Minor Battle of Courscant Questions

[Stark]

So you think a single ship can penetrate the shields of a heavily fortified world, and that this makes sense? I'm just going to ignore the game bullshit. Like I said, if a single ship could just 'punch a hole' that it could fly through (ie, many km to either side) then shields would be useless to stop bombardments. You could use HTLs to blow a hole in the shield and then use LTLs to create chaos on the ground, as apparently the hole cannot be sealed very quickly.

While I'm all to eager to simply ignore the EU as complete garbage, is this due to the EU's boner for segmented shields? Was Imperial Centre weakened in some way?

Your examples are worthless. Vader never intended to use a massive bombardment that would kill his son. You're ignoring the logical results of your claim - which may be mitigated by more layers of EU silliness - that a single Executor can penetrate powerful planetary shields in seconds (the quote you provide simply shows Lus casually blasting the shield down on it's way up). Compare this to day-long bombardments needed from special fleets elsewhere, and whether YOU'RE saying it's easier from inside, it seems clear you're sources are.

[Warsie]

So you think a single ship can penetrate the shields of a heavily fortified world, and that this makes sense?

It depends on the circumstances, as always.

Like I said, if a single ship could just 'punch a hole' that it could fly through (ie, many km to either side) then shields would be useless to stop bombardments. You could use HTLs to blow a hole in the shield and then use LTLs to create chaos on the ground, as apparently the hole cannot be sealed very quickly.

IIRC, Grievous did do that in the beginning of the Battle of Coruscant against some theater shields.

While I'm all to eager to simply ignore the EU as complete garbage, is this due to the EU's boner for segmented shields? Was Imperial Centre weakened in some way?

The planet was taken, I'd say a few days to a few weeks ago so they might be some problems. But I think the NR was able to fix the shields quickly, that was one of the NR's concerns that they would crack Coruscant (in the process cause heavy damage to defenses, infrastructure, etc) and Zsinj or someone else would swoop in so that seems unlikely.

Vader never intended to use a massive bombardment that would kill his son.

My point was that shields would have equal strength from above and below.

You're ignoring the logical results of your claim - which may be mitigated by more layers of EU silliness - that a single Executor can penetrate powerful planetary shields in seconds (the quote you provide simply shows Lus casually blasting the shield down on it's way up).

It gives ~20 seconds of barage until a hole is mentioned. And Lusanyka had to put enough energy into maintaining the shield that the ship was vulnerable to proton torpedoes hiting the ship and a Golan III could penetrate Lusanyka's shields relatively-quickly

EDIT: And it mentioned in The Krytos Trap that the ship had a HARD time maintaining the firepower against the shields

Compare this to day-long bombardments needed from special fleets elsewhere, and whether YOU'RE saying it's easier from inside, it seems clear you're sources are.

Don't blame me then, blame the sources.

And in "retreat from Coruscant" it only took several hours for the shield to fall.

Oh, btw Torpedo Spheres might be able to do the same thing. Blast a hole in a weak spot, maintain it with turbolaser fire and fire proton torpedoes to destroy the generator.

[Vehrec]

It's probable that Lusankya either was pitted against a local theater shield or a weak planetery that wasn't fully energized at the time of it's escape. A fully powered planetery shield would have represented an impassible barrier, the ship would have had to have targeted generators and projectors in that event. If it takes time to power up the shields, they might have even used a 'pony motor' to charge them, and that might have been what the Lusankya punched through.

[Master_Baerne]

And I believe that there was mention of significant damage to Coruscant's surface following the battle due to falling debris, on the order of millions of casulaties.

Mere millions eems kind of scant to me. Didn't Lusankya cause millions of casulties when it left Coruscant in the X-wing books?

[Master_Baerne]

Sorry, didn't read the other comments.

[The Original Nex]

And I believe that there was mention of significant damage to Coruscant's surface following the battle due to falling debris, on the order of millions of casulaties.

Mere millions eems kind of scant to me. Didn't Lusankya cause millions of casulties when it left Coruscant in the X-wing books?

Certain BUILDINGS on Coruscant can house millions of beings on their own (ITW: AOTC)

[Surlethe]

And I believe that there was mention of significant damage to Coruscant's surface following the battle due to falling debris, on the order of millions of casulaties.

Mere millions eems kind of scant to me. Didn't Lusankya cause millions of casulties when it left Coruscant in the X-wing books?

Millions of casualties on Coruscant is like hundreds of casualties on Earth.

[Ghost Rider]

Locking because dumbfuck cannot read the dates and adds nothing.