User blog comment:Ficus7/Allowed Technology/@comment-10700122-20140913160718/@comment-27822653-20140914174558

Shields are a bad idea in general, epically yours, as you said only sonic weapons can weaken it. If it was up to me, shields should only be used on transport ship, as having them on warship is too over powered and can make navies that already somewhat unstoppable truly unstoppable, like, Prometheus