How exactly does ship damage work?

I've seen several posts using phrases like "his corbos did 30,000 damage to my ISS" and other things refering to "damage". Is this strictly for shields... as in would the previous example have lost 30,000 shields when corbo'd?

Does it carry over to figs? As in after your shields are gone, you lose figs in the ratio of 1 fig to 1 point of damage.

Finally, do ships have a damage rating or hit points or anything like that? Would an unsheilded ISS with no figs be killed by one space mine, if not how many would it take and why?

--smthng

"All your planet are belong to us!"

Edited by - smthng on 06/09/2001 10:43:54 AM