- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
Dear lord that Enterprise versus Autumn thing is full of errors, who came up with that?
First, Plasma Weapons are primitive to the Federation, they abandoned Plasma Weapons a long time ago, hell the first Enterprise had her Plasma Cannons replaced with more powerful and more accurate Phase Cannons. Hell on a number of occasions like said before the interior of Federation ships has been exposed to high energy Plasma, sure it kills people and makes a mess but it doesn't compromise the overall integrity of the structure, so failing to understand how Plasma weapons are effective? Not to mention the exterior hull is a lot stronger than the corridors further making me think Plasma is no issue.
second, the Autumn is clad in primitive Titanium armour, Federation ships are constructed out of a material magnitudes stronger than Titanium, heck this stuff as an ore (not refined) is over twenty times as hard as Diamond, not to mention it gets alloyed with other materials to improve it. Titanium was used on the first warp ship, the Phoenix and has long been abandoned as a useful ship building material due to the fact there are better materials available, if the material used to make the hull cannot take direct Phaser impacts then there is no chance for Titanium, believe the term hot knife through butter works.
Third, those numbers for the power of a MAC are incredibly inaccurate, a thousand times the power of the Tsar bomb? tell you a Covenant cruiser wouldn't be much trouble for that, single shot would not only destroy the shields, not only penetrate the hull but probably shatter the ship! The numbers I have seen are 600 metric ton projectile at 35,000 metres/second giving a maximum potential yield of around ~80 Kilotons of TNT. Assume the cannon on the Autumn is 'more' powerful, its not going to be thousands of times more powerful, perhaps twice as powerful isn't too hard to imagine, so ~160/200 Kilotons, that is still a lot of energy, don't get sucked into the Star Wars number games and such because they aren't believable. Also for the sake of argument, if the numbers were true where the heck is the Autumn getting the power from for this, fusion reactors?
Fourth, shooting a Photon Torpedo down with an auto-cannon? It is extremely rare to see a torpedo get 'shot down' by anything, and all of them are a damn sight more sophisticated than an auto-cannon firing shells. So would guess the chances of countering Photon/Quantum Torpedoes through this method are slim at best, also Phasers don't 'shoot Plasma' at things.
Adding a few more things to this post, the Federation also possess some other incredible technologies, matter transportation for example, advanced holographic technologies, matter replication technologies (simple repairs anyone?) and that is just the start of it, temporal research is another field of science for them. Also it isn't fair to compare the Enterprise-D (Galaxy Class) to a dedicated warship like the Autumn, its like comparing and ocean liner to a battleship, not a valid comparison. Would recommend focusing on something like Defiant class versus Frigate/Destroyer, since capital ships are rather rare in the human fleet in the Halo universe. Also the Defiant is as close to a warship as we'll find in Star Trek, so compare warship to warship rather than warship to explorer.
Defiant class would have not much trouble with most Halo universe ships, except perhaps the enormous ones like Covenant super carriers and such, Pillar of Autumn shouldn't be much of a challenge since the Defiant is designed to do one thing, fight bigger opponents like Borg Cubes and such. Powerful armament installed on a small, nimble ship with some of the most potent shields available and dedicated hull armour, the sort of 'warship' Star Trek could produce if the writers could be bothered! PEACE!