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Posted by: civilwargeeky
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Star Wars overwhelmingly. They've mastered individual combat spacecraft, X-Wings, TIE Fighters, etc, given them shields and can transport away in hyperspace.
You don't know much about Halo do you?
Explain.
Longsword, shortsword, Saber, Vulture, banshees, Vampires etc.No shields, no shields, fine, typically not used in space, taken down in one hit, dey gets owned by teh lazors.
And TIE fighters don't have shields anyway.
See the reason Halo doesn't have a whole lot of space fighters is because they're unneeded. When you're captial ships can pulverize an entire city, or incinerate entire worlds with just their main weapons, space superiority fighters aren't that important, or atmospheric superiority.
This is also part of the reason, at least in my opinion, the UNSC didn't put a whole lot into infantry weapon design. Got an army you need to take down? MAC them from orbit!
UNSC infantry is more of a military-level trained security force rather then a military-trained military force. The Insurrection was more like the Iraq War, we didn't need an epic army.
Covenant just caught us with our pants down.
The Forerunners, on the other hand, used fighters more often. They'd deploy them to planets for the apparent purpose of pulling the entitre planet apart.
(side note: when the Forerunners' starfighters can effectively do what the Death Star can do, just one peg under it, I think its obvious who'd win in a Empire vs Forerunner debate).
But anyway. And even if the TIEs or other fighters tried to swarm a Covenant ship, or a UNSC Prowler, they'd get vaporized by all those pulse lasers. Fighters in Halo are more of an annoyance to Covenant ships and everything higher then them rather then an actual threat. And the Halo capital ships are almost as nimble as fighters the way they've been depicted thus far.
(another Star Wars drawback: their ships are slow as hell).