Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-29927902-20161001081010/@comment-1073312-20161001182323

I don't like cutting into a private conversation, but I (for no particular reason) refer to non-phasic shields as repulsive gravitational fields (using negative energy) to perturb and slow incoming projectile weapons (would be useless against lasers aside from bending them a little unless we are talking about black-hole-like conditions). I don't know whether others do but there are a couple of definitions flowing around. I may have considered non-phasic because gravity effects every trajectory in spacetime.

My guess is that for SporeWiki shields to work, they have multiple components using layers of plasma and meshes of lasers, possibly with electrified armour and ablation to complement. And at a more advanced level, one can additionally add the repulsive gravitational shield or metric shields. A plasma of sufficiently high temperature will also impede electromagnetic radiation weapons or explosions come to think of it. But it could be 'weathered' away and require additional armour to shield against ionising radiation coming from the plasma itself.

There is no simple answer to shields or single technology that fits all the requirements.