Dominion Planet Killing Capabilities.

TurboPhaser · Post by **TurboPhaser** » 2004-02-17 09:43am

After careful watching of the last DS9 episode, I figured I'd make this.

If you don't know, In this episode The Dominion is on the verge of defeat. They regroup their fleet around Cardassia Prime. At the time that the Founder ordered this withdrawl, she ordered the Cardassian population exterminated.

I don't know how much Star Trek time passed between the extermination order and the below quote from Bashir:

Bashir: 800 Million dead.
Garak: And the casualty reports are still coming in.

In reality the elapsed time was only about 10 to 20 minutes. But there many switches to different story parts, yet each time we returned to a particular story thread, it seemed to lead on from pretty much where it left off.
Best guess, considering the scene switches, maybe an hour or so passed between the order and the Bashir quote (Which was after the Dominion surrendered and Bashir beamed down)
If I am roughly correct about the timing (Please disagree if you think otherwise), then, with Dominion troops, presumably some sort of orbital, or aerial bombardment, the Dominion can kill 800 Million people an hour.
If their population was the same as ours (6-7 Billion), then the Dominion could wipe out our planet's human population in say........10 hours? Maybe less....
Thats if we didnt resist, though that probably wouldnt make much difference.

Other useful bits:

Garak: It's the Jem'Hadar! They're leveling the city, building by building!

Weyoun: I have to inform you that, moments ago, Jem'Hadar forces reduced Lakarian City to ashes. 2 Million Men, Women and Children.....gone.
*Note, read that he said 'moments ago'. That would seem to suggest a large bomb or something. Also, I may not have that quote totally accurate.

The standard City vista for Cardassia was altered in one scene in the last ep to show the destruction. To me, the damage was very even and widespread, so I would say that hints at large scale WMD.

I know that the 'Die Is Cast' thing is cloudy at clarifying Trek universe Planetary Annhilation abilities, so maybe the above example can clear a few things up. After all, Dominion, Klingon, Federation and Romulan tech all seems fairly equal.

Luzifer's right hand · Post by **Luzifer's right hand** » 2004-02-17 09:54am

800 Million in one hour is not really impressive.
We could do the same with our technology.
Just destroy the population centers in Asia, America and Europa with nuclear weapons.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-02-17 01:25pm

Maybe, but we couldn't sustain that level of firepower.

Macross · Post by **Macross** » 2004-02-17 07:52pm

They are not going to nuke the city where the Founder is located. So Jem'Hadar going door to door, or select orbital strikes makes sense.

And a majority of the fleet was off fighting the Fed, Klingons, and Romulans, or preparing the last line of defense. I would guess that relatively few Jem'Hadar were involved in the massacre.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-02-18 07:55am

Agreed. The Dominion ships were too busy fighting Feds and their allies to conduct an orbital bombardment.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2004-02-19 07:36am

The implication is quite strong that the Jem'Hadar were going across the planet blowing up anything and everything they could get their hands on. The reason that Kira and her team were able to storm Dominion HQ is because Weyoun the fool that he is sent more or less the entire Garasion out to help along the destruction, only having a skelaton detail of guards left.

Also when they start their destructive work, Garak comes down to the resistance basement and comments that the Jem'Hadar are leveling the city building by building as explosions start to shake the house they are in.

The status of the Capital city before the attack:

The status of the Captial after the ceasfire.

I guess when your God tells you to exterminate all Cardasians on the planet you don't skimp on the high explosives....

TheDarkling · Post by **TheDarkling** » 2004-02-19 03:46pm

Killing 800 million with just ground troops in such a short amount of time isn't bad.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-02-20 02:01am

The pictures of Cardassia is interesting. It almost looks like nuclear yield weapons were used.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-02-20 02:02am

Um, not really.

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2004-02-20 02:08am

evilcat4000 wrote:The pictures of Cardassia is interesting. It almost looks like nuclear yield weapons were used.

Maybe you should compare the picture above with some of Hiroshima or Nagasaki...then you'll realize how silly of a statement that is.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2004-02-21 01:04am

Looks more like something from WW2 air raids.