The Kestrel (FTL: Faster Than Light) meets a new kind of slaver
Firebreak | Human Domestication Guide Wiki
>The firebreak is an anything suppression system, from fires, to bullets, to lasers, to any bit of danger it will take it in a fraction of a second and put it into hyperspace where it can't hurt you. Many of our ships don't even have one. This one does!
>How it works is the system will detect the emission spike of a weapon being used, and then the jump drives engage at a much smaller level and direct their cutting edge to score spacetime lightly except for where they intersect. (...)
>Now it is ineffective against hypermetric weaponry as once the projectile exits hyperspace in its target it is too late to shunt back into hyperspace. Thankfully your Accord hadn't invented such weaponry.
>Oh, you learned about jump drive suppression? Yes flower, while jump suppression is active the firebreak system is offline, so we have to be very careful with it.
With other words:
- The "Firebreak" system relies on engines to work
- It doesn't work against teleporting weapons
- It doesn't work while the engines are jammed
- Most of their ships don't even have one