[geoschmo]

PvK, thank you. Your perspective of looking at it as reducing the strength of the weapon being fired at it helps me understand it better. I think I have it now.

However, given the facts that you have told me here, it seems to me that emmisive armor is still not very useful even in it's "fixed" form. The reamainder damage going straight to components or other armor means that Emmisive armor is actually LESS effective thatn standard armor agasint any weapon that can exceed it's emmisive ability and structure in a single shot. Since most ship weapons available around the time the emmisive armor comes on line fit this qualification, and since fighter weapons are added prior to impact, the high cost of emmisive armor and low effectiveness would seem to make it quite silly to use.

Am I still missing something maybe?

Geoschmo