Improvised Shields

That annoying moment where you realize the enemy carrier is beefier than you are... This little blurb of a section will tell you a quick way, though slightly expensive, to projct a small shield infront or below you carrier which can save your buns in ship-to-ship Combat.

Glory's Method
This method only works with the Glory. If your shields are giving out and the enemy is still fighting strong, here's what you do.

Go up to the doctrine tab and cancel 'Auto Undock'.

Build a Heavy freighter, or several.

Build a few repair ships.

Undock one Heavy Freighter. Select it before it undocks fully.

The moment the command tab pops up, which means you can now give it commands, hit CTRL I.

Repeat.

What this does is parks a heavy freighter (and therefore it's shield bubble) infront of the Glory so enemy beams from infront hit the freighter instead. If there are three or four of them, the shields regenerate fast enough you'll never take damage. Pop a few repair ships and do the CTRL I trick the moment they can be commanded, then click your carrier and scroll down to repair for invincible repair ships as well.

Carrier's Method
Follow the guide above but make sure the target is below the carrier.