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From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Phasers and Deflectors
Message-ID: <251@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 01:50:05 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 01:50:05 1984
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Hey!  How about this:  The shield DROPS completely when the
phaser is fired, but the process is pulsed according to a
random number sequence.  You don't have to worry about generating
discontinuities in the shield to fire phasers through that
way.  The enemy must pulse his shield/phasers in a completely
different random pattern to make the shield effective.  Since
the chance of timing intersection (energy leak?) is (hopefully)
small, the two ships have to count on wearing each other's
shields down.

Another thing:  I THINK I remember from somewhere that there
are banks of 'shields', not a single shield that covers the
whole ship.  So the ship is potentially only vulnerable at the
shield it's firing through.

Does this make sense?
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