Mines

If mines are detonation lasers they might ignore shields - remember that
beams are asumed to be particle beams.
However that is just nit-picking. Though it does make mines nastier, a
beam that ignores screens.

I rather like the captor mine style. The mine fires a missile at the
ship.

Maybe there is room for both, but that leads to a SFB style book keeping
nightmare.

Michael