Because the ships will need a second line of defense once the shields fail. And fail they will, because every technology has weaknesses, drawbacks...
Thanks mate.
Thanks for the detailed response! I'm very much familiar with whipple shields, but in a far-future setting with soft sci-fi tech like energy...
Thanks! It's one of those things that randomly pop up in your head one day and initially, you dismiss them as silly until you suddenly realize...
Technically, I could just borrow some vague, stock sci-fi term like "durasteel" or something and leave it at that, but I didn't want to do that....
Proud to report I've read both of those already, pretty much the first thing I did after creating my account.
Avid reader, novice writer here. I've been dabbling in writing a little bit for a while now, but only recently have I decided to get "serious"...
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