[Sinapus]

I can see why shields don't help when you blunder into a minefield, but I'd expect a fleet to raise shields if they were about to enter a tagged minefield.

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"What do -you- want?" "I'd like to live -just- long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this..." *waggle* "...can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"