I never said they had no limits, I did say they are compared to what we see in SW hyper-smart.
So what?
Their technology still stucks compared to SW-technology, at least as far as warfare goes.
You're falling into the same thinking you are accusing me of. According to the OA website there are just short of a billion (966,100,160) star in the Terragen bubble. Even assuming the Empire somehow knew the rough limits of OA space that is still a massive number of systems that need to be scouted before any sort of effective attack can be launched and that is going to take time.
Also as I pointed out unless the Empire is given magic knowledge of the OA universe they will almost certainly start by prioritizing the infrastructure needed to support humanoid life because even during the clone wars the droid army was an extension of a humanoid civilization.
*yawn*
Yeah, yeah, that might be their initial reaction - until they notice that
-these targets are completely irrelevant to the enemies war effort
-that the actual enemies are the AIs.
And given the distinctive nature of the AIs (massive installations), they are easy to find.
Scattered among just under a billion star systems you have:
"at least 10,000" t4 minds consisting of "...either distributed nodes connected at interplanetary scales, or concentrated in a single moon, jupiter, or dyson brain."
"around 500" t5 minds made up of "many separate transapientech ISO nodes (moon-, jupiter, and matrioshka-brains) connected at interplanetary and (if using wormholes) interstellar scales."
"Perhaps 15 ruling the Sephirotics" the t6 six minds which are "ISO nodes, moonbrains, jupiterbrains, and matrioshka brains) connected into wormhole-brains across interstellar distances to make a coherent whole."
So, what's their respective warfare capability?
Because even their best tech sucks commpared to SW, and if they have only 15 entities that can produce it the war will be even shorter than i thought.
It is important to to note that the t5 minds (can be) and the t6 minds (are always) distributed across interstellar distances and can survive the loss of one or more nodes.
Look, they can still be damaged. They still get disrupted. They can still be blown up.
Your side depends on a mere 15 entities. Hardly impressive.
So the empire has to scout a billions worlds, realize that their real targets are not found on habitable worlds but can exist anywhere there is energy, destroy one by on objects ranging from the size of moons (easy), to gas giants (much harder), to dyson spheres (the matrioshka nodes). All of that is going to take a lot longer then a day or two.
Easy, just send out a lot of probe droids or use, you know, telescopes. They can track their own galaxy in real time (seen in AotC), should be usable on other galaxies as well with a bit of effort.
Easy - as soon as they notice that the biological targets are even more of a joke than the rest. Besides, they don't have to make that distinction - the AIs are basically giant structures, that those are valuable targets is obvious.
And all these targets are BIG. Which is good, because that makes them easy to find and identify.
A day or two? Well, perhaps a week.
Initial scouting: 2 days to launch millions of probes, including travel time.
Attack on the obvious targets. Already includes some AIs. Three days, hundreds of worlds hit by small yet devastating raids.
Analyze the attacks and realize what the valuable targets are, while attacks continue: 2 more days.
And in a week, your side can do squat. Since the lack FTL, you'll travel at most seven light days - a complete joke.
