Are we talking about the same NYPD?
I wouldn't bet my money on any police force I've heard of... They are not selected for their brains nor their accuracy. Now a professional force or special operations unit... perhaps. In any case, this is assuming that the group has the resources and the intelligence and leadership to tackle a professional if archaic army.
Egyptians as a whole would probably be cowed by the technology, since they were a superstitious people. If we suspense disbelief and say that that has no bearing on their attitude towards a war of annihilation, and say we drop a group of (Unit Whatver) in the desert to combat them, then we can argue over it.
Originally posted by Twilight Janick
One question though: how big are Galaxy Guns?
Since the link Gryn Jabar posted is broken:
You can see a normal StarDestroyer compared to the Galaxy Gun. The Galaxy gun is about 4 1/3 the length of a Stardestroyer or nearly 7 kilometres long and it fires projectiles that travel through hyperspace and are able to destroy planets.
Thereby it can be installed on a heavily fortified planet or star system and hit anything in the galaxy or at least it can shoot worlds in the Outer Rim from the Core worlds which is about 50,000 lightyears range.
Originally posted by Nai FohlWouldn't the Sun Crusher be better though?
Since the link Gryn Jabar posted is broken:You can see a normal StarDestroyer compared to the Galaxy Gun. The Galaxy gun is about 4 1/3 the length of a Stardestroyer or nearly 7 kilometres long and it fires projectiles that travel through hyperspace and are able to destroy planets.
Thereby it can be installed on a heavily fortified planet or star system and hit anything in the galaxy or at least it can shoot worlds in the Outer Rim from the Core worlds which is about 50,000 lightyears range.
I mean--Small, virtually indestructable, can blow away a whole system in one shot, mobile.
Originally posted by Tangible God
Wouldn't the Sun Crusher be better though?I mean--Small, virtually indestructable, can blow away a whole system in one shot, mobile.
No.
a) The Sun Crusher has to move and the Galaxy Gun doesn't have to which means you can simply have an entire fleet guard the Galaxy Gun while it fires.
b) The problem with the Sun Crusher is that it always destroys entire star systems which might not be useful in some ocassions (for example if you want to destroy planet X in a system but want to have the resource of planet Y in the same system)
c) Nobody would be able to steal the Galaxy Gun and use it for his own purpose. 😉
Originally posted by Nai FohlAh, damn it.
No.a) The Sun Crusher has to move and the Galaxy Gun doesn't have to which means you can simply have an entire fleet guard the Galaxy Gun while it fires.
b) The problem with the Sun Crusher is that it always destroys entire star systems which might not be useful in some ocassions (for example if you want to destroy planet X in a system but want to have the resource of planet Y in the same system)
c) Nobody would be able to steal the Galaxy Gun and use it for his own purpose. 😉
There go my dreams of conquering the galaxy with a Sun Crusher look alike made of Titanium,