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

In a message dated 1/10/00 9:21:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au writes:

> G'day Laserlight,
>  
>  >Beth used lots of idioms while discussing screens and modules,
>  >all of which have been mercilessly snipped.
>  
>  Think of it as exorcising the email equivalent of a terrible accent
;)
>  
>  >I proposed, some time ago, freighter which could operate as
>  >armed merchantmen with the addition of weapons modules...
>  
>  All of which looks grand and very sensible, but doesn't really answer
my
>  question about how you think screens may even vaguely work ;)
>  

Here's my try at how screens work--since beams can be defined as charged

particle beams (I am assuming electron, since that's easier to go FAST)
which 
is why they can casue widespread system failures, then screens could be
some 
sort of Faraday Field/Cage or some other electro-magnetic mumbo-jumbo. 
So, 
that means the shape of the field could vary from "along ship skin/hull
(via 
embedded network)" or "100 meter circle centered on Generator" or
anything in 
between.

Just a thought.

Rob