🛡 The Gluon dome

The Gluon Shield raises a hemisphere over the whole colony. Raids must break it before anything lands; it keeps dust storms, rain and snow out, buildings under it weather four times slower, collectors ignore storms, and flares are absorbed. It is a milestone: Gluon tech and Core level 3, ⚡900 ⬢700 and 40 graphene, a minute to raise.

• It drinks power while it stands: ⚡30 a minute per shield level, taken from the grid like the cloak. The energy tip in the top bar lists it.
• If the grid runs dry the dome browns out and drops: no shield, no weather protection, until stores climb past ⚡60 again — then it recharges from empty.
• A broken dome (a raid got through) recharges over half an era; Dome Harmonics halves that.