"There seems to be a natural dampening field that is making it impossible to get conclusive results."

"The dampening field is also up and running again," Jolen said.

"But how're they going to fire them once they're inside a dampening field?"

You should have enough battery power to run a dampening field for about a half-hour.

"No." As the dampening field began to take effect, it became possible to think again.

Hardly long enough for a sealed site inside a dampening field to have much effect.

"Evidently it is related to the dampening field that has stopped us."

Where did you idiots think I was getting the power for my dampening field?

"You tried to put up a dampening field without telling me," he said.

They discover a section of the ship protected with a dampening field.