"The klaxon began to wail, but we felt the reassuring tingle of the Tachyon Field crackling to life around us, encasing the entire base in its impenetrable glow."
— Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, "The Fall of Sparta"
"Until now the battle had been proceeding smoothly: the enemy was outflanked and had been driven from the reactor housing. But against the reactor itself the matter cannon were strangely ineffective. Rounds simply . . . stopped. In mid-air."
— Col. Corazon Santiago, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, "A Tactical History of Sparta"
"And what," asked Blaustein, gently, "is a force field?"
"I wish I could tell you. Right now, it's an equation on paper. Energy can be so channeled as to create a wall of matterless inertia, theoretically. In practice, we don't know how to do it."
"I wish I could tell you. Right now, it's an equation on paper. Energy can be so channeled as to create a wall of matterless inertia, theoretically. In practice, we don't know how to do it."
"A few minutes would suffice to surround our island with a stream of free aether. No solid body can pass through this stream, it would be whirled away, dissolved into atoms. Shells and armoured ships vanish in it like a straw in a flame."
— Philandros, Apoikis by Kurd Laßwitz
You cannot defeat our force field!
— Martian, Attack from Mars
"I'll bring it down in a flying tackle...![...] I bounced off that glowing aura! It must be an impenetrable force-shield similar to the one used by Brainiac, the space villain!
Megatron:"Energise the force fields!"
Soundwave: "What force fields?"
Soundwave: "What force fields?"
—The Transformers, "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide"
