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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
The concept of a deflector shield is that it places an energy barrier around the ship that is capable of deflecting not just energy, which in the concentrations it's being fired at would also possess considerable inertia of its own, but physical matter as well. It's already been scientifically proven that you can block physical matter with an energy field just as easier, if not more so, than energy. I don't have the name of the exact study, but it's out there. Google it.  |
In Mote in Gods eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, an Imperial warship's Langston field (Black globe generators in the RPG Traveller) would keep absorbing energy from torpedoes and energy weapons, shunting that energy to capacitors which in turn feed power to the shields. Once those capacitors overloaded, burn throughs or catastrophic energy discharges would take place.
The shield would flicker, allowing return fire.