[Suicide Junkie]

Emissive and Crystalline will stack somewhat.
Emissive will get first shot at reducing the damage, and crystalline will add the remainder to the shields.

Crystalline is basically delayed-action emissive armor, since it reduces damage from the next hit, rather than the current hit.
Crystalline also provides a maximum protection of 50% damage absorption to low-hitpoint components. (Low hitpoint components = more than one destroyed with a single shot: vs WMGs, pretty much any component is a LHC.)
...Plus the boarding party defense...

If you combined Emissive and Crystalline, small-damage weapons could sap your shields and leave your ship open to boarding.

[ September 04, 2002, 21:02: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]