[Suicide Junkie]

My questions are:
*Ships that utilize gravity force-field technology (gravity weapons, gravity stasis-trap armor, gravity field shield -- just my first ideas) need to have a good shape to support those technologies. Somewhere i've read that spheric shapes work the best. is that a correct assumption? Theoretically, of course.
*Theoretically again how would gravity based weapons look like? Should i use the basic cone-with-toruses-around-it?
*Theoretically can gravity fields be used to stop particles, no matter the size/type/velocity? (shields stopping APBs, PPBs, DUCs and so on)
*What are gravitons? How are they related to gravity? (same root)
*What are possible ways of harnessing gravity technology? especially for weaponry (excluding standard brute gravity power used by Graviton Hellbore)

There is no gravity manipulation devices even theoretically except for accumulations of mass. Some black holes and heavy duty tractor repulsor beams to swing 'em around in patterns, perhaps?

Gravitons are unobserved, but are the theorized particle that mediates gravity.
You may as well consider it the particle of gravity, like a photon is a particle of electromagnetic energy.

You could use a black hole streched out around your ship... It would naturally absorb anything that comes at you, but it would absorb anything you try to shoot outwards too. I suppose you could swing it around, or have a bunch of separate hole shields with gaps for your guns.

Heck, why not go for a wormhole shield, one mouth on each side, so that weapons and energy pass around your ship...

Of course, if you could do that, you could throw planets at your enemies.

Perhaps better would be if you just had "classic sci-fi" artificial gravity technology.
Then you'd put an outward gravity force starting just above your armor, so weapons are slowed down (less kinetic damage) and energy beams are redshifted down to less harmful energies.

You could have very high accelerations for your missiles / torpedoes without damaging any components inside...
you could manouever your ship at over 2 g accelerations.

You could probably also make a Gravy Gun, by projecting a small zone of pull, surrounded by a zone of push gravity. Punch neat holes in the enemy ship from close range. Or just randomize the gravity pattern, and shred the ship.

There is the possibility of reasonable artificial singularities, and you could make a safe Hawking reactor without worring about your black hole sterilizing the starsystem if it gets out of control.
(Tiny black holes radiate energy, the smaller, the faster, in a direct mass to energy conVersion (E=MC^2) without any need for antimatter)