Super Star Destroyer vs. Voyager the probe

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

Maybe a better question (even if it is off thread) is what can hold an ISD?

A group of Golan Arms battlestations could do it with their tractor beams, as we saw in VOTF. Obviously, the Death Star could do it.

I was asking if the energy balls would even damage the SSD?

Given infinite time? That's hard to say, since the SSD has a prodigious shield recharge rate. But it's a moot point because V'ger would only get a shot or two off before being reduced to iron filings. Hundreds of heavy turrets firing blasts which are each in the high gigaton range means tens of millions of megatons of firepower being directed at one spot. Bye bye, V'ger.

I vaguely remember something about the V'ger cloud being a bunch of AU's in distance. An AU is 93 million miles, so it's at least a few hundred million miles to the center. Wouldn't the SSD have to go inside to hit V'ger?

Since I can't remember anything about the movie and all of an SSD's capabilities, how close would they have to get to take out V'ger? I can't even remember if there's anything solid to hit between the edge of the cloud and the center. Would the energy ball thingies wear down the SSD before it got close enough for a hit?

I wish I owned Star Trek I so I could check all this and refresh my memory.

Wait, no I don't.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

BTW, I should point out that I don't remember much of anything, and that last post was really asking questions to their capabilities. After reading it, it seemed to imply that V'ger has an advatage. This board, I maintain, is not anti-Trek, but anti-assumption, and I was not assuming. Just covering my ass.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

BTW, I should point out that I don't remember much of anything, and that last post was really asking questions to their capabilities. After reading it, it seemed to imply that V'ger has an advatage. This board, I maintain, is not anti-Trek, but anti-assumption (assumptions with little basis), and I was not assuming. Just covering my ass.

[Darth Wong]

I vaguely remember something about the V'ger cloud being a bunch of AU's in distance. An AU is 93 million miles, so it's at least a few hundred million miles to the center. Wouldn't the SSD have to go inside to hit V'ger?

If they want, but "asteroids don't concern me, Admiral". Clouds would not concern him either. Just fly through the cloud and pulverize whatever's at the centre.

Since I can't remember anything about the movie and all of an SSD's capabilities, how close would they have to get to take out V'ger?

In one of the NJO books, they take a shot at something in orbit of a planet from outside the solar system. They don't have to go into the cloud if they don't want to.

I can't even remember if there's anything solid to hit between the edge of the cloud and the center. Would the energy ball thingies wear down the SSD before it got close enough for a hit?

It's a big target, and it's not maneuvering. A focused group of HTL blasts and it's gone. If they fly close before firing, it's easier to hit it and they get to see the fireworks.

[Connor MacLeod]

In one of the NJO books, they take a shot at something in orbit of a planet from outside the solar system. They don't have to go into the cloud if they don't want to.

Rebel Stand. They fake a superweapon attack by using a capital ship battery fired at a target that is admittedly in stationary orbit, around the planet coruscant. There are at least several planets between the edge of the system and Coruscant.


For that matter, there's also the 35 million km "space unit" scaling based on the DS superlaser, AND the canon incident from TESB (Vader intending to use a clean bombardment from outside of sensor range of the REbels - but Ozzel fucking this up by dropping out of hyperspace "too close to Hoth" - most sources indicate he intended to not give the REbhels a chance to prepare and raise the shield - and official sourecs have credited rebel sensors as having sensor ranges at LEAST in the light minutes for passives, if not FTL...AND that they intended to use the Hoth asteroid belt to screen their arrival..)