More thoughts on armour

And some more thoughts come in. As a further Rorschach test, ask yourselves whose mind works this way:

Alteratively, some types of armour on a ship dissipate the force of the attack throughout the whole of its structure. In some cases, it may be a unimolecular structure. In others, all the armour may be in a single quantum state, and react uniformly (as a superfluid might).

And some other types of armour may be able to do something similar to the kidshield thing. Some ships may be covered in nano-scale field generators, but only able to power a small share of them at a time. And damage may mainly be manifested in burning out redundancy in power distribution.

The Sa'Vasku may have a biological form of this, or may actually have semi-sentient kid-tiles rushing around to catch incoming fire, and patch up holes.

And perhaps some other bioship types may take damage analogous to shock, that is much more debilitating than the damage they take directly.