Star Trek: Warrior - Book One - "Legacy"
This was about a century before the advent of regenerative shielding. shields of that era were nowhere near as advanced at dealing with gravimetric pulses and a sustained graviton beam at the victorious would momentarily disrupt their shield grid."
Queen to Be Thicc_ Second Draft
Dragonkind's once sweeping influence had been reduced to a single city with the advent of the mana leak. all the elder dragons had been forced into a deep hibernation from which they might never awaken, all save empress cinder, of course.