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The tragic demise of [[Supreme Ethereal]] [[Aun’Va]] led the [[Ethereal High Council]] to assign several science divisions to the development of portable defensive technologies. A recent innovation is the solid-image projection unit. This miniaturized holowave-emitter [[drone]] projects beams of so-called ‘heavy light’, forming an utterly convincing illusory image that is solid to the touch, while simultaneously masking the true target with an advanced refraction field.{{Fn|1}}