Photonic Shield (Timeless)

The Photonic Shield is a quite weak shield, with limited HP and resistance but that can regenerate itself, won't slow you down and can deflect energy based projectiles

Appearance and origins
It is a short metallic device, with some kind of blueish square on its center. This square will deploy a force field like shield when tapped on, with a blueish color. The shield itself is rectangular, and 50x120 centimeters wide. When it takes damage, it will slightly glow at the impact's place, and will be forced shut if the shield gets to 0 HP. After taking 50 damage, it will become green, and will become yellow after 100 damage, orange after 150 and red after 200. It will regenerate 20 HP per second when it hasn't been hit for 5 seconds, and if it gets disabled, will have a 15 seconds cooldown before it can get used again

Strategies
This shield is in general difficult to use ; it has a limited resistance, and will often decrease your stamina more than other shields when you block attacks. It is also quite poor in terms of attacks, as it can only be used to shove back a little bit ennemies that are too close. However, the fact that it doesn't slow you down and its ability to deflect energetic projectiles makes it very recommendable against ennemies that can shoot. For example, a Cyborg Zombie can decrease a lot of his HP and overheat without even hitting you once if he shoots you, and what is usually a terrifying Z-Mech will end up hitting himsef quite hard, as long as he doesn't get too close. It can also help avoiding having Mechanical Wolves jump directly at you, but won't hold long, and should absolutely not be used with Harvester Mech, as it would crumble in a few seconds. Against TFTs, it won't hold, only absorbing a single plasma shot before getting shut down and emptying almost all your stamina

Trivia

 * It is the first shield to have its own page