Re: [FT] How screens work (was Re: UNSC designs)

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Beth Fulton wrote:

> Which also sounds good - though it'd be interesting to see what
happened if
> the spheres of ships interpenetrated ;)

I rather like Ken Kato's use of screens in his books on Colonial 
Expansion. 

He makes use of the concept that interlocking fields reinforce each
other 
and make a stronger whole. Ships tend to use beams, but the American 
traders bring a new weapon on the scene, a mass driver that fires nasty 
particles of superdense material (albiet small) that is quite hard on
the 
opposing ships and completely ignores shields. 

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