- mojeda101
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
And to mojelda: you say a single shot from KotoR's Leviathan was more powerful then a MAC?
So you mean to tell me each one of those shots was 256 kilotons? Because thats 4 times more powerful then a ship board MAC.[/quote]No, I'm saying a Turbo-laser is four times stronger than a MAC, which it is.[/quote]
If you're referring to the calculation cmdr posted, then you would duely note it specifically says it is four times stronger then the Hiroshima bomb, which is a quarter of the power of a shipboard MAC, plus change.
Hiroshima went up in a 15 kiloton blaze; a MAC hits with 64 kilotons. So in that regard, they are equal.
And you're generalizing turbolasers into one be-all weapon. The cannons in Attack of the Clones that shot down the Core Ships are considered turbolasers, yet they caused the same damage a rocket fired from a gunship did did, just fired longer, causing more damage. Not really impressive.
Obviously ship turbo-lasers are stronger, I would hope, because those 12 legged walkers are weak compared to a MAC.
Still, they brought down a Core Ship.
No, I have no idea of what you are talking about, I'm sticking by the real figures given by confirmed canon in the Star Wars universe and Halo universe respectively. Shipboard MAC guns are now only 1.19 megatons rather than 1.17 teratons,
SMAC guns are now only 51.6 Gigatons rather than 9.98 teratons, the rate of fire is still 1 shot per 15 seconds however, the rate of fire on the Shipboard MACs remains unknown, as I don't recall seeing any ships firing twice in any one cinematic.
ISDII Per second Firepower is still 800 Teratons however, so even with the old figures Halo is no match for Star Wars, they are however, no longer beyond Stargate. Hell, aside from the SMACs they're not even Star Trek level anymore, maybe not even Battlestar Galactica.
The Acclamator's turbolasers carry 200 gigatons each, and can fire roughly 30-60 shots a minute, Acclamator shields can withstand 16.7 teratons of force second at peak efficiency, so it would take 2 Cairo stations to hit it simultaneously in order to penetrate, if the shots are so much as a split-second apart the Acclamator will withstand it but it's shields will feel the strain.
An Imperial II class star destroyer's firepower is never stated however it can be calculated. The ROTS:ICS states that all true warships can put their firepower into their weapons systems, comparing the reactor generation and fuel consumption of the Acclamator and Venator and scaling that to the Imperial II's reactor size. and assuming the Imperial II uses 1/3rd of it's power for weapons, shields and engines we are looking at 800 Teratons a second that it can dish out and take, the shields are so resilient that they will not fail for over half an hour even when being pounded by another ISD2.
An Imperial II Star Destroyer has 8 main octuple barreled guns, but it has 36 other turbolasers scattered across it's surface, and that doesn't include the 100+ point defense guns.
An SMAC like the kind on Cairo Station has 9x the firepower of a regular shipboard MAC, and can punch through nearly any covenant ship and come out the other side, and into another covenant ship if there is one behind it.
While the firepower of each individual Turbolaser on an Imperial II is unknown, the overall firepower can be determined using it's reactor power, which is 9,280,000,000,000 terawatts.
This means that an ISDII can dish out roughly 740,000,000 megatons per second spread across it's guns.
Put that another way, that's 50,000,000,000x the power of hiroshima every second.
Turbolasers can track ships up to 180,000,000 km away (roughly 10 light minutes) so their range is an order of magnitude higher.
A shipboard MAC gun is roughly only 1/4 the strength of a Turbolaser shot from an Acclamator, which has 12 guns and has a firing rate of roughly 30-60 shots per minute with a range of 180,000,000km. Meanwhile the MAC Gun is much weaker, shorter range and much lower rate of fire.
Turbolaser > MAC
It's that simple.
All proven, message for sources.