On 26Feb2018 1709, Richard Aiken wrote:

> No idea. The only space combat system that I ever used was CT. There were
> EMP effects there, since you could buy hardened computers to protect
> against them. There was that nuke-blasted ship in TTA which was still
> intact enough for the characters to explore, which I always assumed meant
> it had been torched mostly through EMP.

fibre-optic backup computers were a big deal in High Guard because of
the tendency of things like nukes, particle beams, and meson guns to fry
electronics. Of course as you couldn't add systems to protect crews in
the same way, it was often moot if it was a big weapon.

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