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Son of a bitch......Lord Poe wrote:Ba- BUMP!
"Wedge's Gamble" arguments now up!
http://h4h.com/louis/pdd1/wegam.html[/quote]
"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator
I'm having trouble loading Poe's site, so I'll quote this. (500 internal server error btw)His Divine Shadow wrote:Poe:-Imperial SourcebookNo, from this quote we can determine that an Imperial bombard fleet contains an average of 416 ships. This does NOT invalidate the Imperial Sourcebook quote on page 61 or 82, the Star Wars Sourcebook quote on page 32, (Identical to the Imperial Sourcebook quote on page 61) or the quote found on Official Star Wars web page (Identical to the Imperial Sourcebook quote on page 61). Note the quote above speaks of destroying a world, not reducing a civilized world to slag. Han Solo said "destroy" too in ANH, and he was clearly referring to the sparse debris that had been Alderaan when he said it. So, if we want to be completely anal about these quotes like our BDZ debater, we can determine from the quote on page 109 that 416 ships can completely destroy an Earth-like planet just like the Death Star, and 1,000 ships wouldn't be needed, as Han Solo guesses.
That passage has been misinterpreted. a 416 ship fleet is deployed to an entire sector, each bombardment force(6) within a fleet will be responsible for dozens of systems, the whole fleet would never be gathered into 1 system. It takes authorization from a Grand Moff or the Emperor to deploy more then 1 squadron( 4 spheres plus escorts, typ 8-30 lt cruisers, corvettes and smaller craft) into a single system. If there are any enemy combatants in the systems space, they would be destroyed by the StarFleet before the bombard squadron will get there.