the terrain instead.

For more on this amazing tech, check out the Hundred or Takeover!