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would a galaxy class beat a star destoyer? would a star destroyer beat a david weber SD(P)?

any and all sci-fi ships welcome. please be aware, though, that there really isn't much point in bringing, say, a fully completed death star into it, since we all know they fall like flies to fighter's and corvettes but blow up everything else. unless you bring in a DW planatiod. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

this is an invitation to discussion, not a retry at my battle thread. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I think Voyager would kick everyones butts. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif That ship was destroyed so many times but managed to come back its not even funny. They began the journey with like 300 crew total and throughout the 7 year running they lost more then that in red shirts alone and they still had like 200 or so alive when they made it back to earth! Then to single handily beat the Borg, 8472, Kazon, etc, etc. That ship was unstoppable!

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It's because of their secret weapon, the infamous and unstoppable Plot Device, capable of dramatically altering all of the very laws of the universe in unbelievable ways.

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true, true. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

but, going by it's specs and there stated purposes, a half-blown up defiant should be able to blow up voyager. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

admittadly, i know very little about there specs.

[ February 17, 2004, 20:24: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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Here's a good fan fiction take on the idea of a Federation versus Empire war.

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/...est/index.html

It's long, but it's a good read.

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Well, on the high end of the scale a DW planetoid would make mince meat of the Death Star; its shields are designed to resist the gravitronic missiles it fires, which are fully capable of destroying planets. And its energy weapons are nastier than that..

Lower down I'd say a SD(P) would kill a Star Destroyer, though I don't know enough about em to say if a regular SD could do the job or not. SD(P)s are just so much overkill its not likely the Star Destroyer would ever get in range.

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Over the years, I've played a what-if in my mind as far as a star destroyer and any one of the Enterprises. First of all, the Enterprise could outrun anything in the Star Wars universe. A star destroyer and the Millenium Falcon might get up to light speed, but we all know that any ship from the Star Trek universe could go to warp 9.99, which is 9.99 the speed of light cubed. NOw, a star destroyer would definitly have more firepower. Hell, the things basically a huge weapons platform with engines. But would those weapons breech the Enterprise's shields? I'm not sure. I read something a long time ago that the star destroyer's weapons are lasers, which would have no effect on the Enterprise's shields. But would enough of those lasers effect those shields? I'm not up on the specs of the two ships. But it's a battle I'd love to see.

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as i understand it, the reason a ST laser wouldn't penatrate enterprise's sheilds is because there to weak. however, aren't SW lasers more powerfull?

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Hi guys,


Take a look a this site, all the specifics of SW and ST vessels. still under construction but it is a start !! (The Empire / The Federation and the Cardasians)

http://www.furryconflict.com/tech/te..._stations.html

Intimidator

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SW laser weapons have huge amounts of energy behind them. ST shields would not stop them very effectively. The Enterprise was only immune to some lasers used by races with small ships. Their lasers were very low power (in comparison to what SW ships use, at least).

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One on one the Borg cube kills them all.

but then we would end up with something like Darth Borg. Now that I think about it, the SW guys were well on the way to being borg http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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DW planatiod versus borg cube?

the fifth empire had 99,999 or thereabouts of those things. i say they would have wiped the floor with the borg, especially once they perfected those super-missiles.

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It depends on the crew. SG1 consistantly destroys Mother Ships.
Does that count?

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Grudge-match.com has done some interesting match-ups in the past, good for laughs if nothing else...

USS Enterprise vs. the Death Star

Borg Cube vs. "Independence Day" mothership

Bablyon 5 vs. DS9

USS Voyager vs. Battlestar Galactica

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the enterprise would destroy the death star by the end of the episode. I, proffeser Narf, will now demonstrate why:

Death Star - Big, Evil Thing Of Death.
Number Of Big, Evil Things Of Death the Enterprise has blown up - I've lost count.

This has been a lesson from proffeser Narf.

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I say it is up to the crew. If you swap out the crews of the ships the results would be the opposite.

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Heh, I'd say the Argo (or Yamamoto...) would kick all thier collective butts http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

And the Enterprise/Deathstar thing has been disproven by many a Trek geek as the Enterprise is made of an alloy that is 'immune to laser fire' (according to many a published tech manual...)...so the Deathstar's TurboLASER batteries would do absolutely nothing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

And to the ultimate sci-fi ship I'd have to say either Unicron or the SDF of Robo-Tech fame... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ February 18, 2004, 01:00: Message edited by: Deathstalker ]

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That is like saying a bullet proof vest is immune to all bullets because it can stop some of them. How about a big bullet, with tons of force behind it? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif Now compare a piddly laser to the very high powered ones used by SDs and such... the ST ships would have no special immunity to such lasers, and certainly not to the Death Star's weaponry.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">which sci-fi universe do those come from?

ok, as much as i like trek, i'd have to say that, realistically, the death star would crush the enterprise. the only thing the enterprise has on it's side is a franchise and technobabble. which would allow the enterprise to crush the death star. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

how about we run down the list from biggest to smallest. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

i say a David Weber planetiod would win >any< battle. as someone else said, gravatonic warheads which can blow a >planet< apart, antimatter warheads, massive energy weapons which cause any material they encounter to instantly fission, crew of up to 250000! so those death-star storm-troopers can board any time and get blown up by troops in REAL powered armor, grav guns, hyper-ray guns which make things disapear, plasma guns, plasma grenades, hyper grenades, not to mention fifth emperium light, meduim and heavy tanks and any one of those >light< tanks could probably take on the whole military of today's earth and win! and this isn't counting their parasite warships, one of which did battle with an entire system defence system! admitadly, it was civilian built, cobbled together and was designed to keep out plague ships, but still!

I'm willing to concede that it needent be Dahak, so the other ship/base/whatever wouldn't have to face a fully >senteint< warship. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

anybody care to counter that? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

did i mention multi-dimensional shields, computer fold-space communicater uplinks in the crew's brains and that it can achieve 70% of light speed, about 800 times light-speed under E-drive(don't ask me to spell it) and several thousand under hyper-drive? and that it's E-drive, which relies on converging black holes, can cause a minuture super-nove if their near a sun? or the cloaking system? admittadly, once they get within a few light-minutes of another >planatiod< they can be detected, but a borg cube, death star or ID4 mothership would be bLasted apart before they could even get close enough to see it, much less fire at it, since the missile's have a range of what? 17 light-minutes? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ February 18, 2004, 01:33: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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no contenders? to bad. i guess it comes down to it or the magog worldship...and the worldship would have to get close enough to put unarmored and almost unarmed troops on board. it's toast.

i don't know how the Electronic Warfare capabilities would stack up.

for the death star/borg cube/ID4 mothership catagory, i say a DW Superdreadnought (Pod) is in the same catagory. i'm not sure how many missiles it could fire, but i think it's a total of 700, fired from pods rolled out the back of the ship. true, it's way out of the death star's tonnage at only 8 million tonnes, but what Honer Harrington would do is bombard the thing with missiles from a measly 2LM away, well within a MDM's 3LM range. which can go to 9LM at half-acceleration. so, she bLasts all the main guns to smitherens. after that, i admit it would take a long time to blow up a death star, even with an SD's guns, and it might come down to wether she can blow a big enough hole to reach the reacter before the smaller guns blow her ship up. but all that assume's there's no fighters. sigh. unless it has those new bow and stern sidewalls and she keeps them up to blow aways the fighters, there's no chance. and that would give the death star time to come in range.

anyone else get the idea i think DW's ships are the coolest? at least technically. Enterprise is the only competition.

Borg cube: ok, a borg cube isn't out of the weight range of a 4km long ship. in fact, i think the SD(P) may be larger. i think the SD(P) has a huge range advantage still, but even a manty SD(P) can only accelerate at i think 450g's. so, without bow and sternwalls, it would come down to wether the SD(P) could blow apart the borg cube before it came in range to shoot at the bow or the stern of the SD(P) or adapted. atvantage: Borg. definitaly. with bow and sternwalls, it would come down to wether the borg could adapt. i think that ones even. they might be able to adapt their shots to deal with the sidewalls, which are just focused gravity fields. can't remember if there in the 100's of g's catagory or the 1,000's of g's catagory.

ID4 mothership: ok, it's huge. about the length of the moon. i'd guess it would go about the same as the death star.

so, ok, it isn't quite up to the weight class, but it's definitly the plucky short guy. but i think the borg might be in that catagory to.

[ February 18, 2004, 04:27: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Where on earth did you get this idea? SW ships are much, much faster than trek ships. Voyager found itself on the other side of the galaxy and it was a 75 year trip home. Han Solo went from Tatooine to alderan in @three weeks. The republic (and then the empire) spaned an entire galaxy and ships routinely travelled its span without the need for generation ships. Propulsion tech in Star Wars is therefore vastly superior to that of trek. Don't get confused by the non-technical references to "lightspeed" and "lasers". These are just colloquialisms of a 70's space opera. Judge the tech by what it does, not by what it it's called.

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And, of course, the Rebel Fleet gathered together well outside the galaxy, and we could see the spiral arms and all quite nicely. I think that was SW VI... or was it V?

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the Yamato/Argo is from the Japanese anime cartoon Known in the U.S. as Starblazers. Id like to see a mock up of what a Zentradi(SP?) Flagship (from Robotech/Macross) can do too--those ships were nasty in the cartoon.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i think he means the slower than light drive. in which case, the ST ships are faster.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He was talking about Warp drives, not impulse. As far as slower than light drives go I've seen nothing to indicate that impulse is faster. Have you seen the dogfights (of lack thereof) in trek. Even looking at shuttles/runabouts vs. SW fighters (craft that are similar enough to be compared) the trek craft are rediculously ponderous. Again, the speed edge has to go to SW.

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well, the tech manuals, as far as i know, say different. this is only what i've heard. and SW had a higher effects budget porportionally, i think.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He was talking about Warp drives, not impulse. As far as slower than light drives go I've seen nothing to indicate that impulse is faster. Have you seen the dogfights (of lack thereof) in trek. Even looking at shuttles/runabouts vs. SW fighters (craft that are similar enough to be compared) the trek craft are rediculously ponderous. Again, the speed edge has to go to SW. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm talking about speed. Sure, SW ships can go into hyperdrive, which has been over looked in the ST universe. Now, nothing I've read or seen says anything about hypderdrive being faster than a Warp 9 vessel. Maybe a SW ship may reach their destination before a ST ship, but since we are talking about science FICTION!, that might not be true, depending on the distance involved. Basically what I was trying to say is that if it came to a ST ship wanting to get the heck out of Dodge while it's getting a beating from a SW ship, then it can go like a bat out of hell. Like I said above, if it came to a race, I just don't know who would win.

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I read somewhere that G Lucas said that Enterprise could take out the entire empire fleet single handed, it was an interview a few years back.
I'm not saying it's so, only what I read, he had some arguments for it aswell.
Will try to look up a reference.

[ February 18, 2004, 14:03: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The republic at it's height, and the empire after it spanned the galaxy. The federation is a little collection of planets in a small fraction of the Alpha quadrant. Assuming the SW galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which we don't really know of course, hyperdrive would have to be orders of magnitude faster then warp drive. Travel between Corsucant and the remotest parts of the galaxy takes weeks. While Voyager was looking at several decades to make it home running flat out at top warp speed.

[ February 18, 2004, 14:09: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Personally I'd be putting my money on a Culture GSV or GCU. As well as being veryvery big, insanely fast/ powerful/ well armed and unimaginably clever, they have a wicked sense of humour.

An interesting quote I came across:
"Nahhh, If the Culture is the USA, the Homomdan Empire is the USSR. The Galactic Empire is the mugger on the corner of Fifth and Main and the UFP is the bum he's curb stomping." form http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/ar...dex.php/t-8191

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Just in regards to which ships are faster, ST or SW's, I believe the answer would be both...from a certain point of view http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

When you see the SW's vessels jumping from one side of the galaxy to the other with Hyperdrive engines, you have to admint that the Hyperdrive engine is faster than Warp, considering travelling from one side of the galaxy to the other. ST ships are unable to do this.

That being said, ST ships can travel at warp, and are capable of using warp propulsion even during battle. Thus in real space, ST ships would have a speed and manuverability advantage over SW's vessels, due to ability to reach faster than light speeds locally.

I hope this make sense!

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Nice. I don't usually tolarate fanfic, but that one caught and held my attention.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I'm not sure this would translate to an advantage in combat. ST vessels can engage in combat at warp speed with other vessels going warp speed. I don't remember ever seeing an example of a ship travelling at warp firing on a ship travelling at impulse. There have been a couple examples of ships doing warp manuvers in combat for fractions of a second to suprise an enemy (as in the Picard manuver) but they always make a point of how hard on teh engines this is supposed to be. Only something to be done in cases of extreme emergency. Typically you'd need to match speed with your opponent in order to effectively engage them. Consider how difficult it was for the early jet fighters to engage prop driven enemies in late WWII and Korea. A big speed advantage is great for getting to or away from a fight, but in combat, not so much.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The republic at it's height, and the empire after it spanned the galaxy. The federation is a little collection of planets in a small fraction of the Alpha quadrant. Assuming the SW galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which we don't really know of course, hyperdrive would have to be orders of magnitude faster then warp drive. Travel between Corsucant and the remotest parts of the galaxy takes weeks. While Voyager was looking at several decades to make it home running flat out at top warp speed. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Looking at it from that angle, I can see your point. But remember, the SW ships have to follow pre-programmed routes, which must have taken hundreds of years to accumulate as the Old Republic was expanding and discovering new systems. On the other hand, the ST ship can go in almost any direction at almost a drop of the hat.

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Hyperdrive seems like the equivalent of transwarp technology employed by the Borg.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i don't know much about them. i only read 1.3 culure novels. could they stack up against DW's planatiod's?

*picks up a mic*

Ladies And Gentlemen, Do We Have A Contender?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The republic at it's height, and the empire after it spanned the galaxy. The federation is a little collection of planets in a small fraction of the Alpha quadrant. Assuming the SW galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which we don't really know of course, hyperdrive would have to be orders of magnitude faster then warp drive. Travel between Corsucant and the remotest parts of the galaxy takes weeks. While Voyager was looking at several decades to make it home running flat out at top warp speed. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Looking at it from that angle, I can see your point. But remember, the SW ships have to follow pre-programmed routes, which must have taken hundreds of years to accumulate as the Old Republic was expanding and discovering new systems. On the other hand, the ST ship can go in almost any direction at almost a drop of the hat. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That isn't quite true. Nothing says you can't use a hyperdrive route that is not pre-programmed. It is just dangerous flying through stars and such, so you use a galaxy map to avoid them. ST handles this by saying that ships moving at warp speed just go through everything that is not going at warp speed or some such technobabble.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The republic at it's height, and the empire after it spanned the galaxy. The federation is a little collection of planets in a small fraction of the Alpha quadrant. Assuming the SW galaxy is roughly the same size as the Milky Way, which we don't really know of course, hyperdrive would have to be orders of magnitude faster then warp drive. Travel between Corsucant and the remotest parts of the galaxy takes weeks. While Voyager was looking at several decades to make it home running flat out at top warp speed. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Looking at it from that angle, I can see your point. But remember, the SW ships have to follow pre-programmed routes, which must have taken hundreds of years to accumulate as the Old Republic was expanding and discovering new systems. On the other hand, the ST ship can go in almost any direction at almost a drop of the hat. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That isn't quite true. Nothing says you can't use a hyperdrive route that is not pre-programmed. It is just dangerous flying through stars and such, so you use a galaxy map to avoid them. ST handles this by saying that ships moving at warp speed just go through everything that is not going at warp speed or some such technobabble. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">ST has those giant deflector dishes to sweep junk out of the way when travelling real fast. Torpedoes can even be fired at FTL speeds, though energy weapons can't.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">i don't know much about them. i only read 1.3 culure novels. could they stack up against DW's planatiod's?

*picks up a mic*

Ladies And Gentlemen, Do We Have A Contender? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Obviously I've missed reading a few books in the past. Who or what is The Culture? Which series can I find it in, and who was the author? I've only got one Honor Harrington book, and I'll wait until I get the whole series before reading that.

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Grege, go to www.baen.com . they've got a websubscription thing where you can get the Honer e-books for like $9-10 canadian, including tax. plus, the first two Honer books are up on their free library, where you can read both books, the whole of both books, for >free<.

[ February 18, 2004, 21:31: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ok, thanks for the info. I was hoping on info on this Culture, but that link was very interesting. But this old book store I found has most of the HH books there, and I plan on getting them all soon. Any they don't have, I'll check out that website.

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Greg- The Culture author is Iain M Banks. Imho you won't read better scifi anywhere. Go out and grab yourself a copy of any of his Culture novels (he has published other books as Iain Banks- without the 'M') - you can read them in any order.

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well, it's only me, but i got bored and quit.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I agree. I loved Q's retort to Picard in chapter 5...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That ranks right up there with (to Riker) "You're so stolid! You were never this way before the beard!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So they sweep stars and planets out of the way? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">So they sweep stars and planets out of the way? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, but they get rid of all those micro-asteroids and other small stuff that would harm any of our current spacecraft. You still need to navigate around star and planets and other space objects, like black holes, but it seems to take quicker for a ST ship to plot a course than it would a SW ship, who has to wait for the computer to plot the hyperspace coordinates before a ship can go through.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks. I plan on going to that bookstore today during lunch. I'll check to see if they have some of his books.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have heard in a number of ST episodes in different series that ships traveling at warp speed don't actually interact with anything in "real space" and just pass right through them...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is what I have heard as well. Except for one minor detail; they cannot pass through the items in real space. They must still plot a course that would direct them around these objects. Just because they are in warp does not make them immune to running into things. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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There was one episode about some black ops phasing cloak thingy that allowed the ship to pass through regular matter...
The ship ended up stuck halfway inside some asteroid after an accident, and the Romulans were upset about the treaty violations implied by the existence of the ship as I recall.