I can give you some information, maybe you'd have something similar, but the barriers seem to be like shields. I assume your ship has those? Where I'm from, there are people with the ability to create mass effect fields biologically from their bodies. They're called biotics. Major Kaidan Alenko is a biotic. He'd be able to to explain a lot better.
[He nods a little as he looks at the screen, bringing up all the compiled information he has on the System.]
You're not wrong, Captain. And we've had our share of the unbelievable in Mandalus, anyway.