Originally posted by FreshestSlice
Because thinking an automated, vast, and self repairing fleet can beat the Empire
The Empire explicitly undergoes the largest military build-up in galactic history (Visual Dictionary), ending with 25,000 imperial star destroyers, a Death Star, tens of millions of frigates/cruisers and potentially trillions of stormtroopers. Not to mention its haxxed superweapons like the sun crusher and galaxy guns, which were not too far away from deployment in RotJ.
There's also the minor factoid that the Empire has literally a 3000 year technological edge on Zakuul. We know that Clone Wars era technology was obsolete by the imperial era and a joke by LotF (Caedus calls them "ancient hardware"😉. Though the growth in that period was probably unusually fast due to the recent conflict, we can still tabulate this back three millenia; if tech hadn't advanced, why are none of the old military vessels still being used?
Just compare the sheer size of an imperial star destroyer to that of Zakuul's warships.
Likewise, plenty of armaments of past times have become obsolete (personal shields due to the increasing power of blasters, for instance), hyperdrive class ratings are significantly better, etc.
Not to mention that the Empire's industry is several orders of magnitude greater, allowing it to construct the second 900 km Death Star to half completion in under a year, the equivalent volume of billions of imperial star destroyers, and it does this in secret in the Outer Rim. There's simply no comparison between the Empire and any pre-PT era military force; sans oddballs like the Rataka, the Galactic Empire can crush any military force up to its time in galactic history.
who Disney has shat on
Since we're comparing it to Zakuul, we're obviously referring to Legends. But the canon Empire can still retain its gigaton/teraton yield firepowers from film-based calculations, and it still has its Death Star and the "million system" quote. Indeed, without that 25,000 ISD figure, we can extrapolate significantly larger numbers from the "half the starfleet" Doddona quote, and we can also conclude that Executors are actually common command ships (Han Solo). That doesn't help your position.
not only is nonsensical, it has something to do with rhetoric. 👆
I think we're drilled to the core of your problem, if you think debating ability is purely a function of rhetoric.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
You suspended our lovemaking, I see.
I pulled my back over the weekend and had to go to my brothers girlfriends birthday. Also I finished Red Dead and started playing Dark Souls 3 and I have 5 anime I want to catch up on. 100% honest, I haven't even read your reply yet. I might get to you at some point, maybe.
Originally posted by Nephthys
I pulled my back over the weekend and had to go to my brothers girlfriends birthday. Also I finished Red Dead and started playing Dark Souls 3 and I have 5 anime I want to catch up on. 100% honest, I haven't even read your reply yet. I might get to you at some point, maybe.
Loser.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Feigning apathy to hide the fact that you would be crushed in a real debate. You don't have much grounds to belittle hutchy (or anyone), lol. 👆