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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.
De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).
Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship
Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
Posted by: Devils Preists
I have done my homework in the regard of space and ground combat, The empire utilizes weapons much like a beam rifle. The UNSC and covenant shielding tech is unable to hold against a single shot let alone a barrage of shots from a blaster rifle. The emprie also utilizes a stronger armor for their soldiers then titaium. I believe it is a variant of durasteel which is vastly superior to titainum.
Now vehicle's...obviously the empire has the edge in that regard all of their weapons are blaster tech but on a larger scale and from seeing durasteel get chunks blown out of it or the turrets on hoth being blown apart in a single shot, which would have been made from a titanium or durasteel, I can honestly say that anything the Covenant or UNSC throws will be destroyed with little to no effort. I can realisticly see one or two AT-PT's going down or AT-ST's from a Scarab tank but that's about it (Perhaps an At-At because honestly those things sucked compared to the AT-TE).
Now for the fun bit, space. A saber would have little trouble with a tie-fighter squadron as a tie fighter squad would also have little trouble with a saber because of the weapons and armor plating works for both. As well as the weak as hell shields on a Saber when compared to a tie fighters weapons. The more advanced models in the TIE series would have little trouble against UNSC and Covie fighters.
Now there is no debate for an imperial star destroyer fighting against a fleet of UNSC or Covie ships. The Empire has the upper hand in that regard. Covenant ships would not be able to damage an imperial class star destroyer because...as all ships in the SW universe. It has DEFLECTOR shields, these shields defend against turbo lasors much more powerful then the simple plasma batteries on a Covenant war ship and said turbo lasors would quickly rip a Covenant ship in half, same goes for a UNSC ship though they would be the more dangerous foe seeing as a MAC gun can gut an imperial stardestroyer due to the main design flaw of deflector shields, they aren't designed for Mass Accelerator Weapons and a MAC blast if aimed correctly would gut the star destroy in a single blast.
Now the only issue is they have one shot before a Star destroyer could get in range and rip them too pieces however and on top of that they would also need to align the gun which would waste time.
The only possible way for the UNSC or Covenant to achieve a victory is gurellia warfare.
None of this is bias'd but all based off of what I had been researching over the past little while. No superweapons, no B.S. that I just randomly pulled out of a hat but fact that I've been reading about. If you want sources for Imperial Tech simply ask and I'll deliver.
Also considering the A-wing was a small attack craft and there was a battle going on around the Executer, I'm pretty sure that was a resonable outcome. If there wasn't a massive battle then the A-wing would not have made it although it appears that one scene has to be used as a reference with people ignoring what was going on around the ship.
There are two things this doesn't take into consideration. First, how well can Star Wars shielding deal with missiles, nuclear ordinance as well as plasma based weaponry. Second, the human factor. While they may have better tech, the Halo Universe has proven that cunning and resourcefulness can easily change the odds (in fact, Star Wars has also proven this fact). If it is merely an argument of technology, sure Star Wars may indeed win. But when it comes to a straight battle there are many factors that cannot be measured. And I think some of that may come down to the difference in AI technology between the UNSC and the Empire. The Empire has vast amounts of AI's in use, but by the UNSC's definition they would be placed between dumb and smart AI's seeing as they are all made for a purpose (but still have a form of sentience).
Then again, I know little about the Star Wars AI tech beyond its use. And for the most part it is used in direct application rather than the UNSC's more cloud like implications.
All this talk of uberpowered weapons, and I completely failed to consider this...
Forerunner Ancilla are massively powerful, right?
Just have two or three hack into a Imperial fleet and turn said fleet on their own allies. Have said Ancilla operating on fleet control mode, sending Star Destroyers crashing into each other and opening fire on each other, second one ship is destroyed, relinquish control and start working on hacking another one.