About damaging components

[Fyron]

I do not know if 40 partial damage would add to, say, a shot from an Ionic Disperser; "Only Component" weapons do not deal partial damage, but do they use up partial damage, when there is some still present on the ship? It would probably not matter, save for the sake of completiveness, but...

As per my previous posting, yes. All partial damage is always added to the incoming shot, and takes the damage type of said shot. For normal weapons fire, this doesn't really matter. For special damage, it does. It means that the ionic disperser will likely waste any saved partial damage, as it will all become Only Engines type, for which no partial damage is saved. This is also the feature that makes Crystalline Armor capable of being really powerful. As long as an entire CA component is not damaged, all of the partial damage will be added to the next shot and have to go through the shield layer again. This can allow for semi-invincible ships, assuming that the enemy has no shield depleters/disruptors and no weapons capable of destroying a CA component in a single shot...