Originally posted by Evil_Genius_McKay
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Much like Stargate, SW ships largely rely on shields.
Well, in Stargate, a ha'tak can hit the surface of an ocean when falling like a rock without suffering much damage, and let's not get started on the uber Wraith cruiser sitting on the seabed not far from Atlantis for millenias.
The firepower of the Invisible hand is supposedly this.
So far I found that a magnitude 8 earthquake is equal to six million tons of TNT. Which is like 25,104 terajoules of energy. If my math is correct which it sometimes isn't. So that is quite a bit of power, I'm sure an ISD has far more capability than an antiquated Providence class. 6,000 kiloton warhead. But you look at a comparison to nuclear warheads it is about in the mid range. About 3,600 kilotons under Ivy Mike. The largest nuke ever tested was 50,000 if you increase that with by 100x using Naquadah 5,000,000 kiloton warhead. That is like 833 shots from a quad turbolaser. I'm sure a Star Destroyer can take a ton of punishment but that would be quite a bit. Considering that a Daedalus class can shoot far more than one nuke and not accounting for the rail gun fire. It adds up. Not to mention the fact that an ISD has several weak areas on it despite its power.
In conclusion I believe that a Daedalus class has both the firepower and the manueverability to take out a Star Destroyer. But that is the conclusion I had already come to a long time ago. I just rationalized it better.
Each shot from the point-defense ion cannons released as much heat as a 4.8 megaton bomb, while the maximum yield of one of the quad turbolasers was equivalent to a magnitude 10 groundquake. [1]
In conclusion I believe that a Daedalus class has both the firepower and the manueverability to take out a Star Destroyer. But that is the conclusion I had already come to a long time ago. I just rationalized it better.
May I ask where does that quote came from? It sounds like typical ICS stuff, the latest two ones which are filled energy, firepower and shielding figures which are always three to six orders of magnitude above truth.
It is literally mad that while there already was a vast amount of data pointing to much more reasonanle yields, not even counting the films themselves (!) which never supported that nonsense, the simple fact that one author (Curtis Saxton) managed to lay his crap in a book, gave enough munitions for ******s to automatically ditch the larger rest, and instead favour their own wet dreams *drool drool* *boom boom* oh noes my pants, nevermind my mom will buy me more.
Sweet Jeez.
What's more pathetic is the lattice of lies and wishful thinking they rely on to claim that the ICS are higher in the "canon"... totally ignoring Leeland's Chee's words and the continuity hierarchy they use at LFL to sort out material.
Funny how this same people harped on my ass because I was a purist and I should use the canon policy rolled out by Leeland Chee, the exact same one they willfully cheery pick from and twist to fit their agendas.
As far as canon goes, this same Mr. Chee did admit in one of his latest canon related interventions at SW.com's boards (I think it was there), the existence of two canons. The purist one and the EU compliant one.
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