Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
You have a tendency to underrate TOR era marvels, let alone Rakatans.Here is a comparison:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/A-vek_Iiluunu
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Harrower-class_dreadnought
Basically, their is no comparison.
Vong were not dangerous because of technological marvels, they were dangerous because their technologies and capabilities were poorly understood. However, at technical level, they were primitive.
You do realize you just compared a fighter carrier 'not designed as a warship,' designed to release fighters and fall back, with a crew of 300, to the heaviest TOR ship of the line with a crew of 2,400, right? And that the former carried several times the number of fighters of the latter? (It had 144 fighters per projection, of which there were several, up to a max of 480 total fighters for it's pilot capacity, while a Harrower carried 127 max)
Said fighters, Coralskippers, being superior to the shieldless light ones the Harrower carried as well.
An A-vek Iiluunu would fight a Harrower by releasing it's fighters and then hanging back til the fight was over or only moving in when the Harrower is damaged.
This, the Miid ro'ik, is the Harrower equivalent. At 1,600 meters long, it's twice the Harrower's length, and a TOR fleet has no equivalents to it. It regularly goes toe-to-toe with ISD-IIs, which are basically super-Harrowers, as you know.
Originally posted by S_W_LeGenD
On technical level, TOR-era starships are far more advanced and capable then any Vong ship of similar class.
What? No, they're strictly inferior.
Vong ships are equal or slightly superior to OT-era Imperial Star Destroyers, which are basically Harrowers multiplied, based on but expanding from the same principles.
It's not even close.
A lone Harrower-class starship was so advanced, well-protected and packed firepower of such magnitude that it could take on entire Republic fleets of its time on its own and devastate entire worlds without much difficulty.
We have a recorded case of 4 Republic hammerheads and 10 covettes defeating 2 Harrowers and a carrier.
While they could take on a *small* fleet (i.e. smaller than that one), it's worth remembering that Republic Hammerheads of the time were half their size, and ISD and Vong cruisers are twice their size.
The situation is, in short, reversed.
In-fact, most advanced Harrower-class starships could one-shot entire fleets of the Republic and even planets with their built-in super-weapons.
Yes, with superweapons they have in very short supply.
In-fact, much of the OT era Imperial starship designs and capabilities are based on Harrower-class starships.
Based on, but bigger and worked on over time.
A Harrower is a small ship by OT era.
Vong made progress in the war early on because their capabilities and technological ground realities were not properly understood, basically due to element of surprise. But once they were understood well, it was game over for them.
Once they were understood well, they still were very capable of going toe-to-toe with their Imperial and Alliance opposition, which as we know are much above TOR era.
They lost in the end due to total logistics, their ships were still very powerful with their ability to strip shields, absorb heavy firepower, and dish out a lot themselves.
