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Description What a more realistic laser attack might look like where we actually don't see the beams themselves since there's no medium in space to make the beams visible.

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Unlike particle weapons like phasers or phase cannons, the laser beam has to burn off layer by layer like drilling before it can reach the other side, where particle weapons can pass through several layers simultaneously.

The 2 red/orange dots on the left is the hull glowing from a laser attack a couple of seconds prior. Because the hull is in a vacuum, the ship only vent the heat via radiation which is far less effective than conduction or convection.

Added the hull is made of a dual layer corrugated tritanium with aerogel filling the gaps to give the hull rigidity, thermal insulation, and minor micrometer protection while making it as light as possible, and easier to repair the hull damage.

Though the surrounding hull can conduct the heat away from the points of impact, the hull can only do it so fast as their heat flow rate isn't as fast as you may think. But there's also the danger of the atmosphere inside the ship absorbing the heat.

The 2 red/orange dots on the right are where a laser weapon is firing on the hull. And with no medium, you can't see the laser beam.

Though lasers even at 500 GJ -- the rating of a phase cannon -- would still move the Enterprise 72.5m/s. But even with that, the laser burns off the hull in a vacuum which can propel the ship causing the ship to shutter.

And how the Millennium Falcon still shuttered over a laser blast.

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A defence against laser blast in a realistic sense could easily be polarizing the hull as on Star Trek: Enterprise where it not only makes the hull way stronger, but probably increases the heat flow rate of the hull to disperse the laser's heat -- and hope the thermal dissipation units can keep up.
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