OT: Starship size comparisons 1 pixel per meter

[Aloofi]

After reading all that stuff about the Executor it seems like a huge waste of resources.

[dogscoff]

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html

Here's the Endor link. I don't think you can argue against this kind of research Andres, but if you want to try I'll be listening with interest.

[Aloofi]

Is it there a direct fire weapon in SE4 that can replicate the Death Star's superlaser?
Can a direct fire weapon be given the "destroy small planet"?

[Suicide Junkie]

Sure, but you can't fire it and blow up a planet during combat

A core-mount Wave-Motion-Gun on a battlemoon replicates the effect fairly well, except it just glasses the planet with 13,000 damage instead of turning it into asteroids.

[dogscoff]

Could a component be given weapons and stellar manipulation qualitiers, so that in combat you can use it as a weapon and toast the defences, then out of combat use it as a planet-buster to reduce the remains of the colony to rubble?

BTW, 13000 damage points wouldn't even breach the shields of your average proportions homeworld- Let alone the hundreds of weapons platforms and thousands of troops to deal with once the shileds are down.

[ May 07, 2003, 12:30: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Aloofi]

Sorry I ask this. I have never used Stellar Manipulation (too fantastic for my taste) and I was wondering how that worked in the case of destroying a planet.
Let's say I build a mobile starbase with a Doomsday BLaster, what do I do then?
Do I drive the thing to the enemy planet?
Can i fire from a sector away?
If I get to the same sector of the planet, wouldn't the planet's defenses fire on my baby?
Do I have to survive the 30 turns of combat, and then after combat fire the main gun?

.

[dogscoff]

Allofi: Yes, No, Yes, Yes.