Who knows? Who cares?Thye feel the need to protect the armor generators, but not shields? How else could they keep the neutronium stable.
Maybe it's more exotic than that?
what? It does block most of the impact, didn't you read the ICS?What about everything else that doesn't hit the hull? Why put such a complex system in place when it doesn't block most of the impact?
And who says it must be complex?
"<b>Physical impactor (asteroid, high-velocity ramming attack, hyper-velocity railgun, etc.)</b>:This is the only time this was said, and that doesn't mean the armor wasn't penetrated. How was this conclusion achieved?
Subjects the target to severe structural stresses, usually resulting in penetration. If it fails to penetrate, it pulverizes and/or vapourizes at the point of contact due to internal stresses and work-heating, thus producing a large cloud of high-temperature material at the target surface."
Well duh, internal explosions?The communication cut off, too.