Multiple Questions about Basic SW Stuff(Minor Spoiler/SotH)

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-02 04:01pm

I'm considering writing a Star Wars/Ender's Game fic, where an ISD/SSD carry both Thrawn and Vader get stuck around Earth at the time of Shadow of the Hegemon. The irony is almost tangible. Anyway, I have a few basic questions. I've read Ender's Game, and I'm up to the part in SotH where India has just invaded Thailand. Please, no spoilers about anything past that point.

Take these craft/items/people
1. AT-AT
2. AT-ST
3. TIE Fighter
4. TIE Interceptor
5. Gunboat w/ shields
6. Gunboat w/o shields
7. Missle boat w/ shields
8. Missle boat w/o shields
9. Stormtrooper
10. Vader's Armor
11. TIE Bomber
12. TIE Defender w/ shields
13. TIE Defender w/o shields
14. ISD
15. SSD
16. E-Web
17. Stormtrooper Transport
18. Lamba-class Shuttle w/ shields
19. Lamba-class Shuttle w/o shields

How would they be affected by(and I know this may make absolutely no sense)...

1. A DU shell
2. A Hiroshima-level nuke
3. An H-bomb
4. An Ender's Game era nuke
5. The weapons of an Abram's tank
6. Surface-to-Air missle
7. Air-to-Air missle
9. A-10
10. Handgun
11. Daisy cutter bombs/bunker busters

Questions about Earth in SotH

1. How does the IF keep nukes from flying? Mutually Assured Destruction? Some sort of orbital interference system?

2. How far advanced is SotH's ground warfare tech?

3. What kind of ships does the I.F. employ?

4. Anyone run any calcs on the weaponry of a standard I.F. warship?

5. Is the Earth in constant communication with the colony ships?

Some basic SW questions

1. How many Stormtroopers does an ISD/SSD carry?
2. How many AT-ATs?
3. How many AT-STs?
4. How many TIEs?
5. Gunboats?
6. Missle Boats?
7. ST transports?
8. How many prefab garrisons?
9. How fast can the garrisons be deployed?
10. How much of the stuff in SW questions 2-7 does a garrison carry?

Thanks!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-02 05:40pm

Its better to put these in sequence

IE instead of randomly jolting them go Hand-gun up to DU Shell

Get this into some better orginzation but the fact is Ender's Game ships are absmly slow turn/moving, However thier Front faceing speeds are decent

By the time Dilation they experance they must be doing in-between .91-.95 C for Ender to have lived so Long

The IF keeps nukes from flying through the use of a *chuckle Advanced Star Wars systems to shoot them down before they get anywhere(Lasers, Railguns, the whole deal)

Anyway they where orginoaly built as Defenses aginst the Buggers attacking Earth and now happen to sever as handy Anti-Nuke Defenses

Now then the Little Doctor will be of increably questionable use to a ISD or SSD with Shields up, given the nature of SW shielding(The Docotor is a chain reaction weapons and frankly thiers nothing to react with an ISDs shields besides pure energy)

So if the Docotor can still squish the ISD and SSD, The Empire is fucked, if not then Earth has exactly 1 hour to live should they piss of Thrawn

Luke Starkiller · Post by **Luke Starkiller** » 2002-10-02 05:43pm

That is also assuming that they can get the Little Doctor to the SW ships. It was what 2 or 3 thousand years later they tried to use it again and it was still a good sized torpedo.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-02 05:55pm

Ok, but the story likely won't be a straight out combat scenario. Thanks for the answers so far; keep it up!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-02 05:57pm

Acutaly I'm going to get 4 new Tires on the Car plus oil change so sorry

Be gone for a few hours

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2002-10-02 09:40pm

AT-AT's can easily withstand thermonuclear weapons striking in close proximity. They are virtually invincible to modern weapons. As for the rest of them, most of the vehicles are similarly well protected, but walkers are always more heavily armored than repulsorlift vehicles, which can usually not withstand heavy fire from anything. My guess is that an AT-ST could be easily destroyed by most MBT's in the modern world, but that it would be more effective against infantry and lighter vehicles than modern MBT's. The starfighters would require nuclear weapons to destroy, even without shields. With shields, multiple nuclear strikes would almost certainly be sufficient to destroy them. Nothing in the modern US arsenal has any ability to harm a SW capital ship. An E-Web would quite obviously be destroyed by high-caliber weapons, such as the one found on the A-10. Hope that that helps.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-02 09:56pm

Thanks! Keep it coming!

Bump!

+1!

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-02 10:32pm

Besides little Docotor(Which if it does not in all likleyhood work aginst shielded ships) Then the Earth is screwed

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-03 04:12pm

BUMP!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2002-10-03 05:25pm

Mr Bean wrote:

Besides little Docotor(Which if it does not in all likleyhood work aginst shielded ships) Then the Earth is screwed

The MDD passes through shields like they aren't there(Near-direct quote, Ender's Game, conversasion with Rackam.). It should be noted said shields aren't exactly like SW ones... They are perfect sphere's and can't be scanned through, though they are electromagnetic in nature, which is the most likely kind used by SW.

MDD exists as both a torpedo literally covered with instructions for turning it off, and as a twin beam.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-03 05:40pm

They don't however seem to posses paritcul shielding nor have they ever run into shielding like SW which is know to block EVERYTHING, even things at the Microscopic level(Unlike EG shielding which one can still contact through the Asemba.... however you spell that thing) AND into other domains such as subspace and Hyperwave

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-04 08:45pm

Bump.