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Cerberus Daily News updates about the corporate war on Garvug and the rebellion on the turian colony Taetrus do mention long-range bombardment by ground weapons, even involving "singularity projectors" (presumably similar to the Blackstorm Singularity Projector but on a larger scale.) But ...

I vaguely recall some 'net articles pointing them to being a tribute (copy) of some old sci fi weapon from some novel (I think Arthur C clarke built it) and being related (loosely) to shaped charge weapons. Yes, in Earthlight . A ship is destroyed by a blast composed of white hot liquid steel; it w...

Lol yeah I thought of the Thanix gun when I read your OP. TBH it's pretty daft, the codex implies that the heat is a non-trivial part of the damage mechanism. I think what happened is (as usual) the cutscene guys rooted up Sovereign's main gun effects in the first game, and then they scrambled to e...

This has all probably been raised before, but... - Why were the characters so worried about going down to Limbo? In the end they just kill themselves to wake back up from it, so what was the issue? You apparently forget that you are dreaming when you go down to limbo involuntarily. - The Sydney to ...

Your calculation is off. It's actually 162,000,000 MJ for the Kilimanjaro's slug. ((4,025,000m/s^2)*20 kg*.5=162,000,000,000,000 joules)

Alright, then. Can you demonstrate it shooting a "megabeam" at an incoming object at FTL and destroying it? Or quote a canonical source describing how it works? I've never seen them do that while at warp.

Can you show just how the nav deflector accomplishes protecting the ship from kinetic impacts while at warp, Stark? The effectiveness of Jem'Hadar ramming, and the incident with the Scimitar, indicates that it may not be direct blocking as in force vs force. The nav deflector never comes up when tal...

Are you stupid? They don't mention accuracy because they don't think its relevant. This is clear throughout the entire ME setting; they honestly think 100% accuracy is a sensible concept, despite their beer-mat codex entry explictly describing long-term combat with omg teh railz. Either they miss o...

So you're trolling? lol! Depends on your definition of trolling. If it's purposefully trying to annoy others? Then no, I'm not trying. If it's trying to get a reaction, whether or not that reaction is one of annoyance? I suppose. Well = poisoned. And you only have yourself to blame. Turns out Biowa...

4025 km/s at least, possibly more.

It'd help if you could prove jack shit; you can't even establish what kind of accuracy their weapons have at a given range! You continue to ignore that the Galaxy can just Picard manouvre them to death or sit at range and use the nav deflector to wait it out for a diplomatic resolution. Bear in min...

BTW, you guys here are officially less biased than the Starfleet Jedi forums. I made a thread there pitting a Kilimanjaro against an ISD, and no one has really come to the ISD's defense yet.

Or maybe it's just Stark that is biased against Mass Effect.

The idea that the Ent-E having continued motion to break through would hold weight- if the shields had resisted the Ent-E upon contact but later buckled. But no, there is no resistance at all, no temporary stop as the Ent-E struggles for a moment to break the Scimitar's shields. It just goes through.

What the fuck are you talking about? I'm well aware that 40% of the ships' width is a description of the gun's length - your hint is that I just fucking said that. Ok, my mistake. Your tone was that of disagreement, but there wasn't any disagreement, so that threw me off. With regular sensors, do y...

No, "40 percent of the hull's width" refers to how long they are. If interpreted your way, that would mean the main gun is as wide as 90% of the hull's length. That's clearly impossible. Why would the lack of FTL sensors matter at 10,000 km? That's nowhere near lightsecond range. The Scimi...

Still no numbers. How can they be 40% of the ship's width and still flexible, anyway? The ships don't visually have such huge weapons. Can they fire up and down? We haven't actually seen a Kilimanjaro class dreadnought. Presumably the guns aren't extremely wide themselves- they likely don't fire pr...

And how many hits is it going to take to kill a Galaxy? If it's more than 'one', they lose, even if they hit (astonishingly unlikely). One, if the Ent-E's collision with the Scimitar is any indication. It doesn't have to 'close in' to get off axis, it can do whatever it wants. I love how you say '7...

Projectile lag? It should take little more than 2 seconds for the mass accelerator slug to travel 10k km. I've seen ships get hit by torpedoes with longer travel times. If the Galaxy class closes and gets off-axis, the Kilimanjaro has its 78 gun broadside. Also it's got a load of fighters itching to...

Um...no? There was a thread about the Federation vs the Mass Effect galaxy in general. Not the same as a single ship battle.

A Kilimanjaro-class dreadnought from Mass Effect and a Galaxy-class starship end up 10,000 km apart in deep space and are hostile to each other. Which wins?

Uh... the Council races know enough about mass relays to activate them if they've been dormant. That's part of the reason why the rachni wars happened. That implies there is some level of understanding available, and also implies a relay can be disabled or rendered 'dormant'. The Council knew how t...

You're fcking dumb. Even if anyone accepted you no numbers dialog argument, the relays aren't solid and they're complex devices. If you can't work out how someone could get inside and pull the wiring out your head is so far up your ass you're breathing shit. Mass relays work on an entirely differen...

The wording is "knocked out of the system". It's a pretty big stretch to take "knocked out" to mean "its path was changed so it floated out of the system". That also would make it more predictable to recover, but the Council races couldn't. Anyways, that only has to do ...

Sounds like a giant red herring to me, champ! Without knowing anything about the supernova (or even if it was a supernova at all, given the poor science in ME) or the vector (before and after) of the relay, it's totally useless. I know you hear 'knock out of system' and you think a giant Michael Ba...

Ok, Stark. Here's your numbers. Using the energy of a Type II supernova as described here and the energy calculator here , at the apihelion of Pluto's orbit as noted here a Type II supernova would deliver 4.28*10^9 megajoules of energy per square centimeter. That's 4.28 petajoules per square centime...