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June 2nd, 2007, 06:35 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
See, the thing is, the shield only stops high-velocity objects. And troops aren't high-velocity enough. After all, you wouldn't want them to explode in a fiery ball of flame because the brakes couldn't handle the velociity, would you?
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June 2nd, 2007, 06:46 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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June 2nd, 2007, 08:19 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
narf poit chez BOOM said:
See, the thing is, the shield only stops high-velocity objects.
Right. See, no one complained when it happened like this in the Dune novels, or Star Wars Episode I, and now we all have to live with it. 
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June 2nd, 2007, 08:42 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
Well, you should have complained. I mean, it's too late now. It's in ur brain, stealin' ur nerons.
(I apologize profusely. I have seen waaaaaay too many cat posters)
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June 2nd, 2007, 09:48 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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.
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June 3rd, 2007, 03:56 AM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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).
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June 3rd, 2007, 10:13 AM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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.
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June 7th, 2007, 05:03 PM
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Re: Planetary Shields
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?
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