phased shields?

[leo1434]

Hey everybody:

As we are talking about armor, engine damaging weapons, shields and so on...

Do any of you know about the Ionic Shield Generator (used in Proportions)?
How does it works? It don´t seem to have any special ability. Is only like putting a big chunk of armor inside a ship and wait that the engine damaging weapon hits it instead of an engine?

In Last game I had to combat against a group of 100 sats which were made of: 1 Computer core, 1 Depleted U Cannon and two Ionic Shield Generators (each of those had 40 kT tonnage and 450 kT structure) very tough to wipeout, to say the least.

Altough the are designed for "ship only" the AI used them, I think AI picks the best comp in each Category (armor in this case) wichever it is for its designs and just use them.

Any knowledge about this topic??

Thanks!!