- Cmdr DaeFaron
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Posted by: FinishingFUEGO
@Cmdr D: I see no reason why a Cortana class AI couldn't piggy back their way into any systems the Empire has aboard their ships. It will be heavily automated, they have the ability to send messages electronically and i believe they can even link ships firing controls together, ththose are all ways in for a smart AI. Even if its as minor as messing with sensor readings or reading their communications, i think UNSC AIs would be very effective in a universe were the height of AI is making a -blam!--blam!- robot.
As for the manouvering of Empire ships, i a saying they don't full stop, rather that they favour staying still and duking it out. Thats what i see from the films, i get your point about them seeming slow - but when was the last time they did anything like the Keyes Loop in the films with a large ship? Star Wars is fighter heavy. They can and have gutted those large ships in Star Wars. In terms of space combat i think Halo has the advantage, better use of ships and pilots with reflexes beyond any stormtrooper - especially if the flying of those single ships was left to an AI capable of doing 12 quadrillion calculations a second in 11 dimensional space.
A: I've never heard of ship firing controls being linked together. All the heavy cannons are manually controlled, and the rest can be as well. Star Wars ships, unlike others, don't rely on a central computer core to run everything. In Star Wars, hacking a ship just doesn't happen. Hacking a droid? Yeah.
B: Movies aren't the entirety of Star Wars. just like the Game's are not everything halo. Also, the UNSC has FAR more "stand and shoot" tactics then the empire uses. Because they have to keep the MAC cannon's facing the enemy, complex maneuvers rob them of their most powerful weapon. The Keyes loop, while impressive... gets to be done once. Even then, it wouldn't work due to the fact Star War doesn't shoot plasma torpedo's, and anything TRYING to fly over any Star Destroyer will be shredded by the heavy cannons.
Edit: Let's not forget the difference of weapon power. It'd take the entire covenant fleet... what, years? to entirely glass a planet. It takes Star Destroyers hours.
[Edited on 09.04.2011 9:46 AM PDT]