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...What exactly stops the planetary defense batteries from turning your big, slow, tubby, unarmed transport into a pile of scrap metal before it releases more than a small fraction (if any) of its cargo of artillery shells? I mean, coming up with the most cost-effective way to win when the enemy do...

This seems pretty unlikely in light of the massive Mandator class dreadnoughts available for the sole purpose of defending Kuat. I don't see why. A Mandator may be the equal of a thousand Separatist light destroyers but they have more than just light destroyers. The Munificent frigates seem to be d...

Does the Republic have the resources it needs to stand against the Separatists? Probably, on paper at least. The planetary defense forces should be enough to blunt a Separatist offensive but while the Republic may have an advantage in the overall quality of their force. What they don't have is the a...

An alternate theory on Akira's torpedo tubes. Considering how little volume is available in the roll bar, perhaps Akira mounts low rate of fire tubes. The Galaxy-class is the only ship ever to have been seen firing large torpedo salvos from a single launcher in a short period of time. We know it can...

[quote="TOSDOC] As soon as the Republic was out of the way, the Galactic Empire seemed to make leaps and bounds in how powerful space projection could actually get--this sounds like a lot of scientific and engineering minds were suddenly released from their confines to show what they could do....

A popular theory I've seen tossed about here is that the Galaxy Far Far Away has essentially picked all the low hanging fruit of their universe's tree of science. To achieve anything that resembles a true scientific advance rather than an advance in engineering and application, would require more ti...

If the force permeates all things, then all things to some degree or another effect the Jedi. Which leads me to the conclusion that the state of the galaxy in general and local conditions more dramatically can impact the Jedi's ability to use the force and, for lack of a better term, its flavor. In ...

I just went through this with a refurbished 3G that belonged to my dad. I had a Blackberry and switched the SIMs. Until I called AT&T I had no data service because they had to manually switch the data plan to an iPhone plan (equal cost, equal limit even) so theoretically you should be able to us...

Regarding the NCC#s. Besides an extended production run, another reason why the Excelsior and Miranda NCC#s jump around so much might be related to the introduction of small craft into the registry system. The Danube Runabouts for example on DS9 all had their own individual registry numbers. If the ...

Any tips for getting this running on 7 Home Premium (ie without Windows XP mode)? I looked at the instructions for getting the game to run on Vista that were posted online elsewhere and the amount of file tinkering was intimidating to say the least. Is there a strategy for getting the game to run th...

The creatures of flame and shadow in the last drawing are a neat compromise on the Balrog debate (common vs uncommon.) They are lesser fire spirits basically that serve the Balrogs and tend to be found near areas Balrogs are or have been. The Grodbog are one type of creature that infests Moria. They...

Its been submitted a few times that using kinetic kill vehicles, natural (such as the space Australia-asteroid) or artificial (big honkin' space guns) would be the natural solution if an invader is running up against defenses that would make a ship to surface duel a bad idea. I have to wonder why it...

Anubis' First Prime (who had been trounced by SG1 previously in some other episode) gloats at having captured SG-1. O'Neill: "Ah Her'ak, failing upwards I see." The phrase "failing upwards" has actually entered into my everyday speech. Sometimes its the only way to explain how pe...

Safe mode doesn't work either. That was among the first things I tried, as well as restoring it to an earlier version.

Overall I'm impressed by how fast it boots up and becomes usable. I did the student pricing upgrade on my laptop and its much more responsive. Run into a few glitches. I had to upgrade to the 2010 version of Kaspersky internet security to get it to work right with Windows 7, otherwise most of the pr...

The fact that there were only 10,000 Vulcans offworld strongly suggests that Vulcan was very introverted to begin with. I wonder if this represents a trend towards more centralization in this timeline and that this is a catalyst towards getting far more aggressive in exploration and beginning the tr...

In regards to the loss of technology. This was discussed at length in the Daybreak 2 thread. Having advanced technology in your possession and having the means to maintain and replicate it are two entirely different things. Someone quoted Bad Astronomy very well, the paraphrase being: in the afterma...

See, at this point, there's very few people who care to make the effort any more, and fewer still with the appropriate background to really make it stick(I fall into neither category), this was all fought out and effectively settled more than half a decade ago. Literally, it's long enough that the ...

Although something tells me the quick and dirty answer to this question will likely be "use the search function," I was curious if anyone knew of links to threads discussing elements of the EU that could be interpreted as supporting the ICS? I have quietly followed the debate raging on SB....

Its all been my preference to take Teal'c at his word at 10c being the top for Goa'uld Ha'taks and that those two represented the tip of the spear for a radical new type of ship being put into service by the Goa'uld. Since the other System Lords had their own in service by the following seasons and ...

Regarding the threat of the Breen, Cardassians etc. consider the Federation's position: to one frontier they have to worry about the Romulans and rogue Klingon elements. In TNG at least there seems no end to the number of Klingon Houses and anti-peace sects who are violently against peace with the F...

So along those lines: Ferengi: Capitalists Cardassians: Fascists Klingon's: Warriors/Feudalism thingy UFP: Socialists Borg: Non-Annointed Conformists Let's be frank here the UFP is big on being conformist, so the Borg is not representative of Conformists it's representative of groups that are not G...

Best way I've found to describe the atmosphere of the books to people is "Dirty Harry in the world of Harry Potter" or shortened "Dirty Harry Meets Harry Potter" usually gets a snicker and questions about where to find the books.

I wasn't asking about the effects, I've already seen that analysis. I was more curious as to some idea of how many guns of what types and sizes the various races' ships carry. Something that is exceptionally vague in the books and sites I've seen.

I've always been curious as to whether or not there is any sort of quantification of the numbers and calibers of weapons on any of the Imperium ships.