What happens with extra shield damage?

[Andromedan]

I played a demo with other people yesterday and I realized something reading the rules for Distant Armada and that is if you roll and the damage is to be taken of the facing shield and the amount of damage to the applied to the shield is greater than the facing there is no rule covering what to do.

For example, if your internal damage is Shield and the change in the amount of shielding is 3 points, but the facing shield only has 2 boxes. What happens with the 3rd point? Is it then assigned by the players discretion to another shield, is it assigned to a neighboring shield or is it ignored? My assumption is the first one but it is defined in the rulebook.

Paul Franz

[mj12games]

In your example above, the defending player chooses the facet from which the third point of damage is deducted.