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Old 2009-02-03, 01:33   Link #1899
Jimmy C
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Join Date: Jun 2007
In addition to stress, we also don't know how shields interact with attacks to stop them. Nanohaverse shields do not fail locally when penetrated like real world physical armor. When a shield is penetrated, the whole shield goes down.
So do shields absorb the incoming energy until they overload and fail? Or do they cause the incoming energy to "splatter" on them like water sprayed onto concrete?
If shields can cause "bolt" type attacks to splatter, the effectiveness of such an attack would be sharply reduced.
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