Crystal Field Generator

Ixia Field Generator is the defensive system in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Future of Fate series. The system were used by Prayitno Faction and later, United of Earth Forces and Dark Prayitno Faction.

Description & Characteristics
When any power sources are released into the air or into open space, the positive and negative particles spontaneously align themselves into a three-dimensional cubic lattice. Due to the repulsive and electrostatic forces between the power source, this lattice functions as a kind of a force field, which is referred to as an I-field. This Field has difficulty permeating conductive materials like metal, water, and plasma, and it exerts a repulsive force against mega particles. The Ixia Field is used to to deflect enemy mega particle beams. When the generator is activated, the Ixia Field forms an invisible barrier around the mobile weapon, protecting it from incoming beam attacks.

However, the weakness of this barrier, however, are their inability to protect against solid objects like missiles, projectiles, and solid-blades. This solid-state blades were possess the capability to cancel out the defensive properties of the Ixia Field Generator in the locale of the blade's point of contact and allows the blade to penetrate the opposing Ixia Field, regardless of field strength.

If the point of contact is key to the field's structure, the entire field could potentially collapse and be negated altogether. Besides solid-state blades, other physical objects infused with enough energy are capable to forcing their way past a Ixia Field if enough brute force is applied to the object as well, which takes several times.

Eventually, Prayitno Faction engineers also learned to manipulate Ixia Fields for more offensive purposes. By controlling the formations of the field, it can be used as a focal point to fire more powerful particle beams. By firing behind a focused field, the destructive yield of a beam weapon can be doubled and beam weapons can still be used at point blank range within the barrier's boundary.