Can anyone tell me what blue energy fields mean?

[Repconn]

I got attacked by a Zoltan (or something) ship and suddenly two of my three weapon energy "fields" were blue and crossed out. Why is that?

[Late Game enjoyer]

That's an ion weapons, like lasers, fire energy projectiles. The primary difference is that ion weapons don't do hull damage, and instead, do ion damage. When an ion projectile hits any system room.While under the ion effect, power cannot be added or removed from that system and it cannot be manned. Thus, a build-up of ion damage can severely weaken or disable a system. This is because if more ion damage is applied to an already ion'd room, it merely refreshes the timer on the ion effect as well as evicting power, and preserves the effects of previous ion damage.

[Late Game enjoyer]

This is why u got a *blue energy *

[Yanamonie]

It might also be where a system has been affected due to the result of an event.

[neoman4426]

To add on to that, different levels of ion weapon will neutralize different levels of potential reactor power from a system, and Zoltan based power (yellow bars you get from one being in the system room) cannot be ionized, meaning if you have four Zoltan you can get up to two unionizable shield bubbles.

[rpgamer987]

Considering "blue and crossed out" instead of blue and blinking, it was probably event based, disabling the system, your crew "barely keeping it online."

Helps to pay attention to the flavor text for these sorts of things.

[Ray Robertson]

Maybe you also need to know that every one Ion damage will last for 5 seconds.

All the above information is explained in the game, btw. Except about Zoltans being unionizable, that you have to discover yourself.

Edit - rpgamer987 is correct, if they were crossed-out it had to be from the event.

[Repconn]

Wow, thanks for all the help! It'll help on my next playthrough!