Both!
Navigational shields are a giant bubble around the ship to make the shape of the object at warp as simple as possible.
Tactical shields hug the general shape of the ship itself to reduce power requirements and provide stronger defenses.
This is the answer right here!
Do you want to save resources on power use or construction?
EDIT:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=surface+area+of+torus+outer+diameter+10+m+%2C+height+3m+%2C+inner+diameter+8m
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=surface+area++of+cylinder+++diameter+10+m+%2C+height+3m+Tourus surface area for same diameter and height is 88.8264 square meters
Cylinder surface area is 251.327 square metersDo you want to attract space cops or not?
Left, definitely. Because the pastry on the right is an abomination.
I know, who forgets the icing?
Those are Krispy Kreme pastries… they’re uniformly coated in a layer of slightly crispy icing.
They’re like donuts only 50x sweeter. Welcome to the USA.
What
I must disagree, the one on the right looks like these, which are amazing.
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