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Posted by: catman6
Decided to do some searching.
Executor Class Star Destroyer
The reactor has an output of 773,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts.
To compare: Our sun outputs 386,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts.
That single Star Destroyer can generate more than twice the energy than our local star can.
The death star's laser can output 240,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts onto a single point.
Centerpoint Station is another superweapon with immense output.
I cannot find any figures, but it has been used to destroy stars.
Segment from a book about the firing of the station
Agents of Chaos - Jedi Eclipse - James Luceno - Pg 327
"All at once, a flash of radiant energy illuminated local space. From Rimward of Fondor's outermost moon, or perhaps gushed from hyperspace itself, came a torrent of starfire a thousand kilometers wide. Coalescing into a savage beam of focused annihilation, it tore into the midst of the dispersing Hapan fleet, consuming every ship in its path, atomizing some in the blink of an eye and holing others with spears of seething light. Weapons, superstructure, and antennae vaporized by the skewering beam, the ships exploded outward, vanishing in globes of brilliant mass-energy conversions. Even those ships outside the limits of the beam were hurled violently off course, slagged along their inward-facing sides, or thrown into collisions with one another. The mated saucers of the Battle Dragons broke apart and disintegrated, and the battle cruisers were snapped like twigs. Fighter groups vanished without a trace."
Could someone calculate or find sources for power outputs of Halo craft?
Well we know that the UNSC uses fusion reactors which are basically miniature suns, so less output than actual stars. We also know that covies use an extremely advanced fusion reactor, which have a ridiculously higher energy output since the UNSC fusion reactors can't even produce enough power to maintain shielding over a cabin, let alone a several kilometer long ship.
And since the covenant use scavenged forerunner tech, we can assume the forerunners had significantly higher energy output than the covenant do. So the UNSC is royally -blam!- unless MAC blasts have some special effect against SW ships.
[Edited on 10.15.2012 1:19 PM PDT]