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  • how do i play as the borg in the original mod

  • Borg fighting The Empire = death for the empire.....Borg fighting Ancients(stargate) = death to the borg = ANCIENTS WINN:)

  • What a disjointed mess.

  • Starfleet to picard: " We have urgent news...a group known as the "Jedi" has engaged the borg..We need you to go there and help them (5 min later) worf set a course for..Hoth...Worf..aye sir..It has not been charted before in starfleet records "

  • SW can send lone starfighter pilot into borg-cube's thruster vent and fire a photon torpedo to the core, and kabloooueee! In ST there's no small fighter...

  • @xponen but there are pinpoint accurate lasers and shit.

  • You think the Borg couldn't adapt to "lasers" when a laser cannot even penetrate a Starship's navigation field? The Borg would easily and mercilessly lay waste to all that is Star Wars.

    The Star Destroyer would be dispatched with with little effort. It wouldn't have time to fire up it's propulsion system before the Borg destroyed it utterly.

  • Okay Galaxy spanning empire against a race that spans a few dozen solar system? Not to mention a star destroyer is probably like 100 times bigger then a Borg cube? If the Borg somehow adapted to the lasers the SD could just fly into the cubes and cruise past them. Hard to imagine the Borg adapting to that.

  • Now where's Luke and Rogue Squadron when you need them? One torpedo in the vent and booooom!

  • @keesengels Sadly for the SW universe, it wouldn't work against a borg cube;D

  • Unleash Lord Vader on the borg and we'll have some fun. He'll be choking the Borg Queen in no time. The force has a strong impact on the weak mind. And the borg are completely mindless.

  • @summer20105707 Wrong. The Borg have 1 mind, trillions of wills strong. Also, the Borg don't need to breathe, so your choke just makes her laugh as a dozen Tactical Drones cut down a Sith.

  • @IceGavel A dozen or even ten dozen tactical drones wouldn't even get within an inch of Lord Vader. His force abilities would prevent them from even touching him

  • @summer20105707 They don't need to get close. It's called a Forced Plasma Bolt, and I doubt that Vader can block eternally.

  • LOL THAT IS WHY I PERFER STAR TREK OVER STAR WARS,THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY THINGS GOING ON WITH THE STAR TREK`S HISTORY THAN STAR WARS,DID STAR WARS HAVE A TRANSPORTER,COULD THEY TIME TRAVEL AND DID THEY HAVE( MY FAVORITE) A HOLLADECK(if this word is mispelled,you know what I mean) BUT I ALSO LIKE STAR WARS,I`M JUST A TREKADELIC...

  • @5mralbert Time Travel to the past is impossible. Stephen Hawking said so. That means, with all of the spiritual stuff in Star Wars, it's still more scientifically accurate. Lol, just kidding. Stark Trek kicks ass, but don't count out Star Wars. They're both great.

  • They obviously didn't have a fully operational battle-station!

  • If I were Admiral Ackbar I would hyperspace jump right into the borg cubes >:D

  • @ZeZombieKiller He'd have seen the trap 12 parsecs away

  • it's just a matter of time...

  • Rebellion is Futile(?)

  • Das wast pretty shite

  • Achtung panzer

  • death star vs borg cube

  • THIS IS STAR WARS AND STARTREK!?!DAS IST AUS SON SPIEL VON STARWARS IN EINE MAP VON STAR TREK GESETZT!!!

  • i have to say that since the star wars ships use simple laser cannon bursts there nothing for the borg to adapt to(probably)on the reverse side, possibly the borg could adapt to the shots and the star wars ships would have only gotten off 5 or 6 shots before there weaps are useless but ive seen ppl compare this before and really it wont ever happen because your comparing two different sci-fi shows... but perion makes some good points lol

  • Gotta give the Rebels credit - they didn't give up and even managed to take out one of the cubes. If it hadn't been for the second one, they'd have come out all right. I didn't think a couple fighters, bombers and a capital ship could do that... Hell, it took a whole battlegroup of Starfleet ships to take out one cube, and that was with Picard's unfair advantage!

    It's just too bad Borg cubes are decentralized and don't have conveniently placed exhaust ports...

  • @Dargonhuman Well considering the firepower disparity between the two franchises, they really needed to nerf the Rebels and beef up the Borg in order for the Cubes to really stand much of a chance.

  • @Perion Well, given that this is from a game, yea. In an actual match, the Borg's ability to adapt their shields to energy weaponry, the fact that a cube ship can remain functional when over 78% of it is inoperable AND the fact that they can regenerate damage to their ships would give them huge advantages over the higher powered rebel weaponry. The rebels may still be able to kill the first cube, but the second would learn from its demise and dominate anyway.

  • @Dargonhuman Borg can only adapt to energy weaponry that operates on a set modulation frequency, IE a coherent wave form, Star Wars weaponry doesn't do that, so they can't match frequency. The other problem is that weaponry of sufficient power can blow through Borg defenses regardless of if they match frequency or not, there are limits to their adaptive capabilities.

    It was theorized that they could remain functional if 78% is destroyed but in practice this was not the case.

  • @Perion What firepower disparity? I don't remember any figures given in the films for the Rebels or in the show for the Borg. Don't know who'd be the nerfed one.

  • @vegeta002 We know what the Empire and Republic are capable of thanks to the ICS Books, which gives us 200,000 megaton scale medium ship guns, and 12,000,000 megaton scale heavy ship guns.

    We also know the Federation's capabilities (24 megaton at best photon torpedoes.) and can scale up from that for the Borg based on the battle of sector 001 and other engagements.

  • @Perion The old Enterprise can level a planet's surface, as per the Original Series episode, "A Taste of Armageddon"

  • @Idazmi7 In several weeks perhaps yes?

  • @tarkinfish In 15 minutes, as mentioned in the same episode. ^-^

  • @vegeta002 The old Enterprise can level a planet's surface, as per the Original Series episode, "A Taste of Armageddon"

  • @Dargonhuman eh a few squadrons of rebel fighters and bombers took out the death star...

  • @khead99 And the Death Star had a glaringly obvious design flaw/weakness that a Borg cube - thanks to it's highly decentralized nature - doesn't have.

  • @Dargonhuman well ive never seen any startrek so thats nice to know.

  • @khead99 It's all good. The irony of the Death Star is, if they'd just put some kind of dense metal grill over that exhaust port to block torpedoes but still let exhaust out, the Rebels' strategy would have never worked. Maybe that was a feature they added to the Death Star II... or at least would have added...

  • @Dargonhuman hahaha yea but the first torpedo might have been able to break the grill and a second enter and do damage.

  • @khead99 If they could make the second shot - the first torpedo was hard enough to get in there, and that's assuming it only took one shot to destroy the grill. They could have put more grills further down the tube. At least, that's what I would have done; put three or four more at regular intervals along the entire shaft in order to stop lucky shots (or Force assisted shots) from getting in.

  • @Dargonhuman yea that would be the logical thing.

  • @Dargonhuman the thing is, the emperor didn't see small one man fighters as a threat, the first death star's defenses were aimed at defending against a fleet of capital ships

  • @Dargonhuman Exactly, or have the tube just going in a straight line. I still find it unlikely that it'd just shoot straight down. Surely people would see that as a problem, this straight open line leading right down to the reactor. Why not just incorporate a few bends or terminals of some sort!? That annoys me a lot. And the fact that there weren't hundreds of point-defence lasers dotted around the DS2's exhaust port is simply idiotic. No military would realistically be that dumb.

  • @tarkinfish

    Ya think they would put some sort of grate over it.

  • @Sismiques Exactly... Even lots of grates. One grate on the surface could be shot out but 200 of them with energy recycling so that the heat can be used in various ways once converted to energy = armour + efficiency.

  • @tarkinfish even if there were bends it would not have helped as the proton torps could make the turn. It was DS1 that had the exhaust port issue. Also, the issue with DS1 had simply been overlooked, and that with DS2 was an inevitable result of it being unfinished.

  • Why is there a federation outpost in starwars?

  • nicht nur den würfel ich hätt gern mal nen kompletten startrek mod für starwars empire at war

    geistert ja immer was rum im netz aber nirgends wo was zu finden, nie wird ein modderteam fertig immer hat alles nur bethastatus etc,oder wird eingestampft siehe crysis mod a la jurassic park - bis heute noch kein mod fertig !! und viele eingestampft

  • STAR DREK

    (drek is in croatian like SHIT i english)

  • Ah, the borg cube. Slow as all fuck, but really an overpowreed ship.

  • @Mylesdude101 which is strange since it's capable of transwarp...

  • It's good to see a reasonably powerful Cube in a game. Most games have them set at ludicrously low stats, so they have the firepower of a cruiser and pop like soap bubbles when attacked. Or they go up against fan-made superships and don't last 30 seconds.

  • Great video. Resistance is futile. The Force will be assimilated!

  • captain picard will shit on you all

  • where can i get trek wars plllleeeeaaasssee

  • Only a superstar destroyer would have chance against a borg cube.

  • ... english i not german

  • @TheSupermom1000 He is German, why should he speak English?

  • Warum die Deutschen nicht wie die Juden?

  • @clonetrooper ok sry hab das nich gesehn aber gute arbeit

  • the phasers are lasers firing so fast that they look like a strem. must be pretty powerful weapon...

  • Not really, Phasers are actually extraordinarily weak by comparison to Imperial weapons.

  • @Perion yeah, but if you look in the game,, all the phasers are are lasers flying so fast theylook like a beam weapon, which is why im saying that they must be powerful through the pure number of laser bolts.

  • Nah, it balances out, in the original trek wars mod you could hold off a decent sized Federation fleet with just a lone Acclamator.

    Main problem was though that the Federation would be limited to attacking in waves like Wolf 359, with predictable results.

    Empire at War is extremely minimalist, I'm hoping if they ever make an Empire at War 2 that it will be on a much grander scale, don't really need to improve the graphics much, just have larger space zones and planets, higher population cap.

  • @Perion have you brought your arguments to forums? that would be interesting to read.

  • Not usually, the odds of running into people who refuse to believe that Star Wars tech is beyond that of Star Trek tech in spite of the evidence increases exponentially on forums, I'm more interested in talking to people who don't have their heads firmly planted deep inside their posteriors.

  • @Perion rare species indeed.

  • Doesn't the Rebel Alliance realize that resistance is futile?

  • Because Assimilation is Futile, the Rebel alliance would destroy the Borg without problems.

  • (6:56 rape) as much as i love star wars, Star trek pwns the shit out of them easily

  • woher hast du den borg würfel? ich will den auch haben QQ

  • Also ich hab mir den Trek Wars Mod geholt und den Borg würfel eingefügt hol dikr den Mod un d gib mir deine e-mail per PM dann schick ich dir die datei und noch anweisungen.

  • @DarknesmasterX just wondering is that german or russian cant tell but its awsome that u can speak that along with english i need a second language

  • it is German ^^.

  • @cloneterooper what do u learn at school? i mean i´m a german and i´m very interested in english but the basics are thaught in school xD so really got any other language in your periods?

  • @DieMuzze1 Well I'm a US Marine sitting in Afghanistan and have nothing better to do than get shot at all day go back to camp, look at random youtube videos and clean my rifle so no i don't know any other languages. I'm just buying my time in a war that doesn't even make sense so I hope your better off than me.

    PS: I still love star wars ever since I was a kid :]

  • thank you very much for 20000 views!!!

  • lol, at the start, when the guy started to speak german with that acsent, I thought nazis were conquring the galaxy... No offence =)

  • Holy shit, German Borg are destroying Star Wars!

  • FUCK STAR TREK!

  • im still tryin to figure out why anyone would make a ship in the shape of a cube lol

  • @legoman2143 because the borg are seeking perfections and a cube is a way of peerfectuion

  • except Cubes are horribly inefficient designs for a starship, very little firepower concentration, massive target profile, it's just terribly flawed

  • what kind of sad dweeb uploads boring stuff like this?

    It's not a clip from a film... it's not a clever montage of film clips... it's not even vaguely convincing.

    But it is probably this individual's only alternative to female sexual rejection.

    What a life! lol

  • If you got the Universe at War mod, The Oddyssey from Stargate faction would kick the borg cubes ass

  • Isn't it Sci Fi at War mod?

    Stargate is there so overpowered

  • Star Wars, and Star Trek, are a bit scammy, Sounds in space? Excuse me... i dont think theres any sound in space :S

    Though.. everything else is AWESOME

  • there isn't, not even for the characters in the series (the new trek film makes it a point to show how there is no sound in space, once when a crewman is blown out into space during the Kelvin scene, and again when Kirk, Sulu and Engineer Olson drop out of the shuttle)

    The sound is for the audience, it also doesn't preclude sensor feedback through the speakers.

  • you guys r so nerdy lol

    sorry if i come off as bashing dont mean to

  • Actually to the contrary, in a nut-shell, the Star Wars universe has such an immense Industrial Capacity, they would simply be able to put out something much more effective against the Borg Cubes and have them mass produced in less than half a year. They'd simply slap themselves on the forehead and say to themselves "Why didn't we think of it before?" and bam, you got Star wars versions of Borg killers.

  • Star wars universe built the death star.....no contest. SW universe would decimate the borg. I agree with you. Borg cubes are huge in the star trek universe (3x3x3Km vs. the 700m long Enterprise E) but they are fairly average in the star wars universe where Star Destroyes are about 1.6Km (and there are many of these)

  • not really, Empire already have borg killing weaponry, all Star Wars weapons are non-frequency coherent, which means the borg cannot adapt to them, they are also many orders of magnitude beyond any weapon the federation have, which have used their weaponry, even after being adapted to, to destroy a cube in a fleet action of dozens of ships.

    however, Turbolasers are worth many thousands to millions of Photon or Quantum torpedoes, and Imperial ships are armed to the teeth with them.

  • dont the borg do the same? they have a huge industrial output and dont the borg adapt too?

  • Borg adaptation is extremely limited, they are incapable of innovation in even the slightest way.

  • welche patch version is  das antworte bitte

  • @23aroon32 wie welche patch version

  • Wolf 359 didn't take this long...

  • The Borg would slaughter everything in the Star Wars Universe till it got to Vader, than Vader would take over the Borg instantly because they would see Vader as one of them.

  • Only after he hooked up with the collective.

  • German Borg! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

  • This discussion is as silly as "Who is stronger, Conan or He-man" ones..

  • On the Deathstar there are 1000000 People the half are soldiers. The Deathstar has a armour out of a material (I forgot the name ^^) which the borg couldn't destroy. And the weapons of the deathstar are mightier than the whole imperial fleet, so the deathstar chould destroy a borg cube very easily.

  • Actually it's only worth half the imperial fleet, even including the superlaser,

    funny how so many people forget that the Death Star has millions of surface Turbolasers, any one of which could reduce a borg cube into an expanding cloud of vapours in one shot, it also has tractor beams that have thousands of km range, unlike federation/borg tractor beams which have maybe a ship's length range.

  • funny how you forget that lasers just bounce off star trek shields

  • Trek Lasers bounce off trek shields, not Star Wars Lasers, Trek Lasers, Wars Lasers and Real Life Lasers are 3 completely different things, and what applies to one doesn't necessarily apply to the other.

    Wars Lasers have more in common with Plasma weapons in operation which are very effective vs Federation shields (Plasma Torpedoes anyone?), the only actual Laser as we know them used in a Wars "Laser" is to excite the Tibanna gas, it is that excited, compressed gas that is fired out the barrel.

  • yeah but the death star can't manouvere and if the cube kept on the opposite side of the death star then its primary weapon, the death star wouldn't stand a chance. The cube would carve them up or beam drones on board

  • the death star can turn on its axis

  • not to mention any one of the surface turbolasers (yes the ones shooting at X-wings during the Battle of Yavin in ANH) would destroy a borg cube in one shot

  • @Perion I don't think that one shot of the tubolasers on the deathstar would destroy a borg cube

  • A single Turbolaser blast carries more firepower than all the torpedoes and phaser blasts fired in the Battle of Sector 001 combined, even if you extrapolate for the time it took for the Enterprise E to get there.

    each shot from an Acclamator carries the firepower of around 8,000 photon torpedoes.

  • From where do you take all this information?

  • Could have sworn I explained that months ago, no offense, but to save time and avoid double posting it might be simpler to just click "View All # comments"

  • Oh Ok

  • Star Trek wins by persistence, not to mention accuracy :P

  • doesn't matter how persistent Ancient Egypt was, it would be no match for modern day America.

    so too would the Federation be no match for the Empire.

  • @Perion Considering the timeline, the Empire would be closer to Ancient Egypt.

  • So imagine how powerful and advanced they would be by the time of Star Trek.

    however we have no idea how "long ago" Star Wars is, or how "far far away" the galaxy is.

    so it's a helluva lot easier to imagine they are tied together through time and space via a wormhole.

  • @Perion From a practical standpoint, I think that since they had a lot of time to make themselves more and more advanced, at some point they came up with an unstoppable doomsday-type weapon, and blew themselves up and that's why there's nothing left by the time Star Trek arrived.

  • Unlikely, more likely either the Republic reasserted itself or the Galaxy far far away is quite some distance/not long ago enough for the Empire to spread across enough galaxies to eventually attack the Trek one, after all the Empire wouldn't expand in a straight line of galaxies headed in the direction of the Milky way, it would expand in all directions with the GFFA in the center.

    Or the absolute most logical reason is the fact that the two are different franchises.

  • @Perion that or the republic and the remnant spent so much money on troops and resources that they never could afford to expand and they are both two battered factions reduced to a few planets by the time trek came along

  • just as unlikely as your previous theory I'm afraid.

  • @Perion its unlikely that two forces that hate each other for millenia and have been consistently blowing each other up eventually invent something to where each side blows up the other? i find it perfectly plausible if not inevitable

  • Based on what? no two civilizations in history have ever battled to mutual extinction except in bad fiction, you have no precedent.

    You also underestimate the power of survival instincts, it's the reason there was no world war 3 in the 20th century. M.A.D. is the ultimate deterrent, it even caused a US and Soviet joint cover up to avert it.

    However for the reason that we could argue the future of Star Wars till the end of time, that a Wormhole is used to link a known period of it to Star Trek

  • @Perion Actually, during the 1950s there were many novels that portrayed the mutual destruction of civilizations, such as "Alas, Babylon" with won numerous medals and commendations (not bad fiction). Also, the concept of an ultimate doomsday weapon has existed since biblical times. Survival instincts are powerful, don't get me wrong, but when there is no inhabitable areas left, resources can and will be exhausted. Star Wars was meant to end, most likely by destroying itself.

  • In the 1950s those kinds of stories were relatively new and prospect as re

    "most likely" ? bullshit, Star Wars isn't some emo crap about "war is bad" and all that, Star Wars is all about the fight for good vs evil, there's no such thing as running out of inhabitable areas, resources cannot and will not be exhausted.

    with a galaxy as rich and expansion to other galaxies going on as well, there's no reason to assume they would ever reach "bankruptcy" the very nature of Star Wars precludes it.

  • in the 1950s those kinds of stories were relatively new and the prospect seemed dangerously real with the advent of nuclear weapons, but history proved humanity to be smarter than that,

    As for Sun Tzu's stuff that's different, since A. they didn't destroy themselves militarily, and B. the bankruptcy was the result of constant warfare.

    In Star Wars neither of these are an issue,

    "Star Wars was meant to end"

    Again bullshit, at least as far as THAT kind of ending. Lucas wouldn't allow it.

  • @Perion lol im an idiot? youre the one continuing this senseless debate i just tried to end it get a life skippy

  • I reply to comments I feel like replying to, but if you want to drop it then that's fine by me.

  • @Perion so a stalemate it is thanks for playing i had a wonderful time :)

  • @Perion Also, during the ancient period in China, during the writing of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", there were numerous factions who had been engaged in battle for centuries to the point of bankruptcy which applies here. This debate is based on prediction and uncertainty, and thus there can be no victory. In fact, this very quarrel is a perfect example of the mutual destruction we're discussing.

  • Yeah because we both know that it's going to end in us killing each other.

    seriously though you're an idiot.

    In case you hadn't noticed, in the latest versions of Star Wars the Empire has essentially replaced the Republic, and the war is between one part of said Empire and another.

    And In spite of fighting for tens of millenia, no reason to assume they cannot continue, especially since it's not CONSTANT battles and wars, centuries and even millenia of peace pass in between.

  • @DarknesmasterX easy he is making it up

  • Nope, sorry, I got my info from canon sources, check out the Complete Cross Sections book for details ;)

    protip, always investigate someone's sources before you accuse them of making an asspull.

  • @DarknesmasterX Um it destroyed a planet !

  • about the borg cube and death star, i think the death star is a little bit stronger, cause a death star bundles it's superweapon into 1 big beam and so it can destroy the hull of a borg cube very easily and then reach it's main core easily.

    and a borg cube has not a weapon like this.

  • Great model of Home One!

  • A Borg cube would have destroyed the Calamari Cruisur within seconds.

    Btw: Would the Borg assimilate Darth Vader? ;)

  • I don't think that a Borg Cube could do that.

    And it would be funny to assimilate Darth Vader.

  • oh of course they would, don't you if they assimilated Vader that the borg would all know how to use the force? and what's more scary then borg that can assimilate you through the force!

  • i can't imagine that a borg could use the force. But if they can do that it would be really scary ^^ ;)

  • well you gotta remember, borgs are CYBORGS, just like Vader... only they have a collective mind... now really think.. all that mindpower... yeah you'd be screwed

  • the Borg have never shown the ability to assimilate telepathic much less telekinetic abilities, the collective mind obliterates all semblance of individuality, making such abilities useless, the collective communicates with via their implants.

    besides, the Borg wouldn't be able to get close enough to a Jedi or Sith to assimilate them, between the Lightsabers and the Force powers. (not to mention the Starships the Empire and Rebellion/Republic have)

    it's unlikely the Borg would ever see one.

  • lets not argue about this, but due try to remember the adaptive abilities of the borg, after a few dozen of them die they'll know how to counter lightsabers and force powers.. remember they're not like droids. and though they've never much needed Telekinesis, what with tractor beams and all and they've technologically already improved on telepathy, despite this you still must admit that there are other aspects of the force they could find useful. also same thing can be said about the borg ships

  • Borg adaptation has it's limitations, considering that a single Imperial Class Star Destroyer can dish out the equivalent of up to 100 billion photon torpedoes a second, and shields designed to withstand a full half hour of such a bombardment.

    also Imperials don't use Frequency Modulations the way the Federation and other races the Borg have encountered do, so it would be pretty much impossible to adapt to Imperial weapons due to a lack of frequency coherence and the sheer brute force of it.

  • also, Borg ships (like practically every other ship in Trek) are vulnerable to Ion storms, the Ion canons of a Star Destroyer have many times that firepower.

    also the Borg have always been vulnerable to kinetic impacts, with no defense in sight, they have lost thousands of drones to this weakness, and have never shown the ability to adapt to it (since that would require innovation, a trait the Borg lack.)

    as a result Machine guns and Mass Drivers are the cheapest ways of dealing with them.

  • ook FIRST Of all why does it matter to you? and second where are you getting your technical information? it's two WORKS OF FICTION! it's not like it's real in anyway. BUT to prove a point, it's the SW ships that are vulnerable to ion weaponry and you also have to know that because their shields don't modulate that could be a weakness, couple to that the LACK of experience vs transporter systems and the ship could be assimilated easily i am a fan of both SW&ST so please don't assume i'm hating SW

  • I get my information from the official tech manuals for each series, as well as on screen footage and dialogue.

    Star Wars vessels are only vulnerable to Ion weaponry in their subsystems and even then can be repaired in the field, Star Trek vessels have been known to be crippled or destroyed outright by Ion Storms.

    many races without transporters have shown the ability to block them, either by accident or by design, Shields of all kinds block transporters to varying degrees.

  • the lack of modulation isn't an issue, since the frequency system most Trek ships use is an Interrupter frequency, IE the shields flicker on and off extremely fast, as do Phasers and photon torpedoes (not sure exactly on the mechanism there).

    weapons match that frequency to pass through the shields, since Star Trek shields block both ways, if the shields and weapon frequencies were out of sync, than they would damage their own shields when they fire.

    Star Wars shields don't work that way.

  • during pre-republic era they did, but by the KOTOR timeframe they used "gunport" shields, opening small holes in the shields only when they fire, at a different rate of fire or frequency for each weapon.

    by the time of the Clone Wars they had found a way to create shields that block one way, but allow passage the other way, they used these shields for anything from their hangars to protecting the ship itself.

    as for the power flow modulation, well that's irrelevant at that magnitude.

  • the only ship that used the gunport shields during the Clone Wars that I know of was the Malevolence, due to it's size and Ion Canon superweapon, that gunport shield became it's undooing, but it was never designed to be a serious superweapon, and little more than a test rig for the effects power generation of that magnitude would entail.

    after all, Sidious never intended for the Separatists to win the war.

    I'm a fan of both as well, and have done a great amount of research as you can see.

  • well fine i'll concede then, but I will do so on the objection that those tech manuals, while accepted in most cases as cannon.. is in fact not written by the creators of the series and based on cinematographic special effects which are more often then not, gross exaggerations of physics hence the sound in the vacuum of space

  • I've always maintained that sound in space is for the audience rather than the characters, since the characters never seem to respond to it, the only sounds they respond to are from vibrations in their own ship/hull.

    Star Trek XI does this rather nicely, though for most people it went over their heads, every time the camera follows someone out into space, be it when some of the Kelvin crew were blown out, or when Kirk, Sulu and Ens Ricky did their super Halo jump, the sound all but ceases.

  • this is true but the fire balls that you see are highly exagerated

  • The Star Trek tech manuals are non-canon, and the Star Wars ICS books are so full of holes and non sense that I would not go trusting them too much. Anyhow, good work very enjoyable.

  • while you are correct about the trek tech manual, the show's weapons are clearly on the same order of magnitude (TNG Pegasus, where Riker stated it would take most of their torpedoes to destroy a 8km by 5km hollow asteroid)

    name one hole or nonsense in the ICS book, because there isn't any, unless you consider the 200 gigaton turbolasers and 191 megaton concussion missiles or 11-12 gigaton seismic charges, nonsense/holes in which case that is your opinion and not worth very much.

  • the main divergence between the tech manual and the show is phaser firepower, hand phasers aren't anywhere near as powerful on the show as they are stated in the manual.

    besides in order for the seismic charges to deal the kind of damage they do in the asteroid field in attack of the clones REQUIRES energy levels greater than that of 10 gigatons of tnt. (IE cutting through asteroids in a 8-10 km radius without losing strength,

    oh and DarknesmasterX, the material is called "Neutronium".

  • OK, the last ICS book labels the laser/ blasters in the wings of the Jedi interceptor as ion canons when the movie clearly shows blasters being fired from those ports. As for the firepower figures, they are just something Saxon pulled out of his ass to make it sound cool, there is no canon support for his figures at all.

  • sorry but you are mistaken.

    for one thing they are not "clearly blasters" because Ion cannons do not look any different from regular red blasters, this whole "blasters are green and red, ion cannosn are blue" rule is from the Video games and some of the EU NOT from the movies which had the Ion cannon on hoth red and sound just like a Turbolaser when fired, so you cannot say it's a contradiction based on something the movies already override.

  • You might want to read my previous comments, I already stated that the seismic charge's performance in ATOC REQUIRES energy levels on the order of 50,000,000 Terajoules, which is exactly what saxton put as the yield for them, likewise in order for Slave 1's blasters to deal the kinds of damage they did to the asteroids in ATOC requires 8 terajoules, again Saxton's numbers are consistent with canon.

    they were not "pulled out of his ass" as you claim.

  • I was talking about the impact affects not the look or color of the bolts, Ion canons to not produce explosions on impact, they spread out on the target like they did in ESB, in revenge of the sith the bolts produced an explosion and physical damage to the target.

  • are you sure that was directly caused by the bolt's impact and not the generator shorting out in a weird way?

  • I watched it 4 times in slow motion, I am sure, I also watched Slave 1 firing at Obi Wan 4 times in slow motion, and at be he fracture some of the smaller rocks and left smallish craters in the larger ones, also the largest fractured rock was at best about 5m around, if Slave one is about 20-25m from tail guns to the top in flight mode.

  • that means Trandosian weapons would tear them apart, since most Trando Weapons are Shotgun, SMG and Chaingun based weapons

    not to mention Disruptors will tear through a Borg Drone

  • yeah, Trandos use ACP and Concussion weapons pretty much exclusively.

    I tend to refer to Star Wars Disruptors as "Busters" since they work on the same principle as blasters just with more tibana gas and energy per shot, beyond the safety/stability margins, which is why they are Illegal.

    the reason for this is to avoid confusion with the Star Trek version of Disruptors, unfortunately even some of the games, Jedi Knight II for example makes the DXR6 act like a Trek Disruptor only more powerful.

  • Busters are also much shorter range than Blasters,also due to the instability of the weapons,

    even a hand Blaster such as a DL-44 can cause large, explosive vapourization of concrete, blasting holes the size of a man's torso and spraying shrapnel and superheated gas in all directions, as well as creating a shock wave capable of knocking people to the ground within a 3 meter radius. Busters are far m