Xiati battleship question...

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At higher levels the emissive gave my null space and tachyon beams fits. I blowed through the shields and armor with ease but when I got to the hull the damage went down to almost 0, even when I was hitting a side that had the armor destroyed and the fact null space bypasses everything. My assumption is the other armor plates do indeed reduce the damage done to the hull. Which is odd because once I watched a emsissive armed xiati cruiser fight a TCN battle cruiser. When the battle cruiser breached the xiati's armor it blew through it's hull like it wasn't there, maybe the NPC ships are coded different? I switched to psychic flailer and toxic injectors, they attack crew and have no defense from. I now can take out a battle ship in a single pass. Those two form the most deadly combo in the game as far as I'm concerned. Excluding any modded stuff of course.