Endlessly roaming through the Space, an alien fleet is closing to a blue planet. Its inhabitants, blissfully unaware of the upcoming threat, are struggling with the chaos they have to face everyday. And yet, it will all soon change. The world will finally become united against a common enemy. The Earth will never be the same anymore. But what will this war bring? Do the humans stand any chance against such a foe? Will everyone willingly join to fight the alien thread? And why, do the aliens seem to look so human-like?...
Since Phobos added shield logic, i've incorporated it into the mod as a universal Protection Bar, which serves different functions for different factions.
For Vintarids, it serves as something called "liquid form". As long as their units are in that state, physical projectiles pass through them as through water, making them extremely resistant to bullets, cannonfire and even missiles. This would allow them to completely dominate humanity if it wasn't for Essence and their special weapons, like the Zeus Surveillance airship. Acting like a giant resonance coil and an antenna, it generates EM waves which causes Vintarid units to solidify, making them vulnerable to conventional weapons.
Paladins, among other things, use it as a control indicator for thoughtforms. Once it is depleted, the psychic control over a thoughtform is lost and it is disabled for a moment, making its core destructible.
So far Essence doesn't use it at all, even though i've been thinking about using it as a morale bar. However, don't really feel like there's a need for that now.
How about for the Paladins they lose movement if their protection bar depletes.
For the Essence the depletion of the protection bar of being unable to fire back.
So for vintarids loss of defence.
For paladins loss of speed.
For essence loss of attack.