Star Wars vs Star Trek

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Which universe would win?

  1. Star Trek

    227 vote(s)
    35.5%
  2. Star Wars

    268 vote(s)
    41.9%
  3. Spaceballs

    47 vote(s)
    7.3%
  4. Farscape

    12 vote(s)
    1.9%
  5. Dune

    50 vote(s)
    7.8%
  6. Stargate

    36 vote(s)
    5.6%
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  1. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    already have it.

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  3. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Hm... is it showing anything when you scan? Make sure you do a full scan, not the quick one.
     
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  5. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    nothing. gotta go, i'm watching some SW:The Force Unleashed videos.
     
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  7. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Odd... what kind of symptoms is it showing (popups, slowdown, etc)?
     
  8. Saquist Banned Banned

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    Actually Star Wars no longer has the numerical advantage.
    It is no PROVEN that the Dominion and Cardassia produced more 30,000 ship.

    After the Dominion/ Breen Alliance destroyed a fleet of 311 ship of the Federation Alliance with a sole Bird of Prey surviving Martok says they have 1,500 ships arriving to defend the border.

    The Romulan Admiral says the Klingons are out numbered 20 to 1. Meaning the Dominion/Cardassian Alliance had 30,000 ships.

    Because the Federation ships shields were never strong enough to stop Dominion weapons the Registry of NCC's can be taken to mean LITTERAL number of ships produced. Therefore Voyager NCC 74656 from USS HOOD (NCC-42296) does mean as Producer Braga said....30,000 Federation ships.

    This means the Federation and Klingons and Romulans easily out number the Imperials Return of the Jedi Fleet of 25,000 Star Destroyers.
     
  9. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    erm, yeah, 30,000 ships. however the Empire didn't build ONLY 25,000 ships. Star Destroyers maybe, but they had thousands of other ships: cruisers, fighters, frigates. they ruled the know galaxy, you think they could do that with a mere 25,000 thousands?
    evidence that they easily builder much, much more ships is the irrefutable fact that the DS1 was build in 19 years, yet the much larger DS2 was build in less than half that time. even if the size is reduce to a mere 160 km for the second, a stupid thing, if you watch the battle of Endor: Endor is about 4,900 km in diameter, and when the rebel fleet emerge out of hyperspace at far distance, you can clearly see the actual size of the station: 800 km+.
    considering the fact that it was build in apr. 4 years, following the battle of Yavin, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to reduce the production capacity of the Empire to 25,000 ships in over 20 years.
    is this illuminating enough for you guys?
     
  10. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    i hope the images show up. if not, go to the link:
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    hologram

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    and a orbital image.

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  11. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Here's the thing though... if they could build with that kind of capacity... why didn't they? Why were things like the Star Forge so incredibly important?

    Also - you can't try to judge the size of the DS2 against Endor without knowing it's orbital altitude... reason being that the DS2 would be MUCH closer to the camera than Endor, which, because of perspective, makes it look far larger than the background object.

    Photography 101

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  12. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    the Star Forge was a remnant of the Rakatan Infinite Empire, who were, just before extinction, a shadow of what they were over 25,000 years before. things like the forge weren't used any more by the Empire or Republic. large shipyards of Kuat or Mon Calamari were productive and more efficient. but they did use some thing like the Forge: the World Devastator. able to rip apart a planet and use its resources to build anything, from droids, starfighters to medium size warships, and even other WD's if given enough time; they were also able to upgrade themselves.and as far as the Imperial Starfleet, they did build a large fleet; it just doesn't appear on screen.
    i got that. however, in the second image you can see the DS in a fairy parallel position. you can get closer:

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  13. fedr808 1100101 Valued Senior Member

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    You have no factual proof to backup this assertion, so it is invalid.
     
  14. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    unfortunately no. i provided them. to build that humongous station in that short time proves a superior production capability. now, what is the proof the empire has only 25,000 ships? i am really curious about what makes you guys think of that.
    Dominion/Cardassian Alliance had 30,000 ships. that's a big number, coming from a alliance of a major government and a bit smaller one, together dominating a small part of the galaxy. The Empire had most of the known Galaxy at its disposal. 25,000 ships from a galactic scale government compared to two governments that would make like a sector in the SW galaxy?
    do you see the problem with that thinking?
     
  15. Saquist Banned Banned

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    The Problem in Starwars is that hyperdrive inherently makes the Galaxy smaller, thus you don't need as many ships per square light year to respond to possible threats.

    The Federation has 35,000 ships. But each ship can only travel 7-8 lightyears a day. They need this size fleet to protect 8,000 lighyears of Federation space to merely maintain a presence.


    They repelled the Vong with far less than the 25,000 Star Destroyer fleet so it would seem they don't have the production means any more to create ships rapidly. Or it was severly diminished. The Imperials like took all or destroyed all their facilities.
     
  16. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    again the small galaxy thing. and how dose hyperdrive makes it smaller in any way?
    yes, but even if you considerably reduce the galaxy from the official 120,000 ly to, say 60,000, you still need a much larger fleet. 25,000? not gonna work.

    depends on what you think on rapidly. even if there are only 25,000 ships in the fleet, being able to build them in a few decades is obviously an achievement. from 19 BBY (Before The Battle Of Yavin) to 4 After the Battle of Yavin (ABY) is the length of Paly's rule. 23 years. 25,000 ships and a massive space station is 23 years is way beyond the capabilities of the Federation or the Klingons, or the Romulans or all of them combined, don't you agree? then they build the second Death Star,a lot bigger. in say a quarter of the time it toke to build the DS1, they made another enormous station.
    so, a civilization able to do that is not able to build more than 25,000 ships?
     
  17. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    now imagine what is required to build the DS1 alone.
    mining, refining, transporting and actually transforming all that material for a 120 km station is...well, mind-bogglingly insane! but they did it. and then imagine all of that, and apply it to a 800 km+ station. what dose that tell you about the capabilities of the Empire?
     
  18. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    George, the problem is... where was this production capacity when the 'Vong invaded? Or when the Rebels got uppity?

    Why do we never see it on screen...?
     
  19. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    i cound't know. i didn't reed those stories. however the Vong conquered extensive parts of the Galaxy. and they did got pwed.
    before the death of Palpy, the rebels had virtually extreme low chances of success. after he died, hundreds of key worlds overthrow the Empire rule. many of the local fleets joined the Rebels. virtually, they were occupied holding the galaxy. the DS2 not being fully complete, they couldn't afford to leave key words undefended. would you just send half of your ships to hunt them, and meanwhile worlds rebel and you have half of your fleet chasing a fleet throughout the galaxy?
    these are problems that need logical thinking: take into consideration all facts, the rebellion for example and how the empire had to control thousands of worlds. plus that, an obvious major part of the Empires resources were invested in the DS2 construction. numerous facts contribute. just analyze them for goodness sake.
    aha, lets see...well, we did saw the capabilities of the Empire. why don't you ask Lucas why he didn't put more ships in the films? that is a purely movie production issue: they couldn't put more ships into the filming cuz they had a budget.
     
  20. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    Thing is, George, budget issues can't be ignored as "non factual" for a debate like this... otherwise bad bad things start to happen on both sides.

    Again, where is the cannon proof they can build at such a rate... considering the fact that we have on screen and lower cannon evidence they could not (the vong invasion was only beaten back thanks to jedi tricks like the Shadow Bombs and because of the sacrifice of a number of key people, including Anakin Solo)
     
  21. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    yes, but that's the main reason. i don't like it, you don't like it, but that's the truth.
    erm, the dam Death Star is mentioned several times is the ultimate proof.as i said, imagine the infrastructure required. dose it seam logical they had a few thousand ships. not likely. i have not found any exact nr. for the fleet, however it is way beyond 25,000 as stated by you guys given the resources available, and the production capacity. its statistics!
     
  22. Kittamaru Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Adieu, Sciforums. Valued Senior Member

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    No, it isn't proof... that's like saying that because the US can build a carrier in x amount of time, they could build 25,000 light cruisers in the same time - doesn't work that way...
     
  23. George1 Registered Senior Member

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    that's not a good analogy. the US can build a carrier in x amount of time, but they make the difference between a carrier and a Death Star. then deduce the size of the two, materials needed, everything implied.
    you excluded the facts. 800km+ is 4 years? what exactly is the 25,000 ships assumption based on?
    a Star Destroyer is 1,600 meters long. now, make the difference between the necessities for the DS and that for the SD. the DS vastly exceeds tens of thousands of Star Destroyers alone, let aside the fighters, cruisers, etc.
    when you comprehend the vast resources the Empire had, the fact that it had the industrial capacity to build the two DS, and the fact that there is no reality in the 25,000 figure once you look at the above.
     
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