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Subject: Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios


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capn hayes
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Date Posted: 04:58:44 11/09/02 Sat
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In reply to: Warspite 's message, "Re: Romulan - Imperial scenarios" on 12:09:43 11/08/02 Fri
 >>This is not a scenario.
>>It's a slaughter.
>>
>>And in Rebel Dream a modified turbolaser battery fires
>>from the outermost planet of a solar system into the
>>inner system and hits worldship.
>
>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.
>
>>In Destiny's Way the Millenium Falcon fired at
>>Coralskippers from atleast 2-3 lightseconds away and
>>concussion missiles at an even greater range.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>>And in any case the ST ships don't have anywhere near
>>the firepower required to hurt even one of the ships.
>
>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?


All of your points can go both ways and be turned around on you. can you prove that Han just wasn't firing from point blank range since he was firing from the cockpit of the falcon and we know how maneuverable TIE's are supposed to be, perhaps when he said "almost in range" he was refering to optimum range for firing from the cockpit repeater controls at a fast, maneuverable TIE fighter. I won't crack on the Enterprise's really impressive looking maneuverability from TOS if you don't crack on TIE's from ANH! I said supposed to be. We are all intelligent enough to know that visual effects from the sixties and seventies isn't what it is today. As far as ranges goes ALL Trekies know the truth the only argument they can claim is range. they are outmatched and generally out classed in every other catagory. The only way to make any kind of fair comparison is to meet somewhere in the middle. Otherwise debating about this stuff is a "Kobyoshi Maru":)
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