• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Possibly. But not with the “stock” sluggish engines.

      The Millennium Falcon is way more maneuverable. They are not the same class of ship. I looked up their sizes. The Defiant is supposed to be as thick (the shortest way) as the Millennium Falcon is long. You are comparing a military destroyer to a relatively large speed boat.

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              In the Star Trek world, teleporters cannot go through shields. In a few episodes when they lose shields they have boarding parties attack.

              Star Wars ships don’t have shields, they have area deflectors. A ship like the Enterprise could simply teleport active torpedoes into whatever Star War ships they encounter at a critical location and take out every ship with ease.

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          The Falcon has shields and missiles. Pretty much every ship in Star Wars except for TIE Fighters use shields. TIEs specifically don’t because the Empire is wasteful, stupid, and arrogant.

          Everything else comes down to the exact amount and kinds of energy the ships can generate and protect themselves from, and what speeds they can move. Those answers probably exist, but who knows what they are.

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            TIEs specifically don’t because the Empire is wasteful, stupid, and arrogant.

            Well, also because the TIE is a light fighter built for both speed and mass production, which meant stripping out everything other than engines, guns, and controls. Similarly fast fighters with more features seem to have been made in comparatively small numbers and were issued specifically to either elite Imperial pilots or Jedi depending on the era.

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              Yeah, thats what the Empire said but when you’re losing dogfights with 2:1 odds or better because all your pilots get clapped in one shot and never have a chance to gain experience against an outgunned and outmanned insurgency your strategy is just bad.

              We know that was the rationale but we also know they were hilariously wrong.