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Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: mojeda101
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: mojeda101
Why don't we start out small guys? Let's put a Tie Fighter against a Seraph.
At Reach, We saw Seraphs being shot down by UNSC AA guns in seconds.
32 - 96 Terawatt level blasters would have absolutely no trouble at all.
Honestly the fact that Saber fighters can take them out using bullets is proof that their shields won't hold up to a concentrated atomic bomb.
It's unlikely they would be able to withstand many hits, however it's even less likely that they would be hit at all.
TIE Fighters are designed for speed and manoeuvrability, not survivability (considering their own weapons blast through Shielding so easily)
They also have extremely sophisticated ECM and ECCM (far better than that of an X-Wing). Covenent weapons would be unable to get a lock on them, if they show up on anything but visual scanning at all.
Again said speed and manoeuvrability cannot be overstated, Capable of accelerations upwards of 5,000g in linear open space. In Combat their engine performance drops significantly due to the fact that TIEs are always near either a base or a fleet. Bases and Capital Ships are capable of ECM so powerful that it causes enormous spacial distortions in the area, reducing engine performance by up to 99.7% (The performance we see of Fighters in during the Battle of Yavin was them operating at a 0.3% capacity.)
We do know however that TIE Fighters, especially interceptors (which eventually replaced the TIE Fighters entirely) can be retrofitted with Shield generators without much of an engine or weapon performance reduction (personally I'd take a terawatt from the weapons and put it into the shields, which would make them impervious to any Covenant or UNSC fighter while still being able to easily destroy them and their carrier vessels)
Covenant shields can withstand ~5 Megatons of of concentrated energy, which would mean it would take a single fighter about 4 - 11 minutes to bring them down (If they can recharge shields while being attacked that could pose a minor problem), But where there's one TIE Fighter there's at least a dozen. Even using low end estimates a Squadron of TIE Fighters would rip through a CC-S Class Battleship in 15 seconds flat.
A TIE Defender could easily do it on it's own without even expending any ordnance. They say That Covenant weaponry is weak vs plasma weapons, which given the characteristics of Covenant weapons Star Wars Blasters may be able to exploit this as well (not sure if they mean a 1 gigajoule slug has a harder time than a 1 gigajoule plasma bolt, but if they do then things are looking even worse for them than before.)
One thing is for certain however, they are very vulnerable to EMP, and Ion Cannons would batter down their shields very, very fast.
Must I say more?
And then a couple of Forerunner patrol ships and War Sphinxes come in and blitzkriegs the TIEs and the Star Destroyer that carries them. They then start a full scale attack, and when your small arms are equal to your enemies' ship-to-ship cannons...Of course you revert to the Forerunner, the only thing that could possibly fight the Imperial Navy.
You just said it right there. The Forerunners/Precursors are the only thing that can stand against -and beat- the Galactic Empire.
Contemporary Halo just doesn't stand a chance.The only advantage the Forerunner have over the Imperial Navy is numbers, Imperial weaponry is on par with the Forerunner, anything they can do, the Empire can do. At least the Empire would be able to deal with the Flood, although I can't really put that factor in, it's exactly like rock, paper, and scissors.
It's easier to gauge the Empire vs the Flood than vs the Forerunners. But it's not so simple as saying "Empire beats Flood, Flood beats Forerunners, therefore Empire beats Forerunners" since saying that with no direct evidence makes about as much logic as "rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, therefore rock beats paper" with absolute certainty and not knowing the rules properly.
Although yes, the Imperial's would deal with them fairly fast. Along with dealing with the Flood not too differently to how the Covenant deals with them, orbital bombardment and burning them out whenever possible or necessary. Also similar methods, though refined, by how the Forerunners dealt with them using Droids.
Main difference being that the Droids would be controlled not by an AI, but a manned control center that would be heavily defended, mobile, and impossible to corrupt via the gravemind without first blasting through the defenses, which wouldn't be likely to happen, also Droids in the Clone Wars were capable of continuing their orders independent from a control ship, and heavy use of Dark Troopers would slaughter the Flood.
These kinds of parasitic creatures aren't unheard of to the Empire, they've faced, defeated, and have even created their own. The Empire would have an understanding of how the flood works based on their experiences with similar creatures and the Yuuzhan Vong, and would have little trouble with them as they know that to eliminate them, you have to react fast.
Empire > Flood
Flood > Forerunner