Dyson Sphere VS Death Star

Waddles McGee · Post by **Waddles McGee** » 2006-02-19 11:34pm

Which would win, Dyson Sphere or Death Star?

I think the Death Star. Sit out of sensor range, (or sit in sensor range to mock the people inside), blow a hole straight through, go inside and blow up shit.

Scifi

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2006-02-19 11:57pm

What tech level is the Dyson Sphere's defenses ?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-02-19 11:57pm

The trek Dyson Sphere has no weapons, at least none that were ever shown. Why do you think this would be a decent versus match?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2006-02-20 12:16am

Hooray for double post.

Scifi, are you perhaps thinking of the Xindi Sphere from Enterprise?

AK_Jedi · Post by **AK_Jedi** » 2006-02-20 12:37am

The DS would win by virtue of having weapons, while a dyson sphere does not. It would take much longer, considering the sphere has so much more mass than a planet, but it would eventually do it.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2006-02-20 01:31am

Presumably, a shot into the sphere's star would produce a flare, which could cause serious damage to the sphere's interior.

Steel · Post by **Steel** » 2006-02-20 03:40am

The Dyson sphere can safely b assumed to have inferior weaponry/defences to the death star, as the point of building a dyson sphere is to have it collect all the energy output of the sun it is around, so its available power is limited by the output of its sun.

The death star was able to draw upon reactors that could put out the energy that our sun produces in 7 milennia in about a day (to recharge the superlaser) thus giving it a 2.5million to one advantage in power generation.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2006-02-20 03:47am

Consider the sheer structural stresses the Dyson Sphere must continually put up with. Even a blast that would fail to punch a hole in it might suffice to upset the shell, and such instability would probably cause the placement of the sun to go out of position or otherwise behave in awkward ways.

PayBack · Post by **PayBack** » 2006-02-20 05:54am

The Dyson sphere doesn't have inferior weapons.. it has not weapons.. so we have a vs with the Death Star vs and unarmed sphere? wtf?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2006-02-20 07:48am

This vs is pointless. As simply being a Dyson sphere doesn't say dick about what if any defenses and weapons it has this could be anywhere from 'DS wins with one blast' to 'Dyson Sphere can ignore DS until the heat death of the universe'.
This is like making an 'an ISD vs a starship' scenario.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-02-20 08:27am

Locking because it's not a versus or even a debate.

This is stone hut versus Man with rocket launcher