@cliffrice said:
well from a personal weapons perspective ST seems to have the upper-hand with its handhelds disintegrating targets. Only one reference to hand held disintegrating people is thermal detonators a vaders comment to bobafett "No disintegration" which is in reference to Fetts Disruptor. Though researching both phasers and blasters the descriptions make it seem like they are the same technology. It would appear though that phasers are more destructive in general as all of them have a disintegrate setting while only certain rare weapons in Starwars have that capability. So assuming the borg have assimilated/developed better weaponry than the normal federation standard its safe to say if the battle becomes a matter of boarding parties engaging each-other than the Borg have the advantage.
Excluding Capitol ships the startrek weapons are more powerful. Quantum torpedoes can damage (though not outright destroy) Neutronium, which is an otherwise indestructible metal forged in the cooling heart of a collapsed neutron star. These weapons proved infective against the Borg Cube in Startrek First contact. The most destructive weapon in SW is the Sun crusher which desalinizes stars. kind of useless if the enemy is near a star. so we can probably default to the deathstar super laser is probably the most powerful ship to ship weapon. a 4% powerd blast can destroy a capitol ship in one shot. But there aren't many of those and the methods of transporting them are hellishly slow.
Hyperspace is much faster than warp speed. a 5000 light year journey in star trek takes 20 months. While the same journey in Starwars takes 16 hours. I'm figuring trans-warp hubs (assuming there are any in star-wars) is comparable to Hyperspace travel. so even Steven there.
The way the borg fight they would zergrush colonies and asimilate everything on their way to the fleet. Some borg cubes would be lost on the way there but the borg would adapt countermeasures to standard starwars armaments. Not to mention the ability that borg have shown (from time to time) to Transport through sheilds probably spells doom for the empire. Trying to mess with the mind of the borg through their queen might be downright maddening with the mind of the entire collective The only reference i could find to Borg population was in refrence to a borg unicomplex which stated there were "trillions of drones, the populations of Thousands of worlds" Its safe to assume the empire is out numbered as well.
My vote goes to the Borg.
Nice argument, but there are a few errors to consider. First, there are millions of populated worlds in SW and many with populations in the billions. Even if the Empire could only support say .1% of the population into service they still far out number the Borg. Second, The Empire has far more ships of war than the Borg. Their Shields and Weapons are stronger than the Borg (going off the technical specs of both). SW ships travel faster than even the borg through transwarp conduits. Also, Sub-space and Hypersapce are not the same thing - ships in Sub-Space can be attacked by each other; ships in Hyperspace can not (as each ship generates it own domain, that is not detectable to other ships). Due to the Strength of the SW shields, I will say with out a doubt that the Borg will not be able to transport through them. Because of this, the Borg would have to knock down the SW shields before boarding and assimilating - this is not going to happen.
@cliffrice said:
Excluding Capitol ships the startrek weapons are more powerful. Quantum torpedoes can damage (though not outright destroy) Neutronium, which is an otherwise indestructible metal forged in the cooling heart of a collapsed neutron star. These weapons proved infective against the Borg Cube in Startrek First contact. The most destructive weapon in SW is the Sun crusher which desalinizes stars. kind of useless if the enemy is near a star. so we can probably default to the deathstar super laser is probably the most powerful ship to ship weapon. a 4% powerd blast can destroy a capitol ship in one shot. But there aren't many of those and the methods of transporting them are hellishly slow.
Where do you get that Quantum Torpedoes can damage Neutronium? Please cite a reference that can be examined. "desalinizes"? deslination is the process of removing salt from a composition. What the Sun-crusher does is in effect the same thing that Dr. Soran's torpedo does in "Generations", by disrupting the process of fusion - causing it to super nova. And by the way is very useful if the enemy is near a star. The Quantum Torpedoes were very effective in "First Contact", I have no idea where you got the idea from that they were not.
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