Spaceships hull armor…solid?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by FrackingBiscuit

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If you think one armor system per section is excessive for a ship built to survive combat against space cruisers, I don't know what to tell you. At that point it sounds like you're just being contrarian.

I interpreted your "not very much at all" as "negligable" rather than "affordable".

Many people are .....odd about Spaceships armor and don't seem to understand the scales involved or why armoring strategies that (sort of, kind of) worked for WWI-WWII cruisers and battleships don't work so well in space.

However if you are aware that 2 armor systems (the 1/2 inch aluminum layer and then the backing) are needed along with a lot of space between them then everything's fine. Turning the impactor into plasma as far away from my inner hull as possible has always been what I wanted spaced armor to do.