[dmm]

The way I understand it, first you get the "emissivity" protection from emissive armor, then you lower shield strength. Once shields go to zero, you start destroying armor. Once armor goes to zero, you start randomly destroying whatever components are left (including but not limited to emissive armor or shield generators). Am I right, everyone?

But I never use anything but regular ArmorIII. Emissive Armor is too heavy, not worth it. Ditto for Shields, unless I also had the Shield Regenerator, which might make it worthwhile (haven't tried yet).