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Topic: Materials
On a more comforting note, is the hull materials, specifically the armor, if not up to Federation standards of static defense. While the intense inertial dampening provides some degree of protection from kinetic damage due to lessening force, and while the hull can withstand micrometeorites wihout damage, which is considered the bottom line for any space-grade armor, the platings are mechanically aligned, with visible seams on the surface that continues deeper on into the sealed superstructure itself, which is predicted will be severely disadvantaged against any projectile that squash rather than perforating, and some vulnerability against delayed fuse explosives. While the segments show clear signs of 0-G manufacturing owing to precision down to the nano-scale, it is a significantly "analog" design, more similar to a second or third generation spacecraft that received modernization. The materials did not go through much condensation or transmutation. The aforementioned properties of the deflector coating ensures that anything that passes through will likely result in a mission-kill at minimum, as the hull is not thicky layered, and the inertial force reduction seems to be more, again, a byproduct of the dampeners than an intended function. Armor belts are nonexistent, and between the armor and the superstructure are meshes of circuitry, a serious design flaw which would lead to the previously stated destructability, as illustrated within this simulated scenario, at 16:45 onwards shortly.