Originally posted by Fishy
If I remember right it was more along the lines of 50 billion but lets say 10 anyways...10 billion force users... One X-wing blew up the Death Star, you have seen Obi and Yoda kill Clone troopers as if it was nothing. The Infinite Empire would do the same. Their ships may take time to build but not a lot and its not like they enter this war with no ships.... They start out with possibly a million of them. They charge their ships with the force so every soldier was a force user and a reasonably powerful one at that.
Nothing would stand a chance, troops are not important when it comes to fighting that. Its going to be a lot harder to shoot down a fighter piloted by a force user then it is going to be when you want to shoot down a normal fighter. Their ships will eventually just adopt to ramming the opponent while the Rakatan sit back and watch the massacre take place.
Every time a battle has to be fought they will use the force to win it. Imagine a billion force users working together creating a powerful lighting storm. The entire fleet of the enemy would be electrocuted. The shields of the second Death Star would be easily taken down by a small strike team. A few force users would easily move through those storm troopers. Then a few pilots would arrive in their fighters (thats all they would need) race towards the Death Star and blow the thing to pieces,with luck they could retreat if they are out of luck they are ****ed. And BTW they can use their fighters can fly in hyperspace. At least I assume so, Kotor says that they used the force to use hyperspace. However their big ships have hyperspace engines. So either they made their ships fly even faster with the force, or Revan changed the blueprints or their fighters can fly in hyperspace.
Whatever the case the Infinite Empire would not need a lot of troops to blow the two death stars and the Imperial fleets. The Yuuzhan Vong would slaughter the trade federation.
It's 10 billion. Quote Wikipedia, "At its height, the population of this empire was ten billion Rakata and one trillion slaves." Beyond this, the average militaristic nation, has a ratio of approximatly 1 in every 150 people in their nation sevring in the military. Look at the Romans for example. They were once one of the most militaristic nations and had about that ratio.
They had no lightsabers back then and it is unreasonable to compare their average warrior to Obi-wan or Yoda. A few of the Jedi on the Council were killed by only a few clones.
You say they might have a million ships at the start of the war. Not likly. In fact, proaticly impossible. They only had 500 planets at the height of the Infinite Empire. The Galatic Empire had over a million member worlds. Qoute Wikipedia, "It consisted of over one million member worlds and fifty million colonies, protectorates and governorships."
There were no X-wings back then and there were not any proton torpedos either. They have no way of destroying the Death Star.
A major fact that you apparently overlooked is that Republic ships from for thousand years before the Galatic Empire were able to wage a relativly effective war against Rakata Ships. Think of how technology has improved over the last four thousand years in our society. We've gone from Canoes to Aircraft Carriers. Rakata are screwed.
For the Yuuzhan Vong, Luke said that he regretted destroying the Galaxy Gun because it would have been able to destroy the World Ships. Those were the core of the Yuuzhan Vong Navy.
The Sun Crusher could destroy the Star that the Star Forge was orbiting or it could engage fighters one-on-one. Since its invunerable to them, their screwed even more.
World Devastators could do what the Star Forge does on a smaller scale. The thing is, World Devastators are mobile.
Darth Vader, Palpatine, Joruus, Thrawn, Mara Jade, Shira Bride, Jerec, many Royal Guards are force users that are relativly powerful.
The Infinite Empire is screwed.