Cav's shield suggestion

Brushes

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#21
Hmmm, on that note, what about a shield sys that only blocks asteroids and debris? It'd be very useful in a utilitarian role.
 

Norway174

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#23
Do we even know if we will encounter shooting asteroids or debris? As in, will they be a real threat?

And even if that were a thing, I'm still not convinced we'd need shields for them.
Either they'd probably be weak enough to bounce off the armor, rare enough, and do little enough damage that it won't be troublesome to fix. Or big enough so you can see them and avoid them.
 

Brushes

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#24
Yea, i was thinking of a big ship trying to fly through a field of also big asteroids. Idk how dense the fields are but can probably be avoided.
 

Burnside

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#25
not very, the worst is a cluster of about a half-dozen, but an actual asteroid thicket- It'd be cool for terrain and setting up mining colonies, but I'd more suggest the "one-voxel" micrometeor clouds for the dangerous class of space rock, and those would be so light it's more up to your hull plating to absorb the sand-blasting effects they'd cause
 
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