Originally posted by NemeBro
What are the Idirans?
A religious-dogmatic civilization from the Culture series. They are more than happy to wage war on "less divine" species, which is basically everyone else. The Idirans were capable of fighting the Culture, but in the end they were completely crushed.
The Idiran/Culture war resulted in 851.4 (give or take 0.3%) sentient casualties, according to wikipedia. The Culture apparently had artificial planets capable of moving, but is noted as being a hyperpower in the setting, and the war concluded in 48 years.
I think it's safe to say the Idiran will be outnumbered, at least.
Hm. Have any destructive/durability feats for the Idiran fleet?
Originally posted by ScreamPaste
The Idiran/Culture war resulted in 851.4 (give or take 0.3%) sentient casualties, according to wikipedia. The Culture apparently had artificial planets capable of moving, but is noted as being a hyperpower in the setting, and the war concluded in 48 years.I think it's safe to say the Idiran will be outnumbered, at least.
Hm. Have any destructive/durability feats for the Idiran fleet?
851.4 billion sentients, but this is a very low number because the Culture is very, very good at and prioritizes preserving sentient beings. The war also resulted in the destruction of 91,215,660 major warships/starships, a good deal of them likely Idiran since they were outmatched technologically, strategically, tactically and later numerically. I think that should give you a pretty good idea of the size of Idiran military.
As for the power, Idiran warships are capable of quickly and easily destroying planets with conventional weapons and probably entire star systems using Gridfire(and they can do it from light years away). They usually don't, though, because their religious doctrine tells them to take and hold enemy territories, and ultimately convert them to their religion. Also, their ships would run circles around Imperials all day long as they can travel and fight at greatly superluminal speeds.
Originally posted by ArtificialGloryThey have ships that can apparently fight at FTL speeds.
If this is spitey, then we can throw in Necrons, Tyranids, and Orks on the Imperium's side.About the destroyed stars: apparently nobody was really trying to destroy them as both the Culture and Idirans are quite capable of exploding a star.
Imperial ships, or even Necron ships, to my knowledge can't.
But adding in Necrons does allow clownery like the Celestial Orrery.
Imagine a giant light-brite. Now imagine that each light represents a star in the galaxy. Now imagine that if you put one of those lights out, that star goes supernova.
This is what the Celestial Orrery does.
Originally posted by NemeBro
They have ships that can apparently fight at FTL speeds.Imperial ships, or even Necron ships, to my knowledge can't.
But adding in Necrons does allow clownery like the Celestial Orrery.
Imagine a giant light-brite. Now imagine that each light represents a star in the galaxy. Now imagine that if you put one of those lights out, that star goes supernova.
This is what the Celestial Orrery does.
That's pretty insane. I assume one could destroy every single star in the galaxy in seconds using this device?