== Life Saving Capacitor ==

A ship's Witchdrive with its Quirium fuel represents a vast reserve of potential energy, essential for forming the brief wormhole that allows entry into Witchspace and transit to another planetary system.

In a recent communiqué, Galcop has reported development and final testing of a means to harness this potential energy for a different purpose. 

Channeled through a Black Labs-designed conduit and capacitor unit, their new defensive asset will shore up shield strength when an enforcement vessel comes under intensive and prolonged laser fire. They have dubbed the new piece of equipment Witch-Charger.

The Witch-Charger unit continuously monitors the ship's hull, shields, and energy status, actuating when one of these enters critical condition. Shield resistance is maintained and shored up during a potentially losing combat situation, but at the expense of the vessel's fuel. 

Eventually the Quirium will deplete itself but, in typical cases, well before the hostile's lasers penetrate the hull.

It has been called by newly-appointed Galcop DCC Dor Reval "a simple trade-off between short-term mobility and survival. In light of our Police Corps' current manpower predicament, this innovation has arrived not a moment too soon."
