spaceluigi wrote:First of all, the Star Wars Essential Guides have the copyright from Lucasfilm. Now, I assume that's what we go by, or do we simply go by whatever makes Star Wars look good and whatever makes Star Trek look bad?
Mandell Blueprints + common sense + numerous references in official material > X-Wing books.
You say your fighters have hulls that can stand multi-kiloton blasts? BULLSHIT! X-Wings hull’s are made of Titanium! Source: The Essential Guide to Vehicles an Vessels!
TIEs have KT lasers. X-Wings can survive shots from an TIE's attack. Hence, X-Wings can withstand kiloton level attacks.
Your damn laser cannons… oh, they’re not lasers, they only have the word laser in them… well, they are… partly. It’s a beam of light and charged particles *slap* gee, that sounds like it could deck a Constitution class in three hits… especially considering that we matched that exact technology in the 1960’s as an orbital missile defense… Source: The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology and the National Air and Space Museum
I suppose I should point out that photon torpedoes must use light as it attack because its in its name, and that phaser rifles must be projectile launchers, because of the fact that the barrel must be rifled.
Lasers are very different from modern day ones. They are visible for one thing. They travel slower than light. And for all your mindless babble they STILL do KT-GT damage, depending on the ship.
Your damn “Proton Torpedoes” and “Concussion Missiles” are powerful, but there’s one teeny tiny problem… they still use explosive warheads. Powerful chemical explosive warheads, but chemical warheads nonetheless. They can take out ground installations at best. They’re the equivalent of bunker busters today. Furthermore, they can travel a whole 300-700… METERS! This bullshit about an X-Wing possessing enough firepower to confidently duke it out with a Federation fleet? It’s exactly that…bullshit. Source: The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology…
Anti-fighter Protorps have yields of 190MT, source EpII ICS. They have a range of far more than 300-700 meters, source AOTC the FILM. CANON > official.
Trek Photon Torpedoes can easily wipe their viewscreens clean of any Star Wars bug nearby. They use matter and antimatter to kill, with an effective explosive yield of 200 isotons. Then there’s the Quantum Torpedo, utilizing the most powerful energy the universe has to offer: Quintessence, Zero-Point Energy (ZPE) or Vacuum Energy, call it what you want! It’s called ZPE because there is another energy out there keeping it at bay… and keeping us alive… if it weren’t out there the universe would expand so fast the electrostatic and nuclear bonds of all matter and energy would cease to exist! It is on the magnitude of 120 orders more powerful than ALL the matter and energy in the universe! It is at a constant density, and can never be used up as the universe expands, doesn’t mean this energy does! There is enough energy in at most 1 coffee cup full of it that IT CAN BOIL THE EARTH’S OCEANS AWAY. Oh, yes, I forgot to add: The range on these mothers is 3.5 million kilometers. As opposed to 300-700 meters. Source: Star Trek Encyclopedia (photon torp) and physicsweb.org (quantum torp)
Isotons actually mean just tons, the prefix iso- meaning one. Therefor, Trek weapons have a yield of 200 tons.
Using your logic, anyways.
Quantum torps have never exhibited what you have described. Therefor the above explanation is NOT canon in the Trek universe, and until such evidence surfaces, YOU ARE WRONG.
See how easily your arguments are shot down?
CHALLENGE TO SPACELUIGI: Quote my entire argument, and respond to each paragraph individually. Instead of restatign your argument over again. Are you up to it?
