Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-28305200-20160601133546/@comment-47205-20160601140747

By that point, I don't imagine there'd by any materials science that they can't do, so you could well have armour that is as strong as is possible with chemical bonds. That's certainly strong for ground warfare, but I doubt it'll have a melting point of more than 5000 K (so surviving our sun's photosphere might be done, but surviving contact with an A-type star is unlikely), and it certainly isn't very strong in a universe where the average starship weapon is essentially a relativistic beam of plasma capable of undergoing a thermonuclear explosion.

With SporeWikiverse physics, magnetic monopoles can be used to make much stronger armour, but I don't think Tier 3s are likely to be able to mass-produce monopoles. Instead, they'd supplement their armour with deflector shields. How strong they are pretty much depends on how the person who's writing about them feels at the time. Withstanding several shots of the aforementioned plasma weapons is fairly standard, though.