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Mark Simmons (scorpio@best.com)
Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:33:36 -0800
Ricky Lai writes,
>So I-Field barriers are collapsable, if they appear on a definitive spectrum?
Now that you mention it, that would make sense. Presumably there is
some conceivable beam weapon that could penetrate even an I-field barrier
- it's just that we've never seen it. I'm not even sure what the key spec
is - the VSBR uses super high-velocity particles to penetrate enemy beam
shields, but is that required to pierce the I-field container, or the
plasma within it? I wonder because we've also seen beam sabers that can
cut through beam shields (in Crossbone Gundam, natch), and presumably
those aren't super-accelerated...
Jonathan Ng writes,
>What I don't get is the X3 first deflecting the Diona shots (bubble-style)
>then when Elegolea stole Tobia's Beam Murasame Blaster and used it on him
>he caught it with the X3 hand! If it's in the bubble range won't the hand
>get fried?
Hm, good point. In every other instance in Crossbone Gundam, the I-
field barriers are spherical (another example: The mobile armor
Elefante). Since the X3's barrier is down initially, and reactivates only
as the Muramasa Blaster hits its hand, it's possible that the barrier
shell is squished _in between_ the hand and the 'blaster. Note that the
multiple blades emitted from the Muramasa Blaster are all bent away from
the X3, suggesting that the I-field barrier is bulging out past the
'blaster's shaft. It kinda looks like Tobia is grasping the Muramasa
Blaster with his hand to prevent the I-field squished in between from
pushing it away - in this case, the X3 must have some seriously strong
fingers! :-)
I suppose we could account for this phenomenon as being two very strong
I-fields butting into each other - the X3's hand barrier, and the
multiple fields that form the blades of the Muramasa Blaster. I'd think
that the X3's barrier could very easily slip around the entire 'blaster
and form a proper sphere around it, in which case the weapon is entirely
within the barrier and the X3 is toast. Risky tactic!
-- Mark
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