Shroud (starship countermeasure)

A Shroud was a countermeasure device fitted to some space vessels. It functioned by confusing and displacing the tracking lock of a tractor beam, enabling a ship to escape the hold of the beam. It consisted of a wave-layered bomb, containing highly reflective particles, that would throw off the tracking lock, presumably by confusing the tractor beam's sensors.

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