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.
The Empire can shield an entire planet. Those big spheres on top of a Star Destroyer’s command tower are shield generators.
Fair point. I didn’t remember seeing shields in space battles when watching SW, but forgot about that.
The point about transporter tech still stands but there are lots of shield references in SW though they have different types.
Deflectors - used to protect against physical objects like walls, rocks, torpedoes.
Ray shields - used to protect against energy weapons and organics. Can’t find any good GIFs atm but from memory, the exhaust port in the first death star was ray shielded, which is why they had to use proton torpedoes. See also, all the silly opening and closing gates in the final battle in Phantom Menace.