Federation Torpedo's can bypass Imperial shields

[Omega-13]

So in short, you guys are saying that Ray shield stop just energy, and particle shields stop energy and physical matter?

[Master of Ossus]

Omega 13: Ray shields and particle shields are usually in the same place around a ship. It would be impossible to go through one without going through the other one. Even if they WERE differently spaced, a particle shield still stops a physical object that is surrounded in energy. It makes no difference. They stop shielded fighters, and they would stop a proton torpedo that has been shielded. Your theory is flawed.

they are in the same place, but at different levels, the particle shield is hull hugging, the ray shield seems to be suspended above the ship,

when a fighter hits an isd, and gets destroyed, like we saw at Endor, do we know which shield it was hitting?

The ray shield on an ISD is suspended above it? Where? Do you have a screenshot?

We know that a shielded fighter is stopped by particle shields because ships have to lower their shields to launch/recover fighters in ALL official literature. Most ships just lower the shields that protect their hangars, for such operations.

[Darth Yoshi]

Upping your post count, I see . Your Endor point is a red herring. The shields were already down. And particle shields don't stop energy, they stop matter. Matter surrounded by energy will still be stopped, because the enegy will pass through the shield, and the matter will hit it. I'm not certain if protorps are as flimsy as ships, but if not, then it's stronger by an amount which won't help much against and ISDs engine wash. After all, the scales of things in ST are negligible in SW scaling, like speed, manueverability, power output, etc.

[Master of Ossus]

So in short, you guys are saying that Ray shield stop just energy, and particle shields stop energy and physical matter?

No, we're saying that to surround matter with energy would not prevent a particle shield from stopping something. Usually, these two shields are in the same place.

[Omega-13]

Ok, Darth Yoshi made a good point, that the shield would pass through, but the photon torpedo wouldn't
I retract the entire idea, and arguement

[Master of Ossus]

Thank you, Omega-13. It takes a wise man to know when he's beaten. If only Loser099, John Clark, and DarkStar were like you.....

[omegaLancer]

Hate to throw this into the Fray, but both Concussion missiles and Proton Torp are shielded (Force field allow the missiles to survive near misses and collision with debris)

First in order to fire either weapons, it stated that Particle shields need to be lower.. second both weapons impact against Particle shields....

[arctic_series]

Hate to throw this into the Fray, but both Concussion missiles and Proton Torp are shielded (Force field allow the missiles to survive near misses and collision with debris)

First in order to fire either weapons, it stated that Particle shields need to be lower.. second both weapons impact against Particle shields....

but in SW, ships can open holes/sections in their shields. not just dropping all shields.

[Mr Bean]

Because SW shields are Sectional unlike ST One big shields, SW shields are many smaller shields built to work togther thus the allowing of certian spots to be open to say pick up and deploy Fighters or anything else similar

[Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi]

It could be possible that the TL barrels go beyond the shield, or each of them has their own shield, and it is briefly lowered just long enough to get the bolt out.

[Master of Ossus]

TIEs have gone through the atmosphere at thousands of kilometers an hour. They can survive re-entry, and can go orbital in only a few seconds. Despite their poor areodynamics, their superior materials and construction allow them to do this.

BTW, torpedoes aren't really shielded, either. They have limited protection to survive near misses and micrometeors, but their shields are far too weak to survive a direct hit from even a starfighter-scale weapon. They can be intercepted. Since even shielded starfighters suffer damage from engine-wash, I assume that a proton torpedo would be incapable of using your tactic to get around an ISD's shields.

BTW, the inside of the engines is likely heavily shielded to prevent the tremendous power, number of ions, and amount of radiation from damaging the rest of the ship.