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

In a message dated 1/11/2000 3:31:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
monty@arcadia.turner.com writes:

> 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. 

Hmm, sounds like the Kra'Vak Rail Guns...
-Stephen