A MAC would put a hole in an ISD, to be sure. But it wouldn't one hit kill it. The Empire's front line ship is far bigger then even the UNSC's largest ship. Not to mention they have shields rivaling the Covies, if not flat out surpassing them (Allthough, blocking kinetic energy seems to be a weak point for SW ships, nevertheless their shields would slow down a MAC round). Aswell an ISD has a FAR greater kill range then a UNSC ship, the only weapon the UNSC weapon that could rival an ISD in range is their MAC. Their nukes, railguns, and archers wouldn't work at such extreme ranges.

And, while in the movies the ship combat is very close, in the books it doesn't specify that often. And so one could deduce SW takes a step towards realism, seeing as how it's been specific a turbolaser has a kill range of 75 thousand kilometers. Why give it such a long range if ships are no more then a kilometer from one another? So ultimately, a SW combat ship could easily defeat a comparable UNSC ship. The tech differance is just too great, it's even greater then the covies n humans.

Well, oddly enough, things have less kinetic energy in hyperspace than in realspace, simply due to the theory of relativity.

As things approach the speed of light, their mass increases. So a MAC round at 2/5 the speed of light has more mass than a MAC round at rest. A lot more mass. So we have a very heavy projectile, which obviously weighs as much, if not more than a few X-wings, which is traveling at over 74,400 miles per second (over 119,800 kilometers per second). And you are telling me that will not hurt a Star Destroyer? Especially when you consider that Star Wars shields don't work against kinetic impacts. It will go right through a Star Destroyer, causing it massive internal damage along the way. Even the Executor will feel an impact like that.

Lasers don't have much in the way of armor penetrating qualities. The longer the beam is sustained, the more armor is melted away. Star Wars lasers are pulse lasers, meaning they don't have much in the way of armor penetrating qualities. The Covenant didn't use pulse lasers as their primary weapons on their big ships because lasers have penetrating problems, and they require lots of energy.

Solid projectiles, on the other hand, have lots of kinetic energy, and they don't start to lose beam cohesion when they hit, like lasers do. A MAC round simply won't stop when it hits armor plating. Oh no, all that kinetic energy will force it forwards, forcing it through the armor, and letting it cause serious internal hull damage. A Marathon will have a nasty first strike if it gets within MAC range, and considering Star Destroyers are big and slow, they will have trouble dodging. That's another advantage to MAC's. They keep going and going until they hit something. Lasers lose cohesion at longer ranges. Solid rounds don't have any beam cohesion to lose. So 75 thousand kilometers is nothing for a MAC round as it will take just over half a second to go that distance. Add in the fact that it can fire and hit from beyond that as Star Destroyers can't dodge and UNSC has a major advantage over the Empire right there.

In Halo, the one thing limiting a MAC's effective range is the fact that ships can dodge it. Covenant are more nimble than the Empire and can dodge MAC's, especially as their plasma torpedoes have a very long engagement range, over 75,000 km. Mass drivers and the like simply don't just stop moving at a certain range in outer space as the only impediments to their movements are a few hydrogen atoms every cubic meter.

I don't think so. Not yet at least.

OK thats enough. this is halo that is star wars and they are two completely different universes. start your own damn thread because this isnt halo mod based information. star wars sucks thats all there is too it because its never going to be REAL. at least halo's technology is based on realistic or entirely possible theories and technologies.
as sparda said the unsc ships will rape a star destroyer with ease. george lucas is rich so shut up and go somewhere else if you want to fight about this.

Crap can't remove posts.

oh and an uber battlestation flying around blowing up planets is entirely plausible

rofl I accidentally created a monster. Give this up here folks, go to the 7 deadly sins forum if you want to chat about it more.

To Dinof, and Canada, we've been through this before. We'll argue untill we get something about the mod to talk about. If you want us to stop argueing, keep a steady flow of info coming, otherwise let us entertain ourselves.

Anyways, Star Destroyers aren't that slow, actually. For their size they are pretty damn fast and with sensors, it'd know if the UNSC ship fired a MAC when outside of the ISD's fireing range and could easily evade, well maybe not easily. And a single MAC round would never even come close to destroying an ISD, it'd hurt yes, but not take it out of the fight. So while the UNSC can get the first shot, as soon as they do the ISD just loads them up with lasers, which do have good armor penetrating capabilities in SW, as seen on many occasions. And the UNSC ship would be dead loooong before it's MAC had time to recharge.

So in the end, removing particle shields from the Imp ships, making them stationary, and allowing the UNSC ship to fire first, the imp ship would STILL win. Give the imp ship all it's default abilities, such as movement, shields, and a greater sensor range then the UNSC ship, and there's just no possible way the UNSC ship could win. Only possible way is if it got within a couple thousand kilometers and launched Archers/Nukes, which by then it's been reduced to molten debris.

It'll follow.

Actually it has to do with Halo, as it's HALO vs Star Wars. So yeah, It's also not preventing anyone from posting something mod related. Just because we're having a fun little arguement doesn't mean people can't divert us to a mod-related topic. You're just over-reacting.

And if a new thread was made, the same thing would happen there. It's just the nature of things, we argued about Halo, but there's nothing more to argue about, so now we argue about Halo v Star Wars. It's just the modding process, we talk about whatever comes to mind, most of the time it dealing with the mod subject, until we get more info. Once more info is released, we talk about that, then go back to talking about whatever.

Why you guys keep fighting this is beyond me, since any modder should know this is just the way the process works. If you don't want it, don't advertise your mod :/

go to the 7 deadly sins mod to debate your arguments about halo/star wars

how about this for some cannon fodder what abilities do the covenant need/have that i need to make. plasma torps and the shields are done

energy projectors ar most likely going to be the beam blast ability (radiance battleships ultimate ability) redone to look better. seeing as though the energy projector was extremely powerfull that should make people happy to control its targets. the pinpoint space can be remoded from the visari jump ability that allows that one ship to jump towards a target. we already have pulse lasers from the vanilla game. ellaborate on command overlay. do you mean some sort of volley fire ability or ships fight harder because a certain kind ship is near?