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Posted by: Adragalus
Posted by: H3 Crimson
The MAC gun does damage in the Terratons, and an Citadel frigate (I'm basing this off the SR2 Normandy) is about the size of a UNSC Longsword. No joke.
And don't even get me started on how badly the Covenant would destroy the Citadel forces. Mass Effect soldiers use kinetic barriers, rather than energy shielding. Covenant plasma and energy weapons wouldn't be hindered by these at all.
Also, the Destiny Ascension? It is one kilometer long. A Halycon-class UNSC cruiser? 1.17 km long. A Covenant Super Carrier? Estimated to be about 25km long, by some.
I think the UNSC could very possibly win, and the Covenant would win hands down.
Your MAC gun figures are way off.
Do Longswords have a crew of 200+? No. Do Turian frigates? Yes. Frigates are, hence, larger than Longswords.
Keep in mind that you just quoted a figure that makes a Halcyon-class ship only some 10% larger than the DA. Don't forget, the DA is shaped like this.
It's wider and taller than a Halcyon class. Length isn't everything.
By the way, those are Turian frigates in the background. Last time I checked, Longswords are NOT ~600 meters long.
Apologies - I got my figures for the Mac gun from an unreliable source, it seems.
In regards to the frigate: I was basing that off of the SR2 Normandy's size, not a Turian frigate. I also misread the actual size of the Normandy. The Normandy is 384m long, and a Longsword is 64x75m. So a UNSC fighter is roughly a quarter of a size of an Alliance frigate.
And the Destiny Ascension is, frankly, designed aesthetically rather than functionally. Sizes are somewhat irrelevant - A Halycon class cruiser is roughly the same size as a Citadel dreadnought. The thing is - the Citadel doesn't have a lot of these, while the UNSC does.
After looking over the facts again, I still think that a war between the sides could go either way. It would be very close, but I think Smart AI and slipspace would equal the battle out pretty well. Whichever side wins would do so at a severe cost.