The Admiral wrote:I've heard this so many times...
So I have a few comments to make
1st the borg...
Take over one SW ship, and now the borg kick there sorry ass's after dapting to turbolasers...
warp drive is SO much better than hyperdrive, you can fly along a ships hull at warp dropping photon trops on them...
Good bye Thrawn...
And the romulans would just inflitrate there goverment, and take them over, or sign a sneeky deal.
And photon trops move at warp, so they can be fired from far away, and blast of thoses defletor towers, and that nice shny bridge viewport.
All they need a a tatical man like me...
Adn the empire loses, sadly I love the empire, and would help it kick the feds ass anyday..
So I wonder who wins,
The admiral
This is the typical Trekkie grade stuff. Let me just say that everything has LIMITS, as one can easily see in ST:FC. Considering previous exposures, they are probably about as well adapted to photorps and phasers as they could possibly be, AND they still lost. Of course, then there is the KE problem.
Warp strafing doesn't work, period. Technical difficulties and the episodes always seem to kick themselves in their own asses. I'd explain why they let them do it in FanFics in the appropriate section.
Go watch ST:FC. Watch the speed of photorps.
Infiltration. Well, granting that the Romulans could even GET to the appropriate places to infiltrate using snail speed warp drive ... maybe fifty years from now, it'd be a factor. But that's a little late for the Federation and its neighbors.
I won't say anything about those domes. Too much has been said on them.
The Admiral wrote:The warp trop tatic was part of a bit of ST/SW fanfic I read...
it details the fall of the federation to the empire...
Quite funny.
The borg won't need a SD, what about a TIE, all they need is a mind, and what about assimalting Thrawn of his bridge?
I seem to remeber photon tor us kentic engry...
The borg cope with them...
Anything else?
Admiral
I seriously suggest that you do not take a FanFic too seriously for your technical data. There are about two types of FanFic.
1) Those written by people without adequate research, so these mistakes are common. After all, at an EXTREMELY cursory glance, warp strafing might just work.
2) People that have done the research and realize that if they want the Federation to even be able to put up a fist, they have to give them some unwarranted advantages. To do that, you can give them more capability to begin with or you can force-feed a string of miracles in the Empire's way. Personally, the second method is more blatantly obvious and less well thought of than the first, though I do occasionally comment more favorably on a good save
Which one were you reading anyway. The fact that the Federation loses in the end suggests strongly that the author is in the "2" category. Is it by Michael January?
They need a lot of minds to understand fully how the Empire works. And forget about Thrawn. Who would send their best military genius to Backwater Conflict Region with Ultra-Primitive and Weak tech?
Photorps ... watch ST:FC again.
The Admiral wrote:Oh well there goes that plan.
*waves to crew of USS Spirit, before jumping in an EP and feeling towards the SW lines...*
The Admiral
Ps, though the do have one advatage, the feds are all diplomates, so they could convince the rebels to join them, then use the federation as a rebal out post,,
That might work?
There's a chance, but there are still some pretty big hurdles. Everybody has
some diplomatic ability (and some leadership ability ... tactical ... virtually any kind of ability)
First is the insurmountable problem of actually REACHING a Rebel and starting negotiations. In the most common invasion scenario, the Imps would be coming through some kind of wormhole. You would have to reach the wormhole, get past, reach a planet, communicate, get to know some Rebels ... etc, all on worm-speed warp drive.
The Admiral wrote:Yes the rebles, one, the the YV invaded, and kicked there sorry asses, and now they lost courscant,
But could fed tech help beat the vong?
Admiral
Not likely.
The Admiral wrote:Phasers might work agaisnt the dovin basials though...
Good for distration..
Like splinter shots.
And er... Um.. Yes thats about all they could do...
Die infedels!
Admiral
Or they might get sucked in. If they could avoid the basals, NDF effect should give them some advantage over organic hulls.
The problem is that their defense is too weak. So they might be HURTING the Vong ships, but the Vong are MASSACRING their fleet.
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