Galactica vs. Honorverse

NetKnight · Post by **NetKnight** » 2007-09-26 02:46pm

kinnison wrote:I think we are all agreed that just about any Honorverse ship is an absurd overmatch for Galactica. Can we come up with any decent opponents for her? I nominate a Babylon 5's Earth Alliance Nova Class dreadnought.

Why not the Omega? It's far more of a classic, and we have a lot more battle data from which to estimate its capibilities. Overall, however, I agree that B5 makes a great universe to crossover with nBSG.

fgalkin2 · Post by **fgalkin2** » 2007-09-26 02:51pm

kinnison wrote:I think we are all agreed that just about any Honorverse ship is an absurd overmatch for Galactica. Can we come up with any decent opponents for her? I nominate a Babylon 5's Earth Alliance Nova Class dreadnought. Link:

http://www.b5tech.com/earthalliance/ear ... /nova.html

Eek! My eyes! My eyes! They are burning from all the B5Tech wank! This is a lot better.

As for the vs, I believe that the fighter superiority of nBSG will give them a definite advantage.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

starfury · Post by **starfury** » 2007-09-26 03:45pm

Why not the Omega? It's far more of a classic, and we have a lot more battle data from which to estimate its capibilities. Overall, however, I agree that B5 makes a great universe to crossover with nBSG.

Bab5, Space Above and Beyond and Firefly all Make Great Universes to Crossover with nBSG, As they None of the these Universes had tech that is much lower of much higher then nBSG, really once you discount the First ones, Shadows, vorlons etc, and strip all these wankers and just use the yoounger races the tech is very close indeed.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2007-09-26 09:43pm

Perhaps they'd have a chance against a small pre-Alliance Grayson or Masadan ship. Contact nukes and not laser heads; inferior PD, using reaction drive missles and not impellers; printed circuits and not molycircs for electronics; no bow or stern walls; and titanium armor - what the Manties use for merchant ships- instead of battlesteel. At the very least, they'd be more likely to be able to jump out in time, given that they'd not be surprised by laser heads bursting at range. The Graysons would still have a huge edge, though.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2007-09-27 07:27pm

Lord of the Abyss wrote:Perhaps they'd have a chance against a small pre-Alliance Grayson or Masadan ship. Contact nukes and not laser heads; inferior PD

To the Manties, not necessarily NBSG. The Graysons used the same thing for PD nBSG does: autocannon.

, using reaction drive missles and not impellers;

for countermissiles. IIRC Grayson/Masadan ATTACK missiles were impeller-driven, too.Madrigal was (eventually) taken out by Masadan missiles, and the battle for Orbit for strongly supports that what with Masadan AND Grayson attack missiles being visible on gravitics.

printed circuits and not molycircs for electronics;

which is completely unquantifiable one way or the other,

no bow or stern walls; and titanium armor - what the Manties use for merchant ships- instead of battlesteel.

Which, again, is rather hard to quantify.

At the very least, they'd be more likely to be able to jump out in time, given that they'd not be surprised by laser heads bursting at range. The Graysons would still have a huge edge, though.

I tend to agree.