Thread:Ghelæ/@comment-29927902-20161001081010/@comment-47205-20161001183601

Wormy's description of how spaceships would use multiple types of shielding is fairly accurate (although high-temperature plasma would radiate as a black body, including glowing like a star and then emitting ionising radiation for sufficiently high temperatures, so it's probably not ideal).

Yes, phasic, multiphasic and (as far as I've ever used the term) non-phasic shields are subtypes of plasma shield. Wormy and I have discussed having non-phasic shields as repulsive gravity, but given that it's a terrible idea (basically what you have is a negative escape velocity, and anything incoming with a velocity greater than that - c(rs/r)1/2, which is tiny for pretty much anything - is going to hit you), and that it's not what I introduced the term into the SporeWikiverse for, I don't use it myself.