The Prelate slipped his left hand into his hardlight gauntlet and pulled it away from his belt. He activated the gauntlet with a forearm snap, and as its bright blue, crescent-shaped shield appeared at his wrist, the Prelate felt the world slow around him.

-Halo: Fractures, pg. 182 (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

	dodging their wild shots with quick lateral pulses from his anti-grav belt and swatting away accurate ones with his hardlight shield.

-Halo: Fractures, pg. 183 (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

	the Prelate raised his hardlight shield and deflected three shots from a Covenant carbine rifle.

-Halo: Fractures, pg. 183 (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

	He swung his shield in a low arc at one Sangheili, severing both its legs at the back-bent junctions of its calves and elongated ankles. There was barely any resistance as the shield’s photonic edge slid through armor, flesh, and bone.

-Halo: Fractures, pg. 183 (Halo: Shadow of Intent)