Temporal shielding

Temporal shielding, also known as time-protection, is a type of energy shielding on starships used to prevent time dilation while traveling in space, in hyperspace, or on/around celestial bodies with anomalous gravitational properties. Some temporal shields completely prevented time dilation, while others, particularly older models, only slightly lessened its effects. Temporal shield generators achieved this by manipulating the local gravity strength, as it was a drastic change in gravity that resulted in time dilation. Many spacers set their temporal shields to the gravity setting of their homeworld, though later virtually all generators were set at a "Common Gravitational Adjustment Protocol", in which the Galactic Senate's Interstellar Traversal Committee established the standard gravity level that all spacers were legally required to set their starships to while traveling at any point in known space. By the time of the Imperial Period, most artificial gravity generator models aboard starships were equipped with integrated temporal shield generators as both manipulated and generated gravity in a similar manner.