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The UNSC and Covenant are basically non-factors in this engagement, but the Forerunners? Come on guys, must we perpetuate the notion of being unreasonable Warsie fanatics when discussing even the Forerunners, the civilization who throw around the concepts of space-time dickery and mega-engineering l...

Do we ever actually get to see a crust-melting planet scale BDZ? Out of all his citations Dankayo was the only complete incident mentioned so I just went with that. Everything else seemed based on off-hand quotes and assumptions really, which bothered me quite a bit. A BDZ doesn't require literal c...

I was told that the operation took somewhere close to that time. If you know better then let's hear it. We're never told the time frame full stop (and neither were you), making any claims to an otherwise unreliable canon reference immediately questionable in lieu of a typically Weasel-like tact whe...

As far as my understanding goes the operation lasted three hours. Based on what evidence? After all, you've demonstrated none of your calculations, have not taken into account any of the parameters of the operation in lieu of evidence to the claim, assumed it was a BDZ where no such order is mentio...

I've seen it recently and it did indeed only fire once. Even though it was only fired once? Was he hoping that one shot would wipe them out? Besides, that plan clearly wasn't working once that Imperial fleet started losing. *facepalm* How did i forget that one :banghead: In any case the point still...

Of course then we have (taken directly from the wiki - so thank you Ted C): TNG, "Encounter at Farpoint": At this time, top speed for the Enterprise-D is about warp 9.3. Warp 9.8 may be possible, but it may also destroy the ship. TNG, "Where None Have Gone Before": Maximum warp s...

Plus my fleet is literally isolated across ten systems divided by half a decade of travel, each of which can only reliably be defended by sixty vessels at any one point (ten cruisers plus fifty frigates), whereas the Empire is coming in with a marauder fleet that can concentrate 100% of its forces (...

I do the smart thing and surrender. After all I've just been pitted against an opponent that is backed by a billion a worlds, 70 million of which have a sufficiently high enough populations worthy of Imperial representation, the industrial capacity to literally drown my systems in metal with just a ...

Coruscant to Kashyyk? You're looking at a 32,000 light year straight line journey at best. How could the OP even propose a somewhat decent STL race across a quarter of a Galaxy when the majority of the crew would have starved to death in the first quarter of the first year of the first century of th...

Plus weren't the later batches flash trained?

List of arguments put forth: 1) "The Federation have a weapon that the Empire cannot beat - transporters." Shields. That's pretty much the counter-argument, although it has been put forth here many times and rebutted for numerous reasons. 2) "The Federation can beam out the gunner cre...

The Federation don't need planets to continue the war? Say whaaaaaat?

The Stormtrooper branch doesn't necessarily have a real world equivelant, since at the height of the Empire they outnumbered the combined forces of the Army and Navy, both of whom had personnel levels numbering in the tens of trillions between them anyway. Just think of them as an entirely different...

After days of puzzlement, the AdMech finally disassemble and recover what they assume to be the FTL propulsion mechanism of the opposing Navy. AdMech 1: "What...Are we looking at exactly?" AdMech 2: "Where does the fuel go?" AdMech 3: "Should we even assume that it uses fuel...

The only thing that really makes sense is that they eschewed conventional munitions because it'd fuck up the planet. The Dug leader was already expressing concern about the relatively harmless Electro-Proton bomb upsetting the planet's "delicate balance", one can only imagine what a conve...

The casing on that bomb seemed wastefully large for the amount of boom it was giving off (although the explosion was not the intended damaging component), plus Anakin's "shock and awed" expression of disbelief at the scale of detonation seemed out of place when you realize that even a glan...

It is incredibly easy to repair, dissect and reassemble a piece of technology similar to your own given sufficient technical knowledge and skill on behalf of the user. Throw in a new piece of technology that requires entirely different materials to even operate, a use of fuels that only exist in an ...

I don't think we should assume that these tiny ships owned by high-level government officials, the Jedi Order, and the best damn bounty hunter in the galaxy are representative of what the average ship is capable of. And yes, I know, your natural reply is still "well who cares? Even if normal s...

Any ideas as to how long Obi-Wan was imprisoned on Geonosis? Because the fact that Yoda received his message, traveled 70,000 light years to Kakmino, then a further 20,000 or so light years to Geonosis with an Army of 200,000 Clones and a strike group of a dozen warships in tow seem to suggest an in...

Then we have Anakin and Ahsoka traveling from Christophsis to Teth, then from Teth to Tatooine in less than one planetary cycle during the Clone Wars movie (although you could argue that it took less than one single day-to-night cycle), a journey of approximately 50,000 light years that was divided ...

How would you even consider working alongside the Imperium? Droids would be heresy. So there goes a major contributing factor to the civilization of the Star Wars universe. Nearly 20 million sentient species that are allowed to live under the control or at least the watchful eye of the Galactic Empi...

On your first point Shroom Man I have to give it to you. The FTL travel of the SW inverse is far safer than the warp, as well as exponentially faster. On the subject of communication though, I recall that obi-wan had to use Anakin to send a message to Corascant due to either distance or power. Astr...

Any solid figures regarding IOM fleet strength?

By the same argument, though, future-you is not you. At this instant in time that you read this, Rama has had a particular set of experiences. Tomorrow, Rama will have had a different set of experiences that will have slightly changed Rama's personality and attitudes. For that matter, Rama may even...

Doesn't the transporter buffer keep a "copy" of the person from the last known use?