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Date Posted: 23:39:15 11/08/02 Fri
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Warspite
's message, "Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios" on 12:09:43 11/08/02 Fri
>Actually the exact quote says 'laser battery' rather
>than 'turbolaser battery'. The beam doesn't look like
>a standard turbolaser bolt, it travels much faster and
>lasts a lot longer than a standard turbolaser bolt.
>AFAIK, there is no mention that the 'laser battery'
>was modified in any way. Can you provide a quote that
>says otherwise? If not it probably wasn't a turbolaser
>as we know it. Either way, it doesn't really have a
>bearing on standard unmodified turboblaser batteries
>on normal Imperial ships.
And you should know a laser does not glow in space, like this one did.
You should also know that I talked to the writer several times, Aaron Allston, which confirmed that it was a turbolaser.
>That would seem to conflict with the ranges shown in
>ANH, why the TIE was in visual range, but still out of
>weapon range. Of course, these books are set nearly 30
>years after ANH, so there could have been a range
>increase. However, that would have to be a serious
>range increase.
Err, no, watch the movie again, they didn't start shooting until they actually got into the turrets, by which time the TIE's have already started shooting, then they started shooting back as soon as all the systems where up and running(which took like 3-5 seconds), there's really no possibility for a contradiction.
>Even if we accept it, that would only give us a range
>of 600,000-900,000km. Star Trek ships are normally
>shown as having torpedo ranges up in the millions of
>kilometers range.
Thats hardly normal, it's been seen a few times, even though this range advantage does not matter alot because they can empty their entire torpedoe load and not hurt one ship.
Even if all the torpedoes collective firepower would be greater than the shield rating it would not do anything
>I assume you are refering to the 200GT turbolasers? If
>so, can you show me a single instance of an explosion
>of that magnitude occuring from a single turbolaser
>bolt in either the films or books?
Oh, Dodonna quote, SSD's being capable of "planetary disruption", Nar Shaddaa & Dankyo BDZ, calcs from it easily in the 50GT range.
The crowning achievment would be this picture though of a VSD doing a BDZ:
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