You don't have to try being a dick because you simply don't know what you're talkinga bout. Those figures are extremely generous estimations dirived from the interpretation of things shown on screen and the man is - canonically - absolutely right when it comes to his turbolaser commentaries (the energy output of the Executor he came up with happens to be cannon figure now which can be found in sourcebooks). Yeah...he must be completely wrong, despite the fact that every bit of evidence available supports his claims and despite the fact that LFL apparently ninjas some figures he had come up with. Despite of that, he somehow sucks as source...@Faunus:
Oh excuse me. How damn hard is it to change the direction of a weapon with a ballistic movement. Apparently you haven't got the point. The missle fired at Yoda was speed up in a straight line from the orbit down to the planets' surface with such speed that even Yoda could just move it's actual impact point a kilometre away from the original one. If you slightly alter the direction of a missle aimed at you in a ballistic fashion, the result can be more devastating. Notice how Yoda had problems with the speed of the thing and not with it's raw weight.
You could point that out, and then you would be called off by me for not paying attention. The hand-helt blaster rifles obviously don't generate projectiles moving with that kind of speed - this seems to be reserved for heavier guns.
Urm. Crash into things? What "things" are you talking about? Ships constructed out of the same space age material? That with speed close to c? Yeah. That would be about right. And Mace is just capable of performing that feat due to his Shatterpoint ability. The man could also crush Corusca Gems by merely touching them. That doesn't mean that his fingers > 15 KG sledge-hammers.
This is great. You can take incidents from the movies or the EU and transport them into Reallife. Sorry. Those statements are apparently put there for a reason. You don't like it - not my problem. But I can make it more general. We're talking about a universe in which:
- Titanium is used as cheap and compareably weak material for the mass production of TIE Fighters for example.
- ship hulls are generally able to take sustained bombardment from energy weapons firing charged plasma at them
- miniature suns are used to power up capital ships, which turns modern day energy production into a joke (and they can contain and control them)
- metal in general takes enormous stress, heat, cold and so on, without much being done to the actual material.
Despite of that, you still think they are anywhere compareable to modern day military?...
How about reading and thinking before replying. Why would anybody bother to drop multiple nuclear bombs on a single army at a single location, huh? That limits the possible amounts of warheads Vader has to deflect to - one at any given time? Which was just an example of what Vader might be able to do. He has a freaking army of vehicles that could simply vaporize such a missle in air without problem.
If one of them is even going to be fired. I mean - what the hell. The threadstarter has defined that SW exists as franchise in the world that is about to be invaded. Just imagine your reaction if a freaking AT-AT stands in your garden. I'd say the ability of logical reasoning would escape you for quite some time, having the technological monstrosities of a fictional universe popping up in your country.
I'd say those people would have to cope with mass panic or with people try to see their "heroes" in action rather then bothering with thinking about a way to get rid of them in a military sense.
By dropping the mentioned nuclear warhead right into them, in case that line of thought wasn't obvious.
Can it be that there was a reason for me mentioning a TV? That would give Vader contact, information about their political position and the ability to focus on them. Right. And again this was just some random example, I tossed into here without care because the entire thread simply sucks.