From: khyron@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Christoffer Mikael Trossen)
Newsgroups: rec.games.mecha,rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Robotech vs. ?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:09:28 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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In article <C19pAL.193@ccu.umanitoba.ca> jcurrie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (James Gordon Currie) writes:
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>      You have to remember two things: First, the shielding on the Enterprise
>IGNORES lasers, and could shrug off all the particle cannons on the SDF-1. As
>for the rail guns, the *navigational* deflectors would take care of them
>BEFORE the shell hit the shields, almost immediately after the shell left 
>the cannon muzzle! The only weapon the SDF-1 has that could harm the Enterprise
>takes several MINUTES to charge, and doesn't have the range of the Enterprise's
>weapon systems. So, the SDF-1 looses. The only way it'd win is if it caught the
>Enterprise flat-footed... (fat chance, since the Enterprise's sensors have a
>range of PARSECS, and the SDF-1's main gun has a MAXIMUM range of 100,000km!)
>
>      As for the effects of a nuclear blast, if the STRONGEST nuke built by
>humans todate (about 100Mt) where to detonate less than 1km from the E-D,
>there would be *almost* no damage done to the ship at all! There'd be a few
>dozen people who'd need to be treated for radiation exposure, and a few dozen
>people who'd need treatment for sprains and bruises because they lost their
>footing when the ship shuddered. So, a meesley little Robotech multi-warhead
>reflex missile (less than 1Mt, far less...) whouldn't even shake the E-D on
>impact with the shields (if the Nav deflector hadn't knocked it off course).
>
>Ciao
>J G Currie

Well, not to jump on the bandwagon or anything, but as for the SDF-1's
weapons against the Big E, according to the gurus on r.a.s.tech, the photorps
do about 52 megatons of explosive force, so those huge antiship missiles
that the SDF-1 and the ARMD series carries should be have about that same
force. Admittedly, the lasers would do little damage, but those particle
beams sure would. I think Gloval would be astute enough to fire a wide 
pattern of reflex missiles to detonate at a preassigned range or time, thus
causing the Big E to fly through a huge fireball. That would certainly fry
the sensors and drain the shields enough for a barrage of particle beams to
slice right through the remaining shields. Plus, if the veritechs were alrady
scrambled, they most certainly would have a great opportunity to do a dreaded
"swarm" attack (can we say over 100 VT's? I knew you could.) and enter and 
destroy.....even if the computer took over fire control, there would be
no way for it to take out 100+ VT's in its hull. Once the VT's swarm the 
Big E, it's all over.....first thing they do is take out the phaser banks 
and the shield generators....and then the impulse and warm engines...and
then the bridge....etc, etc, ad nauseam..........

Just remember, this thing survived through the attack of 4.8 million 
Zentraedi warships....I'm sure it could survive the attack of one lowly
little Federation warship at least long enough to destroy it, especially
if Worf is shooting :-)

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