Imperial ships don't have research labs. Research is done in remote facilities that no ST vessels could even think of surviving.
Yes, because their firepower and technology has been such a great powerhouse that no one has dared to counter...oh, wait, no it hasn't.
Actually becuase even the slightest flaw and the miror burns and is destroyed rather than reflecting. Even dust on the surface renders it useless.
Not entirely, it won't be all nice and clean, but it won't absorb all of the energy, a deal of it would still be deflected.
Second, the graviton shield is therhetical at best and unfortunately only a viable particle in one subset of hypothetical physics. And even is you created the field, again you would have to exert as much energy as was coming in. There is no free rides.
Actually, bending light should work against stopping a laser in most cases...something like a cloak. We also know that in First Contact (the episode, not the movie), that the Enterprise was able to avoid detection...probably via the use of the same method they use to deflect lasers.
Not that it matters, given the nature of lasers.
Actually i had gotten mine second hand
That explains a lot. Care to actually prove your claims then? Or, would you care to explain how, according to Saxton's claims in SW propulsion, that any planet they've ever landed on wouldn't ever needed to be shot at, given the high energy output from said ships?
and had been using it unopposed.
Like hell you have, we've seen clearly here that George Lucas said that EU and ICS are not canon. We've posted it a dozen times. Just because Wong will cradle you and say you're right doesn't mean you are. Lucas has denied canon status to EU and ICS. Get over it.
You don't get to see a problem as it is canon, but I will humor you
That their weapons are suddenly 1,000x stronger than they are in any Clone Wars episodes, the canon novels of the movies, or the six movies themselves means nothing to you?
Again on the Tanks. Why is it so hard to believe that the Trade Federation Tanks were carrying 6 megaton laser cannons.
Because we clearly see a lack of this firepower in Phantom Menace, and the new Clone Wars series gave an episode where a couple of tanks were just out of range...by a few feet and they couldn't get to them because the tanks were too big. If said tanks could toss and take 8 megatons of firepower, Yoda and the Clone butt buddies would have been vaporized in an instant. Even missing them by a literal mile would still kill them.
By the way, do you know what a megaton is? The bomb we dropped on Japan was about 10 or 11 kilotons. A megaton is a thousand kilotons. You're suggesting that SW tanks use weapons that are 800x stronger than the bomb we dropped on Japan.
Can you not see the problem here?:bugeye:
They are similiar size to the fighters and their main cannon seems to operate with a variable power setting and rate of fire. High power slow shooting for enemy bombardment and low power rabid shooting for taking out infantry. Also one will note that 6 megatons is quite adequate for taking down asteroids as well.
*sigh*
You don't need megatons for taking out asteroids. Kilotons is just fine. Of course, the amusing part is that in Empire Strikes Back, a TIE fighter hits a asteroid...and nothing happens. It doesn't even visibly burn the rock. I don't even think it slowed the damn thing down.
And furthermore, even if we did say these figthers had that firepower...a tank would not; it's a surface weapon that should not be armed with the firepower to fuck over an entire island with a range that is unable to exceede a mile at best (Ambush points to much, much smaller ranges).
Furthermore, Naboo fighters have shown to have next to zero MT level firepower in both lasers (not literal) and torpedoes (it actually seems that the New Hope ones and the Phantom Menace ones are different, so they might actually be stronger, but Shadow of Malevolence points to them not being all that powerful).
1. The data cannot be exaggerated It is canon and you must live with it.
Obi-Wan: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
No. You can exaggerate anything. For example, did you know that the Doctor singelhandily defeated Satan? Oh, wait, no he didn't...not in that manner at least; he just broke two vases to release a trap someone else set years ago involving a black hole. See how you can exaggerate?
And you seem to be the one whose having trouble buddy; you can't accept that ICS isn't canon.
2. The ICS series of books were wrotten in an earth fram of reference so it is indeed tons of TNT
Yes, the author does indeed claim 200 Gigatons as in the earth stuff.
But it's all horribly incaccurate.
3. Nothing in the books shows a direct contradiction to the movies. (hell, I could go out on a limb here and probably find an instance where a state of the art fighter was taken out by a single round from a rifle. Or that there are people who have died form a 5mph hiot from a softball. Does that mean all Jets can be taken out by rifles or that all people need to fear slow moving softballs. No, it's a fluke.)
You are again, manipulating facts to support your claims. Yes, a jet fighter can probably be taken out by a rifle...if said rifle is strong enough and hits a point on the fighter that causes it to explode...or said person who is hit with the softball has a weak skull or some other condition that makes it lethal.
The movies are not something you work around, saying "Well, if we were to say that one in the movie has ever said that this firepower doesn't exist, hasn't shown an upper limits, we can say it works, despite the fact that no one has ever used this firepower when it would have been nice and it makes everyone in Star Wars look like a complete and utter idiot, but so what, we can win scifi debates now!
Wrong.
4. Now, just writers not telling people that the acre of lava created by the hit for the Superstar Destroyer is several hundred meters deep.
If the writer didn't say it happened...then why should we believe it did? Surely some things are glossed over, such as people taking a dump, but when something like BOMBARDING A GOD DAMN PLANET is going on, one might think that TELLING SOMEONE THE EFFECTS OF THE WEAPONS IN USE, would be part of the vital story. By your logic, I can say that Anakin wears spiderman undies...sure it makes no sense, but no one said that spiderman doesn't exist in Star Wars and you don't have proof that he isn't wearing any. That's just how stupid your argument is; relying on no one in canon ever mentioning or using said firepower while demanding that people give overwhelming evidence of incredible yields and firepower.