[quote=duck55223]
In my opinion at least nukes become pretty outdated when you have shields.
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The Tsar Bomb released approximately 240 petajoules of explosive energy upon being detonated, which is roughly 240 petawatts worth of power if the measurement units were flipped. Petawatt-range lasers exist today, but they're only active for picoseconds (one trillionth of a second) at a time, and therefore would make inadequate weapons despite the staggering amounts of power that they consume. Not enough dwell time; a weapons-grade petawatt laser with a dwell time measured in seconds would have me question what sort of unobtainable you've constructed such a beast from and how you've mastered heat sink technology to keep this weapon from melting itself with each firing.

If your shields can endure Tsar Bomb nuclear weapons at point-blank ranges with impunity, laser weaponry, particle weaponry, plasma weaponry, and railgun weaponry is completely useless against EU shielding. 

[quote]The scout ships are the ones with the least amount of shielding, others have a lot more. And EMPs wouldn't as the shields are powered by magic so yeaaaaaaaaaaah.
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There needs to be restrictions placed on magic, because this is ridiculous. 

[quote=Apollo26]
EMP? would fry shields or render the electronics that govern them useless by burning them out. For a scout ship that is a crazy amount of sheilding? So what are your line ships shielding like?
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EMPs shouldn't be a viable weapon against a starship. You're traveling in an intergalactic spacecraft that must brave vast amounts of radiation and other hazards as it moves through the void; spacecraft and electronics can be hardened against EMPs by forgoing silicon-based electrical systems (fiber optic technology, vacuum tubes, analog systems), simply possessing thick hulls wrapped in dense materials or shielding their viable electronic systems using a faraday cage. There are also other factors at play when discussing the effectiveness of an EMP, such as environment and the inherent low effective range an EMP would have. 

An EMP will disrupt a ship's sensors, however.

[quote]It's the bad part of allowing magic in scifi. Sad, but true.[/quote]

This.

[quote=WilsonTurner]
Several nations so far, beingThe merfolk Alarai [small galactic standing]The superior-magic people of goodiness and perfection Iscandarians [small-medium galactic standing]The backwater humans [small galactic standing]The unseeing Valkians [small galactic standing]The pissed-off Septonians [small/maybe medium galactic standing]The proud Warrior race of Draconians [no standing at all; not yet introduced; Duck's archenemy in terms of races]The human-like Nouvellians, primitive as if they're in the 1800/1900s, currently in conference with VALKIAN, HUMAN, and ISCANDARIAN [small galactic standing]and uh...The kill-all Etherals [small/medium galactic standing]And the Hivemind [small galactic standing]Currently, the Iscandarians pissed off the Septonians by shooting at their shipwrecked peoples because they were scared and didn't want to talk to the army surrounding them, so them two are at war. The Valkians, Humans, and Iscandarians are all meeting upon Nouvelle, and conversing with their Queen. The Valkians currently have the highest relation with the Nouvellians. The Iscandarians declared war on Humanity for being too violent, and tried to take their homeworld by force. They were destroyed and beaten back by humanity and a couple of unseen allies. About half a dozen different nations are in orbit around Nouvelle. That's about it.
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I hope Wilsonpai will notice me.

[quote]I assumed everyone's shields were that strong, and that use of shields would make nukes irrelevant in favor of otber weapons more capable of taking down shields.[/quote]

If this were true, space combat wouldn't exist.