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Date Posted: 13:51:31 10/16/02 Wed
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In reply to:
Warspite
's message, "Re: New poll (Nebula v Nebulon)" on 15:07:15 10/15/02 Tue
>Where (or was that a joke?)? I certainly can't recall
>ambient radiation ever being a problem. In fact, warp
>cores are pretty resiliant things. We have seen ships
>crash land on planets without the core breeching. We
>have seen the Borg shoot chunks out of the hull of
>ships without problems. We've seen ships loose all
>power and the core doesn't breech. We've seen ships
>have nacelles shot off and the core doesn't breech.
>Yes a core will breech if it tke critical damage, but
>I submit that is no different to most Sci-Fi ships.
>Two death stars blew up because their cores took
>critical damage. Does that mean all SW engine scores
>are going to blow up in 'ambient radiation'? I
>certainly don't recall any ion storms causing worp
>core breeches, so I don't think we can automatcially
>assume that an ion canon would do so.
That was a joke, the things just seem like a pain in the ass to me, "Captain such and such is messing with the reactor, we need to do such and such to fix" "when I woke up this mornign my ass hole hurt, I guess this was why, make it so ensign" I can't remember any specific episodes bu those warp cores have had lots of problems.
As for the reactors on the Death Stars, they were a special case, Hypermatter reactors instead of ion-fusion reactors. Ion cannons turn ion-fussion reactors, we don't know what would happen if one was fired at a hypermatter reactor (but we know what happens when you fire miisiles and torpedoes at on ;)
>Well we have seen runabouts take multiple hits from
>capital ships without loosing shields. I think the TIE
>Defenders are going to have to fire for some time
>before the shields come down. OTOH, we know that
>fighter level weaponary can quickly penetrate Defender
>shields. So while the Defender is shooting and trying
>to bring down the Runabout shields, the runabout is
>going to be shooting holes in the defender.
You make it sound alot easier than it would be. No one ever proclaimed the great scores of enemy fighters brought by the B-17 Flying fortress, it had guns on all sides, but they couldn't track as quicly as fighters could evade. The proper comparison for the Defender would be ME 262 (the jet). Despite the speed and manuverability of the runabouts in question, the TIE Defender has more at sublight speeds, and we are in a nebula, so, FTL doesn't count. The ME 262s, by the way, cut their enemies to ribbons, dispite their huge armor advantage, by capitolizing on their speed and firepower.
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