Originally posted by BloodRain
^Lol.The only thing I know about the Mass Effect verse in combat is some bullet with the force 30 kilotons of TNT. If that's in any way comparable to Reapers then they'd probably win.
Lolno. The 30 tons quote is the main gun of a Reaper ship. Not a bullet. I give the Reapers 30 seconds before they regret going to 40k. What a spite.
Originally posted by NibedicusI can provide information on much, specifically, Necron technology.
I've read like 20 WH40k novels (mostly thru Omnibus sets w/c includes: the Dan Abnett war books) already, I have to seriously say that I've yet to see the "sheer power" that the Imperial Navy has vs what the Reapers have shown in game. 😛Not trolling, genuinely curious where I can books that showcase it a little better.
First, the World Engine.
"The World Engine's arrival in the Vidar sub-sector took the
Imperium completely by surprise. Even now it is unknown if
the World Engine was a Necron Tombworld mobilised by
arcane technology, or merely a starship of planetary
proportions constructed in the darkness between the stars.
By the time the World Engine's gauss projectors had scoured
all life from the agrarian worlds of Gaios Prime and Gaios
Tertio, all speculation as to its origins was abandoned - only
its demise mattered."
It was a starship the size of a planet, that could reap all life from two solar systems in a short time.
"The entire Vidar sector fleet and no less than fifteen Space
Marine task forces, including elements from the
Ultramarines, Astral Knights, Invaders and Aurora Chapters,
opposed the World Engine as it reaped a bloody harvest
from planet after planet. Yet not even the mightiest of
Mankind's weapons could break the World Engine's
shielding. A dozen sorties were launched, twelve attempts to
overwhelm the World Engine with sheer valour and
firepower, yet all the Imperial fleet had to show for its pains
were a string of destroyed and crippled ships, and millions of
casualties. Worse still, direct assaults seemed impossible.
Drop Pods and boarding torpedoes could not penetrate the
World Engine's shields, and teleport beams targeted onto its
surface lost all coherency. After two full Terminator squads
from the Invaders Chapter were lost in this manner, further
attempts were forbidden."
The full might of a whole sector's fleet and fifteen Space Marine task forces could not penetrate its shields. All of these ships can turn continents to ash, or render planets barren. Some could destroy them entirely.
Both quotes are from the Space Marines codex, page I forget stfu.
Now, Iori Delta Tove.
"774.M41_The Impossible Planet
An explorator fleet locates the planet designated Iori Delta Tove, a world that had long ago passed into legend for its improbable ability to move between stars at will. Wherever the world appears, strange happenings occur: memories change, ancient scrolls rewrite themselves and planets shift in their orbit - almost as if history is being rewritten. Believing Iori Delta Tove to be somehow linked with the denizens of the Warp, the Inquisition instruct the Grey Knights to investigate. Three squads and a strike cruiser under the command of Grand Master Mordrak are dispatched. Making planetfall, the Grey Knights discover that the world is indeed tied up with otherwordly machinations, but not those of Daemons. The entire planet is an ancient Necron machine, and its inhabitants swiftly awaken to confront the intruders.
The Grey Knights fight valiantly, seeking to destroy whatever technology drives the planet's peculiar power. For a short time, the Space Marines have the upper hand, but when mysterious equipment failures begin to occur, Mordrak revises the scale of his plans. Guided by the instincts of Master Armourer Torvin, the Grey Knights fight their way to a central control complex. As his Battle-Brothers fend off the whirring constructs that emerge from the building's walls, Mordrak mines several critical systems with meltabombs, which detonate moments after the Grey Knights teleport back to their strike cruiser. Iori Delta Tove vanishes once more, but whether it has been destroyed or merely travelled to a new location is impossible to determine." - Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition), Pg. 14 - Deeds of Legend
Another planet-sized ship, one that can actually rewrite history, while not even awake.
Now for tachyon arrows.
"Tachyon Arrows are wrist-mounted energy weapons used by Necrons. When activated, it transmutes a sliver of inert metal into an unstoppable thunderbolt capable of piercing a mountain"
- Necron 5e codex, page 82
The Tachyon Arrow operates on a similar principle to Mass Effect weaponry, in that it fires a tiny sliver of metal, but at an incredibly high speed. The Tachyon Arrow however is much more powerful than any handheld Mass Effect Accelerator, and stronger even than at least most Dreadnoughts, based on their yield being three times that of the Hiroshima Bomb (Which can't pierce a mountain).