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

That's how they explained screens in Traveller:2300.  Other versions
used 
sand casters which were not suspended by fields.  Fun reading.

Mike

Michael Miserendino
Senior Software Engineer
Lincoln Re
mtmiserendino@lnc.com

>>> owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU at internet 01/15/00 10:32PM >>>
Place a field of metalic dust around the ship and maintain it with a
magnetic field, resupply the field as it is diminished.  Lasers, charged
particles and munitions will hit, scatter or be destroyed as they impact
the
particle field.  Computer controls on the field can concentrate the
field
density along the threat axis as well as guide where reinforcing
material is
required.