RE: Propulsion.
So, you've pretty much given up on the entire nacelle thing, and the nacelles only exist in the pretty pictures of the ships?
The engines you're talking about making seem to have no relation to any ST system.
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SJ - Regarding the Ablative armor it actually dissapites the incoming energy first and then if the damage is too severe breaks off.
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Everything has a heat capacity, plus a little bit of heat conduction
The ablativeness of the armor kicks in to throw excessively hot flakes of armor into space where they won't harm the ship they used to be sitting on.
It dosen't reflect the beam or anything. Just sacrifices bits of itself for the good of the rest of the armor.