Ok death star took 30 years to build; firing charge time equals: Hyperspace to target system Maneuver in front of planet Initiate 3 minute firing sequence Halo Firing time (full array) Sync of all halos to fire at same time 24-72 HOURS to charge up each and fire at same moment If 1 halo is destroyed entire process must restart (sync + charge up time) SWU Imperial fleet; Couple super stardestroyers & super weapons 2 death stars Couple 100,000 star destroyers (1 mile long btw) Countless tie fighters, at ats, at sts, troops and frigates and gunships (attack outfitted imperial shuttles) Just as a start

[quote]Halo Firing time (full array) Sync of all halos to fire at same time 24-72 HOURS to charge up each and fire at same moment If 1 halo is destroyed entire process must restart (sync + charge up time) [/quote] You are assuming they are synced, but they do not have to be. And it does not take 1-3 days to charge. Have you never played the final level of Halo 3? That Ring wasn't even completed and it fired within 20 minutes. [quote]SWU Imperial fleet; Couple super stardestroyers & super weapons 2 death stars Couple 100,000 star destroyers (1 mile long btw) Countless tie fighters, at ats, at sts, troops and frigates and gunships (attack outfitted imperial shuttles) Just as a start [/quote] Completely unimpressive. At the end of the Flood war, after the Forerunners had had their empire ravaged and destroyed, they were still fielding individual fleets numbered in "only" hundreds of thousands of ships, each capable of solo'ing a planet. And the forerunners had Death Stars too. They were civilian tools built to crack planets in half to mine them for ore. They were so prolific in fact a Forerunner miner destroyed an unauthorized planet just to spite his boss.

Thanks for the info; How come in halo 1 it took so long to fire? (MC was there for at least 3 days)

Because it was never activated. The Index (the activation key) wasn't placed in the control center until the level Two Betrayals, their last day on the Ring, and then Cortana stopped it by erasing the Index's activation protocols and downloading them into her own subroutines, so only she could activate the Ring. So the Ring never had the opportunity to begin charging in the first place.

I see thanx sry its been a while (6 months since i re watched the story an few years since i played it) thanx for the intel posting

No problem. Another example of the Ring activation time is in halo 2. The final boss fight with Tartarus takes place entirely while the Ring is charging, and in the window of time, 343 Guilty Spark will eventually say that the Ring is about to fire. So it takes about 15-20 minutes.

I thought corvettes didn't have shields

No they do if I'm not mistaken. All covenant craft do, so why not corvettes?

You do realize the Imperial fleet controlled the galaxy, right? It was made up of millions of ships, not including stations, fighters and superweapons. There is also the Clone Army, and the Separatists, both of which controlled thousands of systems. Also, are we including the expanded universes of the two franchises as well? Because Darth Nihilus could wipe out most of the Characters on the Halo side with a wave of his hand. Put him alongside Darths Sidious, Vitiate and Bane and they're basically unstoppable. There's also the Yuuzhan Vong to consider, as well as the Infinite Empire, the Family and the Rakghouls. Star Wars with all of its expanded lore is several times bigger, and has characters with godlike capabilities (as well as having actual gods), while Halo has a bunch of super soldiers and a few alien species. The only areas in which Halo beats Star Wars are with the Halos and the Flood. And you know what neither of those things can effectively fight? An army of non-organic enemies, i.e. The droid armies of the separatists

While Star Wars has god like characters, Halo has its own gods. The precursors basically thought things into existence and created [i]universes[/i] not just galaxies. You can't kill a precursor and even if they allowed you to they would be reborn as a young precursor again. Your "wave of the hand instadeath" is nothing against thinking them out of existence or thinking them into a universe where the natural laws of this world are twisted and broken. You say "well they have the force." The precursors [b][i]are[/i][/b] the force.

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