Would a Federation warship like the Defiant out gun a Star Wars Star Destroyer? Who has a bigger armada? Who has the tactical advantage? Don’t forget that The Federation includes the Klingons, who love warfare and have fast, agile, heavily armed ships, with cloaking devices, and the Vulcans with superior logic and tactical planning.

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    9 months ago

    Considering the SW universe doesn’t have transporters, it’s probably safe to assume their shields aren’t modulated to block transporters. So they could just beam torpedoes through.

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      9 months ago

      Transporters block shields regardless of modulation. You can modulate weapons to penetrate shields, but transporters are trickier. “We can’t get the away team back because shields are up!” would be a non-issue if the shields could be modulated to block weapon fire but allow transporters.

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      9 months ago

      How many torpedoes do you estimate the Federation has?

      How many torpedoes do you estimate it would take to destroy a Super Destroyer?

      How many Super Destroyers do you think the Empire has?

      That last number is about a hundredth of how many regular destroyers they have, which is about a thousandth of how many tie fighters and bombers they have.

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        9 months ago

        How many torpedoes do you estimate it would take to destroy a Super Destroyer?

        One. Quantum torpedoes are many magnitudes more powerful than nuclear bombs. Even if that’s not enough to completely destroy a star destroyer, its certainly enough to destroy its power core (or whatever they call the power source in Star Wars).

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        9 months ago

        I feel this focused heavily on the torpedos aspect, when the important part is all the possibilities of being able to teleport into and out of enemy ships at will. Torpedos are great, combat groups are good too, really any kind of explosives, smoke grenades, flash bangs, etc.

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      They don’t have transporters but apparently Jedis can just teleport shit through the Force? Didn’t Rey teleport a lightsaber at some point? Presumably this is a skill that could be picked up by the Empire.

      Yeah, anyways that happened. Somehow, Force teleportation.