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[FTL:Faster Than Light] Why can missiles go past shields?

Why is it that missiles can bypass shields (except Zoltan shields) but other solid objects like Flak and meteors can't?
gpt
Shields provide a steep energetic gradient to dispers incoming energy like laser blasts and vaporiza and deflect incoming projectiles such as asteroids and flak shrapnel.

Missiles are designed to counter this and when they reach the shield they discharge a brief donut-shaped energy pulse that creates a brief opening in the shield allowing them to pass through.