Stasis field
| Energy Fields | Imperial Armour |
|---|---|
| Conversion field - Displacer field - Stasis field |
A Stasis Field is a name for both a device and the effect it causes.[1b]
Overview
Essentially a time-warp generator, stasis fields create breaks in the normal flow of space-time within their area of effect, slowing massively the progress of causality. The closer one is to the centre of the stasis-field, the slower time appears to move; a single moment can take so long to play out inside a stasis field that it appears frozen to observers outside the effected area. Because the contents of a stasis field are divorced from the normal passage of time, it is effectively impossible to alter the conditions of the inside of the field in any way. This makes whatever is caught in the area of effect almost completely frozen and unable to be harmed.[1b]
Stasis fields are normally used to contain people and objects in effectively unchanging conditions. Possibly the most famous stasis field is that which enclosed the body of the Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman, who was interred in a stasis field upon the moment of death. Eversor Assassins are kept in stasis chambers when not active in the field.[1b]
Some Magos Domini of the Adeptus Mechanicus are equipped with stasis field generators to protect themselves on the battlefield. When activated these fields will arrest all incoming shots, though they can only be active for a short period of time. However, against most attacks this is sufficient; such a field can stop high-caliber bullets fired by an attacking Avenger in mid-flight which, having lost all momentum, fall to the ground harmlessly when the field expires.[2]
Examples
Imperial
- Stasis Shells[13]
- Stasis grenade[1a]
- Stasis Bomb[3]
- Stasis Trap[4]
- Stasis Oubliette[5]
- Stasis missile[6]
- Stasis Mine[12]
- Stasis Casket[9]
- Stasis Hover Platform[10]
- The Stasis Vaults of The Rock[11] and Deathwatch Watch-Fortress's[14]
- Unbound Flame[16]
- Shrine of Guilliman[15]
Xenos
Related Articles
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
- 2: Adeptus Mechanicus: Tech-Priest (Novel), ch. 0010
- 3: Codex: Dark Angels (6th Edition) pg. 51
- 4: Deathwatch: Rites of Battle, pg. 243
- 5: Psychic Awakening: War of the Spider, pg. 35
- 6: Adeptus Titanicus (game) Rulebook, pg. 36-37
- 7: The Horus Heresy Book Seven - Inferno, pg. 228
- 8: The Twice-Dead King - Reign (Novel), Chapter 15
- 9: Necromunda: The Aranthian Succession: Cinderak Burning, pg. 16
- 10: White Dwarf 294 (UK) pg. 67
- 11: Index Astartes I, pgs. 18-22 — The Unforgiven: The Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter
- 12: Dark Heresy: The Lathe Worlds, The Lost Dataslate, pg. 9
- 13: Codex Supplement: Dark Angels (9th Edition), pg. 45
- 14: Deathwatch: Honour the Chapter, pg. 135
- 15: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 15
- 16: Codex Supplement: Salamanders (8th Edition) pg.36
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