Perdurable and I anticipated this request, and have kicked around implementation ideas, and have seen at least one vote for it, already. The script is already able to pull the data from each shield generator type, independently (had to be, the mods use different methods for supplying information) - it's just a matter of how complex the script starts to get once the display code starts splitting up.
My question is, what do you, the users, feel the best method for setting this up would be?
Adding yet another configuration variable? Like "[D Shield" and "[E Shield" for splitting the two display types? Also, how would this change be reflected in the alert lights and alarm setup recently added? Some sort of cascade detection - "If D Shield = 0 AND E Shield <24 (or vice versa), then alarm"?
Keep in mind, this will add another group of variables to the program code itself, and the THYA graphics have no way to differentiate whether they are displaying Defense or Energy shields. And before someone proposes combined graphics display, remember, each % is a seperate image, meaning that the current 3 graphics "modes" comprise 303 images. Adding "Defense" or "Energy" to those images could be as many as 606, and doing a combined setup would be 10201 images for just one graphics mode (covering all potential combinations by percentage). Think of the load times that would bring.
I've poked around in some other scripts, looking at other folks' monospace pixel display setup, which could open some possibilities.
Now, from my personal standpoint, this "layered shield" idea makes some small bit of sense. Having tested it, however, I don't feel the two mods work together quite the way I would envision them. Currently, hits registered by a grid drain the Cython shield before the DarkStar one. The way most sci-fi seems to work, the hits should be absorbed by the outer "bubble" (DarkStar), draining that shield system completely before ever reaching the "energy armor" (Cython). Or if you look at it as the bubble not being an absolute catch-all, anything that manages to get through the bubble should then hit the energy armor. It's quite possible that if DarkStar's modAPI petition is granted, the mods will work together in exactly the sci-fi manner outlined above. We're just not there, yet. That's my 2¢, anyway.