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Smallest aether-interdiction equipment in setting?

OsakanOne

OsakanOne

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This is a bit of an odd and very specialist question relating specifically to future roleplay. This information should be something an NPC we will be dealing with should know about.

1. What options are available in terms of man-portable aether interdiction devices in the setting? Operational duration and range are secondary concerns to portability and the device in question does not need to be re-usable.

2. Who, if anyone, civilian or military manufactures or has circulated such equipment in the past?

3. What would be the proper IC channels to negotiate for the transfer of ownership, theft, trade or sale of such hardware (legal, complicit, non-complicit and illegal)?

4. What are the laws: public, private and military governing the ownership, transfer of ownership, sale, deployment and operation of such hardware (if any at all)?

Among those worried: Its an item specifically to be used in a story-event, not something to be replicated or used on a larger basis.

It may be used more than once or the need to construct or buy more than one may exist.

Thank-you for your time.
 
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I don't know if they're the smallest but these Aether generators by Origin are pretty small.

Edit:Oh wait I read your post wrong. Bleh that's what I get for being busy while reading this. If you want interdiction, I'm not sure there are any articles on them. Most of them seem to be one time use things. And aether is only really heavily used by Yamatai anyway so I guess no company has really seen the need to stop it.
 
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Yamatai doesn't use them and most of their starships' aether generators aren't even affected by them anymore since they've had years to engineer around this (power armors tend to have battery backups instead of shielding).

Opinion: Aether interdiction is a gimmick that has ranges too short and too easily overcome to be useful. And frankly, the only reason it was in the setting in the first place was as a spooky Mishhu macguffin for a particular plot and then Doctomoe started trying to slap it on everything Lorath.

Such tech was on some Lorath/UMC shuttlecraft, so you can probably use that scale (maybe the size of a small diesel generator?) if nothing else?
 
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