Re: Ablative Armor
Ablative armor is the most directly implementable form of armor in SE4... You burn off the outer layer to prevent the ship from taking any real damage. Ablative armor is directly represented by raw hit points. Making it come in tiny chunks makes it burn off all the faster, as well as making it harder to repair than big pieces of "regular" armor.
Emissive armor is exactly not what ablative armor is; emissive is a magic, limitless reduction effect, which negates damage without any commensurate reduction in strength. Think of a mirror reflecting a laser beam.
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