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Subject: Re: Shields, Trek vs Wars?

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Wild Karrde

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Date Posted: 08:09:48 09/02/02 Mon
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In reply to: capn hayes 's message, "Re: Shields, Trek vs Wars?" on 07:30:54 09/02/02 Mon

>That was pretty much what I thought about Particle
>shields. I just wanted to use the Nav Deflector for
>Trekkies so that they would understand that
>difference. Particle shields could (if strong enough)
>neutralize both phasers (which use nadion particles),
>and photon torpedoes (which is matter), and any enegy
>imparted from the detonation of a anti-matter warhead
>or NDF from phasers would be deflected away by the Ray
>shields. But I do have a question. Did the Trade
>Federation droid control ship either lose, or just not
>have Particle or magnetic shields? I only ask cause it
>would then answer the question of how Anakin's
>starfighter was able to fly into the main hold so
>easily. It is well known (and implied in ANH) that
>Ray/Energy shields will not stop matter or particles.
>So maybe the Droid control ship only had Ray shields
>up. I would assume The Death Star or any starship
>could not have particle shields around their exshust
>vents or engine exshaust or they would prevent them
>from producing thrust beyond the shield perimeter.
>This would explain the Death Star's flaw. It states
>that that particle shileds must be lowered to launch
>missiles or fighters. So they must work in both
>directions.
>This might indicate a tactical weakness, how would
>they overcome it?

The droid control ship had ray and particle sheilds it's just that Anakin flew in at the exact same moment that fighters were being launched so the particle sheilds of the launch bay were down for a few seconds. For fighters and missles to be launched yes the particle sheilds have to be down but the Imperials are able to open sections of their sheilds just big enough to let the fighters or missles through and even then their only open for split seconds at a time. As for the engines of the DS they're located in the equilateral trench and by the time someting got close enough to threaten them the attackers would be ripped to pieces by the DS's offensive weaponry. As for other Imperial ships such as Star Destroyers it's said the the engine "back wash" is so servere that nothing can get close enough to attack them without being either heavily damaged or destroyed.

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Re: Shields, Trek vs Wars?	capn hayes	09:41:52 09/02/02 Mon