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Originally posted by jimbob:
What about a weapon that specifically targets the SDD? I'm guessing that this would be possible. Then there would finally be a need for defence marines.
Since SDDs supposedly work by overloading the ship's engines, how about giving them "engine component" status so that ion weapons will affect them as well? The result would be that most captured ships will be dead in the water with their engines destroyed and most (or all) of their supplies gone, but it seems reasonable to me that if you're trying to board an enemy ship in RL one of the things you'd have to do would be to disable its engines anyway.