Batman wrote:
As evidenced by-you saying so.
Then this is no different than your analogy regarding England?
Batman wrote:
Wars has 7 figure c FTL which is already a massive advantage in an area where OA apparently hasn't even begun to make any inroads at all (as far as I could glean from this thread anyway)
It's still up to debate as to why OA does not have FTL. In reality, it's author fiat.
How you interpret it with your SD.Net SoD (also external fiat) is still a big argument.
I for one, think that it's a "physics change" situation.
Some SoD followers believe that it must only be a "physics constant" situation.
I think "Red Imperator" summed it up best.
Naturally, his comment was ignored by the loud orthodoxy, but I encourage you to go back and look.
But. Thank you for reading the thread before posting.
Batman wrote:
, Wars has massively superior power generation technology,
Actually. No. Don't confuse a Dyson sphere with a generator. Dyson Spheres and other megastructures are neighborhoods.
You wouldn't confuse a solar roof with a nuclear reactor?
Real industrial work is done in the deepwells of black holes. Both SW and OA have the ability to mine stellar black holes for energy. Also, there are some local SD.Net theories that hypermatter could actually BE evaporating black holes. Which OA uses quite a bit.
Batman wrote:
massively superior firepower (at least as presented in this thread,
Not really. SW has Pew Pew.
OA has weapons that destroy reality. They don't make good defensive weapons unless you are willing to suicide bomb. It's still an option, considering they back up everybody.
Batman wrote:
OA high end firepower relies on technobabble)
Lets not get into technobabble. At a certain level, this tech relies on magic. Both sides use different words to describe it.
The reason SW doesn't throw around technobabble is because it came from the age of Disco.
When they made the prequels, the technobabble flowed like midichlorians from a slit wrist.
Batman wrote:
and the FTL advantage alone guarantees victory. Wars forces can go anywhere in the galaxy in a matter of hours and there's jack all OA can do about that.
There is that.
I'm not afraid to be proven wrong, and I say when I am. BUT.
I've made a few points that remain unacknowledged. Other than stark, pretending I wrote something else.
1. OA has the technology to create artificial gravity wells. Even with no knowledge of the inner workings of hyperdrive, observations will tell you the effect gravity has on them.
OA can use this knowledge to build interdictor machines. This is a capability the fringe human polities have.
2. OA wormhole network goes back in time as you get to the inner sphere (And also forwards in time FROM Earth). This doesn't create paradoxes, because wormholes do not violate the lightcone.
However, FTL does in this case. Assuming they are both allowed, how to you deal with this? Because what this means, is the
travel through the wormhole network will outrun instantaneous travel.
Batman wrote:
Even if OA got step by step every detail included complete manuals to go from their tech base to building hyperdrives there's no way they can do so in time to matter, and that's presupposing someone on the Wars side actually can give them that information in the first place.
It's not a more primitive techbase. They are more advanced in many, if not most areas. I will posit that they will try to buy hyperdrive, because it's easy, and you make contacts.
But if you say they can't do so in time to matter, you are incorrect. The GE will not be able to roll over this like the ST Federation and it's scant hundreds of planets.
Disregarding the wormhole time travel bastion; OA has stunningly massive infrastructure and manufacturing ability. It could realistically manufacture things faster than the GE, in total war, could destroy them.