Originally posted by Ouroboros
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Have you seen Travelers yet.
Spoiler:
It was a pretty awful episode but there's an interesting demonstration of cruiser firepower in it.
We get some guys on the bridge of an Aurora class battleship bring the shields up when they're about to be attacked by the cruiser. The cuiser then takes the shields down in 10 shots, 9 if you assume the first one doesn't count because it was before the guy says "20%".
The ship rocks violently every time a shot hits and the scene is pretty much continuous as far as I can see.
It's an interesting bit of info in any case. Certainly more evidence toward the idea that Wraith weapons were optimised specifically to maul Lantian shields.
If their best ship can be laid low by only 50 shots from a mere cruiser I think we've got our answer to how the Wraith faught them despite the various instakill weaponry, which is also demonstrated again here. The shots this cruiser fires are a fraction of the size of the bolts in hive yet the damage they cause to the lantian shields is way out of proportion compared to what they would do to say, Daedalus. It seems from this that the Wraith weaponry was almost as bad for the Lantians as the Lantian weaponry was for the Wraith.
The episode also shows how fragile Lantian warship hulls are as well. The one cruiser shot that hits after the shields drop blows a pretty massive chunk out of the hull, the bridge being a part of said chunk.
We get some guys on the bridge of an Aurora class battleship bring the shields up when they're about to be attacked by the cruiser. The cuiser then takes the shields down in 10 shots, 9 if you assume the first one doesn't count because it was before the guy says "20%".
The ship rocks violently every time a shot hits and the scene is pretty much continuous as far as I can see.
It's an interesting bit of info in any case. Certainly more evidence toward the idea that Wraith weapons were optimised specifically to maul Lantian shields.
If their best ship can be laid low by only 50 shots from a mere cruiser I think we've got our answer to how the Wraith faught them despite the various instakill weaponry, which is also demonstrated again here. The shots this cruiser fires are a fraction of the size of the bolts in hive yet the damage they cause to the lantian shields is way out of proportion compared to what they would do to say, Daedalus. It seems from this that the Wraith weaponry was almost as bad for the Lantians as the Lantian weaponry was for the Wraith.
The episode also shows how fragile Lantian warship hulls are as well. The one cruiser shot that hits after the shields drop blows a pretty massive chunk out of the hull, the bridge being a part of said chunk.
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