Energy-dampening weapon

An energy-dampening weapon or energy dissipater was an advanced energy weapon used by the Tholians and Breen.
In the mid 22nd century, s were equipped with an energy-dampening weapon. In 2152, they disabled the Earth starship with such weapons, rendering it completely powerless. ()
The weapon was encountered by Federation forces when the Breen entered the Dominion War as allies of the Dominion in 2375, at the Second Battle of Chin'toka. Since allied ships had never encountered the weapon before, it was especially effective against them. The weapon worked by draining the energy of targeted ships, disabling their engines, weapons, and shields, thus making them easy targets for conventional weapons. Among the vessels lost to the weapon was the . () The Dominion had been in the process of retrofitting all Jem'Hadar vessels with the weapon. ()
Klingon ships could easily be made immune to the weapon by modifying their tritium intermix. This was discovered by accident after the engineer of a Bird-of-Prey, the , performed the procedure to correct a containment problem in the ship's warp core.
Unfortunately, Federation and Romulan ships could not be as easily modified. However, this problem was solved when Kira Nerys captured a Jem'Hadar fighter with the weapon installed, allowing Allied engineers to study the dampening weapon in detail. () By the war's end, the Federation Alliance succeeded in developing a countermeasure to the Breen weapon, forcing the Dominion to discontinue its use. ()
By 2381, the Breen had modified the weapon to be partially effective against the shields and engines of Federation ships again. Three Breen interceptors used it against the over Brekka with two hits draining most of the ship's shields and disabling the engines, although the ship was not completely disabled. unlike previous Federation ships attacked with the weapon. However, the Cerritos was rescued from destruction by the . ()
==See also==
*Energy absorber
*Energy drain
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Category:Directed energy weapons