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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Shields. Huge silly sci-fi trope. Capable of deflecting energy weapons fire, but incapable of capturing some of that energy to direct back at the enemy. And should be useless against a physical weapon, but somehow they manage to take out projectile fire too. Wassup with that?
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Given that even running into dust at a considerable fraction of C is likely to cause damage and release some nasty energy like say x-rays, I'd imagine the first purpose of any shields devolved would be protection form projectiles. Stopping energy weapons is all well and good but before you can think of arming a ship with, or protecting one from them you need your ship to be able to get places to fight. Hence shielding from interstellar crap.
Either that or a few hundred meters of heavy duty armor plating for the dust to grind off.