Shields

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Its worth noting that if your ships mount any ohysical armor, two systems of SotA armor will generally be sufficient to stop SotA energy weapons of 3 to 4 SMs smaller. No amount of shield ablation would help in this case. Ways around this include making all armor ablative, too, or unsurprisingly, don't give ships 2 systems of SotA physical armor. Just be aware that this artifact can happen.