| Subject: Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleet |
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Date Posted: 15:03:42 09/30/02 Mon
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In reply to:
The Divine Shadow
's message, "Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleet" on 13:59:56 09/30/02 Mon
>I'm going to suggest a senario.
>
>While the feddies are scanning planets, the imps are
>observing them from near the asteroid belt.
>
>Before the feddies get to hoth, the imps send the
>carrak to hide in a big blizzard, to awate the
>feddies. They come, detect a metal thing in the
>blizzard but can't tell exactly what it is, when they
>finnally do detect the metal thing as aship, they beam
>down some people to investigate, because that's what
>feddies do. This exactly what imps have been waiting
>for.
>
>They begin a rapid assent from the planet, and from
>very low orbit opin fire on the galaxy, doing minimal
>damage, taking moderate damage in return, the carrak
>orients towards the asteroid belt and goes hyper.
>
>The feddies beam up their people and give chase. They
>find the carrak dodging asteroids, blasting some out
>of sky, it is making rapid progress towards the deeper
>regions of the asteroid belt, they move in, hoping
>that the carrak will get driven towards them.
>
>Instead, the Imp Star Deuce and Dreadnought jump out
>of hyper right behind them as they are moving into the
>belt. The dreadnought begins unloading green hell on
>the galaxy, the Carrak comes back towing an asteroid
>with its tractor beam, which it throws at the intrepid
>before it starts unloading all of its guns on it. The
>Soveriegn trades heavy fire with the Imp Star Deuce,
>and the whole of the feddie fleet is slowly being
>pushed farther into the asteroid field, The ISD:II
>fires 30 proto-torps at the Galaxy and blows the port
>nacel off, the dreadnought then fires a salvo right at
>the bridg, killing the crew instantly, they then use
>the tractor to push the ship farther into the asteroid
>field where it is destroyed by asteroids.
>The Dreadnought and ISD:II now concentrate all of
>their fire on the Soveriegn, as the Intrepid kills the
>Carrak.
>The Intrepid is clipped by an asteroid, damaging her
>drives. I rams and destroyes the dreadnought.
>The ISD:II, gettign impacient, fires 3 salvos of
>proto-torps (thats 60 missiles per salvo, 180 total)
>and blows a huge hole in the saucer section, all the
>way through! THey then tractor the ship deeper into
>the asteroid feild, and are themselves almost
>destroyed on the way out.
>
>result, Imperial victory, but with a big price.
Interesting. I can see some problems at a technical level however. The first would be the problem of the Feds detecting the Carrack in a blizzard??????? I mean it's 350 meters long starship for pete's sake! That's bigger than a Constitution or Miranda class starship (it's nearly the lenngth of the Intrepid!). Why would a blizzard cause them problems detecting something that big? They've never been shown to have snow blind their subspace sensors. We know that they can scan through several km of rock, so a few flakes of iced water are unlikely to block sensors that effectively.
The second point would be the Carrack going to hyper close to the planet. I thought that a planet's gravity well caused problems for hyper. The Carrack would have to head a way out into space before jumping. What is the shortest jump we have ever seen? I think its 1/2 a light year. Can you think of anything shorter? If not, the Carrack is going to it's going to massively overshoot the asteroid field.
Thirdly, I'm pretty sure that the Galaxy can beam up their crew before the Carrack can make orbit. In that case, the Carrack would find a Sovereign, an Intrepid and a very angry Galaxy class waiting for them. Somehow I don't see the Carrack surviving long.
Fourthly, where is the Imperial fleet hiding? A Galxy class sensor range is something like 17 light years. If they are in the field, there are two problems. Firstly why can the Feds not detect the Imperial them? An ISD II is substantially larger than most (though not all) of the asteroid in the field, and would probably stand out unless completely powered down. Secondly, if they are in the field, then they would not be able to go to hyper.
Also, I don't believe that a Carrack could 'throw' a large enough asteroid, fast enough, at the Intrepid to hit it before the Intrepid can dodge?
Finally, given that Federation ships are substantially more manouverable than an ISD (and maybe/probably the Carrack and Dreadnought too), and much faster at sublight speeds than any of them, the chances of the Imperial force chasing them into the asteroid belt and keeping them there seems low.
Don't get me wrong, this is a tough match up, and I'm not sure that the Feds can win. It's just that this scenario seem a bit biased to the Imperial side. The Imperials get the advantage of home ground, a strange sensor problem for the Feds, a prepared ambush, and even a lucky event ("The Intrepid is clipped by an asteroid, damaging her drives"). Given those advantages, I'm not surprised you think they can win!
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