Talk:Adaptive Shield Construction/@comment-24729606-20171112180009

a shield and a barrier are not one and the same. A shield is an object or method designed and/or intended for defense agnaist/from external threats. A barrier on the other hand is, normally at least, a passive force and one used either for monitoring, containment, expulsory purposes. An adaptive shield would therefore necessarily be more rubost. powerful, and (presumably) more taxing to its user/wielder. An adaptive barrier on the other hand would be far more complicated either to createa and/or maintain  (if one, for example, lacked the imagination, skill, knowledge, experience, or power/resources)  such an edifice, physical or otherwise. If one would create, or even conceptualize/imagine, an adaptive shield that had barrier like capabilities (or conversely a barrier with shield like capabilities) than one would have a powerful defense and containment capabilities. This in effect would mean that one could, in theory at least, defend agnaist and/or repulse enemy attacks directed at the shield and, if said shield were breached either by the enemy or by an enemy attack, contain said enemy or attack inside the barrier (by which point one would presumably have exited the barrier, temporarily or otherwise, to escape the now presumably contained enemy or attack).