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Kytross
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 Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:26 pm Post subject: Starfighter vs Capital: Ray Shields |
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Everyone knows particle shields follow the contour of the ship and are 2D of every ship's hull code. Where are ray shields?
We never see ray shields in the original trilogy. We do see them in the prequels. The droidekas have a spherical ray shield that extends a distance from their bodies. The naboo N-1 fighter has a ray shield that contours around the fighter but at a distance of several inches. Both have a distance from the physical form of the object they are shielding.
What we do see in the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi in particular, is fighters flying close to Star Destroyers and damaging the cap ships with lasers. How could they do that if they still had to shoot through the cap ship shields?
Remember, cap ship shields are designed to deflect damage from turbo laser cannons that are as big as star fighters. Starfighter lasers don't have the power to punch through cap ship shields.
My contention is that there is a gap between the cap ship and it's ray shields. That gap is large enough to fly a Starfighter through. If a fighter can fly along the superstructure of a cap ship it can fire lasers at it under the cap ship's shields. Shooting through the armor would still be nearly impossible, but taking out gun emplacements, shield generators, comm arrays and the like should be possible.
What do you guys think, is my assessment accurate?
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| Quote: | General Dodonna: The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. Its defenses are designed around a direct, large-scale assault. A small one-man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense.
Gold Leader: Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are snub fighters going to be against that?
General Dodonna: Well, the Empire doesn't consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. |
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garhkal
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They would first off have to get THROUGH that ray shielding to get within it's bubble...
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| Whill wrote: | | Quote: | General Dodonna: The battle station is heavily shielded and carries a firepower greater than half the star fleet. Its defenses are designed around a direct, large-scale assault. A small one-man fighter should be able to penetrate the outer defense.
Gold Leader: Pardon me for asking, sir, but what good are snub fighters going to be against that?
General Dodonna: Well, the Empire doesn't consider a small one-man fighter to be any threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. |
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There's a similar line later in ANH... "Passing through their magnetic field." I've always figured that as the ray shielding; a magnetic field that scattered blaster bolts and disrupted the targeting of incoming objects (recall them shaking in their cockpits as that happened).
With smaller ships, there may not be a lot of space between the hull and the ray shielding... when you're the size of a small moon, pushing the shields out farther gives you a bigger deflection gap for incoming objects. Great against capital ships and asteroids... less so against snub fighters.
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