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Requesting picture of a SPHA-T

Posted: 2002-07-06 02:38pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
You known, the guns killing the TF ships in AOTC

Posted: 2002-07-06 04:12pm
by Cpt_Frank
Not a very good picture, but the only one I found:
http://www.jedinet.com/prequels/episode-ii/vehicles.asp

Posted: 2002-07-06 04:21pm
by Robert Treder
Yeah, that's about the best pic available for now. It's from the AOTC Visual Dictionary, if you don't already have a copy, pick one up (~$20 USD, or free if you're good at stealing).

The game Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Clone Campaigns has the SPHA-T as an in-game unit, though it's smaller than it should be. Oh well.

Posted: 2002-07-06 05:38pm
by Guest
Hey they didn't put the Victory Star Destroyer in there....unless it's the Republic Assault Ship?

Cyaround,

Posted: 2002-07-06 05:40pm
by Robert Treder
Anonymous wrote:Hey they didn't put the Victory Star Destroyer in there....unless it's the Republic Assault Ship?

Cyaround,
?

Posted: 2002-07-07 04:13am
by Cpt_Frank
The Acclamator is said to be a direct predecessor of the VicStar, who is the direct predecessor of the ImpStar.

Posted: 2002-07-07 04:25am
by Robert Treder
Cpt_Frank wrote:The Acclamator is said to be a direct predecessor of the VicStar, who is the direct predecessor of the ImpStar.
The Acclamator isn't even the same type of ship as the Victory...the Acclamator is a transport ship, and the Victory is a destroyer.
Besides, they're made by different companies, so the Acclamator can't really be a direct predecessor of the Victory.
The AOTC ICS does say that Rendili has spies at KDY and Rothana Heavy Engineering, so design aspects of the Acclamator (and other KDY ships being designed at the time) probably end up in the Victory, but it is by no means the direct successor to the Acclamator.

Posted: 2002-07-07 04:31am
by Cpt_Frank
Hmm, I always thought of the Acc more as a multi-purpose assault ship than only as a simple transport.
For being only a transport he features pretty heavy firepower.
Perhaps his main duty is to deliver troops to a planet, but I don't doubt he's capable of doing space combat too.
Yeah, possibly he's not a direct predecessor, but at least distantly related.

Posted: 2002-07-07 04:43am
by Robert Treder
Capable of doing space combat, to be sure, but probably not as a front-line skirmisher. Its weaponry is used to defend itself and its precious cargo and to assist its troops via orbital bombardments. May seem like overkill, but that's why we love Star Wars, eh?

Noteworthy is that the Acclamator's space combat ability was at least sufficient to successfully withstand whatever threats the Confederate forces posed at Geonosis. The Confederacy's primary mission objective was evacuation, which means that they probably didn't act too aggressively. We only see battleships of the type employed in the Naboo blockade, but the AOTC ICS indicates the existance of larger TradeFed ships, though not necessarily their presence at Geonosis. The other factions of the Confederacy seemed to be limited to small transports and freighters in their naval presence. The Naboo-blockade freighter battleships probably have firepower on par with a VSD, judging by their size and converted nature.
The Acclamators at Geonosis, who probably enjoyed superior numbers, were able to hold their own against these Confederate forces, but were not able to affect them such that the area of space seen in Darth Tyrannus' escape (including two evacuating freighter-battleships) was in any kind of intense combat.

Posted: 2002-07-07 04:47am
by Cpt_Frank
Perhaps we should simply regard them as formidably self-defended planetary assault carriers.

Posted: 2002-07-07 05:18am
by Robert Treder
Sounds reasonable.

Posted: 2002-07-07 05:45pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
No good pictures? :cry:

Posted: 2002-07-08 02:32pm
by David
What exactly is the spha-t?

Posted: 2002-07-08 03:05pm
by Pablo Sanchez
David wrote:What exactly is the spha-t?
It's the artillery piece that fires on the Trade Federation Core ships as they take off. It slices right through one and disables the engines, which causes it to fall to the ground and rupture. It's assumed to be the Clone's standard direct-fire artillery.

Posted: 2002-07-08 03:11pm
by David
okay, thanks