Planetary Shields

[NullAshton]

Actually, the planetary shield around Coruscant in Star Wars prevents even low-velocity objects like ships. In one of the books, the shields are kept up full-time in order to defend against cloaked asteroids in decaying orbit.

[Fyron]

He was talking about Episode I, which featured no shielded Coruscant. Think gungans... In other SW movies, such as Episode V, shields are not penetrable by slow objects (like drop ships).

[Randallw]

I believe Empire Strikes Back is more appropriate.

"Lord Vader, the rebel base is protected by a deflector shield. It is strong enough to resist any bombardment"
"General Veers. Prepare your men for a surface attack"

Basically I think you can't cover the entire planet unless you are a galactic level civilisation. Do what the empire did, land armour a few kilometers away and attack via land.

[BlueTemplar]

Quick question: if you have a shield regenerator, that means you will nearly always have more than 1 shield point... could your ship be boarded then?

[Captain Kwok]

You need to take out either the shield generators or the shield regenerator in order to board.