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Originally Posted by Iphinome
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.
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Ah but when you are traveling faster than light there are no silly dust particles to worry about.
