Originally posted by TRSundown
Star Trek 💃 again I say... CANON! What is canon? Thats what this should be based on... Hell if it thats the case then I will quickly design a massive starship manufacturing plant that kicks out Federation vessels that are ten times the size and power of Star Destroyers at a rate of one per second... Write a book about it and then WOO HOO... ST wins... pathetic.
Hell...
You realy want to know what is considered "canon" in the SW universe ? Basically everything that comes out of all those nice Lucas companies (Lucas Arts, Lucasfilm...and so on).
I know the ST-vs-SW website doubts this because of several quotes from Lucas himself, Sansweet and so on. But this is just a question of interpretation.
Lucas is the all-seeing eye in his own universe. I would hardly doubt that there is anything done without his permission. The statements about the EU only say that the EU can not be considered "canon" because Lucas might come up with other ideas.
For example:
You can say that KOTOR is canon (LA considers Light Side ending as canon), as long as Lucas doesn't come up saying "There was no war against the Mandalorians, there was no Jedi Civil war because I will make some films about that time in the SW universe and there will be none of that in them." Or make it just like that: You can consider things to be canon when they
a) come somewhere out of the Lucas Entertainment group (Lucasfilm, Lucas Arts and so on...)
b) don't mess around with the things told in the films (I never seen anything in the EU dissenting the films)
Not that there is even a use for any discussion on that point. Not if it is based on what the ST-vs-SW website says because they even consider "Technical Manuals" not to be canon. And that is the first mistake done there. The Technical Manuals (or Technical Journals) deal with things used in the film - so nothing more than a "technical novilisation" of the films.
I dont think anyone has provided any kind of reliable support for that argument. In FACT I have provided support for the ST side that is a whole hell of a lot more logical with a more scientific approach than anything the SW side has put up.
There is no use to discuss fiction with a "scientific approach". If you want to have it that way I can easily proof to you (math + physic) that a warp drive as displayed in ST would never work. Boom..ST universe gone. Do you think that would be useful ?
And you just kept throwing in things from the ST-vs-SW site. Nice...so I will just go on and prove them wrong.
a) Hyperdrive speed
Totaly wrong thinking here. In the SW movies they messed up units refering to time and distance (Parsec). Parsec is used as a time reference in ANH (Han Solo talking about the Millenium Falcon: "It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve
parsecs!"😉. That would be like saying "I travelled thousands miles in 12 kilometres". Of course...totally senceless.
But it IS canon that the Millenium Falcon was flying from Tatooine to Alderaan in about 7 hours and the distance between Tatooine and Alderaan (also canon) is about 40.000 lightyears. So actualy the Millenium Falcon did travel with 50,000,000 C.
Using Warp 9,999 the same distance would need 72 days travel time.
Conclusion: Hyperspace > Warp
b) Weapons (Range and Firepower)
Range:
ST-vs-SW site does only argue on following scenes
1) Millenium Falcon fire at TIE fighters in ANH
2) Slave I attacking Obi-Wan in AOTC
3) Trade Fedeartion attacking Jedi flying away from Naboo in TPM
In conclusion saying that possible maximum range for SW weapons is about 100 kilometres. Excuse me please. How can you even THINK about attacking a target on the surface of a planet from the orbit of the same planet with weapons that only have a range of 100 kilometres ? In ESB they just can't destroy the base on Hoth because of the planetary shield not because the lack of range . Considering earth a "lower orbit" is around 800 kilometres from the planets surface. A "normal" orbit would be something like 30,000 kilometres from the surface (that is the hight geostational satelites of the earth use - and I think that would be an orbit a Stardestroyer would attack a planet from).
So a Stardestroyer must have weapons with a range of something like 30,000 kilometres through an atmosphere. In space that things would have a even greater range. Enough logic ?
Power:
I will start with the most powerful weapon in "canon" SW universe. That would be the Death Star. So take a careful look at Alderaan blown away.
You can see - at the late stages of the explosion - that the debris is clearly not concentric with the initial position of Alderaan. Thereby you can suggest momentum transfer to a huge part of the planetary surface. Well...the estimated mean recoil velocity of the ex-Alderaanian matter is on the order of 6.7 x 106 metres / second in the plane of the picture, or an impulse of 4.0 x 1031 kg metres / second. A massless beam delivering this amount of momentum would need a total energy around 1.2 x (10 exponent 30) GJ or 2.8 x (10 exponent 27) gigatons. Boom ?
And a normal SD's turbolaser canon. Well...they blow asteroids away like the ST ships doing it with photontorpedos. So why should the photon torpedos be more powerful than fire from a turbolaser. I don't get the point here. Estimating they both have the same firepower still the SW ships have a higher firerate and can use more weapons at once.
Conclusion: SW (with death star) > ST in firepower. The normal weapons used might be equal.
and I think we have beat that like a dead horse... and the argument well Super SD's can level plants so they can kill Borg too is childish and unsupportable... Plants... stationary LARGE targets... Borg Cubes... fast manuverable targets. Humm...
Shooting hundrets of weapons on a single target > manuverability
Using force > Borg cube
Well I will tell you what else is in the ST universe... The race that created the Dyson Sphere... a habitable sphere that surrounds an ENTIRE SUN! and harnesses the power from that sun for an almost unlimited supply of power.
Did you ever came across the Star Forge or Kuat Drive Yards (a ship manufacturing system that surrounds an ENTIRE STAR SYSTEM !)
Humm what else... actually, I cant count the number of super human races that have jedi like powers... there are just to many of them. Okay, what else...
Jedi like powers ? Races ? Throw the Sith Empire (1000 generations of Sith and Sith Lords), the Jedi Order (1000 generations of Jedi) and all the other groups that use the force (Nightsisters of Dathomir for example) in. Do you have some people in the ST universe that:
- could blow up planets
- could control black holes
- could control gravity
- could drain the life of entire planets/races
No ?
Quantum Cingularity power sources, temporal weapons, subspace weapons, phased cloaking devices, the Dooms Day Machine... Im gonna have to go back and catalog all this stuff cause there is just to much... plus the Borg which are said to have over 100,000 cubes in there fleet...
Just quoting: "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." (Darth Vader - A New Hope)
Look... there is nothing you can say that is going to make me think that ST is just going to get whiped off the map... It aint going to happen.
On a technological level they maybe won't get whiped off the map...
Throw billions of force users in and they are gone.