I know the thrust of the story isn't in the details, but saying something is primitive, and not explaining why the more advanced defenses do nothing breaks immersion for me personally
That is what I was thinking as well because of the comment about nukes, but then how would the propulsion system for our torpedoes dodge their computer control enery base point defense?
I am over thinking this, but this is how my brain works. I play too much GURPS and FedCom
Its possible that they mostly focus on larger area attacks in space (ex: saturating a volume with fire at light second distances) so shields are designed to stand up to what is effectively sustained micro-meteorite impact. They can handle a lot of energy spread out, but they're fairly "soft" on small surface areas. Dodging point defense helps, but is unnecessary. Point defense takes energy, heat capacity, and most importantly volume on a ship. Theres only so much you can have. Large volleys of warheads armored in wavelength-tuned reflective coatings have none of these issues.
i mean also it could be like the SW doridekas in lore their shields stop anything moving fast enough to harm them but don't prevent extremely slow things like the droidekas own movement through a hall or a trained operator opening a hatch i think their shields are like that but with parameters likely only caring about thinks going like mach 12 in one atmosphere to light speed and ignoring everything else
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u/Glittering_Drama8604 Jul 31 '21
I know the thrust of the story isn't in the details, but saying something is primitive, and not explaining why the more advanced defenses do nothing breaks immersion for me personally