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|'''Shield extenders''' increase ships shield HP by a flat number. The drawback is increased signature radius that makes the ship easier to hit. Oversized modules are often used. For example medium shield extender on a frigate.

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|'''Shield hardeners''' are active modules that increase ship's shield resists. Adaptive invulnerablility field increases resist to all damage types but less than type specific modules. The name is misleading and the module does not adapt to damage like the reactive armor hardener. Active shield hardeners are considerably more effective than the passive shield resistance amplifiers.

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|'''Shield resistance amplifiers''' are passive modules that increase ship's shield resists. Easier to fit than active hardeners and do not need any capacitor. Considerably lower resist bonus compared to active hardeners. The resist bonus increases with apropriate shield compnsation skill. There is no resistance amplifier that increases all resist types like there is for armor.

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|'''Damage control''' is a passive module that increases ship's shield, armor and hull resists. This module is not stacking penalized with any other shield resist module.

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|'''Shield power relays''' are passive modules that increase ship's shield recharge rate at the cost of reduced capacitor recharge rate. This module defines a passive shield tank. Since the relay modules fit in low slots, this means more Extenders may be fitted alongside them. On the other hand, this also means no low slot weapon upgrade modules for high damage. This will limit the situations where a passive tank may be used. One of the few low slot shield modules.

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|'''Shield flux coils''' are passive modules that increase ship's shield recharge rate at the cost of reduced shield capacity. The reduced shield capacity reduces the shield recharge rate but the recharge rate bonus on flux coils is larger than on power relays resulting in higher recharge rate.

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|'''Shield rechargers''' are passive mid slot modules which provide a modest increase to the shield recharge rate. If there is fitting room for shield extender then that may be a better choice.

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|'''Shield boosters''' consume ship's capacitor and repair, or ''boost'', the shields in exchange. The repair happens at the beginning of the module cycle.

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|'''Ancillary shield booster'''  works in the same way as a normal Shield Booster does: it transfers capacitor energy into shield HP, but it repairs a lot more shield HP per cycle than a normal Shield Booster does. Repairs around 40% more than a normal shield booster. Can be loaded with cap boosters. While the module has cap boosters loaded it uses no capacitor at all.  After the cap boosters run out the ancillary shield booster uses over three times more capacitor than a normal shield booster. Reloading the cap boosters takes one minute. During this time the ancillary shield booster can not be used. The size of used cap booster has no effect. The smallest useable cap booster should always be used to maximize number of cycles. With smallest navy cap boosters the ancillary shield booster always fits 10 charges. This module is used to get very high active repair for short duration. More than one ancillary shield booster can be fitted.

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|'''Shield boost amplifiers''' are passive mid slot modules that increase shield booster repair ammount by around 30%. The fitting requirements are about same as on a medium shield booster. This makes these impractical for sub battleship hulls. The repair increase is without additional capacitor usage. If capacitor is limiting then a boost amplifier can be used instead of second shield booster.<br>

Doubles the module damage from overheating.

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|'''Remote shield boosters''' use capacitor to repair shields of a single target. You must target lock the ship to be repaired, and that your cannot repair your own ship with a remote shield booster.  

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|'''Power diagnostics systems''' are low slot engineering modules. Small percentage increase to shield capacity, capacitor capacity, powergrid output, shield recharge rate and capacitor recharge rate.

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|'''Capacitor power relays'''are not exactly a shield modules. Passive low slot engineering modules that increase capacitor recharge rate at the expense of reduced shield booster repair ammount. Thse modules are generally avoided on active shield tanked ships. The penalty does not apply to remote shield boosters.

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|'''Rigs'''

* Core defense field extenders increase shield capacity by a percentage ammount.  

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|'''Implants'''

* Slot 6: Zainou 'Gnome' Shield Upgrades SU-6XX series reduces shield extender powergrid needs by a few&nbsp;%. Rarely used.

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|'''Blue Pill''' medical booster greatly increases the ship's active shield boosting ammount.

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=== Shield skills===