[Captain Kwok]

In one of the original plans, the Tholain cystalline armor was intended to replace shields entirely hence they were to be given the armor ability with a small emissive value, but not the SGFD ability. The armor was supposed to good enough as to eliminate Tholain ships from using shields at all.

I did work on some shield/armor figures previously for 1.75? I think, but never finished up this area before I sent stuff back to Atrocities - however at that time I believe larger mounts were still in, eliminating some of these problems...