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I was operating under the assumption that you knew how leaky shields work from a modding standpoint. It is actually a very simple concept, and very easy to implement. I can not imagine a Star Trek mod without leaky shields, as they very closely replicate the functionality of shields in Star Trek (not per shot, but on average)...

Basically, you give the generators a low level of shield generation, and a similar level of the Shields From Damage ability. This makes the shields function almost identically to the stock Crystalline Armor, other than the shield generators are not "armor." Any damage that damages the ship, when the shield points are 0, causes an equal amount of damage (up to the maximum abilities of the total Shields From Damage abilities of all components on the ship) to be added to the shield totals. The next shot (or two, depending on the exact values in play) hit these shield points.

Note that any partial damage left on a component (ie: damage that was not enough to destroy whichever component was pseudo-randomly selected to be hit) will be added to the damage total of the next incoming shot that hits the shields. This odd behavior is a result of SE4 not storing partial damage on a per-component basis. It also applies to partial damage left on a component being added to the damage from the next incoming shot of, for example, and Ionic Disperer. The extra partial damage becomes the type of the next weapon that hits the ship. But I digress...

Once all of the shield points are gone, more damage is done to the components of the ship. Points will be added to the shield totals, based on the damage done as before. This goes on until a shield generator is destroyed, at which point the shields added is (potentially) reduced, or until the ship is destroyed.

I have attached an example of a leaky shield system, from Adamant Mod. Copy these components into a mod and run some combats with them.