How do hatch-breaker limpets get through shields?

[Parmo]

Its because apparently pirates don't blow up ships and when a ship blows up the wreckage magically doesn't contain any cargo. In other words the usual people moaned and moaned and moaned some more so now if we are to play a pirate we are to do so in a gentlemanly fashion.

Oddly enough it wasn't like this in the original Elite of 1984.

You may be correct.

From the 1984 Elite manual.
"Pressurized cargo canisters are the Universal means of storing cargo for Interplanetary Space voyaging. Made of HiFlux Chromon-alloy, they hold one Gal Tonne of goods, under variable pressure and temperature conditions. Tales have been told of such barrels being discovered after over 500 years on barren moons, and such ‘Moon salvage’ is a remarkable source of historical artifact material."

In other words, they're tough.

Not like the wimps of today! Who just [sulk].

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Because if you enter a Starport's docking cylinder with no life support or canopy, but active shields, you can suddenly hear and breathe again.

You also heat up just as easily from being in proximity to stars with shields enabled.

The former makes sense but the latter doesn't because even when flying in the corona, it's very very thin so the heat must come from radiation (light).

 

[GJ51]

Quite well actually...

 

[moorison]

Quite well actually...

I was looking for this answer.

 

[Stigbob]

The limpets grease themselves up and wear low drag speedo's so they can slip easily through the luminiferous aether and shields.

 

[Morbad]

The former makes sense but the latter doesn't because even when flying in the corona, it's very very thin so the heat must come from radiation (light).

You even quoted where I said shields don't stop radiant heat in your prior post!

 

[Shinji Ikari]

You even quoted where I said shields don't stop radiant heat in your prior post!

Somehow I read conductive heat in your first post, you were right.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Must be the Holtzman Effect. How do you cargo scoop things or use your own limpets for that matter?

Or fire your own missiles, torpedoes, multi-cannons, cannons, lasers, or whatever you adorn your ship with.

Or perhaps shields are polarized, to allow things out, but not in, in which case, Hatch Breaker limpets would simply have a reverse polarity, allowing them in but not out... oh, wait, your own shields again... ok, so they reverse polarity when they pass through your shields. There we go. No handwavium, but the vastly more rare Common Sensium.