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Again, calling me a noob really does discredit you much further. Also using this word like this: "LOL", it ruins your argument as well. If you want to have appropriate debate, I strongly suggest you to stop using LOL words and be serious. Use any links, etc to prove your statements.
Before the Covenant-Human war occured, UNSC Navy had over 2,000 ships while Covenant navy had estimated to be about 3,000 to 5,000 ships strong.
And, I doubt that Star Fleet or Borg can stand against UNSC or Covenant, if it fights mentioning Forerunners/Flood, well Borg or Star Fleet will be vaporized... In my opinion, although.
Let me ask you a question, does this Star Fleet, their armor is ablative armor, right? Can it withstand plasma weaponry? Can it withstand MAC rounds? How much firepower they possess? kilotons, gigatons, teratons and peratons of TNT?
Let me explain about statistics about plasma and MACs:
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A standard ship-grade MAC (Frigate) fires 600 ton ferric hardened tungsten or depleted uranium slugs at 30,000 meters per second, generating about 64 Kilotons of TNT. However, it is possible to have different variants of standard ship-grade MACs (such for larger ships like cruisers and carriers, possibly super carrier) or have different types of ammunition such as HEAT-type ordnance or kinetic projectile (designed to penetrate though hull then explode inside of hull).
There is other variant of MAC, which is most powerful MAC variant utilized by UNSC: Super-MAC ODP- it fires 3,000 ton ferric hardened tungsten or depleted uranium or can be other type of slugs as well, at 4% of light-speed (estimated about 120,000 meters per second) generating about 51.6 gigatons of TNT, enough to destory any ship, even with fully shielded ships in one shot.
About plasma weaponry, there is no accurate specs about them but it has been proved by several books that it can cause massive damage. For instance, at The Fall of Reach novel and The boot camp of Reach comic during UNSC Commonwealth had its hull melted/decimated, due to impact of pulse lasers and possible plasma torpedoes. Also in First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx describes about UNSC ships being obliterated by ship-grade plasma weapons. Also at Battle of Reach, UNSC Trafalgar, even with 10 meters of Titanium-A Battle-plate, still had its hull being vaporized or melted by ship-grade plasma weapons. We can estimate that ship-grade plasma weaponry possesses double-digit to triple digit of gigatons of TNT, possibly to a single digit of teraton of TNT (not sure, although.) and it can track other ships as well.
What about energy projectors? They're way more powerful than any ship-grade plasma weapons. I can give you a example: At battle of Reach, a covenant super-cruiser, big as three UNSC cruisers speaking of lengths (about 3,000 to 3,500 meters long), fires a thin blue-white energy beam in 100,000km away, completely slices five UNSC ships like a butter.
Also, Covenant's shields are more powerful, depending on type of ships. A CCS battle-cruiser can withstand up to 3 MAC rounds or two plasma torpedoes stated by First Strike as Cortana utilized plasma torpedoes in Ascendent Justice-Gettysburg before the shields disappear. Or, Covenant super-cruiser had powerful shields that had enough to shrug off 3 MAC rounds, with over 450 archer missiles before it got destroyed due to PoA put a shiva-nuclear warhead in Longsword in the super cruiser. Then, let's not mention that assault carriers or super carriers are way more powerful.
I will add more if anyone desires me to.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, although.
[Edited on 06.09.2011 10:39 PM PDT]