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Read above shadow I said oops on wrong lets move on
I thought we did?
Anyway as I'm saying 1million ships might seem like
But they could have so much more!!
Is because you need Stormys
You need Cops
You need Special Ops
You need Air-Trafic Controlers

THIS AN"T START TRECK!
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I never said so, however you totally fail to comprehend the size and scope of the galactic Empire and it's 51 million planets and it's enourmous populations and requirements.
Even with all those things, you would never get over 1% of the GE's population in millitary service.

I'd like to turn that comment back in you and say this ain't Star Trek either, it's unrealistic for such a small fleet, especially when it's population wishes to rebel and the fleet in question would totally unable to perform it's designated functions.
And let's not forget the navy/starfleet separation.

You know, the only thing you could do with your fleet is to respond to emergency calls, and probably not in time either, not what it did or was supposed to do, wich is not exactly an effective system, protection of any system will be nearly impossible and the time it takes to get there is enough for a foe of any threat to slag the planet, a couple of dreadnaughts and some corvettes could slag a planet covered in one great city in 15 minutes(The Hutt Gambit).

No, the Imperial fleet and army where there to controll the populace, stormie garrisons are on even the most remote planets, like Tatooine.

The fleets are there to terrorize the populace, guard planets from rebels, escort freighters, stop pirates etc, etc etc, etc...

With your fleet the Empire would have been ovethrown in months, the Rebels would have had thousands or millions of unguarded planets to draw resources from and would quickly have ursurped the Emperor.
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OH also, remember the Dodonna quote, it hints are stupidlypowerfull ships or a stupidly large fleet.
With the addition of minor superlasers and 200GT> TL's we figures around what I estimate.
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Moove on nothing to see here just a waste of space

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Wait, HDS-Where'd you come up with the 30,000 ship fleet for the Yuuzhan Vong?

I thought that there were quite a few capital ships with Yammosks, but certainly not enough ships to get up in the 30k region.
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LMSx wrote:Wait, HDS-Where'd you come up with the 30,000 ship fleet for the Yuuzhan Vong?

I thought that there were quite a few capital ships with Yammosks, but certainly not enough ships to get up in the 30k region.
That was Chris O'Farrell who came up with that number.
It's somewhere on SB...
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Find it if you could :)

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SBS data :

Recee hyperspace path to Coruscant over 1000 and coming in every second, not including fighters. also numbers from the NR, Admeral sovv was able to get from Coruscant 900 ships to attack. plus Wedge's holding force. also we get numbers that within a single barrage they could destory a quarter of the NR fleet.

in the Coruscant battle, around midway into it, we see Traest kre'fey fleet holds at least a few thousand vessels. We also see that the yuuzhan Vong have so many ships that they can sacrefice most of their ships colliding with the shields.
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