- ROBERTO jh
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The way I saw it was the one in TFoR that kept flying was still being guided by a somewhat intact magnet that guides the shots; the ship, if I recall, wasn't completely destroyed, just blown to hell.
In First Strike (which was another case where it dissipated), the ship that was destroyed got obliterated by an Assault Carrier's plasma torpedo round, a hiliariously powerful missile known to vaporize kilometer-length+ asteroids. The ship was nothing but debris, so the guiding mechanism, maybe an otherwise heavily armored component, was destroyed.