- mojeda101
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
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?