- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: Xd00999
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: rst7503
Yeah...some Imperium individuals can do that. Probably all legendary psykers, like Emperor, Malcador the Sigilite, Magnus, Ahriman, the occassional random rogue psyker, etc. if they really unleashed their powers
Some Imperial individuals (OP ruled out Emperor) compared to the straightforward warfare of a different race? Keep in mind that the war was fought to put down a rebellion, this was no Flood world. "They have no warrior disciplin." Forerunner attacks are utterly ruthless, and their weapons are designed to end things brutally fast. Seeing as they see an attack on them as an attack on the Mantle, they don't stop until their enemoes are erased from history.
And the trillions-strong automated quarentine fleet? Also to defend two worlds for thousands of years. Despite there being more defenses at the Prophet homeworld than there are guns in the UNSC, this quarentine was completely forgotten by Forerunner leadership by the events of Cryptum.
Question about the quarentine fleet: what are they armed with? For all we know, they may just be a bunch of bricks with a slipspace drive. They were meant to stop the Prophets from leaving those two worlds. When you tech has been significantly regressed, as it was for the Prophets, suddenly having a brick appear in the centre of your engine is a big problem.
To compare it to today, let us look at space junk. Thousands and thousands of pieces of junk are orbiting our planet today. They can be as small as a paint chip to as large as a circuit board. They are orbiting the Earth at a significant velocity. If a wayward screw were to hit out shuttles or satellites in a sensitive place it would easilly spell disaster. Yet, many people are not even aware of this danger. What if the quarentine fleet is just a glorified cloud of space junk?
I'm talking less about the firepower of the individual and more about the strength of the whole. Getting trillions of bricks thrown at your ship at high velocity wouldn't be good for anyone. For all we know they could have been sentinels. Its the simple fact that the Forerunners could build such a fleet, and then totally forget about it.
I reiterate about their industrial capacity. I don't know much about IoM's industry, but it'd be a hard fought battle to compare to that. I know that the IoM is estimated as having "at least 1 million worlds." The Forerunners have at least three times that.
Ground warfare would be a pointless endeavor for the Imperium. The shear amount of ships the Forerunners could produce, and the weapons that they are equipped with, would make a space battle at least an equal fight. But the Forerunners' overuse of AI's would compensate for any biological inferiority, and give them the advantage.
[Edited on 12.05.2012 4:57 PM PST]