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На счёт ионнок. Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology. с 84-85.

Since ion blasts are unimpaired by energy shields, ships have no defense against them short of reconfiguring their shields—and this would make the shields useless for absorbing standard laser blasts.

Travel in hyperspace

The only way to span the long distances between star systems is to travel through hyperspace. Hyperspace is described by many scientists as another dimension, though its true nature is still a mystery. When a starship's hyperdrive activates, the vessel accelerates well beyond the speed of light as it enters hyperspace. A starship in hyperspace is effectively cut off from communication with starships in realspace. Forthe duration of a trip through hyperspace, a starship effectively does not exist in realspace.

Large objects that generate substantial gravity, such as stars and planets, produce what is known as a "mass shadow" that projects into the realm of hyperspace, and one of these mass shadows can destroy a starship that collides with it. As a result, a starship's course through hyperspace must be plotted carefully. All hyperdrives have built-in safeguards that prevent a ship from entering hyperspace too close to a mass shadow and cause a ship to revert to realspace if a mass shadow is detected in time. Ultimately, this situation led to the rise of interdietor vessels and other technologies designed to keep ships from fleeing into hyperspace. Interdiction vessels use gravity well generators to keep other ships from activating their hyperdrives, and some pirates have been known to drag massive asteroids into well-traveled hyperspace lanes in order to bring prey out of hyperspace.

Detecting hyperspace travel

When a starship enters or exits hyperspace, it produces a short burst of Cronau radiation. Any starship, station, or sensor array within the same star system can detect a Cronau radiation burst with a DC 25 Use Computer check made as a reaction. Success indicates that the sensor operator detects the ship entering or exiting hyperspace, and is aware of its point of arrival or departure. Tracking a ship through hyperspace also relies on the presence of residual Cronau radiation. Taking a full-round action to make a DC 25 Use Computer check measures the amount of Cronau radiation as well as the angle of departure of the vessel fleeing into hyperspace, indicating the most likely destination. Cronau radiation lingers for several hours after a ship has fled into hyperspace, though each hoursince the ship made the jump to lightspeed increases the DC of the Use Computer check by 5.