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Date Posted: 23:30:07 09/30/02 Mon
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In reply to:
Warspite
's message, "Re: Imperial fleet Vs Federation fleet" on 15:03:42 09/30/02 Mon
>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 said they detected it, they beamed down crew to investigate the ship, But instead of finding a disabled ship, they found a fully funtioning Carrak warship.
>The second point would be the Carrack going to hyper
>close to the planet.
It happens, Luke said in one of the Black Fleet Crisis books, that one could go hyper shortly after leaving orbit.
>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.
with very specific targeting and pre-programming they could do it.
>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.
They would be juking and jinking like mad, Carrak's are very well balanced between armor, armement, shields, and speed. They could survive some phaser hits, I do recal saying that they were damaged.
>Fourthly, where is the Imperial fleet hiding?
They were hiding behind other planets, where the feddie sensor beams couldn't reach them, sensors are line of sight, they can't wrap around planets.
>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?
Mass can do plenty of damage without a great deal of speed, and the Intrepid would be surprised by that unusual tactic, they might dodge they might not.
>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.
They were pinned into place, the imps were coralling them into the asteroid field, where their options were: 1. run deeper into a very large and dangerous asteroid field or 2. fight the imps, which would be costly at best.
>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!
And there is the whole Feddie ships are science vessels first, where-as Imperial vessels are warships designed to fight long battles in pro-longed campeigns, with weapons that (if you strictly at the tech manuals) are much more powerful.
We've all seen feddie ships take some serous shit, but imps are designed to take much more.
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