Particle shield/Legends
A particle shield, navigational shield,[1] or concussion shield[2] was a type of deflector shield used to deflect physical projectiles or space debris. The shield had to be deactivated to launch spacecraft such as shuttles or starfighters, or if a starship wished to fire its own projectiles.[3]
In 23 BBY, during a mission to Fondor, though the particle shield of Anakin Skywalker's borrowed CloakShape fighter held up in the explosive aftermath of the destruction of Groodo the Hutt's counterfeit Sun Runner transport, Skywalker was forced to finish the job when he noticed that the derelict's 20-warhead sensor-guided missile silo was still intact and on a trajectory towards Fondor's jungle-moon of Nallastia. Aiming the CloakShape's concussion-missile launcher at the silo, Skywalker was successful in destroying it, but the powerful blast's shock waves sent his fighter into an out-of-control spiral, down through Nallastia's atmosphere to the moon's surface, where it crash-landed. Skywalker was later retrieved by his Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Knight Bultar Swan.[4]
Appearances
- Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
- Star Wars Adventures 1: Hunt the Sun Runner
- Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization (First appearance)
"Only Droids Serve the Maker" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 10- Jedi's Honor
- The Constancia Affair
- Black Ice
- "The Great Herdship Heist" – Star Wars Adventure Journal 15
- Beyond the Rim
"A Typical Survey" – Galaxy Guide 8: Scouts- Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
- Before the Storm
- Shield of Lies
- Tyrant's Test
- Specter of the Past
- Specter of the Past unabridged audiobook
- The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest
- The New Jedi Order: Ylesia
- Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
- Legacy of the Force: Inferno
- Crucible
- Crucible audiobook
- Death Star Designer