I'm designing a Combat Cutter, a sleek ship that is sent into battlespace to beam aboard personel from escape pods, and to tractor undamaged pods into a transport bay. The problem is shielding. The ship will have shields, but we know that shields must be dropped to transport. To save its skin in such an endeavor, the cutter is fast, and compact. It doesn't have a large sensor cross-section. It also employes sensor-decoy countermeasures to confuse targeting scans. But that is not enough. There is a such thing as the lucky shot. This means the cutter needs ablative armor, plus something to absorb, reflect, or diminish energy discharges. Now we know that Starfleet uses phasers with the nadion particle. For phaser type weapons an armor plate that effects nadions is in order. The same goes for poleron weapons. But what about disrupters? Any idea what their princible force carrier is?
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
The only reference to a particle associated with disruptors I could find was that Romulan ones leave antiprotons behind. I'm not sure if that helps, as it isn't specified whether the particles are from the disruptor, or from its reaction with the target.
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